Pictorial atlas (1868)
Anthropomorphic maps of European countries. The maps below were printed in ‘Geographical Fun’, a beautiful atlas of parody maps of
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Historical Maps
Historical maps showing territorial changes of countries and historical events of the past.
Border changes in Finland
Finland bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and the Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to
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Indian land cessions
From 1778 to 1871, the U.S. signed 368 treaties with different indigenous tribes across North America. These treaties were based on the fundamental concept that each Native American tribe was a sovereign nation. But as white immigrants started moving onto Indigenous American lands, this concept confronted the rigid pace of westward expansion. As a result, many promises were broken by the U.S. government.
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Empire of Japan at its height
From the middle of the nineteenth century, Japan began to see a colonial empire on the Western-type as one of the traits of state power and political modernity.
Read MoreItaly in 1796
Today the Vatican City State is just a new name for the Papal States. Italy never occupied the territory that
Read MoreThe Changing Value of Land (1860 – 1870)
From 1860 to 1870, the South of the U.S. demonstrated considerable homogeneity in land value gains across specific regions, such as urban areas and river counties. On average, the most significant increases occurred in the slave-dense areas such as the Mississippi Delta and Cotton Belt.
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Europe before and after the First World War
After WWI four empires collapsed (The German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire). The collapse of these empires led to the formation of multiple new countries, the most important of which included Poland, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. Other European countries like France, Italy, and Romania increased in size.
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If Germany Won…
Many countries saw Germany as a threat. During the existence of the German Empire, maps appeared in many countries of the world, illustrating the future of the world in which Germany will be a superpower.
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Italian ambitions in Europe in 1936
The map below shows territories to become client states (light-green) and sovereign or dependency territory (dark-green).
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High Middle Ages Europe (1190)
The High Middle Ages was the period of European history that commenced around 1000 and lasted until around 1250. The
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