Map List

► Part One: Mapping the Skies: Prehistory-1515 CE

  1. Lascaux, France: Pleiades, c. 17,000 BCE
  2. Polynesian Constellations, 300 BCE–1200 CE: A Closer Look
  3. African Star Lore
  4. The Emu, Australia
  5. The Origin of the Zodiac, Ancient Mesopotamia: 1130 BCE
  6. Greek Constellations and Arabic Stars: The Almagest (150 CE) and Arabic Star Lists (1065 CE)
  7. First Maps of the Greek Constellations, Persia, 964 CE
  8. Hebrew Zodiac, 1361 CE
  9. Dunhuang Star Map (Tang Dynasty), 618-907 CE
  10. Chinese Constellations (Song Dynasty), 1193 CE
  11. From Sky to Land: Directions in China, 3000 BCE-Present
  12. Albrecht Durer, Map of the Constellations, 1515 CE

► Part Two: Rivers and Roads

  1. Ancient Mesopotamia: The Town of Nippur, c. 2300 BCE
  2. Map of the Route to Paradise, Egypt, 1985-1795 BCE
  3. Road Map to the Egyptian Quarries, 1150 BCE
  4. Rivers and Roads: the Oldest Map in China, c. 239 BCE
  5. Rome Mapped in Marble The Severan Marbles, 203-211 CE
  6. All Roads Lead to Rome: The Peutinger Table, c. 350-400 CE
  7. River Maps: The Indus River, c.1065 CE
  8. Cairo to Constantinople: A Nautical Route Along the Mediterranean, c.1065
  9. Crusader Jerusalem, c.1100 CE
  10. Gough Map of Britain: Rivers and Roads, c. 1360 CE

► Part Three: Mapping the World, 600 BCE – c. 1450 CE

  1. Babylonian World Map, 600 BCE
  2. Medieval Christian T-O Map, c. 600 CE
  3. World Climate Map, c. Fifth Century CE
  4. Medieval Islamic Map of the World, c. 1300 CE
  5. First Turkish Map of Central Asia c. 1072 CE
  6. Hereford Mappamundi, 1300 CE
  7. Idrisi’s Circular Map of the World c. 1165 CE
  8. Earliest Known Ptolemaic Map of the World, c.1300 CE
  9. Fra Mauro’s Map of the World, 1448-1459 CE
  10. Buddhist World Map from Japan 1710 CE
  11. Jain World Map

► Part Four: An Expanding World, 1300 CE- 1570

  1. Catalan World Map, 1375
  2. Arabic Portolan, c. 1300
  3. Chart of the Mediterranean, Western Europe, and Northwestern Africa 1511
  4. Which Way is North: An Introduction to the History of Directions in the West
  5. Map of the Known World by Martellus c. 1490
  6. First Map of America: The Cantino Map, 1502
  7. Latitude and Longitude: The Keys to Explaining the World
  8. Waldseemuller’s Map of the World, 1507
  9. The Indian Ocean mapped by Jorge Reinel
  10. A Heart-Shaped Map
  11. Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1519-1522
  12. Abraham Ortelius, The Atlas, 1570, Part A
  13. Abraham Ortelius, The Atlas, 1570 Part B
  14. Mercator’s World Map, 1569

► Part Five: Worlds Colliding, c. 1550-1800

  1. Native Towns of Spanish Mexico, 1570
  2. Guaman Poma, Mappamundi as Satire, 1615
  3. Northeast Coast of North America, 1607
  4. East and Southeast Asia, 1625
  5. Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, 1764
  6. Tupaia’s Map of Tahiti for Captain Cook, 1769
  7. North American Buckskin Map, 1774-1775
  8. Powder Horn Maps, 1750s-1780s
  9. Slaves on the Gold Coast of Africa, 1729
  10. The Niger River Described by a Fulani Ruler, 1824
  11. The Cedid Atlas, 1803
  12. Napoleon’s Advance and Retreat from Moscow, 1812-1813

► Part Six: Land Surveys, c. 800 CE-1900

  1. Japan: The First Rice Field Surveys, Eighth Century CE
  2. Chinese County Maps: Dinghai County, 1226 CE
  3. Elizabethan Tapestry Map, 1580
  4. The Land That Windmills Made: A Dutch Polder Map, 1712
  5. Paris on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1789
  6. Ordnance Survey Origins: Scotland’s Loch Ness, 1747-1755
  7. Thai Map, c. 1782
  8. The Vale of Kashmir, 1836
  9. The Eight Provinces of Korea, ca. 1850
  10. Japan: Gyoki Map on a Porcelain Plate, c. 1830
  11. Mongolian Land Survey, 1892

► Part Seven: Mapping the Natural World, 1800-2010

  1. Bali: Rivers and Temples, 1935
  2. The Great Trigonometric Survey of India, 1802-1866
  3. Alexander Humboldt’s Map of Plants on Chimborazo, 1802
  4. Geological Map of Southwestern England, 1815
  5. 1851 Whale Chart
  6. Monsoon and Trade Wind Chart of the Indian Ocean, 1864
  7. Marshall Islands Stick Map, 1870s
  8. Crown Prince Islands in Disko Bay, Greenland, 1926
  9. Luba Mapping Device, Congo 1930s
  10. The Modern Zodiac, 1933
  11. Maps into Art: Aboriginal Map, 1987
  12. Map of the Ocean Floor, 1977
  13. Map of Antarctica, 2004
  14. Coastal Flooding in West Africa: Mapping the Future

► Part Eight: Empires, Wars, Decolonization, 1884-1999

  1. Cape to Cairo: The Scramble for Africa, 1884-1885
  2. Territorial Claims in Central and Eastern Europe Prior to World War I
  3. 1916 Trench Warfare Artillery Map, Flanders
  4. Soviet Georgia, from the First Russian Atlas, 1937-1939
  5. Japanese Aviation Map of Korea, 1933
  6. Royal Air Force Map for Bombing Northern Germany, 1943
  7. World War II Silk Escape Map
  8. Post-War New World Map, 1942
  9. Black Homeland Consolidation Proposals for South Africa, 1973
  10. Peoples and Nations of the Former Soviet Union, 1991
  11. Decolonization in Africa, 1960-1975

► Part Nine: Mapping Transportation and Communication Networks, 1885-2006

  1. Brazilian RailwayMap, 1884
  2. French National Automobile Map,1900
  3. Harry Beck’s 1933 Map of the London Underground
  4. Landing on 27R: London’s Heathrow Airport, 2006
  5. Map of the Internet, 2003

100 Sources in World History