I do not know when the first map was made, but the first globe was made by one of Marco Polos freinds
it was made to help people
Hipparchus was an ancient Greek astronomer who compiled first-known catalog of stars and first map of the skies.
Gerardus Mercator creates the first flat map
Ptolemy
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He made the first map
yes it was your butt
Anixmander from Greece is credited with making the first world map in 6th century B.C. he based it off of a cylindrical shape. But the first map ever made (non-world map) was in 4,000 B.C. which was made in Egypt out of clay and baked.
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