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Standard VIII
Geography
Using a map
Cardinal dire...
Question
Cardinal directions were first used in ________.
A
Sumerian maps
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Babylonian maps
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Greek geographers word map
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None of the above
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Solution
The correct option is
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Greek geographers word map
Greek geographer Hipparchus first used the cardinal directions.
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