There were several different kinds of maps of the Middle Ages, but one specific kind, called a portolan chart, was intended for mariners and was fairly accurate.
These maps have been studied because the technology used to produce them was greater than any for which we have any record from the time. The technology of the portolan maps was finally exceeded in the 18th century, but did not exist in the late 16th or 17th, and there has been much speculation about what it might have been, and when it was used.
The problem for mapmakers of the time was that while it was fairly easy to find latitude, how far north or south of the equator you were, there was no easy way to find longitude, position on the east-west axis. In the northern hemisphere latitude could be found just by measuring the angle between the horizon and the north star. But for longitude, the method used was to try to find the time of day of a astronomical event, as seen from different places. For example, we might try to have observers in Madrid and Mexico City observe the occultation of a moon of Jupiter from, measure the times at which it happened, and compare. Clocks being what they were, and observers being what they were, the distance from Madrid to Mexico City was off by 1400 miles.
What was required was a really good clock, so mariners could keep track of times of noon, and compare these with a standard time at a particular place, for instance at Greenwich. Once they could do this, they could know, within a couple of miles, where they were. And so they could draw accurate maps. This is the technology that developed in the 18th century. But the portolan charts showed something analogous had existed during or before the Middle Ages.
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Rome didn't exist in the middle ages. It fell in 410 AD and because of it the middle ages started.
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In the Middle Ages Times. :)
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The end of the middle ages was in the 15th century, Plymouth colony in North America was setted in 1620, over a hundred year alter. The cityof Plymouth in England existed in the middle ages.
Manorialism.
Cathars, a religious group from the Middle Ages, do not exist in modern society.
Hate to tell you this, but for America, the Middle Ages did not exist, but the time it was discovered and colonized the Middle Ages were long past.