Multiple choice

Who started the latitude and longitude system?

  1. Eratosthenes

  2. Vikings

  3. Chinese

  4. Polynesians
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Explanation

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a Greek polymath, first introduced a system of latitude and longitude on his map of the world in the 3rd century B.C. His grid system was later refined by other Greek scholars like Hipparchus and Ptolemy to create the coordinate system we use today.

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