Expansion Of Trade And Colonization Of The New World

A 1650 map, created by Joan Vinckeboon, titled “ Map of California Shown as an Island," echoes the inaccurate belief of cartographers, whose early maps depicted California as an island, separate from mainland North America. The Dutch cartographer and engraver Vinckeboon was born into a Flemish family of artists and started out drawing for his father. About 1640, he started creating maps, and later was employed by the Dutch West India Company, where he spent roughly three decades creating maps that aided Dutch mercantile and military shipping. He was associated with the notable map and atlas publisher Joan Blaeu, and so, Vinckeboon is credited with compiling a series of 200 manuscript maps that were published in atlases, including Blaeu’s Atlas Major.

From this map, it would appear that traveling across the ocean, with the size of their ships, would have only taken a few weeks, with stops at islands along the way. While this was certainly not the case, the map eschews the self-assurance that such a feat was possible. Indeed, the choice to draw the oceans this way was not for a lack of knowledge. Instead, it was the remarkable self-confidence of the Europeans. By drawing the oceans as a minor part of the map and the ship as much larger and more noticeable, they were able to stress their navigational might and show that they had control over much of the world.

1. What fundamental factors drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World? What was the impact on the Indians, Europeans, and Africans when each of their previously separate worlds “collided” with one another? What caused the shift from indentured servant to African slaves as the dominant labor force in the southern colonies?

Before maps travelers would use the sun to tell the time and direction they are traveling. Although in this paper I am only worried about paper maps and smartphone maps. The main Concept of a paper map would be the ability to follow your trip as you go easily. A map would have every road that is accessible by vehicle, a person would then have to look and memorize their turns, unless they have the map out all the time. The main concept of a smart phone map would be the ability to have a device track your trip for you. A smart phone map will have a line that you can follow and give you step by step instructions on where to go. Therefore, this conceptual model is better than the paper-based map. There are many ways that the paper map and the smart phone map differ. One way is the number of roads that you can view on each. Having a smart phone map, you can look at roads all over the world. With a paper-based map, the number of roads you can see are limited. There are many different paper maps for every area of the world, but it is inconvenient to have to have many

mountains, all the locations and their labels, along with a lot of details of all the regions.

The world has changed dramatically and rapidly since Christopher Columbus set his foot on North American Island thinking it to be the part of India and their tribal natives as Red Indians. As the time passed by, it came to be known as United States and the whole credit still goes to Columbus. Thoughts and questions like, how it became possible then navigational maps will be the perfect answer for any curious student among you. It has taken hundreds may be thousands of years to make maps and charts for navigation. With each and every new discovery of the island and sea route made the map more specific, clear and precise. Now in this present world scenario, maps have been developed to such extent that now they are known as digital map or maps.

Generally, what information is your map trying to communicate (e.g. the population density of bears across Finland or roadways and significant points of interest in Singapore)?

Cartographers use degrees to measure the distance of latitude and longitude.A cartographer puts the bar scale so the reader knows the distance between two points on the map. Bar scales show the reader the distance on a map. A cartographer uses a compass rose to show the reader the cardinal (N, E, S, W) and intermediate (NE, SE, SW, NW) directions.

Students making charts and making their own maps with symbols can help them understand distance between places and the reading takes place when they are able to understand, read and follow the maps they have made. Students are able to learn more about the cities they live in and understand the natural resources that are within their reach*. The background knowledge of maps can be enhanced by bringing in actual maps of the state of Arizona, as well as other places so the students could experience and see firsthand the materials or maps that were used way long ago before the wonderful world of technology took over and made everything digital.

The objectives of this lab are to learn how to interpret and depict landforms using air photos, topographic maps, and geologic maps. In geology, maps have many functions. It is essential to be able to read and understand a map (paper or digital) while in the field. Geologic maps contain more information than common highway maps. Features such as faults, folds, rock formation, strike and dip, elevation and a variety of other information can be found, depending on the type of map.

Another thing the cartographer used was a scale. In the bottom right corner below the map, the

This map was created by the Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius in the year 1587. It was included in an atlas titled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". The image depicts the region of Southeast Asia as well as a small section of America. The rectangular piece has a decorative frame that labels the four cardinal directions in Latin.

Mapping has been a part of humankind for centuries. From the most elite societies to the most humble ones mapping has had a very large impact on how civilizations view the world. In our society mapping is relatively straightforward. We consider a map to be a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea, which we use to determine our surroundings and chart our destinations. What many of us fail to realize is that there is more than one way to map. The lectures provided by Dr. Wismath, Dr. Leroy Little Bear and chapter four of Asher’s work Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures describe their own unique ways that land can be significant to different groups of people. With that significance comes a unique way of

Map projections are needed in order to create maps. A map projection is used to depict all or part of the earth on a flat surface. In order to create a map projection one must select a model for the Earth’s shape and transform geographic coordinates from longitude and latitude to Cartesian coordinates. All map projections have some distortions. Some examples of types of map projections are cylindrical, pseudocylindrical, and conic.

On the map, one can see a tool indicating the scale of the map. This same looking tool can be found in the book “Compass and Rule” in an exhibition called “Bartholomew Newsam, set of drawing instruments, c. 1570.” This is the only known surviving Elizabethton drawing set in modern day (Gerbino 61). This tool could have been used to scale the map, which can be seen in the one-square-mile gridlines. In addition, by connecting these tools to those used likely by military engineers, one can assume that the gridlines had a purpose besides denoting the scale of the map. If only the scale was important, the British could have simply put a key on the map showing 1 inch = 1 square mile, for example. Since they drew the entire grid, it could be interpreted as being done to perhaps reproduce the map for military purposes. It may have been easier to redraw the map to accurate scale by producing these gridlines. Thus, one could predict that this map may have been reproduced in a smaller form for military personnel to effectively defend this