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What is the importance of maps in History?

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Maps have been around even before christpher colombus. The real word for mapmaker is cartographer.
Early mapmakers:
- palo toscanellia who was an Italian map maker who made christper Columbus.
-martin behaingerman and made one of the first globes.
-martin wassemuller on the botom of one of his maps staed that americo Vespucci sayed Columbus didn't find china like he thought but found a new contonent and name it after the man who said this.
Two types of maps:
-political-countries,states,ect.
-physical- surface features like mountains,rivers,ect.
Map projections:
-mercator
-interupted
-Robinson

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