how do the ancient draw up world map?

Answer 1

How would you draw a map of the area where you live? You can easily tell North/South/East/West from the Sun, so from any particular point (your house, say, or your town) you can start figuring out what the neighbouring features are. You have to estimate distance unless you happen to have measured it, but you can know the general shape of rivers, hills, coasts by simple observation.

The ancients basically did this, except that navigators and other travellers brought back the same kind of map but from further away. Over a period of time cartographers could collect the observations from a number of people and start matching them up. Distances were a problem, and generally you find that the ancient maps get less and less accurate in terms of scale the further you go from the starting point. The furthest points were often guesses or even based on some made-up story brought back by some adventurer wanting to claim he'd been further than others.

Answer 2

Math, astronomy, surveying, and wayfinding techniques played an important role. To illustrate: draw a map of your neighborhood. Even if you've never seen a satellite image of it, you could probably get a fairly accurate map. You intuitively know that the corner store is 1000 steps to the west of your house along Elm St., and that your step is about 2.6 feet. So, you now can map your house, the corner store that is about 1/2 mile away, and a portion of Elm Street. The accuracy of your map would increase if you used some type of surveying equipment to measure and calculate distances and angles more precisely.

Answer 3

In ancient times, maps were very precious possessions. Maps were drawn by travellers and sailors. The guide in drawing the land were star's position in the sky in a particular time. I think they usually find a landmark such as river or lake or rock formation and draw them in sheep skin or vellum paper.

Remember during that time, there was no other way to navigate or find your destination than using the sky (night time) as a guide..so the sky was mapped first before the land.

Answer 4

Probably the same way anyone else did. It was surveyed. The tools to this with a reasonable degree of accuracy are fairly simple.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

pen, paper, bloke to do drawing, here be dragons etc,