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This cartographer created a projection for mapping the world that has been called both Eurocentric and religiously tolerant.
Who is Gerard Mercator
100
This feature of medieval and renaissance maps is a box containing information relevant to the overall map or a specific location on the map.
What is a cartouche?
100
This form of mapmaking seeks to describe both heaven and earth, and was used by classical, medieval, and Renaissance mapmakers
What is cosmography
100
This map coined the term "America" and expanded the Ptolemaic oikumene based on the exploration of Amerigo Vespucci and other explorers.
What is Waldseemuller's Universalis Cosmographia
100
This map depicts the classical oikumene based on a set of ancient Roman coordinates used to map the known world
What is Ptolemy's map of the world
200
This explorer's expeditions to the New World proved the existence of a New World distinct from east Asia and inspired Renaissance cartographers to map the new landmass.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
200
This kind of map consists of curved segments like orange slices to accurately transfer a globe onto a plane surface.
What are globe gores?
200
This form of mapping maps a grid over an area of land. The Chinese and the Romans used this mapping style to symbolize the creation of order out of chaos
What is cadastral mapping
200
This medieval map depicts the movement of time from east to west and includes episodes from the bible occurring contemporaneously
What is the Hereford Mappa Mundi
200
This ancient Roman map imposes a grid on regions of the empire in order to keep track of inhabited territory and taxation
What is Hyginus' Roman cadastral map
300
This cartographer created the largest and most expensive Atlas of the 17th century, reflective of Dutch Calvinist values.
Who is Joan Blaeu
300
This tool of classical and medieval mapmaking divided the world into discrete zones of latitude, some of which were considered uninhabitable.
What are climates
300
This classical and medieval type of map divided the known world into three parts of a circle
What is a T and O map
300
This German map rejects the religious persecution of the Reformation period created a projection that exaggerates the northern hemisphere
What is Mercator's world map
300
The Portolan chart made in the Vosgean Gymnasium expands the oikumene to include the New World, but does not use the word "America" 
but does not use the term "America"
What is Waldseemuller's Carta Marina
400
This medieval cartographer made Islamic-style maps in the court of Sicilian King Roger II
Who is Muhammad al-Idrisi
400
These navigational lines cross all meridians of longitude at the same angle and appear on portolan maps in order to help ships sail in a straight line
What are rhumb lines
400
This group of Islamic maps includes the Map of Tinnis, and demonstrates the medieval Islamic world's grasp of classical geographers like Ptolemy
What is the Book of Curiosities
400
This Islamic map crafted for the King of Sicily represents the marriage of mathematical Islamic mapmaking and Ptolemaic geography
What is al-Idrisis's Tabula Rogerina
400
This highly detailed medieval mappa mundi combines Ptolemaic, European, and Islamic mapping techniques and maps Asia based on the travels of Marco Polo.
What is Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi
500
This Venetian medieval cartographer created a mappa mundi that was the most detailed and accurate of its time using information from Marco Polo's travels
Who is Fra Mauro?
500
This grid formed by lines of longitude and latitude is necessary to project a globe onto the plane surface of a map
What is a graticule
500
This location in Seville, Spain took in knowledge from Spanish explorers and attempted to hide it from the wider world.
What is the Casa de Contratación
500
This Spanish map was held in Seville and contained the closely-protected knowledge accumulated from Spain's explorations to the New World
What is the Ribeiro Map
500
This Korean map celebrates the cultural influence of China and aims to position Korea as a member of the Chinese cultural tradition
What is the Kangnido world map