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The shape of the world

Reveals how maps shape not only our sense of geography, but also our social, political, and even religious thinking. In the past, mapmakers have provoked assassinations, won or lost wars, and opened the ways to wealth and power. Today, they help answer the crises of epidemics and climate change. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.

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  • "Reveals how maps shape not only our sense of geography, but also our social, political, and even religious thinking. In the past, mapmakers have provoked assassinations, won or lost wars, and opened the ways to wealth and power. Today, they help answer the crises of epidemics and climate change. Narrated by Patrick Stewart."@en
  • "Traces the mapping of the world from the ancient cultures of Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Egypt through history to the present."@en
  • "The epic story of the mapping of the globe."
  • "This series tells the history of how the world was mapped. It begins with ancient European, African, Egyptian, and Asian civilizations, and moves through time to modern cartography methods."@en
  • "A history of cartography."

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