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2. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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   Anaximander (died c. 546 BCE) is credited with having created one of the first maps of the world, which was circular in form and showed the known lands of the world grouped around the Aegean Sea at the center. This was all surrounded by the ocean. See reconstruction and sources of Anaximander's map.

3. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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   A clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions in Akkadian, dated to the 9th or 8th century BC. The map shows Mesopotamia and its neighbors, surrounded by a circular "bitter river" or Ocean, and includes a text about the creation of the world by Marduk.

4. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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   Learn about the development and consequences of mapmaking technology throughout human history. Find out how ancient Greece and China used grid systems to create maps of their regions and the world.

5. Turin Papyrus Map - Wikipedia

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   The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map drawn around 1150 BCE by Amennakhte for Ramesses IV's expedition to the Wadi Hammamat. It shows the topography, geology, and resources of the area, and is considered the oldest surviving map of its kind.

6. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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   Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) Tabula Rogeriana (1154) Psalter world map (1260) Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c ...

7. History of geography - Wikipedia

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   Learn about the origins and development of geography as a discipline and a practice from ancient times to the present. The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC), but there were earlier maps and descriptions of the world by Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks and others.