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Part 47 Timeline_the untold_the retold

Part 47 Article: Timeline My Blog Title: The untold the retold Click on PDF to download from Part 1 COLUMN Q 960 AD to 1279 AD Song Dynasty China  18 Emperors Duration: 319 Years Renaissance Map 1201 AD to 1900 AD From [AI overview]: Key features included detailed coastlines, standardized symbols, and the integration of the New World. From [Wikipedia]: The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm . World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The Hellenistic period was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean to the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt . Since Ptolemy, knowledge of the approximate size of the Earth allowed cartographers to estimate the extent of their geographical knowledge, and to indicate parts of the planet known to exist but not yet explored as terra incognita . From [AI overview]: Claudius Ptolemy ...
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