Why are maps important parts of history?

Historians use historical maps for several purposes: As tools for reconstructing the past, to the extent that maps provide records of features, landscape, cities, and places that may not exist any more or that exist in dramatically transformed form. As records of certain historical processes and relationships.

Explanation:

Back in time everyone thought that the world was flat and it really only showed where people lived but in time we found out that the world was round and maps back in time maps were used to find new places and mapping brand new places that little to no one had known about! so Maps were really important as explorers made new paths to places that many have never seen!

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explanation:

basic principles: federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, representative democracy, limited government, rule of law, individual rights and responsibilities, consent of the governed, majority rule, popular sovereignty, equal protection.