Revealing The Face Of Map Civilization For You

We have a natural sense of all kinds of maps hanging on the wall. We also open the map of High German mobile phone while driving, and drive directly under the guidance of voice broadcast. Whether it's a flat map or a powerful network map, there is a silent effect in our lives that we often neglect its existence. In fact, maps, like all other technologies, have gone through a long process of development. The evolution history of maps is the history of civilization changes, and the map of tomorrow's development is also the road of civilization development. Reading the history of world civilization in the map of Europe opens a window to understand the history of maps, the relationship between maps and society.

The history of world civilization in the map of Europe. Data map

The author of this book is Mario T Nur Nur, an archaeologist from Finland who has been concerned about the development of maps and civilizations for many years. This book is composed of five chapters: "medieval world on maps", "map of the world in transition", "to the new world", "map of the world into the era of focus" and "surrounded by the world". In the book, with many early world maps produced by Europeans as the starting point, the history of human development in the 7 years to 1000 years from the middle ages, Renaissance, Baroque period, Enlightenment era, early colonial exploration, overseas trade and other key historical stages in the history of map development was described in the 1000 years. Time passes through the past and the present, breaking the boundaries of civilizations in all areas, covering science, technology, commerce, navigation, politics, diplomacy, beliefs, etc., and reproduces the history of world civilization from the perspective of evolution and global history.

In the ancient world, the faces of maps are very different from those of today. The development of maps is closely related to certain values. For example, the earliest known maps in the world are related to belief, such as the "Christian T-O map" commonly used in the history of maps. In fact, it is very simple to divide the world into three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. This map came into being in seventh Century and was directly related to the world that believers knew at that time.

In any case, before the Renaissance, or in the age of technology lagging behind, maps are not just drawings, but also the manifestation of certain ideas, positions and authorities. In other words, the map of the early part of the world over 1000 years ago did not have precise use value. We can see that ancient Chinese maps are concrete cities, mountains and rivers, just like paintings. This map is a symbol and symbol when modern geography is not constructed. That is to say, maps play a symbolic role in war and commerce. It can be seen from many ancient movies and TV shows: the general slowly unfolded the maps with the meaning of painting, then led the soldiers to charge, and hunting and fighting flags fluttered in the smoke, somewhat poetic. In Europe, the color of map painting still exists until late in the Renaissance. The map of Holland in seventeenth Century, the baroque style of map edge decoration depicts the four seasons scenery and all kinds of characters, such as a map of the world in 1658, drawn by Faith Hare. There are even patterns of fire, wind, water and soil on the map. The map of this era is like an ornamental painting hanging on the walls of the bourgeois family or the palace for appreciation.

With the development of science and technology, especially the continuous development of surveying, navigation and printing, map forms have undergone tremendous changes. Numerous scientists, navigators, academics and cartomers have constantly improved the technology of map making, making maps more precise and more valuable. By the year eighteenth Century, the map of Europe has become the face of modern map. Its evolution is precisely the history of mankind's in-depth understanding of the world and the exploration of geographical mystery.

The development of the map of Europe, like European civilization, has spread rapidly after its maturity. In ancient times, the map of China was similar to that of Europe. Even in the 30s of last century, China's map making was "rough" to influence the process of war. During the war of resistance against Japan, the Japanese aggressors made precise surveying and mapping in our country, and countless accurate maps were like "telescopes" in the war. Their significance is very small, but our army is suffering from no accurate maps, and is often in a passive position in the war.

Although the map of the history of world civilization in the map of Europe is ancient, it is rather remote in time dimension, but it also has enlightenment value, because maps represent the trend of civilization and science after all. Today, maps have changed from the form of paper to digitalization, from two dimensions to three dimensions, from static to dynamic, analog, and even predictable new maps. With the help of information technology and remote sensing technology, the interaction between maps becomes more and more realistic and three-dimensional. In the era of wireless Internet, everyone is a "cartographic man". Relying on satellite and Internet of things technology, the era of big map has quietly entered everyone's life.