1st World Map

1st World Map. Unlike earlier maps — which featured roads, towns, and other geological features — Anaximander chose to show all of the inhabited lands known to the ancient Greeks. The surviving version of the Tabula Peutingeriana or "Peutinger Map," only dates to the 13 th century and was drawn by a monk in Colmar, France.The map is an impressive 22.1 feet (6.75 meters) long and 1 foot 1 inch (0.34 meters) high.


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These maps indicated directions, roads, towns, borders, and geological features, enabling quicker and safer. The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507

The name America is placed on South America on the main map. These maps indicated directions, roads, towns, borders, and geological features, enabling quicker and safer. A world map didn't come around until the 5 th century

How was world's first map created and who drew it? YouTube. These maps were made with a mix of information available from traveler accounts, science hypotheses, literature and reports from navigators It is known as the first map to use the name "America"

. Unlike earlier maps — which featured roads, towns, and other geological features — Anaximander chose to show all of the inhabited lands known to the ancient Greeks. These maps indicated directions, roads, towns, borders, and geological features, enabling quicker and safer.