Miami University Silk Road
Project Maps
Miami University Silk Road Itinerary 2006
Central Asia
Topography of Eastern Asia
Topography of Western Asia
Tarim Basin
Transoxiana and Khorasan
The following are taken from Monica Whitlock, Land Beyond the River: The Untold Story of Central Asia (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003), an excellent account of Central Asia in the 20th Century
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Afghanistan 2002
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Central Asia 1901
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Central Asia 2002
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Southern Tajikistan and the northern Afghan Borders
China:
Political map
, Relief map
Xinjiang province
Kashgar
Kyrgyzstan: Political map, schematic
Uzbekistan: Political map
Turkey: Political map, Relief map
Maps of the Silk
Road and Related Areas
First Century BCE sea trade routes (small)
(large)
First Century CE trade routes
Silk Road Routes and Products
The Silk Road and other trading routes during the Mongol Period
Empires of Central Asia
Sequence Map of Empires of Empires of Middle East and Central Asia (3000 BCE-2006 CE)
Alexander's Empire
Alexander's Advance (animated)
Central Asia in 190 BCE
Central Asia in 100 CE
The Mongols
Timur's Empire
Timur's Empire
The Following are from the excellent account of Timur by Justin Marozzi, Tamerlane: sword of Islam, conqueror of the world (Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2006).
Central Asia in the Fourteenth Century and Today
Asia Minor in the Fourteenth Century
The Golden Horde
Medieval Persia
Temur's Campaign in India
Temur's Campaigns
Temur's Homeland: Mawarannahr and the Chaghatay Empire
Sequence Map of World Religions
Silk Road Cities
Isfahan
Samarkand
Shah-i-Zinde (Samarkand)
Silk Road Travelers:
Clavijo's Route (1403-1406)
Carpini
Marco Polo
William of Rubruck
Route of Benedict Goës (ca. 1594)
Anthony Jenkinson's Route (1557-1560)
Adam Olearius' Route (1635-1639)
Steel and Crowther's Journey of 1615-16 from Moghul India through Persia)
