A century ago at the beginning of the First World War, the maps of ... history at Oxford University. “Suddenly people throughout the Middle East and the center of Europe found themselves living ...

In Brotton's mind, you can examine the history of how the world viewed ... classical learning to develop one of the world's first global maps, with Europe at the center. Ptolemy's world had ...

It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders ... and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum ...

In the summer of 1914, Americans began reading news accounts of a conflict that would soon be called the Great War—and that would draw the United States in three years later. (See also: The ...

For example, below is an alternate history map that looks like something ... Stanley Robinson imagines the world if the Black Death had killed nearly all of Europe instead of one-third of the ...

And in Europe, a 67-year-old Belgian woman ... experiment in figuring out how they fit into the world, by inventing a bold new tool: the map. One of the oldest surviving maps is, ironically ...

It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders ... and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum ...