USEFUL MAPS

China: Check out this wonderful assortment of China maps in UT’s Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/china.html

Central Asia: You can refer to this map for political boundaries and national capitals. http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/maps/m_centralasia.html

Digital Chart of the World: For those of you, who are interested in mapping software and GIS data, here is a useful site from Penn State that allows the user to manipulate and produce GIS mapping data for the region we are studying in this class: http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

A “Funky” Assortment of Silk Road Maps from “Dim Sum” web site supported by the Newton (MA) Public School system: http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/Silk%20Rd.%20Maps.html

A Good Map Of The Southeast Asian Region Under Portuguese and Spanish Colonial Control from the UT site: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/portugal_colonial_dominions.jpg