Word: hecataeus
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...trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book of geography. Exploration as a science seems to have been set on foot in the Fifth Century by Herodotus, "Father of History," who left copious travel memoirs and gave the Atlantic Ocean its name...
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