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Map that illustrates only the habitable portion of the world known in Roman and Medieval times is:
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T-O map
💡 Explanation:
T-O maps were medieval schematic maps that depicted only the known inhabitable world as a disk divided by a T-shaped body of water, with three continents (Asia, Africa, Europe) and Jerusalem at the center. The Piri Reis and Cantino maps are from the Age of Discovery (16th century), while Ptolemy's maps attempted to show the entire known world, not just the habitable portion known to medieval Europeans.