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First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander (greekreporter.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Salamendacious to c/history

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The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander, who was born in the third year of the 42nd Olympiad, or 610 BC, and who lived until c. 546 BC, was a polymath, lending his prodigious talents to the realms of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, cosmology, and politics.

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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Although the original map is lost to time, it has been recreated.

[–] pikmeir 8 points 11 months ago

Of course it's missing New Zealand.