As this map shows, Italy and the Netherlands do bear a brunt of those recorded. Note: Some of these maps contain ... in Europe trade with Germany, which happens to be the world's third-largest ...

In the past, maps were hand-drawn by using careful measurements of the ground. Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to ...

Created a year or two before Cantino’s map, the earliest known depiction of the New World was made by Juan de la Cosa, a colleague of Christopher Columbus. Both maps reveal the great challenge ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.