Unit 9: Exploration / Technology
A Fool's Map of the World, ca. 1590
From "World Map Drawn in a Fool's Head." Ca. 1590. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Comparing this map of the world with the one a century earlier, it is clear just how extensively Europeans were exploring and charting the globe during the sixteenth century.


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