NCERT Book Class 7 Social Science (History) Chapter 1 Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years

1 Introduction: Tracing Changes
through a Thousand Years

Map 1
A section of the world
map drawn by the
geographer al-Idrisi
in the twelfth century
showing the Indian
subcontinent from
land to sea.

T ake a look at Maps 1 and 2. Map 1 was made in
1154­ ce by the Arab geographer Al-Idrisi. The
section reproduced here is a detail of the Indian
subcontinent from his larger map of the world. Map 2
Cartographer
was made in the 1720s by a French cartographer. The A person who
two maps are quite different even though they are of the makes maps.
same area. In al-Idrisi’s map, south India is where we
would expect to find north India and Sri Lanka is the
island at the top. Place-names are marked in Arabic,

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