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Atlas of the
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Thomas Vitacco
Manual Cartography Project Manager
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Digital Cartographer
Rob
Merrill
M.
Stift
New
Trier
High School
Cover Design
Donna McGrath
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Inc.
Production
Robert Sanders
The Afro-Eurasian Trade Circuits inset map on p.29 is adapted from "Before European Hegemony"
by Janet Abu-Lughod. Copyright 1989 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of
Oxford University Press,
Inc.
The maps "The Kingdom of Mali"-p.22, "Trade Routes between Africa and India"-p.22, "The Maya
World 300-900 A.D."-p.23. "The Inca Empire"-p.23, and "The Aztec Empire 1463-1532"-p.23 are
used with permission of Houghton-Mifflin Company.
Copyright
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2001 Printing
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part of this
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C*RAND MCNALLY
Historical
Atlas of the
World
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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I -
The Beginnings
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Human Societ
Human hmergence on
54-55
the Changing
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Face of Earth
... .56
57
58-59
60-61
62-63
64-65
in 1850
66
67
68
69
70
in 1910
71
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9
10-11
12
14-15
16-17
18-19
1810
in 1815
in
Industrialization of
Industrialization of
Europe
Europe
Unification of Germany-Bismarck's
13
Europe
Europe
Empire
72
73
74-75
Unification of Italy
76
77
78-79
20-21
22
22
23
23
23
24
25
26-27
28-29
30-31
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.32-33
34-35
38-39
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36-37
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80-81
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100
101
102
103
104
105
106-107
108-109
110-112
Introduction
of these
ways
is
historical
The maps
in the Rand McNally Historical Atlas of the World portray the rich panoply of the
They show how cultures and civilizations
were linked and how they interacted. These maps make it clear that history is not static.
Rather, it is about change and movement across time. The maps in this atlas show change
by presenting the dynamics of expansion, cooperation, and conflict.
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and oceans.
The map
Trends emerge.
Another benefit of using this historical atlas is that trends emerge. Maps of the westward
expansion of the United States show how the nation was setded, what technologies were used,
who was displaced, and in what sequence. In another example, the map of the Mogul Empire
in India under Aurangzeb reveals how a dynasty can become powerfully established in little
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Index
The following index
the
maps
lists
in the Historical
and
political
development
at
maps which
portray
Ih(
successive periods. In
j
al.
map
added
in
parentheses.
of:
C.164S
Coblenz (Koblenz)
Cochin China:
c.
c.
IT75
IWO
Coelesyria
Colombia:
in
in
1819
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D4
4S
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47
F7
91
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10
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54
63
1850-1900
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48
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64
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Lung Yu
Kazan
Kcdah
Kcmptcn
Kerala
Kham
Khmer empire
(Kambujadesa)...
Khwarezm
Kiangsi
Kilara
.-.
Kokand
Kongo
Konkan
Korea: C.1775
1910
in
Korean War
Koryo (Korea)
..B3
Kuannei
Kuban
B:
Ku'bar
Kublai Khan, dominions
of.
Kurdistan:
in
Ottoman empire
in
1914
D'
in
1921
Gl
Kushan empire
A(
Kuweil (Kuwait)
Kwangsi
e;
Kwangtung
Hi
Kwcichow
E'
Kyushu
CS
L
Labrador
C'
Laconia
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Ladakh
C4
Langkasuka
G"
Laos:
La
in
1900
F7
G5
1790
Plata: c.
1800-50
in
Latin America:
in
1800-1900
in
1821-1929
c.
Latvia: in 1940
1790
C5
Lebanon
Lc6n, kingdom of
D2
Liberia
El
Libya: in 1922-40
H4
Lingen
C3
Lingnan
D8
Lippe:c.l648
(3
1867
C3
D7
B6
c.
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c.
c.
1360
1560
inl721
88
c.
1795
in
1940
D2
D5
D9
A6
Little
Poland
Livonia: c. 1560
in
1721
Locris, Ozolian
Lombardy:
in
in
c.
814
1815
1859
Lorraine:
c.
1360
88
C3
C8
D4
A5
E4
c.
1648
F3
in
1721
E5
in
1871
D3
Louisiana Purchase
Luba
Lubeck
Lucca:
in
1847
84
B5
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