magazine: National Geographic, Atlas of the Ancient World

i spotted this on the magazine rack at Books A Million. Cost is $13.99 US/$17.99 Canadian.

It has over 30 maps. The maps range from 2" x 3", to full page of two facing pages. Most are one full page. Differences will be noted below.

There are some drawings and photographs of pictographs, leaders, forts, and architecture of the various civilizations. Like an aqueduct, a few drawings of armor and weapons.

Maps:

1) migration route from Siberia to the Western Hemisphere, 2 facing pages.

2) area betwen, and nearby, of the Tigris and Euphrates; Hittites, Sumerians, and Chaldeans.

3) Sargon's Empire, full page

4) Babylonia, Egypt, Hittie, Assyrian empires

5) similar to 4) but a larger area.

6) Israel in the days of King David, full page.

7) Persia area map, full page.

8) Bronze age sites from the Persian Empire, full page

9) Egypt, Lower and Upper with Lower Nubia, full page.

10) Egypt New Kingdom, full and a partial on facing page.

11) Cleoptra VII's Egypt, full page.

12) Indus Valley, small map

13) Mauryan Empire of India, full page.

14) The mIddle Kingdon of China, small map.

15) The Qin Dynesty, three-quarter page map.

16) The Silk Road, page and a half map.

17) Mycenean and Minoan Civilizations, half page map.

18) city maps of Mycenae and Troy, and a map showing their locations. City maps show basics like citadel and walls, with various buildings and streets. These take up over half of two facing pages.

19) Carthage and its attacks on Rome. full page.

20) Hannibal's March, half a page.

21) Classical Greece, 2 full pages.

22) Persian/Greek wars, half a page map.

23) Alexander the Great's battles, two full pages.

24) The Roman Republic, three-quarters of a page.

25) The Roman Empire, half a page.

26) Roman Empire limits and some drawings on basic Roman fortifications along the bottom of the 2 full pages.

27) The Plague and Rome, small map.

29) Migrations across the Pacific Ocean, 2 facing pages. Oceania.

30) Mesoamerica, Aztec, Toltec, and Maya, half a page.

31) more detailed Maya locations map. half a page.

32) Celts from Northern Spain and Portugal into the Outer Hebrides islands. full page.

33) Anglo_Saxon invasion of England, small map.

34) Cahokia city plan, and influence areas, full page. ( Native American mound builders)

35) The area of influence in Africa of Timbuktu and the salt traffic.

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