Map of Europe, 500 A.D.
Map of Europe, 500 A.D.
Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago
Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago
The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C.
The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C.
The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C.
The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C.
Central Europe, 1648
Central Europe, 1648
Empire of Otto the Great
Empire of Otto the Great
Europe after the Congress of Vienna
Europe after the Congress of Vienna
Europe and Asia, 1200
Europe and Asia, 1200
Europe at the Death of Charlemagne
Europe at the Death of Charlemagne
Europe at the Fall of Constantinople
Europe at the Fall of Constantinople
Europe in 1714
Europe in 1714
Europe in the Time of Charles V
Europe in the Time of Charles V
Europe, 500 A.D.
Europe, 500 A.D.
European Trade Routes in the 14th Century
European Trade Routes in the 14th Century
Germany after the Peace Treaty, 1919
Germany after the Peace Treaty, 1919
Map of Europe, 1848-1871
Map of Europe, 1848-1871
The Western Front, 1915-18
The Western Front, 1915-18 For a year and a half, until July, 1916, the Western front remained in a state of indecisive tension. There were heavy attacks on either side that ended in bloody repulses. The French made costly{v2-517} but glorious thrusts at Arras and in Champagne in 1915, the British at Loos.
The First Crusade
They came by diverse routes from France, Normandy, Flanders, England, Southern Italy, and Sicily, and the will and power of them were the Normans. They crossed the Bosphorus and captured Nicæa, which Alexius snatched away from them before they could loot it. They then went on by much the same route as Alexander the Great, through the Cilician Gates, leaving the Turks in Konia unconquered, past the battle-fields of the Issus, and so to Antioch, which they took after nearly a year’s siege. Then they defeated a great relieving army from Mosul. A large part of the Crusaders remained in Antioch, a smaller force under Godfrey of Bouillon (in Belgium) went on to Jerusalem. “After a little more than a month’s siege, the city was finally captured (July 15). The slaughter was terrible; the blood of the conquered ran down the streets, until men splashed in blood as they rode. At nightfall, ‘sobbing for excess of joy,’ the crusaders came to the Sepulchre from their treading of the wine-press, and put their blood-stained hands together in prayer. So, on that day of July, the First Crusade came to an end.”
The Natural Political Map of Europe
It is worth while for the reader to compare the treaty maps we give with what we have called the natural political map of Europe. The new arrangements do approach this latter more closely than any previous system of boundaries. It may be a necessary preliminary to any satisfactory league of peoples, that each people should first be in something like complete possession of its own household.
The Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland
The Trail of Napoleon
Showing the chief places of importance in his life
The Turkish Treaty, 1920
The Turkish Treaty, 1920
Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500
Time-chart A.D. 800-A.D. 1500