LIST OF MAPS PAGE The Ancient Orient 5^-57 The Chaldean Empire ; Medo-Persian Empire So-Si Palestine, the Land of the Hebrews 102-103 The Ancient Greek World 146-147 Plan of Athens and its Harbor of Piraeus 173 Ancient Italy, Sicily, and- Carthage -245 Plan of Rome under the Emperors 250 The Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent 276-277 Migrations of the Germans 31S-319 Europe in the Time of Theodoric 323 Dominions of the Franks under the Merovingians 328 The Mohammedan Conquests at their Greatest Extent . . . . 365 Europe in the Time of Charlemagne 374-375 Treaty of Mersen ^ 382 Plantagenet Possessions in England and France ....... 415 The British Isles 422-423 Europe about a.d. iooo 440~44i Italian Towns in the Twelfth Century 454 Routes of the Crusaders 464-465 Crusaders' States in Syria 466 Commercial Towns and Trade Routes, Thirteenth and Four- teenth Centuries 504-505 The Voyages of Discovery 527 The Malay Archipelago .^ . . . . 529 Behaim's Globe, 1492 530-53^ Europe about the Middle of the Sixteenth Century .... 572-573 Germany about 1550 5^4-5^5 The Swiss Confederation 606 Europe when Louis XIV began his Personal Government . 682-683 Europe after the Treaties of Utrecht and Rastadt .... 694-695