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Maps didn’t always exist like they do today. Long before Google Maps, satellites, or GPS, humans drew the world on paper — and that changed everything.

Welcome to THE HISTORY 696 — your deep dive into how maps began, evolved, and became the technology we use today.

In this video, you’ll learn:
🔹 What the first maps looked like — drawn by hand on paper, clay, or parchment
🔹 How ancient civilizations recorded the world before any printing press existed
🔹 How cartography evolved from symbolic sketches to mathematical precision
🔹 Why printed maps changed exploration forever
🔹 How these early techniques eventually led to digital mapping on phones and computers.

Even the oldest known maps — like early world views and ancient sketches — were attempts to understand space and place long before technology existed. Cartographers used lines, symbols, and imagination to record their world, and this video explains that journey from simple beginnings to modern digital maps. study.com

📌 Whether you’re a student, educator, traveler, or history lover, this video will make you see maps in a whole new light.

👉 Subscribe to THE HISTORY 696 for more explorations into the origins and evolution of the tools that define our world.

✨ Chapters:
00:00 — Maps Before Technology
01:15 — First Paper & Clay Maps
04:10 — How Printed Maps Changed Everything
07:30 — From Globes to Grid Systems
11:00 — The Road to Digital Mapping
14:20 — Why Map History Matters Today

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