Images

The interior and altar of Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv.

Well-preserved fresco of a saint, 11th century. Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv.

A Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) illustration showing pirates attacking merchant ships in the South China Sea. From the Qing Scroll. (Maritime Museum, Hong Kong)

A late-18th century map of the South China Sea. Drawn by Rigobert Bonne and G. Raynal

An 1804 print of a Chinese junk ship. The junk was capable of operating in shallow waters or on ocean voyages and was a mainstay of merchant and pirate shipping in Asia for centuries.

Portrait of Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa in armour with St. Andrew's ribbon, oil on canvas painting, 18th century. Art Museum, Dnipro.

Map of Japan by Katip Çelebi (d. 1657), geographer of the Ottoman Empire, in his famous geographic dictionary, Kitab-ı Cihannüma (View of the World). Cambridge University Library.

Saint Sophia Cathedral, located on Sophia's Square in Kyiv.

Portrait of Jan Hus (l. c. 1369-1415), pen and brown ink drawing by Christoffel van Sichem I, mid-16th to early 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Jan Hus (l. c. 1369-1415), bronze sculpture by Ladislav Saloun. Old Town Square, Prague.