About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Maps, World, History of the world, List of world map changes, Early world maps, Dieppe maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMap, Mitchell Map, WikiMapia, Dot Distribution Maps, National Mine Map Repository, Sanborn Maps, Aspen Movie Map, Beatus map, Madaba Map, Antonine Itinerary, OpenSeaMap, Tithe maps, OS MasterMap, Mapbender, UNSDI, HistoAtlas, War of the Rebellion Atlas, Trail map, Turin Papyrus Map, Marble, Ebstorf Map, Admiralty chart, Murerplan, Godunov map, Michel-Etienne Turgot, Contarini-Rosselli map, Road atlas, Soleto Map, Mongolian manuscript maps, GSHHS, Padrao Real, Atlante Veneto, Pizzigano map, Opisometer, OpenAerialMap, National Geographic Maps, Klaudyan map of Bohemia, Isopach map, Surface map, Maps of present-day countries and dependencies, Hazard map, Land-line. Excerpt: The history of the world is the history of humanity from the earliest times to the present, in all places on earth, beginning with the Paleolithic Era. It excludes non-human natural history and geological history, except insofar as the natural world substantially affects human lives. World history encompasses the study of written records, from ancient times forward, plus additional knowledge gained from other sources, such as archaeology. Ancient recorded history begins with the invention, independently at several sites on Earth, of writing, which created the infrastructure for lasting, accurately transmitted memories and thus for the diffusion and growth of knowledge. However, the roots of civilization reach back to the period before writing - humanity's prehistory. Human prehistory begins in the Paleolithic Era, or "Early Stone Age." Later, during the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age), came the Agricultural Revolution (between 8000 and 5000 BCE) in the Fertile Crescent, where humans first began the systematic husbandry of plants and animals...
