historical geography

Machu Picchu is often called the Lost City of the Inca. Hidden by thick forest plants high in the Andes Mountains of South America, the Inca city lay abandoned for nearly 400 years.

Maps, illustrations, and brief text compare the achievements of people all over the world during the Middle Ages.

A territorial, social, and political atlas that traces the changing face of the world this century.

Presents an historical atlas of six thousand years of the political and social development of empires such as Egypt, Persia, China, Japan, the Byzantine, Roman, and Ottoman Empires, and empires of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and contains details maps, photographs, and illustrations.

Presents over three hundred reproducible historical maps, covering a period that ranges from the Ice Age through the twentieth century, grouped according to region, covering political, military, and economic topics, with nearly one-third of the collection devoted to the United States.

Contains 200 maps accompained by text and photographs. Charts the political changes that have occurred throughout the 20th century.

Provides accounts of the civilizations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Contains over 300 maps with accompanying text.