===== Ancient Era maps ===== Save contrary mention, the maps are using the [[resources:revised_colour_scheme|RCS colour scheme]]. **†** : Map or patch using an obsolete colour scheme **‡** : Possibly erroneous map or patch ---- ====Prehistory==== Some enterprising mapmakers have gone beyond the scope of human history to chart the development of the planet's landmasses in parts of the Kenozoic era. ---- **Miocene** (23-5 million years ago {{:resources:miocenemap.png|}} ---- **Last Ice Age** (2.5 million years ago - now) {{:resources:ice_age_4.png|}} ---- **-50 000** {{:resources:50_000bc-iceage.png|}} ---- ====High Antiquity (-5000 to -600)==== **-1450** {{:resources:1450_bc.png|}} ---- **-1350** {{http://i.imgur.com/rpY0n.png}} ---- **-1300** {{http://i.imgur.com/HSIKD.png}} ---- **-610** {{http://i.imgur.com/1Ui8H.png}} ---- ==== Antiquity (-600 to 475) ==== **-600** {{http://i.imgur.com/XrDiA.png}} ---- **-550** {{:resources:550bc.png|}} {{:resources:550.png|}} ---- **-500** {{http://imgur.com/XB9aA.png}} ---- **-335** {{http://i.imgur.com/fBFUk.png}} ---- **-323** (15/09/2014) {{ :resources:323.png?nolink |}} ---- **-250** {{:resources:250_bc_by_basileus_giorgios._.png|}} ---- **-200** {{http://i.imgur.com/fBFUk.png}} ---- **-44** {{http://i.imgur.com/uG7TQ.png}} ---- **1** {{:resources:1_ad.png|}} ---- **450** {{:resources:ce_450.png|}} ---- **475** {{http://i.imgur.com/yNSmG.png}} ---- ==== Early Middle-Ages (476 to 1000)==== **476** (25/04/14) {{:resources:476.png|}} ---- **565** (10/09/14) {{:resources:565.png|}} ---- **600** {{http://i.imgur.com/KBM1Z.png}} ---- **632** - Eve of Muhammad's death (8 June 632) (28/04/14) {{:resources:world_rivers.png|}} ---- **700†** {{http://i.imgur.com/VrJRD.png}} ---- **710** {{:710.png|}} ---- **800** {{http://i.imgur.com/Nb6yA.png}} ---- **814** {{:814.png|}} ---- **843** {{::843.png|}} ---- **900** {{http://i.imgur.com/3GPBF.png}} ---- **1000** {{:1000.png|}} ---- ==== Classical Middle-Ages (1001 to 1300) ==== **1030** {{http://i.imgur.com/iucxn.png}} ---- **1066** {{http://i.imgur.com/0W67z.png}} ---- **1100** {{http://i.imgur.com/WQMZn.png}} ---- **1115** {{http://i.imgur.com/nyB8P.png}} ---- **1200** {{:resources:gx-ucs_1200.png|}} ---- **1300** {{http://i.imgur.com/o8ExV.png}} ---- ==== Late Middle Ages (1301-1517)==== **1328** {{http://i.imgur.com/fbpY7.png}} ---- **1400** {{http://i.imgur.com/6EcRX.png}} ---- ==== Early Modern Era (1517-1648) ==== **1492** {{http://i.imgur.com/08h96.png}} ---- **1500** {{http://i.imgur.com/KgTow.png}} ---- **1556‡** {{::021-1556new.png|}} ---- **1560** {{http://i.imgur.com/TgQ1b.png}} ---- **1600** {{http://i.imgur.com/x5bll.png}} ---- **1618** {{http://i.imgur.com/6Cfo6.png}} ---- ====Patches==== **Early Chinese Dynasties** The Xia Dynasty (-2070 to -1600) and the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1046 BC) at their height/approximate level of control. {{:resources:xia-shang.png|}} ---- **Greek and Phoenician colonisation - (-550)** Overseas colonization in and around the Mediterranean of the Greek and Phoenician civilizations. {{:resources:greekphoeniciancolonization550bc.png|}} ---- **Persian Empire - (-500)** Maximum extent of the Persian Empire in 500 BC. {{:resources:persia_max._extent500bc.png|}} ---- ** Macedonian Empire - (-312)** Maximum extent of the Macedonian Empire in 323 BC, with its Satraps detailed and neighbouring states shown. {{:resources:323_bc_cropped.png|}} ---- **Chinese Han Dynasty - (-206)** {{:resources:han_-206.png|}} ---- **Social War - (-90)** Social War at its height {{::social_war.png|}} ---- **Roman Empire - (117)** Maximum extent of the Roman Empire and its client kingdoms in 117 AD, with the Imperial and Senatorial provinces detailed. {{:resources:romanempire117ad.png_-lord_hastur_of_carcosa.png|}} ---- **Roman Empire - (395)** Subdivisions of the Roman Empire after Diocletian reforms : Provinces and Dioceses, Dioceses, Prefectures {{:resources:395provincesdiocesesprefectures.png|}} ---- **Byzantine Empire - (610 to 1450) †** Evolution of the Byzantine Empire from its reconquest of West Roman territory to its overthrow by the Ottoman Turks. {{:resources:byzantine_empire_2.png|}} {{:resources:byzantine_20maps.png|}} ---- **Ridda Wars** - (632-635) {{ :resources:aaaaaa.png?nolink |}} ---- **Arab Conquests - (632 - 715)** {{::arab_expansion632717.png|}} ---- **Al-Andalus - (714 - 970)** {{::arab_expansion_1_.png|}} ---- **Mediterranean Basin - 717** {{::otl717patch.png|}} ---- **Byzantine Empire - 1050** {{:byzantium_c1050.png|}} ---- **Crusader States - 1140** {{::crusader_states1140_the_nordic_brit.png|}} ---- **Black Death** (1341-1350) {{ :resources:bdmap.png?nolink |}} ---- **Aztec Empire - (1427 to 1519)** {{:resources:aztec_timeline.png|}} ---- **Inca Empire - (1533)** Extent of the Incan Empire and its four provinces in 1533, based on various conflicting sources. {{:resources:incan_empire_1533.png|}} ---- **Brazil** - 1634-1635-1641-1649-1654 {{:resources:samerica1634.png|}} {{:resources:samerica1635.png|}} {{:resources:samerica1641.png|}} {{::samerica1649.png|}} {{::samerica1654.png|}} ---- ====Navigation==== **[[resources:revised_worlda_maps|Revised Worlda database]]**