These maps depict the changes in Europe and the world caused by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and and the growth of colonial Empires in the 19th century.
Europe 1748
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War
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Political map of the North and South America 1794
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
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Europe 1809 Defending the Grande Empire (Napoleon)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The French Empire in Europe 1812
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________National boundaries with in Europe as set by the Congress of Vienna, 1815
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
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Europe after the Franco-Prussian War and German Unification, 1871
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
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European Colonialism 1885
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism