1st World Map. The name America is placed on South America on the main map. This only cartographic work made by a witness of the first journeys of Christopher Columbus to the Indies that have been preserved.
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World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE. The concept of a world map comes from a late Babylonian tablet, which was created sometime after the 9th century BC, but it is based most likely on a much older map
The Tabula Peutingeriana is an extraordinary map depicting the road network of the Roman Empire from around the 4 th or 5 th century Unlike earlier maps — which featured roads, towns, and other geological features — Anaximander chose to show all of the inhabited lands known to the ancient Greeks. The concept of a world map comes from a late Babylonian tablet, which was created sometime after the 9th century BC, but it is based most likely on a much older map
. Anaximander, the first cartographer made a representation of the world at that time. The first known map of the "world," now located at the British Museum, is a cuneiform clay tablet from Mesopotamia, dated to between the late 8th and 6th centuries bce.It is known as the Babylonian Map of the World.This map has two concentric circles, with the outer circle labeled "Bitter River" and the inner circle containing a representation of the city of Babylon bisected by the.
. This only cartographic work made by a witness of the first journeys of Christopher Columbus to the Indies that have been preserved. The Tabula Peutingeriana is an extraordinary map depicting the road network of the Roman Empire from around the 4 th or 5 th century