The brief text accompanying each set of maps isn't enough to provide much context, and the maps themselves consist mostly of arrows pointing in all directions showing routes on invasions, etc. Nor are they particularly attractive maps to begin with. This book can be of some use while you are reading history (e.g., The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan), but overall it is poorly designed and mostly a disappointment. ( )

Abundant map-illustrations of demographic data, migrations, cultures, attacks, and borders. For example, the line drawn between the Arabs who revolted against the Ottoman occupation and the Ottoman Empire -- the area does NOT include the Levant. [125] At the time that Herzl's Zionists immigrated into what became Israel (carved out of the Ottoman occupation) the Caliphate Turks were purging Armenians (Christians) and Jews from Turkey.