Amazing Old Maps

In this video we take a look at some of the world's oldest maps.

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[General.Knowledge]

Which of these maps do you like the most?

[yuri]

It's so amazing that people back then could draw such accurate maps.

[petarmitkov]

Ancient map: * exists *
Literally every peninsula: I don't feel so good

[goatmeal]

Damn, respect to Hecateus. He got the whole known world pretty much exactly. He got the shape of the Mediterranean (especially Italy) better than anyone for like 2000+ years after him. It's not his fault that they didn't know about far-off places, and putting an ocean in a circle around the known world instead of speculating about land shape is pretty forgivable given that Greeks were convinced the universe was geometrically perfect.

[jackdaniels]

What I wonder is how these people governed countries without maps. Think about Rome, "We are the biggest state in the world! What does it look like? Idfk but it's pretty big!"


EU4 feels like such a cheat now

[rogeriopenna]

And yes, the Columbus - Indians story is true. Columbus thought the world was much smaller than other Europeans thought. Most of Europe knew the World was spherical and it's correct size had been estimated with quite good precision by ancient greeks in 350 BC.


Columbus thought he could reach Asia by navigating west across the great ocean, which he thought was much smaller.

He faced opposition because nobody would finance a trip across the CORRECTLY calculated size of the Atlantic+Pacific, which they thought was a single ocean. The crew would all die 1/3 of the way to Asia.


COlumbus got LUCKY there was a continent 1/3 of the way to Asia.

[metamemes]

The thing with the native americans is true. In Germany we call them : Indianer, what simply means something like Indians.

[friedr]

The calafornian Isle may be due to baja california?

[sailorjupie]

Where be New Zealand, oh wait it's still missed off most maps today....

[pablo]

Yeah, that's why they are called Indians, it's kinda weird for a channel called General Knowledge to question this

[Nonamelol.]

I don’t care what anyone says. It’s absolutely shocking and impressive how they were able to draw these maps.

[swimen]

Flat earthers be like: WHERE IS THE ICE WALL SURROUNDING US

[awildfilingcabinet]

Every map has a really (relatively) accurate center, and the details fall off exponentially the closer to the edge you get. It’s like “yeah, I know this place like the back of my hand, what’s that, I have to add this mythical land which may or may not exist, alright. This blob goes here, that there.

[murilomuniz]

The only thing I think is missing, are the amazing maps created by the portuguese cartographers, from the 15th to 16th centuries

[finden]

Meanwhile i can't draw a map of Eufrasia without making a THICC Africa

[Penguin-urwd]

" A pretty good level of *accuratness* "

[Free_Krazy]

I love looking at what people thought the world looked like in the past!
As a geography freak this is a topic i have allways NEEDED more info on! Thanks a million!

[ulflyng]

Antartica discovered in 1773....but many of the maps from 1500 have it drawn on them.

[heronimousbrapson]

It's interesting to know that until about 150 years ago or so, people really had no accurate idea of what their respective countries looked like.

[Gems]

These are really impresive and creative world maps created back in the past