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THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE (1450-1770)
Ptolemy's World Map (2nd/15th Century CE)
Babylonian World Map (c. 750-500 BCE)
Han Mawangdui Silk Map (pre-168 BCE)
Qin Fangmatan Map (c. 300 BCE)
Tabula Peutingeriana [Peutinger Map] (c. 300 CE)
Unknown, Bedolina Petroglyph (c.1500 BCE)
Unknown, Plan of Fields and Watercourses from Nippur, Mesopotamia (1500 BCE)
Shoshone Map Rock (approx. 12,000 ya)
Ptolemy's World Map (c. 150 CE)
Map of the Tracks of Yu (c. 1136)
Muhammad al-Sharif al-Idrisi, Entertainment for He Who Longs to Travel the World (1154)
Honorius Augustodunensis, Sawley Map (1200)
Richard of Haldingham, Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1300)
Unknown, Carte Pisane (c. 1275-1300)
Fra Mauro, Mappamondo [World Map] (c. 1459 CE)
Fra Mauro, Mappamondo [World Map] (c. 1459 CE)
Henricus Martellus Germanus, World Map (c. 1491)
Juan de la Cosa, World Chart (1500)
Martin Waldseemüller, World Map (1507)
Piri Re'is, Map of the Americas (1513)
Aztec Map of Tenochtitlan (1542)
Unknown, Tenochtitlán, 1521 (1550)
Sebastian Münster, Map of Africa (c. 1554 CE)
Giacomo Gastaldi, New France (1556)
Diego Gutiérrez, Map of America (1562)
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