We live on a globe. Humans have known that for thousands of years. Despite what you may have been taught in school, Columbus knew he wasn’t going to sail off the edge of the globe. That said, he drastically underestimated the size of the earth. Part of the error came… Read more“Map Monday, What is the Oldest Depiction of the Earth as a Globe?”
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Map Monday, Do we live on a flat earth?
Do we live on a flat earth? Is the world a sphere, a circle or a disk? For the vast majority of people the answer is obviously a sphere. Belief in a flat Earth is even a euphemism for ignorance. Think about the persistent myth that pre-enlightenment Europeans believed the… Read more“Map Monday, Do we live on a flat earth?”
Map Monday, US without European Colonization
What if European colonization of the US never happened? That’s right no Christopher Columbus, Henry Hudson, Cartier, Bering, or Ponce de Leon. No founding of St. Augustine, Jamestown, Plymouth, or any other European outpost. How does this come to be? Maybe the Vikings’ tales of hostile natives and poor farmland… Read more“Map Monday, US without European Colonization”