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describe the history of map making​

Answer 1

Maps in Ancient Babylonia were made by using accurate surveying techniques. ... In contrast, the Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BC), is a symbolic, not a literal representation. It deliberately omits peoples such as the Persians and Egyptians, who were well known to the Babylonians.

Answer 2

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Maps in Ancient Babylonia were made by using accurate surveying techniques. ... In contrast, the Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BC), is a symbolic, not a literal representation. It deliberately omits peoples such as the Persians and Egyptians, who were well known to the Babylonians.

The Greeks and Romans continued to refine the art of map making, culminating with the work of Claudius Ptolemaeus (in English Ptolemy). Ptolemy was a geographer, mathematician and astronomer who lived in Roman Egypt. In about 150 AD he famously published a scientific treatise titled Geographia (in English Geography).

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