First World Map In History

Explore the global impact of the first world war through our new online map, which highlights key events and figures in the conflict from our records. Ancient greeks created the earliest paper maps that were used for navigation, and to depict certain areas of the earth. Naval battle of jutland between the german and british navies.

Working for the dutch east india company. Anaximander, a greek philosopher who lived in miletus in the 6th century, is credited with the invention of the first map. The surviving version of the tabula peutingeriana or “peutinger map,” only dates to the 13 th century and was drawn by a monk in colmar, france.the map is an impressive 22.1 feet (6.75 meters) long and 1 foot 1 inch (0.34 meters) high.

Anaximander was the first of the ancient greeks to draw a map of the known world, and, as such, he is considered to be one of the first cartographers.

The ancients were preoccupied with geography, and the first attempts at drawing maps date back to 8,000 b.c., when the people of babylon used maps. Instead, it would last more than four years. The city of babylon itself figures as a large rectangle, bisected by another rectangle representing the euphrates river. One of the first maps that showed the whole world including the western coast of america and northern australia, with gross.