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The oldest known world map was made in Babylon in the 6th century BC.

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It showed the world as a sphere, with a great, empty ocean where the Americas would soon be discovered. The Genoese map, drawn in 1457 based on the descriptions of Niccolo da Conti. Those waters surrounded most of the extant ancient world maps. These instructions will show you how to find historical maps online. With the dawn of the age of exploration in the 15th century, though, our concept of the world started to open up once more. The center of the Tabula Peutingeriana, a 4th century Roman map outlining the road network of the Roman Empire.  This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The Americas were slowly charted, Australia and New Zealand began to appear, and explorers slowly revealed the world in its full scope. See the results of your search on the right side. Their world was the land that surrounded and fed them, and as far as they knew, it extended no further. Looking for Google Maps API Alternative ? As time passed, maps slowly grew larger as humans' knowledge of what lay outside of the Mediterranean grew. (11245781736).jpg, 109 of 'La Terre- description des phénomènes de la vie du globe.

II. The world, to them, was a round disc surrounded by an ocean, and a place consisting only of Africa, Europe, and Asia.

The first of these ancient world maps was reportedly made in Babylon more than 2,500 years ago. The Hereford Mappa Mundi, drawn by Richard of Haldingham in the 14th century. A projection of the Edapfel globe, produced by Martin Behaim in Germany in 1492.