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Maps!

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Mapi Mundi - It's Just Your Relationship With the World

In medieval Europe long after Ptolemy, there was a style called Mapi Mundi. And that's a Latin name for just illustrated diagrams that would teach something. Most of them taught Christian morality. So until the 1300s, 1400s map making was like not really about geography for most people.

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