Maps
Drawn by Dorothy deFontaine
1. Egypt and the Ancient World 5
3. The Kingdoms of the Successors of Alexander the Great 36
4. Carthaginian Possessions — 218 b.c. 55
5. The Roman Empire, circa a.d. 112 104
6. The Byzantine Empire under Justinian I, a.d. 565 126
7. The Passes in the Southern Taurus Mountains 141
8. Byzantine Military Roads, Encampments, and Fire Beacons in Asia Minor 144
10. The Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire (ca. 750) 204
11. Kudama’s Post Stations 210
12. Mamluk State Post — Cairo to Syria 232
13. The Empire of the Uigur Turks between 745 and 840 267
14. The Kin Kingdom about 1150 268
15. Khwarizmian and Kara-Khitai Empires, Early Thirteenth Century 270
16. The Mongol Empire between 1230 and 1255 282
17. The Mongol Empire of China under the House of Kublai Khan 292
1. Egypt and the Ancient World
2. The Persian Royal Road
3. The Kingdoms of the Successors of Alexander the Great
4. Carthaginian Possessions — 218 b.c.
5. The Roman Empire, circa a.d. 112
6. The Byzantine Empire under Justinian I, a.d. 565
7. The Passes in the Southern Taurus Mountains
8. Byzantine Military Roads, Encampments, and Fire Beacons in Asia Minor
9. Arabia before Muhammad
10. The Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire (ca. 750)
11. Kudama’s Post Stations
12. Mamluk State Post — Cairo to Syria
13. The Empire of the Uigur Turks between 745 and 840
14. The Kin Kingdom about 1150
15. Khwarizmian and Kara-Khitai Empires, Early Thirteenth Century
16. The Mongol Empire between 1230 and 1255
17. The Mongol Empire of China under the House of Kublai Khan
18. The Rise of Muscovy to 1584
