A History of the World in 500 Maps

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The Kushanas have succeeded the Scythians in ruling a huge empire stretching from central Asia into India. Their state plays a major role in global history by acting as the base for the spread of Buddhism to China and East Asia. The Middle East In North America, the towns of the Mississippi valley have continued to prosper and grow; whilst to the south, the ancestors of the Aztec are establishing themselves in central Mexico.

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While western European countries have been extending their reach across the oceans, the Russians have been spreading across Central Asia and into East Asia. They reach the Pacific Ocean about now. This expansion is carried out mostly by thousands of ordinary farmers, but coming up behind them comes the authority of the Russian state. The control this imposes on the region means that, from this time forward, the nomadic steppe peoples of Central Asia will no longer pose a threat to the settled peoples of Europe or East Asia. South Asia The TimeMap of World History is designed to make all the world’s history easily accessible, so that we can understand each others’ pasts better.

Every part of the world is beginning to feel the impact of European expansion by this time, though some more than others. The Chinese empire The Igorots of Ifugao in northern Luzon built the rice terraces from the mountain walls of cordillera. In Africa, the future expansion of agriculture is being assured by the domestication of tropical plants as food crops.

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At the heart of this new civilization are the European nations and their offshoots around the globe. By this date, one can start speaking of the nations of Europe and the Americas – North America especially – as “the Western World”. They make up a global bloc with a shared civilization.Being the first to experience the transformations which industrialization brings, these societies find themselves with a huge (though, as it will turn out, temporary) advantage over all other societies on the planet. They naturally set about exploiting this advantage to the full. Another manifestation of the power of the Church has been the launching a series of great military campaigns, called “crusades”, against the Muslim world to reclaim the pilgrimage center of Jerusalem and surrounding lands from Islamic control. These have been a woeful failure. However, one result has been a great upswing in Mediterranean trade. This is dominated by north Italian merchants, and the wealth this trade brings will, in following centuries, help bring about the great cultural movement known as the Italian Renaissance, and all that flows from it. In Oceania, the Maori settlers of New Zealand are having to adapt to their new homeland as the native fauna gets hunted to extinction. The Americas In Oceania, the Polynesians have completed their colonization of the central Pacific Islands by now. West Africa, being much more densely populated, has not been so badly affected. Nevertheless some scholars think that the slave trade led to more frequent wars here, and, being now fought with European-sourced firearms, these were more deadly than before.

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The peoples of Central Asia formed the motive-power for the empires of Genghis Khan and Timur. Since the decline of these empires, the steppe peoples have fragmented under the rule of different khans. The Middle EastThe TimeMaps Premium service offers a growing range of exclusive resources not available in the free area. These are especially useful for teachers and their students, but will also be of interests to anyone wanting to learn more about history. In the Americas, in Mexico, farming is becoming more and more intensive. This will lead to the rise of complex societies over the coming centuries.