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1. www.britannica.com › science › mapMap - Ancient World, Geography, Cartography | Britannica

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   Oct 24, 2024 · Map - Ancient World, Geography, Cartography: The earliest specimens thus far discovered that are indisputably portrayals of land features are the Babylonian tablets previously mentioned; certain land drawings found in Egypt and paintings discovered in early tombs are nearly as old.

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3. vividmaps.com › ancient-maps-and-atlasesHow the World was Imagined: First Maps and Atlases

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   Jul 13, 2020 · The Ruysch world map uses Ptolemy’s first projection. The world map including explorations of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Marco Polo. Newfoundland is depicted joined to Asia, as John Cabot thought. Greenland, in turn, is connected to Newfoundland, and not Europe as newer maps had shown.

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4. www.bbc.com › future › articleThe last unmapped places on Earth - BBC

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   In 1504, an anonymous mapmaker – most likely an Italian – carved a meticulous depiction of the known world into two halves of conjoined ostrich eggs. The grapefruit-sized globe included recent...

5. www.historyhit.com › ancient-maps-how-did-theAncient Maps: How Did the Romans See the World? - History Hit

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   Jul 31, 2018 · Porticus Vipsania: the public map of the world. Roman general, statesman and architect Agrippa (c. 64 – 12 BC) researched the known geography of the Empire and beyond in order to create the Orbis Terrarum or “map of the world”.

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6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 316989461_TheThe Past, Present and Future of Maps - ResearchGate

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   A map will always be two dimensional idea, a representation of the tridimensional space we occupy, the world. Furthermore, maps indicate a purpose. As Jerry Brotton states " .. maps that unfold...

7. worldhistorycommons.org › analyzing-mapsAnalyzing Maps - World History Commons

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   The modules in Methods present case studies that demonstrate how scholars interpret different kinds of historical evidence in world history. In the video historian Gerald Danzer analyzes maps of the world. In the primary sources menu below, you can examine two world maps two maps of the world.

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   What happens when you put history on a map?

   • When you put history on a map, you can see clearly what is otherwise unknown, ignored, or neglected, like Little Africa and similar communities around the world have been. Stories like what happened to the community of Little Africa are still playing out today.

   Maps Are a Tool to Understand the Past—and Shape the Future

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   Why is the world map not included?

   • The world map was painted on paper, which was glued on a parchment layer throughout the globe. The Americas are not included, because Columbus returned to Spain no earlier than March 1493. The globe displays an expanded Eurasia and an empty ocean separating Europe and Asia. The mythological Saint Brendan’s Island is added.

   How the World was Imagined: First Maps and Atlases

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   Where did the world map come from?

   • It dates back to the oldest known world map, a 2,500-year-old cuneiform tablet discovered near Baghdad that puts Babylon at its centre. Mapmakers throughout history adopted a similar bias toward their own homeland, and little seems to have changed since then.

   The last unmapped places on Earth - BBC

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   What is the Missing Maps project?

   • In recognition of this problem, a new effort called the Missing Maps Project – organised by the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team – recruits volunteers to fill in the cartographical blanks in the developing world.

   The last unmapped places on Earth - BBC

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   What makes a good map?

   • As Lewis Carroll famously pointed out, a perfectly objective and faithful 1:1 representation of the world would literally have to be the same size as the place it depicted. Therefore, mapmakers must make sensible design decisions in order to compress the physical world into a much smaller, flatter depiction.

   The last unmapped places on Earth - BBC

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   What does a map represent?

   • A map will always be two dimensional idea, a representation of the tridimensional space we occupy, the world. Furthermore, maps indicate a purpose. As Jerry Brotton states " .. maps that unfold before our eyes present a creative version of a reality we think we know .. " (Brotton, 2013).

   (PDF) The Past, Present and Future of Maps - ResearchGate

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9. blog.education.nationalgeographic.org › 2022/02/10Maps Are a Tool to Understand the Past—and Shape the Future

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   Feb 10, 2022 · When you put history on a map, you can see clearly what is otherwise unknown, ignored, or neglected, like Little Africa and similar communities around the world have been. Stories like what happened to the community of Little Africa are still playing out today.