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A map illustrating Christopher Columbus’s image of the world before his first voyage in 1492. It was based on a map by the Italian scholar Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, which depicted the Earth as about 25% smaller than it actually is, exaggerated the reach of Asia to the east, and ignored the (correct) measurements of Eratosthenes from some 1700 years earlier. Columbus compounded these errors with...

NEW MAP: North America 1523: Spanish Consolidation in Mexico (25 Jul 1523) https://buff.ly/2JK3lk5 Cortés’ capture of Tenochtitlan (1521) brought an end to the Aztec Empire and made Spain the dominant power in Mexico. Over the next years Cortés sent out Spanish expeditions, utilizing Tlaxcalan manpower, to assert his authority over Metztitlan, Tututepec, the Tarascan State, the Kingdom of Colliman, and other states. #16thcentury #americanhistory #aztec #aztecs #carta #cartografia #cartographic #conquistador #hernancortes #historia #historicalplace #histories #historybuff #historylovers #historymaker #historymatters #ageofdiscovery #newspain #maps #mexicanhistory #mexico #mixtec #northamerica #oldmaps #maya #riskgame #spain #tarascan #tlaxcala #newmap (at Metztitlán, Hidalgo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-rMfP9gtJY/?igshid=1s5bjikpev9an

Lisbon, Portugal

A detail of the central Mediterranean from a previously unknown 16th century portolan chart held in the rare book collection of Linderman Library at Lehigh University, currently being catalogued and digitized as part of the #bibliophilly project. @sims_mss @lehighu #portolan #atlas #map #geography #cartography #navigation #renaissance #ageofdiscovery #greece #italy #croatia #albania #montenegro #bosnia #serbia #macedonia #sicily #adriatic (at Lehigh University)

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NEW MAP: North America 1517: Spanish–Mesoamerican contact (04 Mar 1517) https://buff.ly/32IRwU5 Despite almost 25 years of Spanish colonial expansion in the Caribbean, open contact between the Spanish and the civilizations of Mesoamerica did not occur until 1517, when an expedition under Francisco Hernández de Córdoba encountered Maya boats off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. Clashes broke out almost immediately and, after a difficult and violent month of exploration, Hernández limped back to Cuba, dying soon after. Even so, the news he brought back of wealthy and sophisticated Maya kingdoms roused excitement among the Spanish colonies. #16thcentury #1517 #americanhistory #cartography #ageofdiscovery #ekab #exploration #gulfofmexico #mayans #historian #historic #historicalplace #historybuff #historyteacher #instahistory #map #mapping #maps #march #march4 #maya #mexicanhistory #mexico #mayan #northamerica #oldmaps #spanishempire #spain #yucatan #newmap (at Isla Mujeres) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Q09WegAMs/?igshid=1t9cme9gbzons

NEW MAP: North America 1521: Fall of Tenochtitlan (13 Aug 1521) https://buff.ly/2Ut5Jlt In June 1520 Moctezuma’s brother Cuitláhuac led the Aztecs in revolt against the Spanish, resulting in Moctezuma’s death and forcing Cortés to flee Tenochtitlan. Cuitláhuac died a few months later—perhaps from smallpox—and was succeeded by Cuauhtémoc, while the Spanish fell back on Tlaxcala to reorganize. In late 1520 Cortés was ready to return, gaining control of Lake Texcoco with a locally-constructed fleet of brigantines, and capturing Tenochtitlan itself in May–August 1521. #16thcentury #americanhistory #ageofdiscovery #august13 #aztec #aztecempire #aztecs #conquistador #conquistadors #hernancortes #historian #historical #historyfacts #historygeek #historylover #historylovers #historymatters #historynerd #map #maps #mexicanhistory #mexico #northamerica #colonialism #smallpox #spanishempire #tlaxcala #moctezuma #montezuma #newmap (at Tenochtitlán, Mexico, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Y_DacA7ly/?igshid=orkuc1dqze6c

NEW MAP: North America 1513: Balboa reaches the Pacific (29 Sep 1513) https://buff.ly/3a6yRnl Encouraged by Spanish successes on the Isthmus of Panama (1510), King Ferdinand II created the Governorate of Castilla de Oro to administer the region in 1513. While establishing Spanish rule, Vasco Núñez de Balboa learned from a local chief that a vast “South Sea” lay beyond Panama’s mountains—and a gold-rich empire (the Incas) lay beyond that. Balboa eagerly headed south to confirm these claims, reaching the Pacific Ocean in late September. #16thcentury #1513 #ageofdiscovery #americanhistory #ushistory #cartography #colombia #panamacanal #florida #grancolombia #historia #historias #historisch #historyclass #historygeek #historylesson #historymatters #historynerd #mapa #maps #mexicanhistory #northamerica #panama #pacificocean #september #september29 #spanishempire #unitedstates #worldhistory #newmap (at San Miguel, Panama, Panama) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8-zAtcAtpD/?igshid=u4aophhfvi11