Table of Historical Maps

This is a table of historic maps.

From	To	Region	Type	Subject	Map	Made
3200 BC	2400 BC	Ancient Near East	Political	City States of Sumer	Image:Ur3.JPG	Recent
3000 BC	500 BC	Ancient Near East	Political	Nomes of Lower Egypt	Image:Lower Egypt Nomes 01.png	Recent
3000 BC	500 BC	Ancient Near East	Political	Nomes of Upper Egypt	Image:Upper Egypt Nomes.png	Recent
2000 BC	1000 BC	Central America – Mexico	Language	Spread of Maya language	Image:HuastecRoute.jpg	Recent
1600 BC	1043 BC	Ancient China	Political	Shang Dynasty Centers	Image:China 1.jpg	Recent
1350 BC	1330 BC	Ancient Near East	Political	Powers of the Amarna Period	Image:Amarnamap.png	Recent
1200 BC	400 BC	Central America – Mexico	Political	Olmec Civilization	Image:Olmec Heartland Overview v2.svg	Recent
900 BC	900 BC	Central America – Mexico	Political	Maya and Mesoamerican cultures	Image:SE Mesoamerican Formative Period sites.svg	Recent
600 BC	600 BC	Ancient Near East	Political	Powers of 600 BC	Image:Shepherd 1923 Oriental Empires c.600 BCE.jpg	1923
600 BC	600 BC	Central America – Mexico	Political	Maya and Mesoamerican cultures	Image:Classic sites 1.svg	Recent
600 BC	600 BC	Central America – Mexico	Political	Maya and Mesoamerican cultures	Image:Formative Era sites.svg	Recent
550 BC	550 BC	Mediterranean Basin	Political	Ancient Greece world in 550 BC	Image:Location greek ancient.png	Recent
490 BC	490 BC	Central Asia	Political	Persian Empire	Image:Persian empire 490bc.gif	Recent
450 BC	450 BC	Aegean Sea	Political	Ancient Athens in 450 BC	Image:Athenian empire atheight 450 shepherd1923.png	1923
334 BC	323 BC	Ancient Near East	Military	Empire of Alexander the Great	Image:MacedonEmpire.jpg	Recent
300 BC	300 BC	Ancient Near East	Political	Divisions of the Diadochi	Image:Diadochen1.png	Recent
250 BC	226	Ancient Near East	Political	Parthian Empire	Image:LocationParthia.PNG	Recent
250 BC	125 BC	Central Asia	Political	Greco-Bactrian Kingdom	Image:Greco-Bactrian kingdom.jpg	Recent
250 BC	400	India	Political	Maurya and Gupta Empires of India	Image:Maurya india.png	Recent
200 BC	200 BC	Central Asia and Middle East	Political	Hellenistic World	Image:Hellenistic world 200BC blank.png	Recent
200 BC	200 BC	Aegean Sea	Political	Hellenistic Aegean Centers	Image:Map Macedonia 200 BC-fr.svg	Recent
180 BC	10	India	Political	Indo-Greek Kingdom	Image:Indo-GreekKingdomMap11.jpg	Recent
100 BC	100 BC	Central Asia	Political	Scythia Parthia	Image:Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png	Recent
100 BC	100	Central Asia	Political	Bactria	Image:BactriaMap.jpg	Recent
100 BC	100	India	Political	Indo-Greek Kingdom	Image:Indo-GreekKingdomMap3.jpg	Recent
100	800	South America	Political	Moche Culture	Image:Mapa cultura moche.png	Recent
200	600	Central Asia	Political	Sassanid Empire	Image:Indo-Sassanid.jpg	Recent
200	1500	Central America	Political	Maya	Image:Mayamap.png	Recent
280	540	India	Political	Gupta Empire	Image:IndiaGuptaEmpire.jpg	Unknown
300	500	Central Asia	Political	Kushan Empire	Image:GBAMap.jpg	Recent
376	567	Balkans	Political	Gepids, Avars, Lombards	Image:Carphatianbasin gepidia.png	Recent
500	500	Central Asia	Political	Sassanids	Image:Carte empire Sassanide.png	Recent
500	500	Central Asia	Political	Sassanid Empire	Image:Sassanides02.png	Recent
500 BC	1527	Mexico	Political	Zapotec Culture	Image:Zapotecos.png	Recent
520	520	India	Political	Hephthalite Dominion	Image:Hephthalite.png	Recent
550	550	Mediterranean Basin	Political	Byzantium	Image:Byzantium550.png	Recent
600	600	India	Political	Harsha's Empire ca 600	Image:Harsha.JPG	Recent
602	629	Central Asia	Political	Sassanian Empire	Image:Sassanid-empire-610CE.png	Recent
622	750	Mediterranean Basin	Political	Caliphate	Image:Age of Caliphs.png	Recent
632	750	Mediterranean Basin	Political	Caliphate	Image:Eroberungen-Islam.JPG	1917
642	642	Middle East	Political	Expansion of the Caliphate	Image:Arabische Rijk.jpg	Recent
700	1200	North America – Southwest	Political	Pueblo People (Anasazi)	Image:Anasazi-es.svg	Recent
700	700	India	Political	Pala Empire	Image:Pala Empire (Dharmapala).gif	Recent
750	750	World	Political	World	Image:The world in 750 CE.PNG	Recent
750	750	Mediterranean Basin	Political	Caliphate	Image:Califate 750.jpg	1923
802	802	British Isles	Political	Kingdoms of England	Image:British isles 802.jpg	1926
843	843	Europe	Political	Division of Charlemagne's Frankish Empire	Image:Old Saxony1 in western empire 843.jpg	1927
1025	1025	Mediterranean Basin	Political	Byzantine Empire	Image:1025AD.PNG	Recent
1206	1294	Central Asia	Political	Expansion of the Mongol Empire	Image:Mongol Empire map.gif	Recent
1300	1406	Central Asia	Political	Mongol Empire	Image:Mongol dominions1.jpg	Unknown
1300	1600	North America – Mexico	Political	Aztec Empire	Image:Aztecempirelocation.png	Recent
1300	1300	Mexico	Political	Tarascan Culture	Image:Tarascan aztec states.png	Recent
1300	1530	Mexico	Political	Mixtec Culture	Image:Mixtecs.png	Recent
1438	1527	South America	Political	Expansion of Inca Empire	Image:Inca-expansion.png	Recent
1492	1880	North America	Language	North American Indians	Image:Langs N.Amer.png	Recent
1519	1522	World	Exploration	Ferdinand Magellan	Image:Magellan's voyage EN.svg	Recent
1519	1519	North America – Mexico	Political	Aztec Empire	Image:Aztec Empire c 1519.png	Recent
1519	1519	North America – Mexico	Political	Aztec Empire	Image:Lake Texcoco c 1519.png	Recent
1526	1857	India	Political	Mughal Empire	Image:Mughal empire large.png	Recent
1550	1600	Northern Europe	Political	Livonia	Image:Livland 15jh.png	Unknown
1580	1580	China	Political	Ming Dynasty Centers	Image:Ming foreign relations 1580.jpg	Recent
1581	1640	World	Political	Iberian Empire Colonization of Americas	Image:Iberian Union Empires.png	Recent
1600	1600	India	Political	Moguls and European Possessions	Image:Stormogulernas rike 1600.jpg	Recent
1600	1900	Africa	Language	African Languages	Image:African language families.png	Recent
1650	1650	Great Lakes	Political	Iroquois	Image:Iroquois 5 Nation Map c1650.png	Recent
1662	1662	Northern Europe	Political	Livonia	Image:LIVONIA vulgo Lyefland-Joan Blaeu, 1662.jpg	1662
1670	1670	Balkans	Political	Balkans and Adriatic Sea	Zemljopisna_karta	Unknown
1670	1670	Balkans	Political	Servia, Moesia, Dacia	Image:Rascia01.jpg	Unknown
1670	1670	Balkans	Political	Hungary, Pannonia, Illyricum	Image:Rascia Banat02.jpg	Unknown
1673	1673	Northern Europe – British Isles	Political	Faroe Islands	Image:Faroe map 1673 by lucas debes.png	1673
1700	1700	India	Political	Mughal Empire	Image:Mughals.JPG	Recent
1700	1700	India	Political	Mughal Empire and Maratha Confederacy	Image:Moghul india.png	1860
1700	1700	India	Political	India	Image:India shepherd 1923.jpg	1923
1705	1705	Northern Europe	Political	Livonia and Courland	Image:Ducatuum Livoniae et Curlandiae Nova Tabula, 1705.jpg	1705
1720	1720	Great Lakes	Political	Iroquois	Image:Iroquois 6 Nations map c1720.png	Recent
1750	1750	North America + South America	Political	European Colonization of Americas	Image:Colonizationoftheamericas.png	Recent
1760	1760	India	Political	Maratha Empire	Image:India1760 1905.jpg	1905
1763	1776	North America – Eastern Seaboard	Political	British Colonies	Image:British colonies 1763-76 shepherd1923.PNG	1923
1784	1784	Antarctica – South Atlantic	Exploration	Kerguelen Islands	Image:Kerg map.jpg	1784
1785	1785	Balkans	Political	Hungary and Turkish Empire	Image:Hungary with Turky in Europe.jpg	1785
1800	1800	Balkans	Political	Austria-Hungary frontier with Ottoman Empire	Image:Militargrenze.jpg	Unknown
1804	1805	North America	Exploration	Lewis and Clark	Track_Across_the_Western_Portion jpg	1814
1805	1805	Europe	Military	Ulm Campaign	Image:Strategic Situation of Europe 1805.jpg	Recent
1812	1812	Africa	Political	Africa in 1812	Image:Africamap1812.jpg	1812
1871	1871	Europe	Political	Alsace-Lorraine	Image:Alsace-lorraine 1871.jpg	1871
1890	1890	Africa	Political	Africa in 1890	Image:Afryka 1890.jpg	1890
1892	1892	Central Europe	Political	Bohemia and Moravia	Image:Böhmen Mähren Österreich Schlesien.jpg	1892
1908	1908	China	Economic	Railroads in China	Image:China-RR-1908.png	1908
1911	1911	Europe	Political	Austria-Hungary	Image:Austria hungary 1911.jpg	Unknown
1911	1911	Europe	Political	Ukraine and Austria-Hungary	Image:Ukrainians in Austria-Hungary 1911.gif	Unknown
1911	1911	Europe	Political	Germany and Austria-Hungary	Image:Austrian Germans in western Austro-Hungarian Empire.gif	Unknown
1913	1913	Africa	Political	Colonial Africa	Image:ColonialAfrica.png	Recent

Map type notes

All maps show at least some geographical features, such as ocean and lake shorelines, rivers, mountains, and forests, at some level of detail and accuracy.

Political maps feature the point location of populated places (such as cities) and the areal boundaries of political or cultural entities.
Language maps feature the areal boundaries of languages.
Military maps feature the linear tracks of military expeditions and/or the outlines of military formations.
Exploration maps feature the linear tracks of explorers and the features they have encountered.
Economic maps feature the point location not only of populated places, but of economic resources, manufactures, and industrial production, as well as linear routes of trade.

Map made notes

A date or keyword in the "Made" column is intended to quickly identify the provenance and age of the historical map image resource.

The best accredited date it was drawn if it is an Old Map.
The word Unknown if it is an Old Map which is clearly not recent, but the exact date is not evident.
The word Recent if it is a recently constructed interpretation of the historical situations portrayed.