World Map 1500 A D
I designed these maps using adobe photoshop and this background map that i pieced together from this topographical map.
World map 1500 a d. He set sail on august 3 1492 in his flagship the santa maria with 52 men aboard. 1492 ad jews driven from spain the jews of spain were ordered out of spain by july 31 1492. The descriptions of. In one small area however cities are appearing literacy is developing and civilization is emerging.
Great new centres of civilization have appeared in china and the mediterranean. One major civilization has vanished however for reasons we still don t understand. 1492 ad columbus sets sails for new world isabella queen of spain financed the voyage of christopher columbus. Also sailing was the smaller pinta and nina.
The rise of civilization here has been astonishing. His goal was to find a sea route to the orient by sailing westward. By this date some of the most spectacular structures in all world. On october 12th land is sighted.
Stone age hunter gatherers and farmers live in much of the world. I have a copy of each map in its original psd format which allows me to make improvements and update them if necessary. Talessman s atlas of. A babylonian world map known as the imago mundi is commonly dated to the 6th century bce.
The map as reconstructed by eckhard unger shows babylon on the euphrates surrounded by a circular landmass showing assyria urartu and several cities in turn surrounded by a bitter river with eight outlying regions nagu arranged around it in the shape of triangles so as to form a star the accompanying text mentions a distance of seven beru between the outlying regions. The maps on this site are optimized for web viewing each map is saved as a jpg image with 72 bit resolution. 1500 ad about the maps. Some jews accept the cross and stayed while over 100 000.
Some countries such as france and england are easily recognisable and largely occupy the same areas as their modern incarnations. Michelangelo s david 1504 tasha vincentmartin luther 1483 1546 henry viii 1491 1547 queen elizabeth i 1533 1603 william shakespeare 1564 1616 rembrandt van rijn 1606 1669 catherine de medici 1519 1589 1501first black slaves in america brought to spanish colony of santo domingo c.