Africa: What’s in a name?
… dispute. A reconstruction of Herodotus’ ( c. 484–425 BC) map of the world, showing North Africa marked as Libya. Image … the tropical area of the continent below the Sahara. World Map from the Portolan Atlas, 1544, showing only a small … of which was used to describe the landmass as a whole. A map by Herman Moll from 1736 showing the world divided into …