History of the world in maps: the rise and fall of empires, countries and cities

Babylonian town plan Babylonian world map Egyptian papyrus map World map / Ptolemy Peutinger Table : Roman route map Palestine : Madaba mosaic map Chinese stone maps : Hua yi tu and Yu ji tu World map / al-Idrisi Itinerary map / Matthew Paris Carte Pisane : Portolian sea chart A Christian world view : Hereford Mappa Mundi Catalan Atlas / Cresques Constantinople : city map The Vinland map : a Viking discovery? Cantino Planisphere : a new world chart World map / Martin Waldseemuller Tenochtitlan : Aztec city maps Reinel : trans-Atlantic influence Mercator Nautical charts / Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer World map / Abraham Ortelius China : the Selden Map Blaeu : mapping dominance Van Keulen : East Indies spice trade Imperial Russia Edmund Halley : global magnetism Geological map / William Smith Cassini Carte de France : mapping a nation Chart of New Zealand / James Cook Chart of Australia / Matthew Flinders Map of India / James Rennell United States / Abel Buell Lewis and Clark : across North America

The Industrial Revolution

New railway map of Great Britain and Ireland / George Bradshaw

Cholera map / John Snow

Poverty map / Charles Booth

Slavery map / William C. Reynolds

Gettysburg : battlefield map

Scramble for Africa

Watson's rail road and distance map of the United States and Canada / Gaylord Watson

Contour map of the Atlantic / Wyville Thomson

Index chart to the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) of India

Imperial Federation / John Colomb

North Atlantic Ocean : transatlantic shipping

Map of the Indian Empire / J.G. Bartholomew

Dividing the Middle East : Map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916

Ypres : First World War aftermath

Germany : map of the Third Reich

Grossdeutsches Reich (1939)

East Asia : Japan's co-prosperity sphere

Omaha Beach D-Day : US military maps of Omaha Beach

Independence of Israel : United Nations map of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine

Punjab : partition of India

Persian Gulf oil and energy : map of the Persian Gulf in1957

World powers 1957

The Berlin Wall

Protection of a continent : map of Antarctica

Decolonization

Air travel : World Air Routes

Mapping the Moon : Generalized Photogeologic Map of the Moon, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis : newspaper map illustrating the threat posed by nuclear weapons in Cuba ; CIA briefing map of Cuba annotated by President Kennedy

Earth observation

South Africa : homelands map

The Balkans : the Dayton Agreement

Middle East : the Oslo Accords

Mapping today : Google maps.