I was always wondering how the ancient people (Greeks, Romans, Phenicians, Persians) drew maps with such accuracy. For example the curves of the Italian Peninsula, etc. Apparently, they did not have areal views.
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If you walk (or ride a horse, I guess) a lot with a measuring tape and you know some geometry you can draw fairly accurate maps.
For example you can find three hills, measure the distance between two of them, then find another hill and measure the distance that hill and the two hills you measured before, and so on.
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