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Babylonians create first map
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Ereignisse
Earliest Map created by Babylonians
Earliest Egyptian Map
Eratosthenes calculates the Earth's circumference
Ptolemy wrote the books Geography
Oldest existing Portolan map
Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered a new way to find longitude
British Captain James Cook mapped new land
First American Map created by Abel Buell
Litography became very popular
German Mapmakers called "New Lands" Americas
Christopher Columbus Made Historic Voyage from Spain to the Americas
Polynesian vessels use stick maps to travel across the ocean.
Mercator created his famous Mercator Projection
Greeks invented the astrolabe
Compass Rose was invented
Sextants came into use
John Harrison invented chronometers
Greenwich adopted as the international Prime Meridian
Rand McNally published the first map that identifyed highways by numbers.
Aerial photography became practical.
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The Middle Ages
Captain Edward Belcher mapped the coast of Africa
Ferdinand Magellan's men are the first to circumnavigate the globe
Surveying techniques were slowly developed