HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Mercator Projection, Mehmed The Conqueror, Leo Belgicus
Document Summary
Ottoman sultan mehmed ii by gentille bellini (1480) Maps of the unfamiliar increased during the early modern era. Imperial mapmaking in the 1660s: china, russia, and france. This occurred because of technological advancements in astronomy and surveying. latitude and longitude. Chinese imperial expansion from ming to qing dynasty 1644 1760. Maps were created because they wanted accuracy in maps and a reliable scale for the maps. Ran up against china, due to borders. Russia was developing border"s that look like modern-day russia"s borders. The russians wanted to expand north so sent expeditions towards the arctic. States didn"t always have means to enforce taxes: no way to identify people (no identification papers like birth certificates at that time, no way to identify land and who it belonged to. An official register of the quantity, value, and ownership of real estate used in appropriating taxes.
