MEDIEVAL MAPS from c.700 to c.1500
SELECTIONS FROM THE *SCHWARTZBERG HISTORICAL ATLAS* (DSAL, highly ZOOMABLE)	=*South Asia c.700-975 (Gurjara-Pratiharas etc.)** =*South Asia c.1175-1200 (Ghaznavids, etc.)** =*Islamic expansion and knowledge of medieval South Asia** =*religious and cultural sites in South Asia, 700's-1100's** =*Ghurids and Mamluks, c.1170-1290** =*Khaljis and Tughluqs, c.1290-1390** =*political disintegration in the North, c.1390-1450** =*the time of the Lodis, c.1451-1526** =*religious and cultural sites of South Asia, c.1200-1525** =*a synopsis: major powers of South Asia, c.500's-1100's** =*a synopsis: major powers of South Asia, c.1200's-1400's*
MET MUSEUM TIMELINE	Metropolitan Museum timeline displays with both maps and images: for the *Himalayan region**; for the *North**; for the *South**
MEDIEVAL MAPS	Medieval maps with commentary by Henry Davis: =*maps from 400 to 1300**; *maps from 1300 to 1500**
HISTORICAL SEQUENCE	=*A historical sequence** of smallish but handy maps; click 'Maps and Chronology', then scroll down in the left-hand window
c.700-1500 CE maps	=*the eastern hemisphere, in maps by Thomas Lessman**
the ISLAMIC WORLD	=*maps from the "Historical Atlas of Islam"* (Brice 1981) =*maps from Princeton**; and *maps from Penn**
REGIONAL KINGDOMS	=*South Asia, c.550-on*, in various views =*South Asia c.700-975 (Gurjara-Pratiharas etc.)**
the EARLY CALIPHATE	=*The Caliphate in 750** (Shepherd 1923) =*Caliphate, Byzantime empire, in 814** (Shepherd 1923) =*Islamic expansion by c.850**
AL-ISTAKHRI, c.950's	=*the world, the Persian Gulf, by Al-Istakhri, c.977*
the GHAZNAVID EMPIRE	=*the Ghaznavid empire under Mahmud Ghaznavi, c.1025* =*South Asia c.175-1200 (Ghaznavids, etc.)**
AL-BIRUNI, c.1029	=*Al-biruni's view of the world, Lahore, c.1029*
AL-IDRISI, 1154	=*a world map by al-Idrisi, working in Sicily, 1154**
TRADE, c.1200s	=*Trade routes Europe-India, c.1200's** (Shepherd 1923)
the GHURID EMPIRE	=*The Ghurid empire at its maximum extent, c.1206* =*Ghurids and Mamluks, c.1170-1290**
the MONGOL ONSLAUGHT	=*the Mongol onslaughts and conquests, 1200's-1400's*; *a quick overview of the 1200's**
the DELHI SULTANATE,   4 OVERVIEWS	The growth and decline of the Delhi Sultanate, according to: =*Joppen 1907* =*Davies 1949* =*Roolvink 1957* and especially the DSAL zoomable edition of Schwartzberg 1978: =*Sultanate overview maps* =*Ghurids and Mamluks, c.1170-1290** =*Khaljis and Tughluqs, c.1290-1390** =*political disintegration in the North, c.1390-1450** =*the time of the Lodis, c.1451-1526**
MAPPA MUNDI, 1300	=*The Hereford Mappa Mundi**
INDIA, 1478	=*Ptolemaic maps-- some of the earliest ever printed* (Rome, 1478)
WORLD VIEWS, 1493	=*Asia and other maps and views, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493*
GLOBE, 1502	=*The "Cantino planisphere," an early globe, 1502**
WORLD, 1542	=*A view from the Rotz Atlas, 1542** (BL)
MUNSTER, 1544-	=*maps and views from Münster's famous "Cosmographia"*
the OTTOMAN EMPIRE	=*Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Turks, 1355** (Shepherd 1923) =*Ottoman Empire, 1451-1481 (Constantinople)** (Shepherd 1923) =*Ottoman Empire, 1481-1683** (Shepherd 1923) =*Dismemberment after 1683** (Shepherd 1923)

 

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