Entartika
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if the quality seems off try: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Cantino_planisphere_%281502%29.jpg
Apr 2, 2018 6:02 AM
Entartika
136012
1831
21
if the quality seems off try: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Cantino_planisphere_%281502%29.jpg
Kaldoris
Source in HD?
CesarBach
Where are the sea dragons?
TehMightyEngineer
Love the little African Grey parrots on the map.
Mr3inches
"Guys! Wanna make a map? C'mon it's Portugeasy"
gruffgamer
Old timey fog of war
russiapostthrowaway
I see you, Florida
captaingrump
Civ 5 .
uitSCHOT
As a dutchman: meh, close enough
SnesC
r/mapswithoutnz
totallycooldude
LincLoud
I love maps, no idea why but I do love seeing the earliest to more modern maps
ActionAndy
Neat to see that the Sahara was not a desert yet, depicted as green and lush.
Rebeltrooper1
Greenland is actually green in this map.
catapulter
Also the greenhara desert.
alcaray
Jerusalem was huge in those days!
CenturionXIX
It missing Entartika!
ultravioletultraviolence
how do they have even a hint of the distances? Amazingly interesting
hispanicyankee
Speed and travel time. They knew how long it took to get from one place to another at varying speed, so it was easy to extrapolate distance.
vikingvampireangel
I love how the accuracy increases with trade routes. The Mediterranean and West Africa are nearly spot on
DinoKebab
Portugal is also nearly perfect!
woodjoiner
Increase the number of measurements to decreases the size of the error. Stats yo!
CabNumber1729
There are still parts of the eath we dont know much about because no one (very few people) need or want to go there
RandomFlotsam
For once an old map-maker who left stuff blank that was unknown.
IAmTheNewOne
I like it when it was viewed as giving the maker creative freedom: "There's gotta be mermaids up there."
IOnlyCommentWithIrony
You should send a fast scout to run through the rest of the map so you know where the other basis are
WillemDaFriend
There be dragons here
synfinitehell
They hadn't unlocked that area yet
CaptainAxanar
DLC was required to discover those areas.
AbsolutelyNotTheNSA
Didn't know EA was around back then.
Sonorum
As a Swede I feel offended.
ElmyrDeHory
As a Pole, me too. Our region is weird there, and Baltic Sea is just.... just... one fancy blue dick.
ConnRuu
I agree, and Finland and Åland is not even on the map
LostLocust
Even includes the mythical Frisland!
IWatchBirdsForALiving
I live how everything north of southern Norway is like: «...nah»
Zeferin
who cares when they know cuba and florida
GottaAddCooling
Scotland :) We didn't play nice with others
Peteyorwhatever
Super cool.
ShoesAreHatsForFeet
#mapswithoutnewzealand
YolodolfHipster
I guess norway was that popular of a destination as they completly forgot about it
hispanicyankee
A more northern mapmaker (like an Englishman or a German) would definitely have gotten it better, but a Portuguese guy would have virtually
hispanicyankee
no reason to ever even know the country existed at that time. Not much political overlap
muckinpattis
Also strange how they nailed the outline of Africa, but the red sea
hispanicyankee
They didn't get along with the muslims at the time so it's not surprising that whole region is pretty much a guess based on older maps
muckinpattis
its just odd that where they have jerusalem, which would be important to christian countries, is in real life so close to red sea
hispanicyankee
They weren't welcome in the area, so I suppose they just assumed everything in the Bible was pretty close together
PassiveAggressiveHotdogVendor
The New World and Asia are understandably wrong, but apparently nobody even tried to indicate the shape of Scotland to these guys.
R3mmy
Tyre Baltic is a warty penis fish
cookiesfornoone
Don't trade don't care, maybe?
IKnowYouHateMeYes
Too far, didn't matter for trade routes and it offered no significant vantage for them to know about it
xela88
Cept when like the Spanish armada sailed up round Scotland and ended up wrecked on the coast of Ireland. Some decent maps mighta helped....
NitroxOxide
“Spanish armada”
theartofmakingsense
It ends in a straight line because that's where The Wall was
armonis
Hadrians Wall?
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theartofmakingsense
That was the wall I meant!
YesButAlsoYes
They turned around when they heard the bagpipes in the distance
Partytor
~ Can you hear the pipes in the distance, discord on the air? ~ Scottish Mad Max, probably
igniskonig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0z18rM68D8
ddskafjlrkeig43perog
Blue line over Brasil is the result of a treaty between Portugal and Spain regarding the agreement of separating the world in 2 parts
ddskafjlrkeig43perog
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
hispanicyankee
Yeah the Portuguese really got the shaft at Tordesillas. Wrongly assumed there were tons more islands in the Atlantic and gave everything to
hispanicyankee
Spain. Although it probably would've been worse if they'd not had a treaty at all, because Spain could have probably just taken everything
ddskafjlrkeig43perog
Well.. in 1580 everything was on spanish hands ???? as they ruled Portugal (because of a secession crisis)
ddskafjlrkeig43perog
Portugal didnt reapect much of the treaty and took good chunks of land from spain to make what brasil is today