A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

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A Picture is Worth 1000 Words What did Europeans
think they would find in the New World and
where did they get this information?
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Think About This ..
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• Think about this
• Orientation
• What is the maps orientation?
• How is the map laid out (oriented) to its Compass
  Rose?
• Why was it oriented this way?

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• Think about this
• Pictographs
• What do the pictographs represent?
• Make a key for the map to tell what the
  pictographs represent.
• Why did the cartographer (map-maker) use
  pictographs?

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• Think about this
• The Cartographer
• Who made this map?
• When was it made? After .... but before ....
• Who asked him to make the map and why was he
  asked to make the map?

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• Think about this
• The Maps Message
• What was important to the cartographer?
• What did the cartographer report on his map?
• Who would have looked at this map?
• What was he telling people who looked at this
  map?
• Why did he send this message?

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• Think about this
• What do you know that the cartographer didnt ?
• What is wrong with the map?
• What did the cartographer leave out?
• Why were these mistakes made?
• What were the results of some of the mistakes?

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What did we use to find out what the Europeans
thought they would find in the New World?
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A Mapp of Virginia Discovered to ye Hills
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Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely
stands, And, with his compass, measures seas
and lands. John Dryden You can't cross the sea
merely by standing and staring at the
water... Rabindranath Tagore