To the ends of the earth: 100 maps that changed the world

THE ANCIENT WORLD

1.World Map, Babylon, c. 600 B.C.E.

2.Town Plan, Catal Huyuk, c. 6200 B.C.E.

3.Map Rock, Idaho, c. 10000 B.C.E.

4.Journey to the Afterlife, Egypt, c. 1400 B.C.E.

5.Turin Papyrus, Egypt, c. 1300 B.C.E.

THE CLASSICAL WORLD

6.Peutinger Table, 4th century C.E.

7.Reconstruction of Agrippa's World Map, c. 7 B.C.E.

8.Ptolemy's World Map, c. C.E. 150

9.Forma Urbis Romae, C.E. 203-208

10.Mosaic Map, Madaba, c. C.E. 550

11.Stone Map, China, C.E. 1136

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

12.The Catalan Atlas, Abraham Cresques, 1375

13.Mappa Mundi, Spain, 7th century

14.Mappa Mundi, Beatus of Liebana, c. 776

15.Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi, 10th or early 11th century

16.Ebstorf Mappa Mundi, c. 1300

17.Hereford Mappa Mundi, c. 1300

18.Zonal World Map, Spain, 9th century

19.World Map, al-lstakhri, 951

20.World Map, al-ldrisi, 1154

21.Carte Pisane, c. 1290

22.Britain, Matthew Paris, c. 1250

23.London to Dover, Matthew Paris, c. 1250

24.The Gough Map, c. 1360

25.Pinchbeck Fen, c. 1430

26.Jerusalem, c. 1120

27.Constantinople, c. 1420

28.Mappa Mundi, Fra Mauro, 1459

THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

29.The Americas, Michael Mercator, 1595

30.The Way to Rome, Erhard Etzlaub, c. 1500

31.Cantino Planisphere, 1502

32.Behaim Globe, c. 1492

33.World Map, Martin Waldseemuller, 1507

34.World Map, Piri Reis, 1513

35.Map of Tenochtitlan, 1524

36.The Valley of Mexico, c. 1542

37.Chichimeque Migration, 16th century

38.Guiana, Theodor de Bry, 1599

39.Chart from the Boke of Idrography, Jean Rotz, 1542

40.New France, Samuel de Champlain, 1613

41.Virginia, John White, 1587

42.New England, John Smith, 1614

43.World Map from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Abraham Ortelius, 1584

44.World Map, Gerardus Mercator, 1538

45.Christian Knight World Map, Jodocus Hondius, c. 1596

46.Spiegel der Zeevaert, Lucas Janszoon, 1584

47.Asia, Willem Blaeu, c. 1635

48.Sicily, Ignazio Danli, c. 1582

49.Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539

50.Cornwall, Christopher Saxton, 1576

51.London to Bristol, John Ogilby, 1675

52.Venice, Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

53.Imola, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1502

54.Bruges, Braun and Hogenberg, 1572

55.Plan for London, Sir Christopher Wren, 1666

THE AGE OF EMPIRE

56.Global Magnetic Survey Chart, Edmond Halley, 1702

57.France, Jacques Cassini, 1744

58.Catawba Nations, North America, 1721

59.North America, John Mitchell, 1775

60.Mason-Dixon Line, 1768

61.County of Kent, Ordnance Survey, 1801

62.Enclosure Map, England, 1829

63.Maritime Stick Chart, Marshall Islands, 20th century

64.New Zealand, James Cook, 1773

65.River Mouth Map, Dr. David Malangi, 1983

66.South Australia, James Wyld, 1854

67.Hindoostan, James Rennell, 1788

68.Burmese-Chinese Frontier, 1889

69.World Map, Japan, 1853

70.Serio-Comic War Map, Fred W. Rose, 1877

71.British Empire, John Colomb, 1886

72.Southern Africa, John Arrowsmith, 1857

73.Map of Sultan Njoya's Kingdom, 1916

74.The American West, Lewis and Clark, 1814

75.Railroad and Distance Map, Gaylord Watson, 1871

76.Plan of the Battle of Culloden, James Finlayson, 1746

77.Second Battle of Bull Run, Robert Knox Snedon, 1862

78.Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, William Smith, 1815

79.On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, John Snow, 1855

80.Descriptive Map of London Poverty, Charles Booth, 1889

THE MODERN WORLD

81.Italian Campaign Propaganda Map, 1943

82.Kent, George Philip & Son, 1905

83.Tourist Map of Lazio, Italy, 1953

84.Pennsylvania Automobile Road Map, 1916

85.Aeronautical Chart of Scotland, 1972

86.Gold Beach, Normandy, 1944

87.Silk Escape Map of Germany, M19, 1939

88.Austrian Anschluss, Germany, 1938

89.Indian Army Recruiting Poster, 1914

90.Palestine, British Survey of Palestine, 1949

91.East and West Berlin, West Germany, 1959

92.Map of Eastern USSR Missile Bases, Andy Warhol, 1985-6

93.Westminster, A-Z Street Atlas, 1963

94.London Underground, Harry Beck, 1933

95.Axonometric Map of Midtown Manhattan, 2000

96.Peters Projection World Map, 1974

97.Satellite-Derived Land-Use Map, Landsat 5, 1987

98.Sea and Land Topography of Australia, Seasat, 1978

99.The Population Map, ODT Inc., 2005

100.Blue Marble Map, NASA, 2005.