This exciting atlas presents a dramatic insight into what the world was like during the great age of discovery. Featuring beautiful hand-illustrated maps and packed with information about nations and empires, this book is the perfect pictorial guide to the world between 1450 and 1800. Discover the great empires of the Mughals, the Ottomans, the Incas and the Spanish. Find your way to colonial forts in Africa, Central American temples, trading bases in India, palaces in western Europe, Japanese castles and immigrant settlements all across the New World. Learn about the people who expanded nations, grew empires, discovered counties and experimented with new ideas. In-depth feature spreads focus on important topics such as the Renaissance, the slave trade and the intellectual revolution. Use the picture symbols to find key sites, battle, journeys and amazing details of everyday life.
