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In the mid-19th-century, aluminium was so precious that a bar of the metal was exhibited alongside the French Crown Jewels at the Exposition Universelle in Paris 1855. [2] Along with the Hall–Héroult process , Bayer's solution caused the price of aluminium to drop about 80% in 1890 from what it had been in 1854.
The latter became important as most Chinese aluminium was relatively cheap. [145] World output continued growing: in 2018, it was a record 63,600,000 metric tons before falling slightly in 2019. [105] Aluminium is produced in greater quantities than all other non-ferrous metals combined. [146]
However, the second part of this image the map itself or the world. An important distinction here is Christ is not separate from the world, but his body is the world. The map is a "history projected on a geographical basis" [8] therefore the map highlights important areas of Christ's life and influences. The map itself annotates 91 named locations.
Once thought to describe the biblical Exodus, it is now considered the world's earliest known treatise on political ethics, suggesting that a good king is one who controls unjust officials, thus carrying out the will of the gods. [8]
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
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The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
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