Reference Map
Explore the New Global Age
Start with a power’s voyages of exploration as your base. Then layer on the maritime empires, and the great exchanges — goods, the Columbian Exchange, silver, the Atlantic slave trade, and disease — each shown as a swooping arrow from where it began. Click anything to read more.
Three networks knit Afro-Eurasia together between 1200 and 1450 — moving silk and salt, faiths and inventions, merchants and microbes.
Select a route above, or Show all to compare them, then click the colored lines and dots on the map.