TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'
TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'
More info here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/ruderman/catalog/mz230kn1495
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cuba has always been cuba?!
I'm guessing the Taino called it something else.
Looks like they called it Cuba
either "great place" or "where fertile land is abundant"
So..first impressions pretty positive?
FWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name.
ha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible 'cuba' and 'florida'
Terra florida means something like "land with many flowers" in Spanish.
IIRC their word was something like "Kolba"