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The World as known to its first historian

The World as known to its first historian.jpg The First printed map of EnglandThumbnailsPortuguese Mappemonde. 1490The First printed map of EnglandThumbnailsPortuguese Mappemonde. 1490The First printed map of EnglandThumbnailsPortuguese Mappemonde. 1490The First printed map of EnglandThumbnailsPortuguese Mappemonde. 1490The First printed map of EnglandThumbnailsPortuguese Mappemonde. 1490

The world as known to Herodotus is shown by the white part of this map, indicating the limited range of ancient geographical knowledge.