- Venice in the Sixteenth Century
- The First printed map of England
The First printed map of England - Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North America
Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North America - Section of Frobisher's Map of the World
Section of Frobisher's map of the world, 1576. Copied from Hakluyt. It shows what the English explorer thought America was. - De Soto's Expedition 1539-1542
De Soto's Expedition 1539-1542 The outlines and names of states are given for convenience in tracing De Soto's course. - Map of 1515
Map of 1515, showing what some geographers then supposed North America to be. This is one of the earliest maps on which the name America occurs. It will be notices that at that time it was confined to South America. - Correct chart of westward route from Europe to Asia, for comparison with the chart of Columbus
Correct chart of westward route from Europe to Asia, for comparison with the chart of Columbus - The World as known shortly before the sailing of Columbus
The World as known shortly before the sailing of Columbus - A Map of the Chief Plains and Craters of the Moon
The plains were originally supposed to be seas: hence the name "Mare." - Outline plan of Pompeii
The Regions are given as they were laid out by Fiorelli, the boundaries being marked by broken lines. The Insulae are designated by Arabic numerals. Stabian Street, between Stabian and Vesuvius gates, separating Regions VIII, VII, and VI, from I, IX, and V, is often called Cardo, from analogy with the cardo maximus (the north and south line) of a Roman camp. Nola Street, leading from the Nola Gate, with its continuations (Strada della Fortuna, south of Insulae 10, 12, 13, and 14 of Region VI, and Strada della Terme, south of VI, 4, 6, 8), was for similar reasons designated as the Greater Decuman, Decumanus Maior; while the street running from the Water Gate to the Sarno Gate (Via Marina, Abbondanza Street, Strada dei Diadumeni) is called the Lesser Decuman, Decumanus Minor. The only Regions wholly excavated are VII and VIII; but only a small portion of Region VI remains covered. The towers of the city wall are designated by numbers, as they are supposed to have been at the time of the siege of Sulla, in 89 B.C. - World as known to the Ancients
Map of the World as known to the Ancients - Battle of Resaca de la Palma 9th May 1846
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 9th May 1846 - Battle of Palo Alto 8th. May 1846
Battle of Palo Alto 8th. May 1846 - Map of France, corrected by order of the king
Map of France, corrected by order of the king Desborough Cooley in his "History of Voyages," says, "They deprived her (France) of several degrees of longitude in the length of her western coast, from Brittany to the Bay of Biscay. And in the same way retrenched about half a degree from Languedoc and La Provence." These alterations gave rise to a "bon-mot." Louis the XIV., in complimenting the Academicians upon their return, remarked, "I am sorry to see, gentlemen, that your journey has cost me a good part of my kingdom!" - Baalbek
Baalbek (anc. Heliopolis), a town of the Buka‛a (Coelesyria), altitude 3850 ft., situated E. of the Litani and near the parting between its waters and those of the Asi. Pop. about 5000, including 2000 Metawali and 1000 Christians (Maronite and Orthodox). Since 1902 Baalbek has been connected by railway with Rayak (Rejak) on the Beirut-Damascus line, and since 1907 with Aleppo. It is famous for its temple ruins of the Roman period, before which we have no record of it, certain though it be that Heliopolis is a translation of an earlier native name, in which Baal was an element. - Ojeda's first voyage
There is no doubt whatever that Vespucci made a voyage in 1499-1500, along with Alonzo de Ojeda and the great pilot Juan[Pg 109] de la Cosa, but whether this may be styled his first or his second must be left to the intelligence of the reader, for the historians are at odds themselves, and it might seem presumptuous in the biographer to assume to decide. - North America from the globe of Johann Schöner
In a pamphlet accompanying "the earliest known globe of Johann Schöner," made in 1515, the new region is described as the "fourth part of the globe named after its discoverer, Americus Vespucius, who found it in 1497." Vespucci did not find it, and he never made the claim that he discovered more than is given in his letters; but this misstatement by another caused him to be accused of falsifying the dates of his voyages in order to rob Columbus of his desserts. - Routes of the discoverers
Routes of the discoverers - The United States in 1790
The United States in 1790 - 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 Moslem Empire
The Moslem Empire 750 AD - The Coming of the Seljuks
Haroun-al-Raschid died in 809. At his death his great empire fell immediately into civil war and confusion, and the next great event of unusual importance in this region of the world comes two hundred years later when the Turks, under the chiefs of the great family of the Seljuks, poured southward out of Turkestan, and not only conquered the empire of Bagdad, but Asia Minor also. Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. They were still much the same people as those of whom Yuan Chwang gave us a glimpse four hundred years earlier, but now they were Moslems, and Moslems of the primitive type, men whom Abu Bekr would have welcomed to Islam. They caused a great revival of vigour in Islam, and they turned the minds of the Moslem world once more in the direction of a religious war against Christendom. - The British Empire in 1815
The British Empire in 1815 consisted of the thinly populated coastal river and lake regions of Canada, and a great hinterland of wilderness in which the only settlements as yet were the fur-trading stations of the Hudson Bay Company, about a third of the Indian peninsula, under the rule of the East India Company, the coast districts of the Cape of Good Hope inhabited by blacks and rebellious-spirited Dutch settlers; a few trading stations on the coast of West Africa, the rock of Gibraltar, the island of Malta, Jamaica, a few minor slave-labour possessions in the West Indies, British Guiana in South America, and, on the other side of the world, two dumps for convicts at Botany Bay in Australia and in Tasmania. - Overseas Empires of European Powers, 1914
Overseas Empires of European Powers, 1914 - Map of Europe, 1848-1871
Map of Europe, 1848-1871 - France at the Close of the 10th Century
France at the Close of the 10th Century - Europe, 500 A.D.
Europe, 500 A.D. - Europe in the Time of Charles V
Europe in the Time of Charles V - Europe in 1714
Europe in 1714 - Europe at the Fall of Constantinople
Europe at the Fall of Constantinople - Europe at the Death of Charlemagne
Europe at the Death of Charlemagne - Europe and Asia, 1200
Europe and Asia, 1200 - Europe after the Congress of Vienna
Europe after the Congress of Vienna - England, 878 A.D
England, 878 A.D - England, 640 A.D.
England, 640 A.D. - Empire of Timurlane
Empire of Timurlane - Empire of Otto the Great
Empire of Otto the Great - Empire of Jengis Khan, 1227
Empire of Jengis Khan, 1227 - Comparative Maps of Asia under Different Projections
Comparative Maps of Asia (a) as part of hemisphere (b) on Mercators projection to show relative sizes of Asiatic Russia and India in the two cases. - Chief Foreign Settlements in India, 17th Century
Chief Foreign Settlements in India, 17th Century - Central Europe, 1648
Central Europe, 1648 - Britain, France, and Spain in America, 1750
Britain, France, and Spain in America, 1750 - Boston in 1775
Boston in 1775 - Arabia and Adjacent Countries
Arabia and Adjacent Countries - American Colonies, 1760
American Colonies, 1760 - Africa, 1914
Africa, 1914 - Africa in the Middle of 19th Century
Africa in the Middle of 19th Century - Travels of Marco Polo
Travels of Marco Polo - Ægean Civilization (Map)
Ægean Civilization - Wars of the Greeks and Persians (Map)
Wars of the Greeks and Persians (Map) - The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C.
The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C. - The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C.
The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C. - The Spread of Buddhism
The Spread of Buddhism - The Known World, about 250 B.C
The Known World, about 250 B.C - The Cradle of Chinese Civilization (Map)
The Cradle of Chinese Civilization (Map) - Roman Power after the Samnite Wars
Roman Power after the Samnite Wars - Roman Empire at Death of Augustus
Roman Empire at Death of Augustus - Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign)
Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign) - Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago
Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago - Map of Europe, 500 A.D.
Map of Europe, 500 A.D.