Atlas of world history

See also: Atlas of regional history.

Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. Discussion • Update the atlas • Index of the Atlas • Atlas in categories • Other atlases on line

The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.

World history

Atlas of world history

Pangaea

Animated map from Pangaea to present

Laurasia and Gondwana

Development of the Earth

North American craton

The northern Iceshield

The northern continents during Pleistocene

Map of early human migrations, according to mitochondrial population genetics (numbers are millennia before the present)

The World in 2000 BCE   hunter-gatherers   nomadic pastoralists   simple farming societies   complex farming societies/chiefdoms   state societies   uninhabited Red outline indicates areas of bronze working, c. 2000 BCE.

The World in 1000 BCE   hunter-gatherers   nomadic pastoralists   simple farming societies   complex farming societies/chiefdoms   state societies   uninhabited Pink outline indicates area of bronze working, c. 1000 BCE. Red outline indicates area of iron working, c. 1000 BCE.

The World in 500 BCE   hunter-gatherers   nomadic pastoralists   simple farming societies   complex farming societies/chiefdoms   state societies   uninhabited   empires

The World in 323 BCE   hunter-gatherers   nomadic pastoralists   simple farming societies   complex farming societies/chiefdoms   state societies   uninhabited   empires   Greek and Hellenized states and empires

The World in 200 BCE   hunter-gatherers   nomadic pastoralists   simple farming societies   complex farming societies/chiefdoms   state societies   uninhabited   empires   Greek and Hellenized states and empires   Roman Republic and its dependencies

World in 820

Eurasia before 1200

Empires in 1898

World War I (animated map):   Allies   Allied colonies, dominions, territories or occupied territory   Central powers   Central powers' colonies or occupied territory   Neutral

Colonization in 1945

Belgian colonial empire

British colonial empire

Danish colonial empire

Dutch colonial empire

French colonial empire

German colonial empire

Italian colonial empire

Portuguese colonial empire

Russian empire

Spanish colonial empire

The Cold War (1959)

Communist expansion

The Cold War (1980)

The world in 1985

Notes and references

General remarks: The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references. Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections. Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries. The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned. The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.