Ancient World Map History
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Ancient world map history. The world map is circular drawn on a piece of parchment 69 6 cm 44 cm 27 4 in 17 3 in. A history of the maps created by individuals living in the ancient world. This page will illustrate the maps created by individuals living in the ancient world which reflected their views and thoughts of the composition of the world that they lived in.
Overview the period of world history between 1960 and 2005 saw the cold war reach new levels of tension before ending in the fall of communism as a major force in international politics. New york city pinned on the ancient earth interactive map set to 750 million years ago. Map of greco roman sites this map shows ancient sites and museums from the greco roman world in high detail down to street level.
64 bc 24 ad was a greek geographer who studied and worked in rome. These early maps depicted the stars and showed how constellations would have looked at the time. Babylonian map of the world anaximander s map hecataeus map eratosthenes map posidonius.
Download the ancient world history in maps pdf epub or read online books in mobi ebooks. The star shaped map measures just five by three inches and shows the world. History s earliest known world map was scratched on clay tablets in the ancient city of babylon sometime around 600 b c.
Strabo s map of europe is impressively accurate. Humans have been making maps for thousands of years and the history of cartography mapmaking can be traced all the way back to ancient cave paintings. The map covers the mediterranean and most of europe.
Strabo s map of europe. Albertin de virga a venetian is also known for a 1409 map of the mediterranean also made in venice. He completed geographica a history of the known world which included maps under the first half of the reign of the emperor tiberius 14 37 ad.
The map is only complete in the mediterranean until around 270 bce. The interactive map ancient earth allows users to track their hometown s location on earth s surface over millions of years. The ancient world history in maps.
Users can scroll through 750 million years of continental drift and easily jump to monumental events in earth s history. The de virga world map was made by albertinus de virga between 1411 and 1415. This is the final map in a timeline of twenty maps covering all of world history from 3500 bce right up to 2005.
As human s gathered more knowledge of the world the first maps of the known world started to.
