Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
|Context||This map was created just fifteen years after Columbus's first landing in the Americas.|
|Purpose||To better understand the world's extent|
This map, completed by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507, reveals how profoundly Europe's view of the world had changed just a quarter century later. The world's five major continents are more defined- though Europeans' knowledge remained distorted and incomplete.