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According to Strabo and Agathemerus (Greek geographers from the first and third centuries AD), the pre-Socratic philosopher Anaximander (c. 610 BC to 546 BC) was the first to publish a map of the [then known] world. This map was produced to improve navigation and trade around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions and, most importantly, was a tool used by Thales Miletos to 'convince' the Ionian city-states to join a federation 'for security reasons'. The National Oeospatial-intelligence Agency (NGA) traces its roots to 1803, when US President Thomas Jefferson ordered the famous Lewis and Clark expedition (working for the US Army) to explore and map the rece...See the full content of this document
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