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The Waldseemüller map depicted the New World for the first time (Credit: The Picture Art Collection/Alamy)

1 posted on 07/12/2018 12:35:42 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

I think I see a wall separating the savages from an area from what looks like califrnia to texas..


2 posted on 07/12/2018 12:38:19 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: SunkenCiv

gnip


3 posted on 07/12/2018 12:39:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kartographer

Meanwhile the natives called it?


4 posted on 07/12/2018 12:41:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Kartographer
A few hundred years ago??? Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, BBC? I thought manking has been around for hundreds of MILLIONS of years. Why would it only be within the last few hnndred years that he began exploring the earf?

Sounds to me like there's a case to be made for man only being around for, oh, I don't know, ten to twelve thousand years. Like it says in The Bible.

6 posted on 07/12/2018 1:01:17 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no gstandards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kartographer
The Americas were named for Italian explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512).


9 posted on 07/12/2018 1:26:23 PM PDT by equaviator (`)
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To: Kartographer

Nailed it! ;)


10 posted on 07/12/2018 1:47:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Kartographer

One of the first really cool places I ever found on the internet was a gopher site at a university that had a bunch of maps they’d scanned posted as images. This as actually pre-WWW.


21 posted on 04/04/2019 9:42:39 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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