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Atheris is a genus of vipers known as bush vipers. [2] They are found only in tropical subsaharan Africa (excluding southern Africa ) [ 1 ] and many species have isolated and fragmented distributions due to their confinement to rain forests . [ 3 ]
Maris Pacifici, more accurately named the Descriptio Maris Pacifici ("Description of the Pacific Ocean"), was the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed. It is considered an important advancement in cartography. This map was drawn by Abraham Ortelius in 1589, based upon a map of America from the same year that was drawn by Frans ...
Maps exhibiting the world's oceanic waters. A continuous body of water encircling Earth, the World/Global Ocean is divided into a number of principal areas. Five oceanic divisions are usually recognized: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern/Antarctic; the last two listed are sometimes consolidated into the first three.
The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". [1]
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32 ...
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