World Maps and Mythic Beasts

What message was marked on the tiny copper globe created in the early 1500s?

• Here be dragons

• Beware of sea monsters

• Explore the unknown

• Navigate with caution

What did medieval European mapmakers often scrawl over blank spots on the map?

• Trade routes and settlements

• Coastlines and written directions

• Topography and water sources

• Dragons and sea monsters

What were the two types of maps that people all over the world made?

• Functional maps and cosmographies

• Geographic maps and mythic maps

• Trade maps and settlement maps

• Topographic maps and water maps

What were the new world maps produced by cartographers in Eurasia and North Africa meant to depict?

• The world's geography

• The world's trade routes

• The world's settlements

• The world's topography

What were the medieval European maps known as that featured the Garden of Eden and mythical dragons?

• Mythic maps

• Geographic maps

• Cosmographies

• Mappae mundi

Who created one of the earliest and most accurate world maps in the 12th century?

• Al-Idrisi

• Gerardus Mercator

• Ibn Hawqal

• Martin Waldseemuller

What did the Chinese mapmakers use to depict sub-Saharan Africa on the 'Da Ming Hunyi Tu'?

• Their own travels

• Interviews with explorers

• Mythical descriptions

• Accounts of traders

What did the German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller mistakenly map the Americas as in 1507?

• A thin sliver of land

• A large continent

• A group of islands

• An unexplored territory

What did Spanish maps depict for over 100 years after the explorers' impressions of the land led them astray?

• The 'Island of California' as part of Mexico

• The 'Island of California' detached from the rest of the continent

• The 'Island of California' as part of Canada

• The 'Island of California' connected to the rest of the continent

What did Gerardus Mercator speculate prominently featured the North Pole in his map?

• A giant magnetic rock

• A hidden treasure

• A lost civilization

• A mystical portal