Central and Northern Asia: Political

The complicated political history of Europe becomes apparent as young historians create a map of the borders of France when Napoleon's Empire was a its height in 1812.

The countries of central Asia are shown on this map from the United Nations. It also shows the major rivers and cities.

Here is your go-to student resource on primary geography concepts, including facts about the surface of the earth and its hemispheres, latitude and longitude, globes, types of maps, and identifying continents and oceans.

Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all slaves during the Civil War? Why was it written, and what were its immediate and long-term effects? After reading primary source materials, constructing political maps representing information...

Click on these maps of Central African Republic to see a political map, relief map, and a small, clear map. Find the major cities, highways, and neigboring countries. From the Perry Castaneda Collection. Includes PDFs (require Adobe...

A detailed 2001 political map of Afghanistan including the edges of surrounding countries.

A color coded map of North America which contains the regions inhabited by different aboriginal nations.

A comprehensive storehouse of all types of information on Asia, both current and past: maps and statistics, Asian food, travel guides, photographs, articles, timelines, and more. Asia Source is the work of the Asia Society, a national...

Students create and read maps. In this map skills lesson, students draw a map of their neighborhood, then use skills acquired during map-making to interpret a classmates map and a map of the Ming Dynasty.

Can Jerusalem be equitably organized? Can Israel and Palestine be successfully partitioned? Part one of a two-part workshop looks at the geo-political history of Jerusalem while Part two investigates Egypt's dependence of the Nile River...