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