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EARLY
MAPS
to
about 700 CE |
SELECTIONS FROM
THE *SCHWARTZBERG
HISTORICAL
ATLAS* (DSAL, highly ZOOMABLE)
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=*Vedic
India**
=*the
Mahajanapadas** and *the
Buddhist-Jain heartland**
=*the
India
of
the Ramayana** and *the
India
of
the Mahabharata**
=*the
Achaemenid
Empire
and the Magadhan Empire**
=*India
as
the
Greeks knew it**
=*the
Mauryan Empire**
=*Sunga
and
Indo-Greek
ascendancy, c.200 to 1 BCE**
=*the
age
of
the Kushans**
=*religious
and
cultural
sites, c.200 BCE-300 CE**
=*Western
knowledge
of
and trade with South Asia, 0-200 CE**
=*the
Gupta-Vakataka
age,
c.300-550**
=*a
synopsis: major powers of South Asia up to the 500's*
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MET MUSEUM
TIMELINE
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=*Metropolitan Museum timeline**
displays, with both maps and images (scroll down)
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ANCIENT MAPS
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Ancient maps with
commentary, by Henry Davis:
=*maps from 6,000 BCE to 400 CE**;
and *maps from 400 to 1300 CE** |
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the ANCIENT WORLD
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=*ancient world maps-- an overview from
Wikipedia** |
Maps by Thomas Lessman
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=*a
global set of early maps**
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| HUNTINGTON ARCHIVE MAPS |
=*many
excellent historical maps** |
GANDHARA at the
crossroads
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=*the Gandhara region*--
Mahajanapada and Persian province
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the
MAHAJANAPADAS; the BUDDHIST and JAIN HEARTLAND
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=*the
sixteen Mahajanapadas, c.600 BCE and later
developments*
=*the
Mahajanapadas**
=*religious
movements
and
culture of the period (S)**
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the PERSIAN
EMPIRE, c.490 BCE
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=*the Persian
empire under Darius, 490 BCE* (up to the Indus)
=*the
Achaemenid
Empire
and the Magadhan Empire (S)**
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HERODOTUS'S
WORLD, c.450 BCE
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=*how
the world looked to Herodotus, c.450 BCE*, from *Butler and Rhys, 1907**; *comments by Henry Davis**
=*India
as
the
Greeks knew it (S)**
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ALEXANDER AT THE INDUS, c.326
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=*Alexander's
journey,
c.334-325 BCE*
=*a
quick overview* |
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the SELEUCID
EMPIRE
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=*the
Seleukid Empire at its maximum extent, 3rd c. BCE*
=*its
trade routes with India (a map from 1938)*
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the PARTHIAN
EMPIRE
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=*maps of Parthia, c.247 BCE-228 CE**;
and *Parthia,
c.001 CE**
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the MAURYAS, and
ASHOKA
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=*the Mauryan
empire (c.247-228 BCE), especially under Ashoka*
=*the
Mauryan
Empire
(S)**
=*religious
movements
and
culture of the period (S)** |
| the SUNGAS; the INDO-GREEKS |
=*Sunga
and
Indo-Greek
ascendancy, c.200 to 1 BCE (S)**
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the KUSHAN EMPIRE
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=*Kushan
Empire, c.100s BCE-200s CE*
=*the
age
of
the Kushans (S)** |
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"PERIPLUS," 1st
c.
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=*a map
based on the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea," 1st c.
CE* |
ARRIAN
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=*Arrian's
world (early 100's) as seen by Ortelius (1624)*
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MAHABHARATA,
RAMAYANA
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=*the
India
of
the Mahabharata (S)**
=*the
India
of
the Ramayana (S)**
=*"Epic
India"
and
its place names* (Wikipedia)
=*places in the Mahabharata**
(Sanskrit names, LC)
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STRABO
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=*a world map according to Strabo, c.18
CE** (Henry Davis) |
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PTOLEMAIC MAPS,
c.200 onward
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=*an atlas of ancient and classical
geography**
=*a Ptolemaic overview set* |
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SCRIPT DIFFUSION
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=*the
diffusion of South Asian scripts* in historical
times |
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ROMAN ROADS,
300's
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=*the Roman road
network, from the "Tabula Peutingeriana"*, 300's |
EARLY KINGDOMS
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=*early Indian kingdoms up to 550 CE* |
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the GUPTA EMPIRE
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=*the Gupta
empire (300's and 400's) in its context*
=*the
Gupta-Vakataka
age,
c.300-550** |
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HUNA EMPIRE
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=*the empire of
the Hunas or Hephthalites, early 500's* |
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HARSHA'S EMPIRE
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=*Harsha's
empire, c.606-647* |
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ISLAMIC, c.661
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=*Muslim expansion until 661**
(Brice 1981) |
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GENERAL
HISTORICAL
MAPS
OF THE ANCIENT WORLD |
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MERCATOR, 1578
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=*Mercator's
Ptolemaic
maps, 1578*, a tribute from the inventor of the *Mercator* projection to the father
of Western map-making |
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MALLET, 1683
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=*Mallet's maps, c.1683-1719*--
including historical maps |
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ANCIENT ASIA,
1700s
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=*Various maps of the ancient world,
from the 1700's* |
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ANCIENT ASIA,
1800s
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=*ancient South Asia (and Asia)*,
various maps from the 1800's |
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THE ANCIENT
WORLD (1884)
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=*"Orbis
Terrarum"*, an elaborate map by Henry Kiepert
(1884) that shows, along with much else, "Aryan,
Semitic, and Hamitic" peoples |
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ANCIENT WORLD
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=*"Map of the Ancient Historical World,
Showing the Caucasian Nations"*, by I. S. Clare
(1891) |
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A CLASSICAL
ATLAS (1907)
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=*The Atlas of Ancient and Classical
Geography**, mostly of Europe; by Samuel Butler,
edited by Ernest Rhys (1907) |
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