The Penguin History of the World

List of Maps

Sites of Some Celebrated Discoveries of Hominid Fossils

Early Sites of Farming in the Middle East and Europe

The Fertile Crescent

Ancient Egypt

The Indus Valley

China – Physical

Climatic Changes in the Sahara

Civilizations of the Middle East

The Greek World of the Aegean

The Persian Empire of the Achaemenids

The Peloponnesian War

Alexander’s March to the East

The Hellenistic World soon after 200 BC

The Mediterranean c. 600 BC

Southern Italy 509–272 BC

The Punic Wars – Major Events

Roman Expansion

Major Roads, Cities and Garrisons of the Empire in the Age of the Antonines

Judaism in the Ancient World

Paul’s Missions

The Sassanid Empire c. 400

The Making of the Eastern Roman Empire

Völkerwanderung

Justinian’s Empire 527–65

China under the Han Dynasty

Central Asia

Seventh-century Arabia

The Early Spread of Islam

Islamic Iberia c. 1050

Islam beyond the Arab World until 1800

The Byzantine Empire c. 1265 and c. 1354

The Growth of Venice as a Mediterranean Power

Kiev Rus

The Mongol Empires

South-eastern Europe c. 1400

Ottoman Expansion

Charlemagne’s Europe

Christendom before the Islamic Conquest

The Medieval Empire

Christendom in the Eleventh Century

Muslim India

German Eastward Expansion

The Crusader Wars

European Universities Founded before 1500

Mughal India

European Trading Stations and Possessions in Africa and Asia c. 1750

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Europe (Treaty of Westphalia 1648)

The Beginning of the Ottoman Retreat in Europe

Russian Expansion 1500–1800

The Growth of British Power in India 1783–1804

Exploration of the Americas

British Atlantic Trade in the 1770s

Economic Resources of the British American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century

Africa in the Early Modern Era

Christian Missionary Activity in Africa and Asia in the Nineteenth Century

The Emergence and Consolidation of the United States

Napoleonic Europe

Europe in 1815

Russian Expansion to 1905

The Winning of the Far West

The Slavery Problem in the United States

The American Civil War 1861–5

The British Empire (and Protected Territories) 1815–1914

South America after Independence

British India 1858–1947

Africa in 1880

Partitioned Africa: Areas of European Domination in 1914

Qing Empire in 1759

Japanese Expansion 1895–1942

Major Religions of Asia in the Early Twentieth Century

Imperial Expansion in South-East Asia

Migration from Europe in the Nineteenth Century

Europe in 1914

World War I, 1914–18

Russia in 1918

China 1918–49

Ottoman Decline and the Emergence of Modern Turkey 1683–1923

Europe during World War II

Proposed UN Partition of Palestine 1947

Post-war Germany and Central Europe

The Post-war Recovery of Eastern Asia and Population Pressure in South and East Asia

The Post-Ottoman Near and Middle East

Decolonization in Africa and Asia

Contemporary Latin America

Post-war Europe – Economic and Military Blocks

The Soviet Union and Its Successors