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List of Maps Map 1: The Three Topodynamic Corridors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Map 2: The Beginnings of Urbanization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Map 3: The World of Phoenicians and Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Map 4: The Assyrian Empire, the New Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Empire of Alexander the Great . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Map 5: The Silk Road, the Straight Road, and the Asian Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Map 6: The Two Pre-Columbian Corridors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Map 7: The Roman Empire at Its Peak (around AD 100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Map 8: The Great Ebb and the Fusion of the Great and Asian Corridors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Map 9: The Great Ebb West of the Persian Gulf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Map 10: The Great Ebb West in the Indian Section of the Great Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Map 11: The Great Ebb in the Asian Corridor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Map 12: The Great Ebb in Southeast Asia and the Far East. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219© 2009 – Presses de l’Université du Québec Édifice Le Delta I, 2875, boul. Laurier, bureau 450, Québec, Québec G1V 2M2 • Tél.: (418) 657-4399 – www.puq.ca Tiré de: Urban World History, Luc-Normand Tellier, ISBN 978-2-7605-2209-1 • G1588 Tous droits de reproduction, de traduction et d’adaptation réservés G1588_TDM_EP4.indd XV G1588_TDM_EP4.indd XV 2/12/09 4:46:01 PM 2/12/09 4:46:01 PM XVI Urban World History Map 13: The Venetian Empire from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Map 14: The New Westward Movement in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Map 15: The Five Main Passes of the Alps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Map 16: The Americas between 1492 and 1825. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Map 17: The Epicenter of the Industrial Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Map 18: The Spreading of European Colonialism through the Great Corridor . . . . . . . . . . 384 Map 19: The Spreading of European Colonialism through the Asian Corridor . . . . . . . . . . 405 Map 20: The European Section of the American Corridor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Map 21: Moscow at a Crossroads of the Network Linking the Saracen Route and the ’’Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 Map 22: The American Section of the American Corridor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461© 2009 – Presses de l’Université du Québec Édifice Le Delta I, 2875, boul. Laurier, bureau 450, Québec, Québec G1V 2M2 • Tél.: (418) 657-4399 – www.puq.ca Tiré de: Urban World History, Luc-Normand Tellier, ISBN 978-2-7605-2209-1 • G1588 Tous droits de reproduction, de traduction et d’adaptation réservés G1588_TDM_EP4.indd XVI G1588_TDM_EP4.indd XVI 2/12/09 4:46:01 PM 2/12/09 4:46:01 PM ...

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