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Map 2
: Drawn using data from Miriam Bruhn and Francisco Gallego (2010), “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Do They Matter for Economic Development?” forthcoming in the
Review of Economics and Statistics
.

Map 3
: Drawn using data from World Development Indicators (2008), the World Bank.

Map 4
: Map of wild pigs adapted from W. L. R. Oliver; I. L. Brisbin, Jr.; and S. Takahashi (1993), “The Eurasian Wild Pig (Sus
scrofa
),” in W. L. R. Oliver, ed.,
Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos: Status Survey and Action Plan
(Gland, Switzerland: IUCN), pp. 112–21. Wild cattle adapted from map of aurochs from Cis van Vuure (2005),
Retracing the Aurochs
(Sofia: Pensoft Publishers), p. 41.

Map 5
: Adapted from Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf (2001),
The Domestication of Plants in the Old World
, 3rd edition (New York: Oxford University Press), wheat map 4, p. 56; barley map 5, p. 55. Map of rice distribution adapted from Te-Tzu Chang (1976), “The Origin, Evolution, Cultivation, Dissemination, and Diversification of Asian and African Rices,”
Euphytica
25, 425–41, figure 2, p. 433.

Map 6
: The Kuba Kingdom is based on Jan Vansina (1978),
The Children of Woot
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), map 2, p. 8. Kongo based on Jan Vansina (1995), “Equatorial Africa Before the Nineteenth Century,” in Philip Curtin, Steven Feierman, Leonard Thompson, and Jan Vansina,
African History: From Earliest Times to Independence
(New York: Longman), map 8.4, p. 228.

Map 7
: Drawn using data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS), which reports images of the Earth at night captured from 20:00 to 21:30 local time from an altitude of 830 km (
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ols.html
).

Map 8
: Constructed from data in Jerome Blum (1998),
The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe
(Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Map 9
: Adapted from the maps in Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker (1988),
The Spanish Armada
(London: Hamilton), pp. i–ii, 243.

Map 10
: Adapted from Simon Martin and Nikolai Gribe (2000),
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
(London: Thames and Hudson), p. 21.

Map 11
: Map adapted from Mark A. Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O’Brien (1991),
Civilization in the West
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers), p. 151.

Map 12
: Somali clan families adapted from Ioan M. Lewis (2002),
A Modern History of Somalia
(Oxford: James Currey), map of “Somali ethnic and clan-family distribution 2002”; map of Aksum adapted from Kevin Shillington (1995),
History of Africa
, 2nd edition (New York: St. Martin’s Press), map 5.4, p. 69.

Map 13
: J. R. Walton (1998), “Changing Patterns of Trade and Interaction Since 1500,” in R. A. Butlin and R. A. Dodgshon, eds.,
An Historical Geography of Europe
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), figure 15.2, p. 326.

Map 14
: Adapted from Anthony Reid (1988),
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680: Volume 1, The Land Below the Winds
(New Haven: Yale University Press), map 2, p. 9.

Map 15
: Drawn from data taken from Nathan Nunn (2008), “The Long Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades,”
Quarterly Journal of Economics
123, no. 1, 139–76.

Map 16
: Maps based on the following maps: for South Africa, A. J. Christopher (2001),
The Atlas of Changing South Africa
(London: Routledge), figure
1.19, p. 31; for Zimbabwe, Robin Palmer (1977),
Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia
(Berkeley: University of California Press), map 5, p. 245.

Map 17
: Adapted from Alexander Grab (2003),
Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe
(London: Palgrave Macmillan), map 1, p. 17; map 2, p. 91.

Map 18
: Drawn using data from the 1840 U.S. Census, downloadable at the National Historical Geographic Information System:
http://www.nhgis.org/
.

Map 19
: Drawn using data from the 1880 U.S. Census, downloadable at the National Historical Geographic Information System:
http://www.nhgis.org/
.

Map 20
: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Rafael J. Santos (2010), “The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia,” at
http://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/files/
jr_formationofstate.pdf
.

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