Maps for reading / Greece & Rome
The Roman Empire · European provinces
See the scale of Rome’s European world, its provinces, and the Rhine and Danube frontiers. Insets distinguish Gaul in Caesar’s time and selected frontier regions.
- Period shown
- Roman imperial regional reference, with separate historical insets
- Published
- 1911 · Atlas pages 38–39
- Suggested use
- Grades 6–12; guided comparison for upper elementary.
All grade-picker settings retain access to this map. Suggested grades describe support needs, not a restriction.
Historical judgment
Read this map carefully
Provinces and frontiers changed over centuries. The main imperial reference is not a map of the early Republic or of every event in Caesar’s life. Use each inset’s own heading and date.
No separate drawing date is established here; 1911 is the verified atlas publication date, not the period depicted.
At the table or in class
A question to begin
Locate Rome and the Rhine. Compare the Caesar-era Gaul inset with the broader imperial map: why must a reader ask when a boundary existed?
First read the map title, legend, scale, and inset headings. Then name what the map can show—and what it cannot.
Source & public-domain record
- Atlas & maker
- William R. Shepherd (atlas compiler); Velhagen & Klasing (printed credit; no individual draughtsman identified). Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. Pages 38–39. A separate drawing date is not established by this record.
- Source institution
- University of Texas Libraries, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Exact original scan · Edition catalog · Original title page · Hosted title-page evidence.
- Rights
- Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired). This exact sheet is listed in the archive’s 1911 edition and was published in the United States in 1911, as independently confirmed by the scanned New York title page. Its underlying publication is before 1931 and outside US copyright in 2026. The archive states that its public-domain map scans may be downloaded and reused without permission; this original atlas item is not flagged as a separately copyrighted modern map. Only faithful resizing/format conversion has been applied to previews; the downloadable scan is unchanged. Archive reuse statement · 2026 US copyright-term reference. US public-domain assessment, not a worldwide legal guarantee. Check local law when reusing outside the United States.
- Credit
- From William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911). Scan courtesy of University of Texas Libraries.
- Download integrity
- Unchanged source JPG · 1910 × 1538 pixels · 931,501 bytes.
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Reviewed 2026-11-06. Download complete provenance manifest.