How Did the Romans Map Their Empire?

<p>It&rsquo;s an image that hangs in countless history classrooms (or occupies a slide in teachers&rsquo; PowerPoints, at least). The Roman Empire, for some reason always salmon-colored, clearly delineated on a map. The boundaries of the empire look so precise; we see Roman territory and non-Roman territory, a neat geographical binary.</p> <p>But where does this map come from?</p> <p>You might think that, as conquerors of the Mediterranean world, the Romans would have recorded their conquests on maps like the one we see above. But you&rsquo;d be wrong.</p> <p><a href="https://worldhistory.medium.com/how-did-the-romans-map-their-empire-87d3ea7e78d4"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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