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The Middle East
That is where most of ther news comes from. The map is from Wikipedia public domain.
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The Asia map by “historicair” is published in public domain at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Asia
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Map of Hecataeus
of the 5th century bC.
The Earth is a plate, and they wonder why the sea does not fall off.
Ethiopia is the southern limit of the world.
The region on the left, where Spain and Carthage almost touch, is marked as The Pillars of Hercules.
The map is based on http://www.livius.org/a/1/maps/hecataeus_map.gif
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Map according to Herodotus
also of the 5th century bC.
You can see Persia and Babylon, and the Nile river has a funny shape.
It is based on travelers’ impressions, because at the time they did not have the maths, nor the instruments to figure out what any continent really looked like.
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The Olaus Magnus sea map
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Link to Wikipedia’s very large version, some 50 megas, in public domain
of Northern Europe was made about 2000 years later, but it seems closer to Herodotus than to us.
Its world is still almost all imagined.
The map shows the monsters that live in the sea and the ships fighting them, and some of the monsters bear scientific names in Latin.
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The Piri Reis Harita map
said to be the oldest in the world.
Some people say that it shows some extraterrestrial influence or traces of a former techno civilization, according to http://tinyurl.com/88rl6.
http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/booknmaps.html
It was drawn in 1517.
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Maps of modern Israel
from Wikipedia showing the location of Jerusalem and the places that are most frequently in the news:
http://www.aguide2israel.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.main/id/8
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Old World Map
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Map in public domain according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nova_et_Accuratissima_Terrarum_Orbis_Tabula_%28J.Blaeu,_1664%29.jpg
Here it is, almost all figured out, though still largely unexplored and unknown. It is called Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula: New and highly accurate drawing of the Earth made by J Blaeu in 1664.
It still includes ships on the oceans, but as far as I can see there aren’t any monsters anymore.
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World Religions
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This work is published under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prevailing_world_religions_map.png.
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Old Sky Map
It is a sky map dated 1664, and the original large version is exhibited at http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/enlarge/25700.
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European colonies
in 1938. As you can see, the Europeans controlled most of the world as a sort of backyard that everybody uses according to his needs. This was not so very long ago. The wars put an end to it.
The map by AniRaptor is published under CC Attribution 3.0 Unported license at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism.
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Map of WWII death in Europe
according to Putzger .
The black crosses are soldiers.
The grey crosses are civilians.
The black stars are Jews.
Below is the Putzger map for
WW2 death in Asia:
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Map of Biblical Israel
and neighbours of about 830 BCE
Published by Briangotts under a GNU Free Document license at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Levant_830.png
Important cities of Biblical Israel according to http://www.thejournal.org/studylibrary/
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The Columbus Map
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One of the maps that Columbus studied to figure out how to get from Europe to India by sailing West.
According to Wikipedia, Christopher Columbus and his brother Bartolomé are the authors of this map; they drew it! That was about 520 years ago.
The map is in public domain at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/ColombusMap.jpg
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The campaigns of Alexander the Great
He carried culture from the West far into the East.
The map is in public domain according to http://www.bible-history.com/maps/alexander_campaigns.html
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The expansion of Islam
Map released into public domain byBrian Szymanski at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests.
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I lost the references for these maps
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Map of Rome in 200 AD
according to https://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com
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A great map of the roads that the Romans built in Europe, mainly for strategic reasons. Towards the end, more and more conflicts erupted all along their periphery, and so they had to move their soldiers fast from one “theater of war” to the other.
Empire map made by Andrein, with the assistance of EraNavigator, partly based on NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, published under CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Empire_125.png.
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The Languages of the World
The map shows many, but never all of them. There are so many that they can’t all be mapped.
Many are endangered, because of all the technological communications that favour the large communities.
This map is from www.theodora.com/maps used with permission.
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The Languages of Europe
from the Siberian Light website meaning to show how many languages are spoken in Russia.
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The definitions of ”Middle East”
There is
– a traditional meaning
– a definition made by the G8
– and a de facto meaning widely accepted.
The term was probably first used by the British Foreign Office, where China or Japan were “the Far East”.
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Density of Population
The map by Erik is in public domain at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_by_population_density.svg
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The Jewish Diaspora
Europe: see http://jgsla.org/images/Meetings/May09/jewish%20diaspora.gif
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Spain: see http://www.sephardicmusic.org/
Diaspora means dispersion. Southern Spain appears as a hub or focal point of migrations where both Islam and Judaism had created great centers of investigation. At the time the region was called Al Andalus. It is now Andalusia.
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Global Literacy
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Map of Africa
This map is in public domain from Google
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African vegetation
This file is published under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license by user Vzb83 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vegetation_Africa.png. –
Even in the Middle Ages, the slave trade was part of the African economy. The picture shows a memorial representing one of the points of departure. This is where people were collected and then loaded onto ships to be sold just like cattle. Sometimes their own rulers chased and captured them and sold them abroad.
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Map of Latin America
See West Haven Public Schools specialized page at http://www.whschools.org/page.cfm?p=4131
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Old America Map
Finally, how did the early settlers imagine that their new world looked like?
This map is from the collection of the American Library of Congress at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/
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Great post! There are SO MANY aspects that can be considered using maps, and when maps are combined with great illustration… I love it, myself.
Открыла эту систему бронирования несколько лет назад. Съездили через нее и в Германию и в Париж и много куда еще…. На сайте все очень понятно и удобно, указаны все тарифы, все возможные номера и сразу отзывы на отель. Кстати, отзывы и плохие и хорошие. На электронку через минуту приходит подтверждение о бронировании и снятии средств, если таковое произошло. Берете бумажку с собой, но нам она не разу не понадобилась.
На сайте они гарантируют лучшие цены на отели,скидки до 80%! Ценовой диапазон от 999 руб за номер за сутки. Можно выбрать и с завтраком, и без. Есть несколько вариантов бронирования, все зависит от отеля. Когда мы ездили в Париж, еще в Москве при бронировании с нашей пластиковой карты сняли стоимость одних суток. Нам пришло уведомление, и уже в Париже мы просто доплатили остаток.
Говорят, что если зайти на сайт, который находишь на Oteli , то там цены будут процентов на 5 ниже.
Не знаю, я этим не заморачивалась.
Рекомендую от всей души.
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I can read some Russian, but could not make sense of this text. It seems to be an ad for an online travel agenct but there is no link, and so one can’t be sure. — cantueso