Press). The map of the mita catchment area is taken from
Melissa Dell (2010), “The Persistent Effects of Peru’s
Mining Mita ,” Econometrica 78:6, 1863–1903.
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