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Map - 89 BC First Mithritadic War 891 viewsA map of the Middle east, Greece and Asia minor, showing the states at the breakout of the first Mithridatic war, 89 BC. Bithynia, light red, is shown as a client kingdom of Rome, dark red. Pontus is shown in dark green.

Map - Ancient India and Southeast Asia1037 views

Map - Ancient Empires of the East951 views

Map - Kingdoms of the Diadochi 200 BC766 viewsKingdoms of the Diadochi (Successors of Alexander the Great's Macedonian empire) at the beginning of the struggle with Rome about 200 BC.

Map - The Fertile Crescent776 viewsThis map shows the location and extent of the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East incorporating Ancient Egypt; the Levant; and Mesopotamia.

Map - Baktrian Kingdom783 views

Map - Kushan Empire713 views

Map - Macedonia, Thracia, Illyria, Moesia et Dacia570 views

Map - Ancient Assyrian Empire, Persian Empire And other Kingdoms799 views

Map - Ancient South West Asia761 views

Map - Orbis veteribus Notus507 views

Map - Mycenaean Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc. 1450 BC 782 viewsThe period of Mycenean Greece ran from about 1600-1100 B.C. and ended with the Greek Dark Age. This is the period described in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. At the end of the Mycenean period, writing was abandoned.

Map - Ancient Oriens - Caspian Area and Eastward - Media, Persis, Parthia, Bactria, etc.703 views

Map - China Qin Empire 210 BC586 viewsAs part of his unification of China in 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang divided his empire into thirty six commanderies, each subdivided into an number of counties. The significance of the administrative reforms was its introduction of a uniformly centralised system of imperial control. The system was followed by the Han Dynasty, though with a certain degree of compromise. Thereafter, the system became the norm for later dynasties and eventually evolved into the present administrative structure of Mainland China. See: Political divisions of China.

The location of the Yellow River and commandery seats follows Tan Qixiang (ed.), Zhongguo lishi ditu (中国历史地图集), 1982. Note that the Yellow River is considerably to the north of its present flow.

The coloured territories show the approximate extent of Qin political control at the death of Qin Shi Huang in 210 BC. At that time more commanderies were added to the original thirty six, and these are also shown on the map.

Armenia, Commagene, Sophene, Osrhoene, parts of the Parthian and Roman Empires, 50 A.D.127 viewsArmenia, Commagene, Sophene, Osrhoene, and parts of the Parthian and Roman Empires, as they would have been in 50 CE.

China Map, Yan State, 260 BCE58 viewsThe history of Yan began in the Western Zhou in the early first millennium BC. After the authority of the Zhou king declined during the Spring and Autumn period in the 8th century BC, Yan survived and became one of the strongest states in China. Its capital was Ji (later known as Yanjing and now Beijing). During the Warring States period, the court was also moved to another capital at Xiadu at times. Despite the wars, Yan survived through the Warring States period. In 227 B.C., with Qin troops on the border after the collapse of Zhao, Crown Prince Dan sent an assassin to kill the king of Qin, hoping to end the threat. The mission failed. Surprised and enraged by such a bold act, the king of Qin determined to destroy Yan. The bulk of the Yan army was crushed at the frozen Yi River, Ji fell the following year and the ruler, King Xi, fled to the Liaodong Peninsula. In 222 B.C., Liaodong fell as well, and Yan was totally conquered by Qin. Yan was the third last state to fall, and with its destruction the fates of the remaining two kingdoms were sealed. In 221 B.C., Qin conquered all of China, ending the Warring States period and founding the Qin dynasty. Yan experienced a brief period of independence after the collapse of the Qin dynasty in 207 B.C., but it was eventually absorbed by the victorious Han.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EN-YAN260BCE.jpg

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