Five hundred years ago the very first modern maps of India were drafted. Travelers, wanderers, explorers and traders came overland from the West and carried back tales of an exotic country they called India. The first maps of India were drawn based on the accounts of these men. When the sea route to India opened, sailors ferried back tales of the ports they touched on their way to India. Marine charts of the routes along the ocean coasts and artistic representations of port cities followed. As Europeans came in large numbers to trade and conquer, new territories further inland were mapped.
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