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The Role of Cartography in Exploration and Discovery
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Which ancient civilization is credited with developing the earliest known maps?
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Babylonians
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The Babylonians created clay tablets with maps dating back to the 6th century BCE, depicting the world as a flat disk surrounded by a circular ocean.