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04地图万水千山探路难（04 map Pathfinder to the trials of a long journey） Map: Pathfinder to the trials of a long journey of $$$$ Maps are essential in our everyday life, and modern people who habitually use maps can hardly imagine the age without maps. But the ancients did not know that travel was based on maps, just as people today do not understand that measurements of the universe are based on mathematical formulas. Proficient in geometry Babylon had on the whole of the kingdom of Babylon conducted a Cadastral Surveying and mapping (surveying time in about 3800 BC, Mose was born before 2400). Found in those areas of pottery, above drawing is about the outline of the boundaries in Babylon. But they are not even what we call maps. The rulers of ancient Egypt measured the land in order to extract every tax from hard working subjects. Later generations found that the Egyptians had mastered the rich knowledge of Applied Mathematics, so they completed the arduous task. So far, however, no modern map has been found in the pharaohs tombs of ancient egypt. The most curious ancient Greeks wrote numerous treatises on geography, but we knew nothing about their maps. In some developed commercial city, seems to have been carved bronze plate, the best navigation route, told businessmen to the eastern Mediterranean islands. However, these bronze plates are still buried somewhere, not delivered from oppression for people today, is still a mystery. Alexander, no one in his post with no predecessors tirelessly to find gold in the Macedonian Legion organized a special team to guide, these people are walking in the front ranks, able to accurately report their gold is still far away from India. Thus, the conquest of such a vast area of Alexander must have some kind of geographical consciousness. But we still cant find a map that we can understand from a remnant, a piece of debris, or a route. The marauding Romans (who is the most perfect regular army robber about their crimes in Europe they rec