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The Ancient World ... index of places
The Fertile Crescent, 9000-4500 BCE
Mesopotamia to 2500 BCE
Africa, 2500 to 1500 BCE
Sargon's Empire
West Asia to 1200 BCE
Israel and Judah to 733 BCE
India to 500 BCE
Shang Civilization, 1200 BCE
China's Warring States, 245 to 235 BCE
Europe
Empire of Cyrus II
Aegean Region, to 300 BCE
Greece
Hellespont
Alexander in the East
Empire of Asoka
Han China, circa 100 BCE
Italy and Sicily
Aegean Region, 185 BCE
Roman Empire, 12 CE
Roman Empire, 150 CE
Judea, Galilee, Idumea
Sassanid Empire
Roman Empire, 500 CE
Gupta Empire
China, Korea and Japan
Mesoamerica and the Maya
Africa to 500 CE
Oceania
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6th to 15th Centuries... index of places
Remnants of the Roman Empire, circa 500 CE
Europe, West Asia and Arabia, to 700 CE
Military expansion by Muslims, to 1000 CE
Anglo-Saxon England
Byzantium and the Balkans, 650 to 700 CE
Constantinople and its Walls
Charlemagne's Empire, 800 CE
West-Central Europe
Expanding Rule of the Capets, 1031-1285 CE
Medieval Japan and Korea
India in the 700s
East Asia, 1200
Genghis Khan's Empire, 1227
West-Central Asia
East Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1481
Africa to the year 1500
Caribbean Islands, 1492 to 1500
16th to 19th Centuries ... index of places
Aztec Empire
Aztec Centers in the Valley of Mexico
Inca Empire
American Indian Populations
Eskimo Territory circa 1500 C.E.
Muscovy and Surrounding Areas, 1533
Ottoman Empire, 1566 to 1700
Mughal Empire, 1605
Central Europe, 1648
China, Manchuria and Japan
Indonesian Archipelago
Spaniards from Yucatan to Kansas
South America, to 1700
East of the Mississippi, and the Caribbean
Europeans and Atlantic Coast Indians, to 1700
Africa to the year 1800
Europe, to 1710
Eighteenth Century West-Central Europe
Central and Eastern Europe, 1740
Russia Expands toward the Black Sea, 1725-95
French Revolution, to 1794
St. Domingue (Haiti), 1789
Strait of Gibraltar
Afghanistan, India, Burma and the British, 1797 to 1828
North America States, Colonies and Territories, 1830
Africa and Arabia, 1835
New Zealand
Europe, 1848
Mexico, to 1848
Gadsden Purchase, 1853
Russian Ruled Poland, 1855
Australia, 1860
1901 to World War War II ...index of places
Europe, 1914
Africa, imperial boundaries, 1914
East Asia, 1903 (south to Vietnam and the Philippines)
Landings on Gallipoli Peninsula, 1915
Gallipoli, the Dardanelles and Bosporus
Germany's Farthest Advance, 1918
Turkey, 1924
Europe, 1919 to 1938
Latin America
Japan's Conquests, 1942
Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, 1939-42
The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-44
1945 to 21st Century ...index of places
Israel, to 1950
Korean War
Europe, 1956
Taiwan Strait
Cuba
India
Ethnic Distribution: Pushtun, Punjabi, Baluchi, Sindhi
Middle East, 2000 CE
Africa, 2000 CE
Europe, 2000 CE
Nations of Europe to 2005
Canada, the U.S., Greenland, Iceland to 2005
Nations of Latin America to 2005
Nations of the Middle East and Central Asia to 2005
Nations of East Asia and Oceania to 2005
Nations of Africa to 2005