The continent of North America has a rich history, starting with the Native American tribes who inhabited the land long before any Europeans arrived. In 1492,Christopher Columbusarrived from Europe and is credited with discovering the continent.Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, also explored the...
A newly discovered ancient Chinese map may prove that it was a Chinese navigator who first discovered America. He may have made the discovery seventy years before Columbus discovered the New World. The map, which has gone on display in Beijing, is said to be a copy made in 1763 of a muc...
CU stop-motion of map pins showing disease spread; 1955 Futuristic user interface with HUD and infographic elements. SWEDEN MAP 00:25 MS Couple looking at tourist map and being served coffee at outdoor cafe / Copenhagen, Denmark Neon lighting delineating the shapes of the continents on Earth ...
1500-1580, Brazil before the Iberian Union –1492, Expedition of Christopher Columbus (Spain): the explorer “discovers” the Americas trying to reach India. –1493, Bull Inter Coetera (Holy See): the Pope establishes a meridian 100 leagues West from Cape Verde, dividing the unconquered and ...
Some experts, including Chinese experts, believe that the map may be a clever forgery by someone who wanted to make a lot of money by selling it. If tests show that the map is real, we will have to change our view of history, especially the history of America. Experts also wonder how...
"america" to the new world. the library of congress purchased the only surviving copy of waldseemüller's map in 2003 for $10 million. "there are many places where the same information was in the same place on the two maps," van duzer said. "the layout is very similar, a lot of ...
The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence by S. Max Edelson (Harvard University Press) covers the period between the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution. From the publisher: Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade ...
These maps are accurate and extraordinary, and the distance between Europe, Africa and America is so accurate. Before eighteenth Century, however, Voyager could not precisely mark the longitude and latitude; in other words, the thirteenth Century map was more remarkable than its subsequent chart. ...
as Bianco drew them. The VM artist has perverted Bianco's substantially correct depiction of the seven major Canary Islands into short rows, and has also moved the great mysterious islands of the mid-Atlantic (which may themselves represent pre-Columbian knowledge of America) well to the east....
To the northwest, north, and northeast it is bounded by the southern coast of the United States, while to the west, south, and southeast it is bounded by the east coast of Mexico. In 2025 U.S. Pres. Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming it the “Gulf of America.” Physical...