Charting the Known World  ·  ~600 BCE — 1780 CE

c. 600 BCE
The Babylonian Map of the World
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How they pictured it

What they had charted

charted known of still dark

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A stylised teaching tool, not a survey atlas: each map's "charted" zone is an approximation of what its makers depicted with real geographic intent. Notice the East Asian and Islamic traditions lighting up regions Europe hadn't yet reached — and how the New World only appears after 1500.