Thanks to the Mapologists at Strange Maps, you can see a map of the world created in 1072. The map, made by Mahmud Kashgari bin Husayn bin Muhammad, was included in the Divanu Lügat-it-Türk, his treatment of Turkish culture. It is the first world map of Turkish origin known in history, and today is preserved at Istanbul’s General National Library.
The map indicates the location of places like Rus, Alexandria, Tashkent, Balasagun, Gog and Magog (a Biblical land walled off from the world by a mountain range), The World-Encircling Sea, and Kashgar (the map-maker’s birthplace). Surprisingly, there’s nary a Wal-Mart to be seen.