7 points ·
It is kind of impressive they had this much mapped out when it hadn't even been 50 years since Columbus's first voyage.
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i am tall, and i farm rice. Photo is of me at my farm and not AI generated from the prompt "tall rice farmer"
Posts
- TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.' · 122 points · 6 comments
- A map of the British Empire in America (1746) · 4 points · 4 comments
- Timezone changes between 1923 and 2023 · 2 points · 3 comments
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-1 points ·
I guess it was hard to map out ish on the west/east axis which is why Florida is janky. Things look a lot more proportional north/south
1 points ·
France amd Spain being +1 is apparently a relic from the 40s when Germany occupied France and the Spanish government felt they needed to switch to appease Germany. It is kinda funny neither switched back.