What We Thought The World Map Looked Like: Every Year

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Imagine living in 200 b.c and knowing almost exactly how big the Earth was but yet not knowing what most of the Earth was like.

AngelSamael

imagine how cool it was when there were rumors about mysterious lands and cities

skylacken

Humans had seen Uranus before we had seen Antarctica.

Edit: Would you bozos cut it with the sodding Uranus jokes. They were never funny.

ZephLodwick

Imagine disproving about a southern continent existing only to find out it actually exists

Swuiddy

"Okay, is there any coast left, or can we finally head inland?"

basicallyeveryone

Europe didn’t know where the mongol homeland was when the mongols invaded Europe.

PercepiusProductions

1800s rolls around
Africa: no
Europe: yes

pancakecosmos

“I think we missed a bit of coast let’s check it out just in case”

sadfrog

*1000 years later:*
What we thought the universe look like.

stackk.

So there are people alive today older than truly accurate maps of the world.

Huh.

akorn

-"The world used to be a bigger place."
-"The world's still the same. There's just... Less in it."

derweltenbauer

Actually, Bronze Age civilasations would have known there was something to the West since they imported most of their tin from Britain. It was only after the Bronze Age Collapse that these lands were "lost".

lockretvids