Carte de L‘Asie selon le auteurs Anciens enrichie de Remarques Historiques sur les changemens qui y sont arrivez
1719
Original hand-coloured copper engraving on paper
Print size: 14.75 x 19.25 in (37.5 x 48.7 cm)
Sheet size: 16.5 x 20.75 in (42 x 53 cm)
Published in Amsterdam.
Detailed map of Asia, encompassing the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, as well as Japan, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.
The map is centred on India and the Indian Ocean, and it includes explanatory text on both sides. The map was included in Chatelain's massive 7-volume Atlas Historique.
The map depicts the complete Asia is the world's biggest and most populous continent, mostly located in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. The history of Asia may be divided into many peripheral coastal regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, which are linked by the inner bulk of the Central Asian steppes. Some of the world's first known civilizations developed in lush river valleys on the coastal edge. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Yellow River civilizations all shared many characteristics. These civilizations may have shared technology and concepts like mathematics and the wheel. Other developments, such as writing, appear to have emerged independently in each field. Cities, states, and empires are all examples of empires.
In these lowlands, cities, states, and empires grew. The central steppe region has long been home to horse-mounted nomads who could travel to all parts of Asia from the steppes. The Indo-Europeans, who extended their languages throughout the Middle East, South Asia, and the frontiers of China, where the Tocharians lived, are thought to be the first to leave the steppe. Due to extensive woods, temperature, and tundra, the northernmost region of Asia, including much of Siberia, was mainly inaccessible to steppe nomads. These places remained mostly unpopulated. Mountains and deserts kept the core and periphery mainly isolated. The Caucasus and Himalaya mountains, as well as the Karakum and Gobi deserts, posed impassable obstacles for steppe horsemen. While urban city people were more evolved technologically and socially, they could often accomplish little in terms of military defence against the mounted hordes of the steppe. However, there were not enough wide grasslands in the lowlands to maintain a large horsebound army; for these and other reasons, nomads who conquered governments in China, India, and the Middle East sometimes found themselves adapting to the local, more prosperous society.
Henri Abraham Chatelain was the best-known Dutch cartographer. He was also Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins, he lived in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), The Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728).
He is best known particularly for his cartographic contribution to the famous seven-volume Atlas Historique, which was published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. The Atlas Historique was groundbreaking for its day, combining beautiful engraving and artwork with scholastic studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some study argues that, contrary to popular belief, the Atlas Historique was not entirely prepared by Henri Chatelain.
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