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Maps have been around even before christpher colombus. The real word for mapmaker is cartographer.
Early mapmakers:
- palo toscanellia who was an Italian map maker who made christper Columbus.
-martin behaingerman and made one of the first globes.
-martin wassemuller on the botom of one of his maps staed that americo Vespucci sayed Columbus didn't find china like he thought but found a new contonent and name it after the man who said this.
Two types of maps:
-political-countries,states,ect.
-physical- surface features like mountains,rivers,ect.
Map projections:
-mercator
-interupted
-Robinson
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoThey are useful because it shows in the past how things were. That's how they found out when continents were brought apart and sticked together as one. And also ways to find wonderful discovering of a unique heritage.
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∙ 8y agoMaps are a way to help people visualize where you have been and where you can go.
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