Longitude and Latitude

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Map Basics

In early times simple maps showed the routes—traders traveled by camel or on foot.

Maps were also used to prevent disputes.

They did this by showing the boundaries between owners of land or territory ruled by chiefs or kings.

The earliest maps found are rock carvings dating back thousands of years.

The Babylonians who ruled the land around the rivers Tigris and Euphrates made the first map that could be carried from place to place (c.2700 BCE.)

They drew world as they knew it on a clay tablet