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The
the tor
help of these two kinds oflines, they de
a grid on the map and located all the play
from east to west and north to south alom
these lines. Preparing these line
accurately was not an easy task and it to
about 2000 years to finally get corner
longitudes and latitudes. But locating places
on maps with the help of these two line
became easy and useful for travellers
to south. Their ideas were similar to the
Babylonians who believed that the earth was
a round disc surrounded by ocean water.
They travelled widely and wrote down
descriptions of the land and people and
their histories as they saw or heard about.
They prepared maps based on these travels
and descriptions. Though these maps have
not survived, historians have tried to
recreate them with the help of their
sailors who could orient the direction
descriptions
their travel to their destinations. Th
As you can see in the previous map,
sailors, in turn, helped the map makers
they placed Greece in the middle of the
telling them about the places they visited
map. They also divided the world into three
Ptolemy was one of the most famoy
continents: Europe, Libya (Africa) and Asia,
all of which were separated by the
geographers of the ancient world wh
Mediterranean sea (Map 4). The Greeks
prepared detailed maps of the world usin
this ma
and after them, the Romans were greatly
these lines. However, these maps were al
interested in making maps and knowing
lost for a long time
botto
about places near and far. They wanted to
You may have noticed that most o
promi
conquer the world, build colonies in far off these ancient maps give more correc
places and trade with them. You may have information of Europe and nearby
heard of Alexander, a Greek king, who tried countries. In fact, they usually place Greece
to conquer the whole world and came as or Rome in the middle of the map. They
far as India some 2300 years ago. Similarly,
also give more correct information abou
Roman traders had established trading
places visited by sailors and traders, on the
centres on Indian coasts to which they came
coasts of various countries, but they did no Ptol
by ships. Maps became useful and
know about the interior places. Thus, on the
gree
necessary for them.
map of Asia you can see India shown as Bit
In order to help the sailors the maps
much smaller than Sri Lanka as the sailors rep
also had to be accurate. The Greeks tried
were more familiar with it.
to make the maps accurate with the help of
These books of Ptolemy were used by
longitudes and latitudes. Let us see how this
the Arab scholars and sailors to prepare
was done. They tried to find out a set of
places where the midday occurred at the
maps. One famous Arab map maker Al Idris
same time. These places were joined
prepared a world map for his king in 1154
together with a line from north to south C.E. The map, with legends written in Arabic
this was the "Meridian (Noon line) or
while showing the Eurasian continent fully
Longitude. They also tried to draw shows only the northern part of the African
Latitudes by connecting places which had
continent and lacks details of the southem
equal length of shadow at noon. With the Africa and Southeast Asia.
ma
Reading and Analysis Maps
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