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The map's mirror image originally was carved on six large blocks of wood and then printed in brownish ink on six mulberry paper panels, similar to the making of a folding screen. It portrays both North and South America and the Pacific Ocean with reasonable accuracy. China appropriately is linked to Asia, India, and the Middle East.
The Da Ming Hunyi Tu (Chinese for the "Amalgamated Map of the Ming Empire") is an extensive Chinese map. It was painted in colour on stiff silk and 386 x 456 cm in size. [1] The original text was written in Classical Chinese, but on the surviving copy Manchu labels were later superimposed. The surviving copy of the map shows later revisions ...
The Fra Mauro map was made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in diameter. The original world map was made by Fra Mauro and his assistant Andrea Bianco, a sailor-cartographer, under a commission by king Afonso V of Portugal.
name existed Aria: 700 BC – 300 BC Caspiane: 650 BC – 387 AD Bactria: 1200–550 BC Kingdom of Balhara 12th – 7th centuries BC Bulgar: 7th century BC – 7th century AD
Political entities in the 6th century – Political entities in the 8th century ... Map of the Old World in ... Africa: North; Asia: West; Europe: West Kingdom of ...
In medieval T and O maps, Asia makes for half the world's landmass, with Africa and Europe accounting for a quarter each. With the High Middle Ages, Southwest and Central Asia receive better resolution in Muslim geography, and the 11th century map by Mahmud al-Kashgari is the first world map drawn from a Central Asian point of view.
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Name Capital(s) State type Existed Location Abbasid Caliphate: Baghdad: Empire: 750 – 1256 AD: Africa: North; Asia: West Aghlabids: Kairouan: Emirate: 800 – 909 AD