Episode 059—Wait, They Don’t Love You Like I Love You

Call Dora and stop Swiper from swiping, cuz we're going on an adventure into the history of mapmaking! Cass enlightens us with a brief history of some important direction doodlers and their doodles including: The Peutinger Map, Tabula Rogeriana, and the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu.

Peutinger Map - Full

Peutinger Map - Segment

Interactive Peutinger map web viewer

Tabula Rogeriana

Da Ming Hun Yi Tu

The Waldseemüller World Map

SOURCES:

History.com, national geographic, wiki, UMN.edu, gis lounge, craftoak, mental floss

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

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