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Early world maps
The earliest known
world maps
date to
classical antiquity
, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BC still based on the
flat Earth
paradigm. World maps assuming a
spherical Earth
first appear in the
Hellenistic period
. The developments of
Greek geography
during this time, notably by
Eratosthenes
and
Posidonius
culminated in the Roman era, with
Ptolemy's world map
(2nd century AD), which would remain authoritative throughout the
Middle Ages
.
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