Facts
How Maps were made
The Innovation
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What is Cartography?
Cartography is the science or practice of drawing maps. (anything similar is alright)
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How were the maps made in the ancient times?
The ancient maps were made by hand, by painting on papyrus or parchment paper
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What were some inventions that helped cartographers draw maps?
Some examples are metal compass and the printing press.
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Who is responsible for making the first map?
A Greek philosopher named Anaximander
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Why was it so hard to make maps?
Drawing maps was very tough in the ancient times because there were no map printing, so they had to repeat the same map many times.
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True or false? The pictures on google maps are taken with special cameras on top of cars. After that, the pictures are "glued" together.
True
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