Atlas · Plate IV

The Mayi ambush

133 BC

Map of East Asia in 133 BC: the Xiongnu under Junchen with the Ordos and the Hexi corridor, their subjects from the Tarim to the Wuhuan, the Yuezhi on the Ili, the Han, and the march of the chanyu towards Mayi, where three hundred thousand Han lie in ambush, and his withdrawal © Emre-E Yavuz 2026

133 BC: The Han hide three hundred thousand men around the frontier town of Mayi and offer the town to the chanyu Junchen. He comes over the border with a hundred thousand horse, sees the cattle grazing unattended a hundred li short of the town, learns of the ambush from a captured officer and turns back. The heqin settlement ends, and sixty years of open war begin. Modern map; the road of the chanyu is drawn, and the borders in the steppe are approximate.

The arrow keys turn the plates.

Articles with this map

Years

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. VI
  7. VII
  8. VIII
  9. IX
  10. X
  11. XI
  12. XII
  13. XIII
  14. XIV
  15. XV
  16. XVI
  17. XVII
  18. XVIII
  19. XIX
  20. XX
  21. XXI
  22. XXII
  23. XXIII
  24. XXIV
  25. XXV
  26. XXVI
  27. XXVII
  28. XXVIII
  29. XXIX
  30. XXX
  31. XXXI
  32. XXXII
  33. XXXIII
  34. XXXIV
  35. XXXV
  36. XXXVI
  37. XXXVII
  38. XXXVIII
  39. XXXIX
  40. XL
  41. XLI
  42. XLII
  43. XLIII
  44. XLIV
  45. XLV
  46. XLVI
  47. XLVII
  48. XLVIII
  49. XLIX
  50. L
  51. LI
  52. LII
  53. LIII
  54. LIV
  55. LV
  56. LVI
  57. LVII
  58. LVIII
  59. LIX
  60. LX
  61. LXI
  62. LXII
  63. LXIII
  64. LXIV
  65. LXV
  66. LXVI
  67. LXVII
  68. LXVIII

Five languages

The atlas in your language

Menus, chronologies and moving maps are in all five languages, and so are 304 articles.

New, basic edition:OʻzbekchaҚазақшаКыргызча