From the Silk Road to the Great Game, Central Asia has long been a region of great strategic, political, and economic importance.Central Asia is of growing visibility to the rest of the world. Home of the legendary Silk Road and Great Game, the region is of increasing influence due to oil, Islam, democracy, and terrorism. No other comprehensive atlas exists.This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the eight-seventh century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.