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English Map of West Africa from 1693 or 1694-1767 published 1747 by Emmanuel Bowen. Yale digital archives. Note that next to Benin there is a nation called the Slave coast which is also called the Kingdom of Judah. This map is labeled a “new and accurate map”. An identical version of this map can be found in the library of congress.
Africa was actually the first place charted by cartographers. This is thought to be one of the first if not the first one made in 1554 By Sebastian Munster, a profesor of Hebrew. Princeton Unv digital arch:
This map holds great significance because it gives insight into the old world. There are several things to note. There‘s a nation called Mauri which could point to the relationship of Polynesian
One of the most decorative and popular of all early maps of Africa, from the “golden age” of Dutch mapmaking. 1644. appearing in Latin, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish editions of Blaeu’s atlases. Notice the Africans great wealth is depicted by them wearing gold and regally dyed fabrics. Also, most of the port cities were walled and developed. Found in the Princeton archives:
1710 map by a German-born English, “chatty” mapmaker, Herman Moll, known for a number of influential maps. Something notable from this map: The mapmaker said he got reports of Christians above Guinea. He first says they are white but then says they are different than the blacks for sure. This is relevant because it shows pre-European Christianity and they kept the Christian Sabbath. This map is al
In 1588 A.D. , The Jewish State of “Judaeorum Terra” in Africa Was Described a century before Basnage. Sanuto. This famous geographer of that period, whose African Atlas and Geography pub. 1588, shows a Jewish State distinctly marked as " Judaeorum Terra ", in Tabula X of his African Maps, the country extending some distance south of the Equator, and surrounded by mountains, a very considerable te
More text from previous map. Note, Ethiopia which still has well established and agreed upon Hebrew tribes. has extensive territory which occupied a very large portion of Africa.