So, I was rummaging around in my desk, and I found the 'Longman Atlas of World History."  It's wonderful!!  It has maps from different time periods in history: Alexander the Great's empire, 323 BCE ~~ The Roman Empire and Germanic Migrations, 400 CE ~~ The Spread of Islam, c. 622-750 CE ~~ Europe from 1494-1560.  All these lovely maps...which I can now consult as I go through my historical fiction challenge! 

It's like Christmas all over again. ;D

Does this make me a geek?

Vicky,  Heck no not geekish at all I love maps,  I can't tell you how many times I am reading something and I look up where a town is located.  It helps me alot for some strange reason. 

I'd be happy too!

Oh I agree. I love maps and wish more books had one matching up to the story.

So you have things in your desk you didn't know you had?  Sounds like me!

Oh, that is a great find!! I wish all books had maps in them. Even if I already know exactly where the book is set, it still helps me to actually look at it on the map. I do this a lot too. I should get my own map book! ;-)

And from different time periods and empires must be especially helpful. Jealous!

So you have things in your desk you didn't know you had?  Sounds like me!

Umm...yeah, I do.  What can I say? 

Let's see...I could scan the maps, and keep them in an album in my Photobucket account.  Then if any of you feel a need to see a particular map...presto!  It would be there!  It goes from Early Civilizations, c. 8000-900 BCE to the Conflict in Afghanistan, 2001.  I'm really happy because I'm reading "Until the Sun Falls" by Cecelia Holland (Ghengis Khan) and it has a map of Mongol Empires in the 13th century.  Sweet.

Maps are cool.  Even if I can't read one. LOL  I have a thing for globes.  It might be why I got into teaching!  Even with my little kindergarten students, I am forever pulling down the maps or getting out the globe when we talk about places.