Module 1 assignment

By jared.heath44
  • 520 BCE

    520 AC

    Anaximanders lost map is considered to be made in this time period. Is considered to be the first world map in cartographic history
  • 500 BCE

    600-500 AD

    found at the end of the 19th century, the Babylonian world map, considered the oldest map depicting the world is dated to around 600-500 AD
  • 194 BCE

    275-194 AC

    The first map of the world using a system of meridians is made by Erestosenes
  • 170 BCE

    100-170

    Ptolomeo makes the first world maps using longitudes and latitudes
  • 1054

    1054

    The world map of Beatus of Liebana is published and depicts the holy city of Jerusalem at the center of the world
  • 1154

    1154

    Geographer Al-Idrisi began to depict the sea and the mountains in his maps of the world, being the first to do so.
  • 1300

    1300

    The Map of Hereford is made in which the city of Jerusalem can be seen in the center and the top depicts God in the heavens. A major step in cartography and religion working together
  • 1500

    1500

    The first time America is depicted on a map
  • 1529

    1529

    The first map considered to be a scientific map is made by Diego Ribero

  • 1662

    The Atlas Maior is the atlas made by Joan Blaeu and published in Amsterdam in 1662. It contains 594 maps

  • 1978-2000s

    Launch of the first GPS (global positioning system) which will evolve later on into things such as "google maps" in the early 2000s