http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1671s2.jpg
This map appears to be a pretty ordinary map. First off, I found it interesting how many names were on this map. It just seems like everything is so in depth, and you can’t even read the names. Also, to me, Europe seems pretty close to the Americas. And to the west of the Americas, there really isn’t much at all. I don’t know for sure what it could mean, and maybe I am missing something entirely (I wouldn't be surprised), but it just seems kind of weird for some reason. I think that maybe it just deals with not everything having been discovered yet; this is how the world seemed to people back then because they didn’t know how far the world stretched.
Other than that, the main thing that I noticed though was the picture at the bottom. In Babb’s passage, “In this instance, conceiving of Native Americans as savage allowed English Puritans to formulate a group identity in which they were ‘not-savage,’” it points out how Englishmen would probably look at the map. The picture shows these “savages” or Native Americans with an emphasis on their gold. To Europeans, they would look at this picture and see these people that they hear so often about and see the one thing that everyone wants: gold. Especially given that they would probably hope that their superiority would allow them to have that gold. The purpose of this map could most definitely be to attract people with the idea of fame and fortune.
