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What if they were trying to make a round earth map but its actually flat

Why didn’t they just use GPS? Dumb

Great doc

The ancient view of a map was not scalability! Amazing the British navy may have known more about our universe than having mapped the world?

What about the Peiri Reise maps and the older maps he claimed to have copied? How did he accurately draw Antarctica...Antarctica without ice?

This is meaningful and profound. A similar book I read deeply affected my life for the better. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood

Very poorly researched.

Do not believe half of what you 'learned' of official history! ("history is written by the conquerors", eh?). Perhaps the Americas, Australia, Africa etc. were 'discovered' by Asians or Africans or Polynesians for all we know! The North Pole may have been visited by the Inuit. The Piri Reis map of Antarctica, not accurate, may have been Seen by early explorers only as islands from the coast. There were likely Europeans to the Americas even before the Vikings. The best marine navigators were probably the Polynesians. How about the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta? Columbus(Cristof Colomb) was a murdering conquistador! As were the Spanish (& Portuguese) explorers. He thought he'd reached the East Indies, so our First Nations are mis-labelled as 'Indians'. Magellan was an arrogant fool, got executed in the Philippines, ha. Mariners had ocean navigation instruments ie lodestone compasses & astrolabes etc for centuries. Maps were secret documents for the most part. There's evidence that Asians & Africans may have 'discovered' the Americas before arrogant Europeans. Our First Nations were here for ages!! **Space aliens visiting Earth? Get Real, for pete's sake! The ancient great manmade structures were built by Man. I could go on... * There was a fine series on TV about 25 yrs. ago called "The Shape of the World"(narrated by Patrick Stewart). **The alleged first SOLO circumnavigation of the world(alone) was by Joshua Slocum from Nova Scotia, last century. Thank you.

This was an excellent doc loved it!!!

I wonder to what extent Arab and Chinese maps may have played a role, especially around the time Europeans seized Cordoba and Granada?

Henry the Navigator was a prince of Portugal, not the King. He was a son of King Joao and Queen Philipa, the daughter of John of Gaunt of England and niece of the Black Prince.

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Henry travelled as far as Morocco Or Ceuta.

The land where the sun never sets must be the poles.

Bar inside a 🌎 is the best map ever.

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A brief history of WESTERN? chartograpgy maybe?

Henry 'Infante de Sagres' or 'the Navigator' was the son of John I of Portugal and never became King. In this video he is called King more than once... which is incorrect to say the least

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Henry the Navigator was never king. He was one of the brothers of king Duarte. This is embarrassing

Europeans discovered Nowhere!!! Everywhere they went people were already there!!! Or are you implying only Europeans are human beings? The question is why did it take the Europeans so long to go anywhere? The Europeans are actually the last of mankind to travel the world!!!! Everywhere they went men and women were already there!!!

..Imagine if the native americans and Vikings werent murdered by the Church of England en mass, amd encouraged to wipe out their own religion and history in favor of a whitewashed version of it. We would know how exactly the vikings did trade with the native americans, africa and asia. We would see how vikings spoke and conversed and even went to war in Brazil... we would know so much more if christianity hadnt wiped out their past. :(

I think war lords are more concerned with with their local area. Dictators and Kings (and Presidents ) are concerned with their country but Emperors and those who struggle to rule as an Emperor, if they reveal it or not

Who keeps drinking my coffee?

Wow, the guy was head of the lab that made the virus. He profited from the virus. He should be in prison, not Public Broadcast Services demigod. Have we cut all funding to this Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda yet?

Maps show the growing knowledge of people in an interesting way. Thanks.

Horrible way of telling history

Suprised that maps from the muslim and persian world are left out of this documentary. They had interesting maps in medieval times that were very similar to modern metro maps. Cities and other important points were marked by colored circles, connected by lines, that showed the travel time between them. Simple, convenient, easy to carry.

Not much info in this documentary about the history of the science and techniques of mapmaking, specific significant maps, etc., just repeating info about european explorers that we all already know. Lazy and incomplete documentary.

I am pretty sure there are planes.

This is in a time where mostly all would have translated country maps in English and put on a jigsaw puzzle

I think they were guided by when the word was recorded and heard and rediscovered.

It's the different rom, CD-ROM rise of the computer age. And baby boomers.

In the same way as interesting not take out the Circumnavigation of the Planet 🌍 of Elcano and Magallaes .
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Indian reservations (concentration camps without walls), and not forbidrn also Australiaw whio English Empire send all criminals, killers as a great jail with bad times to sXX for Natural inhabitants, Is good try explain but is important not take out or interpretation maybe not correct the information who is out or is not interesting comment, In the XXI century Colonialismus also modern is into the BRICS nations and Few governments demand public sorry for the bad decisions in the past, Thank your for your video 👌,

same as HUNTER X HUNTER dark continent😊

This "Brief History of Cartography" is three half-hour shows presented as one 84-minute program. I give this a single star (out of five) because I am scientifically-oriented and this program has approximately zero information about how maps are made. Maps are discussed and history is presented, but actual map-making (cartography) is pretty much missing. ☹

They had discovered JEW S A.

Yep, lots of explorers made it home to tell of their journey. Imagine how many didn't.

Great documentary. I especially enjoy the music being too dramatic and scary when it’s not even suitable to the footage on screen lol

“He (Colombus) didn’t know he had discovered new lands.” That’s because he didn’t actually discover them. The Vikings discovered the new continent almost half a millennia before Colombus’ supposed “discovery “. Amazing how history is still being falsified today!

I have a framed replica of an old one ("ORBIS TERRARUM NOVA ET ACCURATISSIMA TABULA", by Nicolao Visscher) in my living room. It is beautiful...being a long time aircraft pilot (as a profession) and a sailor (as a sport / hobby), charts & maps have always fascinated me...great documentary!!! 👏👏👏

Henry the Navigator was never a king, but a prince... he was one of the youngest sons of João I (John the first). He was the Duke of Viseu and grand master of the military order of Christ. During his life three different kings reigned in Portugal: D. João I (John the first), his father; D. Duarte (king Edward), his older brother; and Afonso V, his nephew.

Thanks! That was a nice review. Somehow it would seem like burning the libraries at Alexandria and other seats of learning retarded our understanding of cartography quite a bit! I wish it were not for dominance and riches that the world got discovered by European civilization. Navigating by compass is not as easy as it looks, but it will get you there with a decent map.

those guys are wicked German wow

So you don t know how they mapped the planet ...as it all remains un mystery....thanks for sharing your ignorance...

Does anyone know who composed the soundtrack music for this documentary?

Earth is Flat .