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Ebstorfer World Map, c.1235
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1154 World Map by Moroccan Cartographer al-Idrisi for King Roger of Sicily
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Europe and Northern Africa Portolan Atlas 1547
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Early Maritime Navigation – Compass Lesson & Europe Classroom Activity Europe and northern Africa. HM 29. PORTOLAN ATLAS, anonymous (Dieppe, 1547) Europe and northern Africa. HM 29. PORTOLAN AT…
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Zhenghe-sailing-chart
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Early Maritime Navigation – Classroom Activity Asia Folder Part of the Wubei Zhi chart of Zheng He showing the west coast of India along the top, Ceylon top right and Africa along the bottom. The s…
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Potato Stamp Monogram
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Printing Press Inquiry Unit (Alternate Formative Performance Task, Supporting Question 1) Potato Stamp Monogram Create a pad of personally monogrammed writing paper in the style of Gutenberg pri…
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Compass Hands-on Activity
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Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit Compass Lesson Plan - Supporting Question 3 Task With a towel placed over their heads and the only visual being that of a magnetized needle, set on a plasti…
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1572 German translation of humanist Petrarch’s ”De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna”
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Printing Press - Document 3F Excerpt Early Printed Manuscript. The illustrations for this 1572 German translation of humanist Petrarch's ''De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna'' are among the most famous w…
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The Rosetta Stone, 196 B.C.E. Cast of the Original in the British Museum
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) This black basalt slab is perhaps the most famous hieroglyphic inscription known. Not only was it a beautiful example of ancient writing, it was also the key to unders…
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The Hyakumanto Dharani Scroll, Nara, Japan, 764-770 C.E.
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) One of few remaining block printed dharani scrolls, the oldest surviving examples of printing on paper. Hyakuman means "one million" in Japanese. One million pagodas w…
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Korean Hand Carved Wooden Type and Printed Scroll, c 19th Century
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) The Chinese began printing from movable type in the eleventh century. There is no connection between this and its invention in Europe four centuries later. Movable typ…
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