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2. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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   The Babylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language.Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.

3. World map - Wikipedia

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   A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

4. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known world mapsdate to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCEstill based on the flat Earthparadigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earthfirst appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geographyduring this time, notably by Eratosthenesand Posidoniusculminated in the Roman era ...

5. Ptolemy's world map - Wikipedia

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   The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c.150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .

6. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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   The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. When and how the earliest maps were made is unclear, but maps of ...

7. International Map of the World - Wikipedia

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   The International Map of the World (IMW), also known as the Millionth Map of the World, [1] after its scale of 1:1 000 000, was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. [7] Roads were depicted in red, towns and railways were depicted in black, and the labels were written in the Roman alphabet.