An online map of footpaths and goat tracks in Trans-Jordan, 1945-1946

http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/Digital_Maps_MEDMAPS_project.htm

Digital Maps from the the Mapping Mediterranean Lands Project
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American Center of Oriental Research

Jordan. Dept of Lands and Surveys. Trans-Jordan Track Map: Sharq Al-Urdun-kartt Muasalat. Survey of Palestine, 1945-1946. 1 map on 2 sheets. Sheet 1, sheet 2. 43 x 67 cms and 48.3 x 66 cms. A very interesting map of footpaths and goat tracks. Also with Arabic text. M.32

http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/ACOR_map_scans/Trans-Jordan_track_map1.jpg
http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/ACOR_map_scans/Trans-Jordan_track_map2.jpg
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Maps of Major Slave Trading Systems, Markets, and Ports

http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas-hius365/maps/maps_index.html

African American History Through Reconstruction - AAS-HIUS 365
U. Virginia, Charlottesville

Maps of Major Slave Trading Systems, Markets, and Ports

1. Indian Ocean Slave Trade
(from Patterson, Slavery and Social Death, p. 151)
2. Black Sea and Mediterranean Slave Trade I
(from Patterson, Slavery and Social Death, p. 153)
3. Black Sea and Mediterranean Slave Trade II
(from Phillips, Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade, p. 44)
4.Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions in Late Middle Ages
(from Phillips, Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade, p. 89)
5. Medieval European Slave Trade I
(from Patterson, Slavery and Social Death, p. 155)
6. Trans-Saharan Slave Trade I
(from Patterson, Slavery and Social Death, p. 158)
7. African Trade Routes and Trade Centers, ca. 1100-1600
(from Phillips, Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade, p. 115)
8. Major Slave Trading Ports in in Western Africa
(from Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, p. xiii)
9. Major Slave Trading Ports of Senegambia and Sierra Leone
(from Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, p. xiv)
10. Major Slave Trading Ports of the Gold Coast and Bights of Benin and Biafra
(from Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, p. xv)
11. Major Slave Trading Ports of Southwestern and Southeastern Africa
(from Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, p. xvi)
12. African Sources of Slaves for International Markets
(from Manning, Slavery and African Life, p. 10)
12. UNESCO Map of Global Slave Routes

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Connections Across Eurasia, Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Road

H-ASIA
January 31, 2007

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From: "Xinru Liu" (liuxinru--at--msn.com)

This is just to announce the publication of a new book:

Xinru Liu and Lynda Norene Shaffer:
Connections Across Eurasia, Transportation, Communication, and
Cultural Exchange on the Silk Road
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007, in the series of Explorations in
World History,

Xinru Liu
College of New Jersey

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Other publications by Prof Xinru LIU (www.tcnj.edu/~liux/) include

* Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges,
A.D. 1-600, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.

* The Silk Road, in the series of Essays on Global and Comparative
History, American Historical Association, 1998.

* The silk road: overland trade and cultural interactions in Eurasia.
Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1998

* "Silk, Robes and Relations between Early Chinese Dynasties and
Nomads beyond the Great Wall," in Robes and Honor: the Medieval World
of Investiture, ed. Stewart Gordon, New York: Palgrave, 2001.

* "Trade and Pilgrimage Routes from Afghanistan to Taxila, Mathura
and the Ganges Plains," Hindistan Turk Tarihi Arastirmalari, The
Journal of Indo-Turcica, no.1, 2001, 113-140.

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