World Maps of Political Regimes
World Maps of Political Regimes in 1980 World Maps of Political Regimes in 1995 World Maps of Political Regimes in
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Historical Maps
Historical maps showing territorial changes of countries and historical events of the past.
Maps of shipwrecks
During history, vessels have been lost at the ocean due to war, day-to-day trade, and severe weather occurrences. With our growing need to protect the health of our oceans from contamination, sunken shipwrecks have lately been getting increased attention as a potential environmental and health threat.
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Roads of the Roman Empire
Roman roads used to move of officials, civilians, armies, and trade. Ways of the Empire were of different kinds, varying from small provincial roads to broad, long-distance roadways built to unite large cities, chief towns and military posts. These significant roads were surfaced with stone and metaled, cambered for drainage, and were flanked by walkways, bridle path and drainage trenches. They were set along ideally studied courses, and some were made through hills, canyons and rivers.
Read MoreEurope’s biggest cities in 1400
Major medieval cities: >20.000: Liibeck, Sevilla, Toulouse, Magdeburg, Utrecht, Wroclaw, Amiens, Augsburg, Niirnberg >30.000: Gdansk, Barcelona, Roma, Avignon, Marseille, Brussel
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The origin of crops and domestic animals
The domestication of plants and animals was triggered by the climatic changes and environmental transformations that happened after the Last Glacial Maximum’s peak about 21 thousand years ago and which proceed to this modern day. These changes made getting food hard. The first domesticate was the wolf (Canis lupus) at least 15 thousand years ago. The Younger Dryas (about 12.9 to 11.7 thousand years BP) was a period of extreme cold and aridity that put stress on Homo sapiens to enhance their foraging approaches.
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