The Waldseemüller map depicted the New World for the first time (Credit: The Picture Art Collection/Alamy)
To: Kartographer
I think I see a wall separating the savages from an area from what looks like califrnia to texas..
To: SunkenCiv
3 posted on
07/12/2018 12:39:13 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: Kartographer
Meanwhile the natives called it?
4 posted on
07/12/2018 12:41:52 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
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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
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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
10 posted on
07/12/2018 1:47:24 PM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
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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
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