1. Unit 1 Lesson 2
What can a Map Tell Us?

2. Perspectives on the Past
Keeping a Journal

4. Different Representations of the Earth Why do the look so different?

6. Sometimes it is the size of things, and sometimes it is the shape.
No matter how you draw a map of the Earth, something will be distorted.
Sometimes it is the size of things, and sometimes it is the shape.

7. Connecting back to Lesson 1
Maps of the same place can differ because of a mapmaker’s:
PURPOSE

8. Purpose: Show the shapes of the continents accurately.
Purpose: Show the size of the continents accurately.
Purpose: Show a compromise between size and shape.

9. What does each map tell you about the cartographer and his/her times?
ACTIVITY
Perspectives on the Past

12. 76 C.E.

13. Connecting back to Lesson 1
Maps of the same place can differ because of a mapmaker’s:
Knowledge
What was their knowledge of the Earth at the time?

14. Connecting back to Lesson 1
Maps of the same place can differ because of a mapmaker’s:
Perspective
How did their perspective as European mapmakers influence their maps?

15. Historic Map Activity

16. 1483 Perusta = scorched land Teperata = temperate
Incognita = unknown quantity
1483

17. 1507

18. 1581

19. 1581