History of the world map by map

Prehistory, 7 MYA-3000 BCE. From apes to farmers ; The first humans ; Out of Africa ; The first Australians ; Peopling the Americas ; The first farmers ; Origins of agriculture ; Villages to towns -- The Ancient World, 3000 BCE-500 CE. The first civilizations ; The first cities ; Egypt of the pharaohs ; The first writing ; Minoans and Mycenaeans ; Bronze Age China ; Bronze Age collapse ; The ancient Levant ; The Iron Age ; Assyria and Babylonia ; Rise of the Persian Empire ; First cities in the Americas ; The Phoenicians ; The Greek city-states ; Greece and Persia at war ; Alexander the Great ; The Classical Age ; Etruscans and the rise of Rome ; Rome builds its power base ; Rome Empire at its height ; The roots of Indian history ; Mauryan India ; China's first emperor ; Terracotta army ; Ancient American civilizations ; Age of migrations ; Han Dynasty ; The spread of Buddhism ; The rise of Christianity -- Middle Ages, 500-1450 CE. The Middle Ages ; The Byzantine Empire ; The ascent of Islam ; Rule of the caliphs ; The Vikings ; The Normans ; The Silk Road ; Medieval renaissance ; The Crusades ; The inheritors of Rome ; The Hundred Years' War ; Medieval European trade ; The Black Death ; The emperor and the pope ; The Holy Roman Empire ; Rise of the Ottomans ; The Reconquista ; Medieval East Asia ; Tang and Song China ; Medieval Korea and Japan ; The Mongol conquests ; Yuan China to the early Ming ; Temple states of Southeast Asia ; African peoples and empires ; Mansa Musa ; The Polynesians ; North American cultures ; Aztec and Inca empires -- The Early Modern World, 1450-1700. The early modern world ; Voyages of exploration ; Spanish conquests in the Americas ; The Spanish in America ; The colonization of North America ; The age of exchange ; The Renaissance ; The colonial spice trade ; Printing ; The Reformation ; The Thirty Years' War ; British civil wars ; Reign of the Ottomans ; East meets West ; Mughal India ; China from the Ming to the Qing ; Japan unifies under the Tokugawa ; The Scientific Revolution ; The Dutch golden age --

Revolution and Industry, 1700-1850. The age of revolution ; Battle for North America ; The Seven Years' War ; The agricultural revolution ; The Atlantic slave trade ; The American Revolution ; South American independence ; The Enlightenment ; The fate of Native Americans ; The French Revolution ; Napoleon advances ; Napoleon's downfall ; The Industrial Revolution ; Industrial Britain ; Romanticism and nationalism ; The revolutions of 1848 ; New Zealand and Australia ; The abolition of slavery ; Rise of British power in India ; The Opium Wars

Progress and Empire, 1850-1914. Cities and industry ; Industrialized Europe ; Socialism and anarchism ; Transport and communications ; Mass migrations ; The age of imperialism ; The new imperialism ; Resistance and the Raj ; Russian Empire expands ; Africa colonized ; Foreign powers in China ; Decline of Qing China ; Japan transformed ; The Civil War ; Science and innovation ; Expansion of the US ; Independent Latin America ; Germany and Italy unified ; Balkan wars ; The eve of World War

The Modern World, 1914-present. The modern world ; World War I ; The trenches ; The wider war ; The Russian Revolution ; Political extremism ; Aftermath of the Great War ; The Great Depression ; China and nationalism ; Soviet Union under Stalin ; The Spanish Civil War ; World War II ; Axis powers advance ; Occupied Europe ; The war in the Pacific ; Germany defeated ; Japan defeated ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; Partition in India ; The founding of communist China ; Superpowers ; The Cold War ; Korean War ; Decolonization of Southeast Asia ; European unity ; Decolonization of Africa ; Rockets and the space race ; Civil rights and student revolt ; The Vietnam Wars ; US interventions in Latin America ; Israel and the Middle East ; Economic boom and environmental cost ; The collapse of communism ; War in Yugoslavia ; Globalization ; Iran and the Gulf Wars ; The communication revolution ; Population and energy

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