In less than the course of a person\'s lifetime, about 50 years or 1492-1538, Eu

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In less than the course of a person's lifetime, about 50 years or 1492-1538, Europeans' sense of the geographic world they lived in changed dramatically. While there were dozens of maps, these four are the classic landmarks of geographic developments in this dynamic period. Imagine yourself as a European born in 1485. What would you have learned about the world by observing these 4 maps as they appeared in 1502, 1507, and 1538?

Make two observations about what is being learned about the world from the maps in each period.

TIMELINE: 1502

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In 1502, The Cantino planisphere called as latitude chart, which was developed in 1502 following the introduction of astronomical navigation, during the fifteenth century. Contrarily to the portolan charts of the Mediterranean, which were constructed on the basis of magnetic courses and estimated distances between places, in the latitude chart places were represented according to their latitudes.

In 1507,Martin Waldseemuller’s world map grew has an ambitious project in Strasbourg, France, during the 16th century. The map supported Vespucci’s revolutionary concept by portraying the New World as a separate continent, which was unknown to the Europeans. It was the first map, printed or manuscript, to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map represented a huge leap forward in knowledge, recognizing the newly found American landmass and forever changing the European understanding of a world divided into only three parts—Europe, Asia, and Africa.

In 1538,This is also the first map to apply the name America to the North American continent as well as to South America and to differentiate North and South America as separate continents.Mercator’s famous 1569 navigational charts, on the projection that bears his name, enabled compass bearings to be plotted in straight lines on charts and clarified longitude and latitude measurements.

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