Cover: Atlas of Western Civilization, 1st Edition by Rand McNally

Atlas of Western Civilization

First Edition  ©2009 Rand McNally

Authors

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    Rand McNally

Table of Contents

List of Maps in Rand McNally’s Atlas of Western Civilization:

Era I: The Beginnings of Human Society

Human Emergence on the Changing Face of Earth

Era II: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples

The Ancient World in the 7th Century B.C.

Classical Greece and the Athenian Empire, about 450 B.C.

Era III: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires

Ancient Persia, 549 B.C. – 651 A.D.

Alexander’s Empire, 336 – 323 B.C.

Roman Republic, 31 B.C.

Roman Empire, about 120 A.D.

Roman Empire, about 400 A.D.

Era IV: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions

Europe and the Crusader States, about 1140

Europe, about 1360

European Civilization during the Renaissance

Europe’s Age of Discovery: 15th – 17th Centuries

Era V: The Emergence of the First Global Age

Europe, about 1560

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The Holy Roman Empire, 1648

Europe in 1721

Era VI: An Age of Revolutions

Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1776 – 1826

British North America/Revolutionary War

State Claims to Western Lands/The U.S., 1775 – 1800

Westward Expansion, 1800 – 1850

Canada, 1792 – 1840

Dominion of Canada, 1867

Europe in 1810

Europe in 1815

Industrialization of Europe, 1850

Industrialization of Europe, 1910

Unification of Germany: Bismarck’s Empire

Unification of Italy

Expansion of Russia in Europe

European Invasions of Russia

Expansion of Russia in Asia

Languages of Europe in the 19th Century

Era VII: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement

European Partition of Africa, 19th Century

Balkan Peninsula to 1914

Europe in 1914

Resistance to European Colonialism, 1870 – 1917

The World, about 1900

Europe, 1922 – 1940

Second World War

Era VIII: 1990 to the Present

The Breakup of the U.S.S.R.’s Sphere of Influence, 1989

The Breakup of Yugoslavia

European Union

World Political and Military Alliances, 2004

World Economic Alliances, 2004

World Gross Domestic Product, 2004

World Literacy, 2004

World Languages

World Religions

World Physical Map

World

Product Updates

Authors

  • Headshot of Rand McNally

    Rand McNally

Table of Contents

List of Maps in Rand McNally’s Atlas of Western Civilization:

Era I: The Beginnings of Human Society

Human Emergence on the Changing Face of Earth

Era II: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples

The Ancient World in the 7th Century B.C.

Classical Greece and the Athenian Empire, about 450 B.C.

Era III: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires

Ancient Persia, 549 B.C. – 651 A.D.

Alexander’s Empire, 336 – 323 B.C.

Roman Republic, 31 B.C.

Roman Empire, about 120 A.D.

Roman Empire, about 400 A.D.

Era IV: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions

Europe and the Crusader States, about 1140

Europe, about 1360

European Civilization during the Renaissance

Europe’s Age of Discovery: 15th – 17th Centuries

Era V: The Emergence of the First Global Age

Europe, about 1560

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The Holy Roman Empire, 1648

Europe in 1721

Era VI: An Age of Revolutions

Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1776 – 1826

British North America/Revolutionary War

State Claims to Western Lands/The U.S., 1775 – 1800

Westward Expansion, 1800 – 1850

Canada, 1792 – 1840

Dominion of Canada, 1867

Europe in 1810

Europe in 1815

Industrialization of Europe, 1850

Industrialization of Europe, 1910

Unification of Germany: Bismarck’s Empire

Unification of Italy

Expansion of Russia in Europe

European Invasions of Russia

Expansion of Russia in Asia

Languages of Europe in the 19th Century

Era VII: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement

European Partition of Africa, 19th Century

Balkan Peninsula to 1914

Europe in 1914

Resistance to European Colonialism, 1870 – 1917

The World, about 1900

Europe, 1922 – 1940

Second World War

Era VIII: 1990 to the Present

The Breakup of the U.S.S.R.’s Sphere of Influence, 1989

The Breakup of Yugoslavia

European Union

World Political and Military Alliances, 2004

World Economic Alliances, 2004

World Gross Domestic Product, 2004

World Literacy, 2004

World Languages

World Religions

World Physical Map

World

Product Updates

Rand McNally Atlas of Western Civilization. This collection of over fifty full-colored maps highlights social, political, and cross-cultural change and interaction from classical Greece and Rome to the post-industrial Western world. Each map is thoroughly indexed for fast reference.

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