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In this 17th-century map, with top facing south, Atlantis is depicted as located between the Americas (right) and Africa and Europe. During the Age of Exploration, Europeans used the story of Atlantis to explain the origin of the complex Indigenous societies they encountered in the Americas and Pacific.

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