Trade and Industry in the 1st Millennium BC

Caption

Trade and Industry in the 1st Millennium BC

Summary

This map indicates sites of colonies and Trans-Saharan trade routes, with markers to sites of copper and iron industry, in the 6th century BCE to 500 CE in North Africa.
There are also symbols to indicate findings of art depicting chariots.

Source

Oxford Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press, 1999. General Editor Patrick K. O’Brien. (p. 23)

Copyright

Map copyright © Philip’s, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
Source: Philip’s Atlas of World History

Used under license from Octopus Publishing Group.

Series

This map is one in a series of maps selected from the Oxford Atlas of World History.

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