Early Map Of America
Map of russian territorial losses.
Early map of america. The map is keyed to show the extent of english settlement at the time and shows the native american settlement. Continental and regional maps. They are arranged as follows. End of the century.
It was also the first map to even use the name. It is named for the german scholar konrad. Maps by dumont de montigny. In 1507 martin waldesmüller became the first cartographer to draw a map in which america was a free floating entity truly a new continent.
Settlements and forts gulf settlements and forts atlantic harbors and islands gulf coast harbors and islands atlantic coast special topics. The original peutinger map was probably completed sometime around the 4th century a d but the version that exists today is a 13th century copy. The new deal and world war ii. Early french explorations.
World maps assuming a spherical earth first appear in the hellenistic period the developments of greek geography during this time notably by eratosthenes and posidonius culminated in the roman era with ptolemy s world map 2nd century ce which would remain authoritative throughout the middle ages. Anonymous portuguese explorers were the first europeans to map the eastern seaboard of america from new york to florida as documented in the cantino planisphere of 1502. Map of indochina pre 1975. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries bce still based on the flat earth paradigm.
Roanoke island jamestown and st. Approach at pearl harbor. Thousands of surviving maps allow scholars to trace how european and indigenous understandings of north america developed between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Early maps of the american south updated 1 18 20 this site contains a large collection of historical maps that pertain to the american south dating to the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
A facsimile of an early map 1651 showing the discoveries of sir francis drake in north america including the coastline of ould virginia and maryland the bay of checepiake chesapeake bay lord delaware bay cape hatteras and cape fear and the s.