Atlas of Western Civilization
First EditionRand McNally
©2009Containing over 50 full-color maps, Atlas of Western Civilization encompasses social, political, cultural change, and interaction through history, from classical Greece and Rome to the post-industrial Western world.
Table of Contents
List of Maps in Rand McNally’s Atlas of Western Civilization: Era I: The Beginnings of Human Society Human Emergence on the Changing Face of Earth Era II: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples The Ancient World in the 7th Century B.C. Classical Greece and the Athenian Empire, about 450 B.C. Era III: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires Ancient Persia, 549 B.C. – 651 A.D. Alexander’s Empire, 336 – 323 B.C. Roman Republic, 31 B.C. Roman Empire, about 120 A.D. Roman Empire, about 400 A.D. Era IV: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions Europe and the Crusader States, about 1140 Europe, about 1360 European Civilization during the Renaissance Europe’s Age of Discovery: 15th – 17th Centuries Era V: The Emergence of the First Global Age Europe, about 1560 The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires in the 16th and 17th Centuries The Holy Roman Empire, 1648 Europe in 1721 Era VI: An Age of Revolutions Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1776 – 1826 British North America/Revolutionary War State Claims to Western Lands/The U.S., 1775 – 1800 Westward Expansion, 1800 – 1850 Canada, 1792 – 1840 Dominion of Canada, 1867 Europe in 1810 Europe in 1815 Industrialization of Europe, 1850 Industrialization of Europe, 1910 Unification of Germany: Bismarck’s Empire Unification of Italy Expansion of Russia in Europe European Invasions of Russia Expansion of Russia in Asia Languages of Europe in the 19th Century Era VII: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement European Partition of Africa, 19th Century Balkan Peninsula to 1914 Europe in 1914 Resistance to European Colonialism, 1870 – 1917 The World, about 1900 Europe, 1922 – 1940 Second World War Era VIII: 1990 to the Present The Breakup of the U.S.S.R.’s Sphere of Influence, 1989 The Breakup of Yugoslavia European Union World Political and Military Alliances, 2004 World Economic Alliances, 2004 World Gross Domestic Product, 2004 World Literacy, 2004 World Languages World Religions World Physical Map World