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Monday, February 3, 2020

Geography Div (Historic subscetion)

 Today, on his voyage of 1487-88, Bartholomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope. This is the first known map to announce that fact: Ptolemy’s land-locked Indian Ocean is gone. Within two years, Columbus’ voyages would reshape the map still more radically, so that this may be regarded as the last view of the old world.


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