Old Map of Asia, 1640 by Willem Blaeu - Colonial East Indies - China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines cambridge This rather fascinating pictorial map

This rather fascinating pictorial map of the Midlands and Eastern Counties (i

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A timeline on the left shows 'America's relations with southeast Asia' from 1784 to 1925

Old Map of Asia, 1640 by Willem Blaeu - Colonial East Indies - China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines cambridge This rather fascinating pictorial mapA truly superb 17th century map of Asia by master mapmaker Willem Blaeu. Blaeu had access to the charts of the Dutch East India Company, and thus this map was the most accurate of its time. Even so, you can see that large chunks of Asia still had not been explored by Europeans. Korea is a roughly shaped island. Borneo and other parts of southeast Asia are rough outlines. And many of the rivers and waterways are just outright fanciful. Around the map