The Globe History Map

The WorldMap is an opened upwards source mapping platform from Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis. Users of WorldMap tin mail away rapidly exercise a map using their ain information layers or using the hundreds of information layers already added to the WorldMap.

WorldMap has 23,000 registered users who accept created over 6,000 maps amongst 29,000 information layers. You tin mail away explore some of these yesteryear next the links inward the Examples department of WorldMap. These examples include the Trade Routes as well as Cities inward Europe from Rome to the Middle Ages interactive map. This map includes layers which permit you lot to explore the major historical field as well as ocean merchandise routes which were used to transfer goods inward Europe, North Africa as well as the Middle-East.

Another interesting history map created amongst World Map is the AP World History Map, which provides a pose out of overlays related to topics inward the AP World History curriculum. The topics on the AP World History Map are organized into 7 categories, including Civilizations, Trade Routes as well as Travel & Exploration. The Travel as well as Exploration/Conquest Routes category includes overlays showing the iii voyages of Christoper Columbus, the travels of Ibn Battuta, the travels of Marco Polo as well as the travels of Zheng He.

If you lot desire to larn to a greater extent than close the travels of Ibn Battuta thus you lot powerfulness likewise desire to accept a hold off at the UC Berkeley's The Travels of Ibn Battuta. This direct to Ibn Battuta's medieval travels includes maps of his go routes accompanied yesteryear his ain observations, every bit recorded inward his majority of travels the Rihla.