1100 CE Political Map

Our political world map showcases the world in 1100 CE, providing geographic context for connection, conflict, and urbanization across Afro-Eurasia. This map of the world provides geographic context for the Crusades, highlighting the strategic position of the Byzantine Empire between Europe and Southwest Asia, while also showing the growth of centralized states in the West African Sahel.

How to Use This Map

Our maps support teachers in facilitating world history lessons and discussion. The identification of major cities allows students to compare urbanization across regions and consider how trade and environment shaped these developments. It also shows political transitions happening in the Americas in this period.

1100 CE political map, by OER Project, CC BY 4.0.