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4 days ago · This collection contains high quality digital reproductions of roughly 100 historical maps produced in Japan from the 17th century to the 20th century. The original copies of the maps are held in the East Asian Library at the University of California at Berkeley.
5 days ago · Explicit types of comparison used by historians today include “entangled comparisons,” which compare pairs in which the similarities might come from interaction with each other; “encompassing comparison,” in which the pair may not interact with each other directly, but are both parts of some larger system that influences them both; and “reciproc...
4 days ago · Early world map from Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk ("Compendium of the languages of the Turks"), a Turkish-Arab dictionary by the Kara-Khanid author Mahmud al-Kashgari, written in Seljuk Baghdad in 1072-74 CE (1266 copy).
- 3,900,000 km² (1,500,000 sq mi)
6 days ago · The period is divided into three phases: Early Bronze Age (2000–1500 BC), Middle Bronze Age (1500–1200 BC), and Late Bronze Age (1200– c. 500 BC). Ireland is known for a relatively large number of Early Bronze Age burials.
5 days ago · Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [1]
2 days ago · Asia has both the highest and the lowest points on the surface of Earth, has the longest coastline of any continent, is subject overall to the world’s widest climatic extremes, and, consequently, produces the most varied forms of vegetation and animal life on Earth.
5 days ago · Map of Europe, 1918. Annotation. This map illustrates European borders prior to the start of WWI in 1914 with black lines and new states formed by the First World War in red. As the map illustrates, a number of states became independent from Tsarist Russia. What new states were these?
