Name: Elenna

Nine World Changing

Maps
Description Purpose of What does Why might How might
Map this map someone this map
show that reading this shape the
its map want readers
cartographe to explore aspirations
r knew? this location for the
further? future?
The Tabula Cultural and It experiences Because its It gives a
Rogeriana, Political the travelers notable for summary of
created on commentarie and it more than its between the
1154 s on the remained the cartographica different
by Muhammad seven climate most l brilliance. religion
al idrisi zones. authoritative partnerships
depiction of that were
Originally the Eurasian more
drawn by the continent and common
Spanish Monk the northern during the
part of Africa warring
for 3rd Middle Ages.
centuries.
Beatus Beatus map The difference It embodies the This is a map
Mappa organizes the between difference that, in Dodds'
Mundi, world around the christianit and between words,"encourag
Created on 1050 Bible, placing Islam in the Christianity and es you to see
By Beatus of Jerusalem at its Middle Ages. Islam in the yourself as a
Liebana center and Christianity was Middle Ages. part of the divine
Originally drawn dividing the more likely to unfolding" it
by Spanish monk earth into three feel threatened by views the
Beatus of countries scientific geography of our
Liebana observable world
s symbolic of the
 world as God
created it.
Ning-hai Which offered Transportation Not only the The map
Country, government routes, population gazetteers symbolizes one
China, officials deailed figures, provide the of the earliest
Created on information on government government with flourishing civil
13th century their prefectures buildings, and reliable societies on
By unknown and counties local customs. information on a earth,
including sprawling
transportation empire, they also
routes, stirred local
population pride by
figures, and highlighting each
notes on local prefectures
attraction. socialand
cultural
achievements.
The London It was designed by The underground Subway riders Beck's map treats
Tube, engineering geography. were more the Tube like an
Created on 1933 draftsman harry interested in the electrical
By harry beck beck, who realized intricacies of schematic, and its
that subway riders station to station clarity remains the
were more travel than they envy of designers
interested in the were in the city's of all stripes.
intricacies of above ground
station to station geography.
travel than they
were in the city's
above ground
geography.
The New World It shows Map can record It has an image of Once you start
Created on 1500 continent's more than Columbus hefting looking at these
By Juan De La coastline. geography the Christ-child old maps in
Cosa onto his shoulder. context.
La Carte de It shows pitches of We see the birth of Portrays the It depicts a
Tendre, the heart and the the psychological qualities necessary fundamental shift
Created on 1654 feelings as the novel, whose plots to win a woman's in the literary
round as the realm will focus on their heart landscape,
By Madeline de
most worth inner drama of according to
Scudery
surveying. heroes. French teacher
Eric levau

The Human Essentially the Biology teacher It will help us When rendered in
Genome, blueprint for Drew Cressman begin to greater detail can
Created on 2000 building a normal points out that the understand what it indicate an
By Multiples human animal.The genome is more means to be individual's
bars represent our than some human. One vulnerability to
23 pairs of newfangled revelation is that common diseases
chromosomes, the diagnostic tool. we're not as like breast cancer
darker an area is genetically and diabetes.
shaded the more exceptional as we
tightly packed it is thought.
with DNA
Electoral This map became That Americans are Most Americans With long
Map, a default in fact, aren't starkly "pro- stretches of
Created on 2000 representation of a overwhelmingly choice" or "pro- democratic blue
divided nations centrist and life" but lining the coasts
By various
battle lines. pragmatic, but that somewhere in the and republican red
media outlets
ideologues steer us middle the media dominating the
into warning likes to exaggerate landlocked center,
camps. and simplify. this media friendly
map gave us a
stark new
language for
talking about
political
difference.
The To visualize the Every online The map can be The map is also an
Internet, flow of traffic computer on earth updated in less extraordinary
Created on 2005 through a purely exists somewhere than a day, and can aesthetic
abstract space. in this image, lines thus be used to accomplishment,
By Barrett Lyon
represent traffic study the internets one that, he says,
between networks, growth, as well as takes countless
and nodes the effects of layers of
correspond to high government mathematical and
traffic portal sites blackouts and computational
like google and natural disasters abstractions, and
Yahoo. on the global flow renders them
of information. tangible, eerie,
beautiful-- almost
otherworldly.