Erdapfel Globe interesting seeing the 'whole' world without the Americas.

How could you forget the Portuguese World Maps, a secret well kept within the Casa da Índia (House of India) and guarded as to protect the crown interests, showing, perhaps, the most accurate depiction of land masses by the time. The Cantino Map, was a very large map in display at Casa da Índia for guidance on voyages and copies needed for navigation had to be permitted and issued by Casa Da Índia's itself. And we are talking of the 1500's.

The French one at the end, depicting California as an island. I wonder what mountain chain that is, running through the middle of the US...?

I want the oldest map

Although it wasn't shown here, I find Fra Mauro map to be one of the greatest and most accurate medieval map ever created

Petar Mitkov Mr Continent, I don’t feel so good

@Splatoon is the worst game of all time. I don't care. This just means I am a normal human being who doesn't live in the basement

Petar Mitkov yea tell em

Splatoon is the worst game of all time. Art thou no you

@Splatoon is the worst game of all time. based

Ikr it's easy for us to say it's inaccurate with our satellite images but these had non of that and it's just incredible

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci made a map.that was a satellite view of a city that was incredibly accurate.

You should see the mosaics.

Fr, these map makers are highly dedicated geniuses of their times, throughout all the obvious flaws in their designs it’s still amazing that they got anything even near the actual shape of the portrayed regions and continents just by stitching scraps of knowledge of these areas together

I know, they were just basing it off of the land they saw

Painted Dead r/woooosh

When you draw a map of the world with the help of satellites right before massive changes in climate... well here we go again little ice age 2 electric no that jokes dead mama mia 2 here we go again. Why do I do this to make myself suffer? That's the only reason why I watched mama mia 2 here we go again TO MAKE MYSELF SUFFER

"Fuck you Columbus!"

@@chilldown3386 Not a woooosh, he just disagrees with the premis of the joke.

My penis is unbelievably small, but bro change your name it embarrasses people. Change it as fast as u can

That would be S A D

You're right, how would she explore?!

Dora gae

oof

Yeah cause sniper 1. Got rid of her 2. Got rid of her map

>whole world pretty exactly India: .....

@@Vajrapani108 The rest of the world is also missing, but specifically India is what you care about...

@@aggebojkalos6518 i mean it was one of the major civilization of that time. And that's saying a lot given the timeframe, as you can count on your hands the civilizations at that time

@@Vajrapani108 nobody really cares about it

​@@Vajrapani108Bro, India isn't supposed to be there, what he drew was the known world at his time, not the entire one

Defined borders weren't really defined back in those days. Take the Roman Empire as an example. Wherever they managed to capture and seize a bit of land expanse, they would build temporary guard towers and forts and have guards man them until their battalion can advance to capture more land ahead then repeat. They had a "rolling" border that advanced (or sometimes retreated) depending on the battles that they would win on the front lines.

As a result, the regions nearer those "rolling" borders were very loosely governed compared to a well established region within the Roman Empire like the city of Rome. People in the "borderland" regions were perhaps just asked to make tax donations so guard fortifications and towers nearby could be maintained but they were less likely to be able to participate in politics such as voting unlike people in the city of Rome.

Most of Rome’s government was collecting taxes and telling the army where to go. The local cities governed themselves.

They do have maps. But they don't show it to the public. Only the rulers keep them.

@@bee5120 Rome was among the states with the more defined borders too. Later in medieval times it was a complete mess with many villages even paying taxes to multiple people.

concept of schelz same here in sweden

But our word for Indians is "Inder". So we do differenciate between these groups.

concept of schelz same in Denmark “Indianer” in singular, again indian, even though indian in Denmark is Inder

DarthBricksEmpire same, but when referring to indians, we say indier. Edit: in sweden.

Grüße aus Braunschweig!

Not every European thought the earth was that small Columbus was one of the few people who believed that it was as small as he calculated

@@morgantrottier5387 I believe he said exactly this in the second sentence be typed.

I be a DOCTOR oh shit I miss read that my bad

He used a latin mile rather than the arabic pne thats why he got confused

Columbus also thought the Earth was in the shape of a pear with a nipple on top. He was an idiot.

Hexagonal Cloud The White Walkers destroyed it with an undead dragon

Your pfp makes this comment all the better

@@Outis89 and they're heading for winterfell

But where is it

@@Outis89 WINTER HAS COME

Pablo it literally made me question everything he had to say from that moment forward

@@mickeythemaltipoo3756 It's always worth questioning what you hear. There's usually a more detailed explanation that goes something along of the lines of "well yes, but actually no". With just about every question you might have about the known world.

RJ GV Is he better than most?

@ which is why native american is used now

@@pablo8286 Amerindian

Yes

The Spanish couldnt sail all the way up to the bay of calafornia due to sea currents, so they assumed it was an island

Well, obviously.

Yeah

But the map carefully shows a complete island

Owl Fam you must of misread Amies comment “Where be New Zealand, oh wait it’s still missed off most maps today” as in new zealand is cut off or not even included on most maps today has nothing to do with borders

Owl Fam also may i add that every single square map is wrong as their is no way to emulate a sphere on a square sheet of paper

Amie Gordon one of the maps at my school shows two new zealands

CoolCreeper39 yeah. See those thin red lines? Those are overlaps from the other side to better emulate a sphere

I get it. Mind you @ 9:38 He has indeed circle the only part of NZ mapped buy Tasman. (The world map illustrated was nearly 100 years before Cook mapped the entire coastline)

Mostly portolans depicting colonies on the African coastline, that were gradually more accurate as the Portuguese went further in what we today know Angola and South Africa

@@charlesmcgill9652 Yes, you are correct, and at this time these maps were divided into small portions, for coping by young children, thus making for few persons who "knew the big picture. This was done to "preserve State security". Sound familiar?

Ha!

Yeah, you commented with great accuracy.

You don't need to draw maps anymore

It's fun too

Jane Goodnut we dont NEED to but we WANT to

@@satan1189 yea lol

General History Realatble

I learned back in middle school that centuries before Antarctica's discovery by James Cook, Europeans had developed a rumor about a mysterious southern land aptly named "Terra Australius Incognito" that would have had to exist on the bottom of the globe in order for the world to be balanced. Interestingly enough, they were right.

@@devonharris5936 thx for the answer. It seems to me like a "theory of convenience" they had made up. Since many of the older maps were detailed in their depiction of Antartica - and that's A under the ice! Did the video mention this? If so, then sorry it slipped my attention. Piri Reis map is one such map

@@devonharris5936 I second this answer. Initial drawings usually have it substantially larger than reality, so when European explorers started sailing around the south without finding anything the idea fell out of favour and it vanished from a lot of maps. This is also why Australia stole it's original name, since it was believed that there could be no landmass further south.

The Piri Reis Map, Strange how the upoader of this video ignored that map!

Before Antarctica was discovered, it was theorized to have a land mass there. In parts of the world known to be landless, the opposite side of the globe has land. The Arctic does not have land directly upon it, so there was expected to be a land mass at the opposite pole.

Not to mention the small part of America, which is Alaska

and Alaska and yukon territory and northern territory and most of Nunavut territory

Half of Canada is missing. Apparently, the small half.

Thank you! This is precisely why I often skip the videos and go directly to comments.

Geography was my favorite class in school. Still enjoy the old maps. I keep AAA busy as a member by ordering free maps when I may travel. USA baby boomer still with 'wonderlust' in my veins. ha..

hardly, by the late1700s maps were almost 90percent good

The story goes, that the King of France was bitterly disappointed at the resulting size of his kingdom, when he saw the results of the first survey of France, done by triangulation.

Oh we know now? According too who? Oh they told us the truth as they do today 🤔

I never thought a school could be trashyer then mine

I visited the primary school I went to and I was really sad to see all the books, posters, games thrown away. For me it was like smelly interesting stuff, especially those books and toys😪

@@charlesmcgill9652 When I visited my primary school a few years back, having not been there for several decades, I was shocked to see they still had some of the things from my time there. Most notably, pencil sharpeners still fastened to the counters on the side, the same counters I used and a blackboard on the wall that still had a chunk of corner missing. It was like time travel in some ways.

I got one from a thrift store and it's one of my fav globes that I have. It was from the 70s and was well-made with a brass setting.

They should of because THE EARTH IS FLAT....!!!! ROTFL

This was my first thought. It's more than 150 years older than Van Schagen's, which has no Antarctica at all and it shows not only a good representation of the Antarctic coastline but a surprisingly accurate mapping of it's sub-coast. I've thought to myself that the map had to have been a fake because of some of it's amazing accuracy but the consensus seems to be that it's real.

Graham Hancock mentions it often.

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The thing is people adopt different meanings. Meaning america in most eyes is the usa

In Spanish/Portuguese, sure, America refers to both North and South America. In English, however, we call them "The Americas" (plural), with a singular America/American being exclusively for the United States. Seeing as you're speaking English, you should be using the correct English forms.

You're right

Origami Tesseract once he got there ofc he knew he wasnt in India. What is true is that his INTENT was to try reaching India through circumnavigation

@@bonusduckmann9997 of course but that's not the point people like to portray him as a ignorant fool who thought he was in India when in fact he knew he was in a new place.

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Dylan M. thanks

That is more likely the Philipines or Taiwan.

Paul Collins there was no flood

Collins like Michael

Well actually the Sahara has grown around 30% in the past 10,000 years. This is mostly due to cut and burn tactics, where they would cut up trees, bushes, etc. Burn them, then the burned trees and bushes and what not would make fertilizer. But the reason they depict so much water is most likely due to travel. Think of it of like this....idk where u live but take where you live and think about a town nearby to where your house. If you take a car and drive on the roads how long would it take you? Do you know how the get there? What are the directions (dont answer btw, im just being hypothetical-this is for you to answer yourself) now do that again but dont travel on roads. Dont drive, etc. Its much harder to calculate distance if the traveling is inconvenient. And in those times the most convenient way of traveling quickly while staying safe was via the water. Thus they stuck to the water.

A lot of that is probably just bad placement of actual landmarks, like the big lakes in central Algeria or Lake Chad in the Sahel. These ancient explorers knew these existed but they didn't know exactly their size and placement, and since there were lakes, they probably thought there were rivers to deliver water to said lakes and so they just drew rivers as some form of educated guesses, which ended up making the Sahara look wetter than it actually was

What the fuck dude?

I was waiting for the comment

because they used more localized and accurate maps or used points of reference instead.

Rivers and mountains i guess

The Piri Reis map

Ikr 😅