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80 100 120 140 160 180 20020 40 601

7 billion

World Population (approximate)

AD 200

202 million

200 BC 2010

9 Teutoberg Forest

14 Augustus

43

68–69Year of the Four Emperors 116

Trajan122 Hadrian 167–80 Marcomannic Wars

50–75 Kushans

66–73 Zealot revolt

115–17Mesopotamia 132–35 Bar Kochba revolt

10 Kalinga

46–50 Kushans

120–30 *Kushan empire

174–203 Satavahana

2 Chinese census

9–23 Wang Mang

16–66 Kujala Kadphises

48 Xiongnu

166 travellers from Rome

184Yellow Turban peasant revolt

190General Dung Zhuo

50–100 *

Funan

192 *Champa

1–100 * Madagascar

40 *

southern India

40–42Mauretania

100 * Tiwanaku

30 Jesus of Nazareth

1–100 Mithraism

42 *St Peter

47–62 St Paul

70Temple Jerusalem

70–100Gospels

1–100 Mahayana (Great Vehicle) Buddhism

200 *Hindu laws

34–156 * Daoism

58 * Buddhism

64 persecutions of Christians

50 *Watermills 79Pliny the Younger

170 * Galen

200 *Roman road

100 * cast steel

1–100 Stern-mounted rudders83 Magnetic compass

105 * Writing paper 160 * Wheelbarrow132 Earthquake detector

190 *Abacus

1–100 * Polynesia

60 *

steam-powered device 150 *Ptolemy of Alexandria

185 *alchemy

36

Maya calendrical inscriptions

72–80Colosseum

6 * Metamorphoses

27 * Vitruvius

65 *Codices

100–20 * The Twelve Caesars

100–800 * megalithic sculptures

118–25 * Pantheon temple

130 * Gandhara school

68White Horse monastery

100 Chinese dictionary

150 * Pyramid of the Sun 100 *Tacitus

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Aleuts

Dorset Inuit culture

Dorset Inuitculture

Dorset Inuitculture

Dorset Inuitculture

Sub-Arctic caribou hunters

Eastern Woodlandshunter-gatherersGreat Plains

bison hunters

Centralplateau

hunter-fisher-gatherers

West coast fishers,hunters and gatherers

Caribbean fishers,hunters and gatherers

Savanna hunter-gatherers

Pampashunters

Fishers and marinemammal hunters

Sanhunter-

gatherers

Sami

Finno-Ugrians Palaeo-Siberians

Ainu

Australian Aborigines

Tasmanians

Maizefarmers

Maniocfarmers

Savanna cereal farmers and pastoralists

Tropical forestyam farmers

Niloticpastoralists

Ethiopianhighlandfarmers

Cushiticpastoralists

Bantu farmersand pastoralists

Khoikhoipastoralists

Malays

Papuans

1st century AD Melanesians

Micronesians

Tibetan transhumantpastoralistsBerbers

Libyans

Arabs

Samoyedreindeerherders

Tungusicreindeerherders

SarmatiansAlans

Huns

Tuyuhun

Tocharians

Turks

Xiongnu

Khitans Tungus

Nazca

Andeanchiefdoms

Celts

Germanicpeoples

Balts

Finns

Slavs

TaisBurmese

Pyu

Mons

Yayoichiefdoms(Japanese)

TEOTIHUACÁN

ZAPOTECS

MOCHE

COLCHIS

IBERIA

ARMENIA

GARAMANTES

HADRAMAUT

NABATAEA

AXUM

MAGADHA

SAKAKINGDOM

SATAVAHANA

CHOLAS

ANURADHAPURA

KINGDOMS

HINDU

FUNAN(Khmers)

CHAMPA(Chams)

KOGURYO

SILLA

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N E M P I R E P A R T H I A N

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K U S H A NE M P I R E

H A NE M P I R E

TIWANAKU

MAYA CITYSTATES

Hopewell burialmound traditions

Basketmakercultures

Desert hunter-gatherers

Rome

Luoyang

Alexandria

Athens Ephesus

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn

Equator

Hunter-gatherers Urbanized societies/kingdoms

Uninhabited

Settled farming culturesand peoples

Pastoral nomads

Complex farming societies/chiefdoms

Empires

Arctic Circle

Polynesians

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MEROË HIMYARITEKINGDOM

AD 200the roman and kushan empires reach their greatest extents; decline of the han empire

1. Rome 3. Alexandria 5. Ephesus

4. Athens2. Luoyang (to 190)

Five Largest Cities 000s (approximate)

1,000 420 250 250 250

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The atlas consists of 49 chronologically organized political maps, each followed by a timeline, together with six more specialized maps displaying world religions, writing systems, trade routes or migrations at a particular date. All maps are somewhat stylized to give graphic emphasis to salient features. For any given year the reader may like to study the political map with its introductory text, noting for instance how the geographical extent of more complex societies has increased from the previous map. The timeline on the following two pages then yields information

on the specific events and developments in the world’s cultural evolution during the years, decades or centuries leading up to the highlighted year in question. Each timeline is illustrated with works of art and monuments from that era. Further background information about particular peoples, cultures and nations shown on the maps or mentioned in the introductory texts and timelines can be found in the reference section at the end of the book.

How to Use this Book

Introductory text accompanying each map describes major political and economic trends and events

The five largest cities in the world at the relevant date are ranked according to approximate population size

Date markers and images are colour-

coded according to the world region to

which they refer

Selected entries have illustrations colour-coded according to the world region from which they come Religious developments

appear in the second band of the timeline

Introductory text accompanying each timeline summarizes major cultural events and achievements in the period leading up to the headline date

Estimated approximate total world population at the relevant date, shown against a graph indicating rising world population over the millennia

Each timeline starts where the previous timeline ended

Approximate dates indicated by an asterisk (*)

Dates run from left to right

State-level societies (blue) and empires (purple) labelled in capital

letters, all others in upper and lower case

The five largest cities are marked

Major migration and trade routes are shown on many maps

Key map showing world regions defined in different colours (see right) that relate to colours of images and date markers on the timeline

Timeline arranged in horizontal bands covering, from top to bottom, Politics & Economy, Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology and Arts & Architecture

Notable achievements in the arts and architecture appear in the bottom band

of the timeline

The end date corresponds to the main heading above the

introductory text

Spans of dates are shown by a colour-coded bar Notable inventions and

scientific or technological advances appear in the third

band of the timelineUninhabited areas shown in whiteColour-coded key to the map, each

colour representing a type of society, defined either by cultural and economic development or, for later periods, by different empires

Political and military events appear in the top band of the timeline

MIDDLE EAST

EUROPE SOUTH ASIACENTRAL AND EAST ASIA

SOUTHEAST ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA

AMERICAS

AFRICA

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