Use our interactive In Charted Waters tool which shows information & visuals on how our knowledge of the world map has evolved.

Source: www.msccruises.co.uk

This interactive map/timeline takes users around the world through the major events representing the expansion of human knowledge.  Admittedly, this is represents knowledge from a Eurocentric perspective, but that is somewhat appropriate in this instance since that was the largest store of spatial knowledge as this global information coalesced.  Users can visualize the coordination of absolute space and realize the actions undertaken that shifted geography from its predecessor, cosmology.  Each achievement cam through intensive exploration and the detailed mapping of those endeavors.

Tags: historical, mapping, cartography, Unit 1 GeoPrinciples.