History of Eurasia [interactive map]

We live in a globalized world, but mobility is nothing new. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean covers over 10,000 years, charting the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk roads, and the great steppe corridor (which crucially allowed horse riders to travel from Mongolia to the Great Hungarian Plain within a year).

The map below highlights a few of the significant places of this ‘big history.’

Featured image credit: China. Crescent lake among the sand dunes of the Gobi Desert not far from Dunhuang by Barry Cunliffe. Do not use without permission.

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