We've been misled by a False World Map for 500 years....
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Melqart
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As we now know the Earth is round. Therefore, the challenge of any world map is to represent a round Earth on a flat surface. There are literally thousands of map projections and each has certain strengths and corresponding weaknesses but the one your now picturing in your head most likely isn’t the area accurate representation. The more accurate representation of land mass is the Peters Projection Map seen here:
PETER’S PROJECTION WORLD MAP
I find it absolutely astonishing that this information was not presented to me during education and studying Geography, the differences are overwhelming. Here’s a direct representation of the previously assumed factual map with the real flattened version:
THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA
The map shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4 million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles (map gives no surface for these last two areas).
The Peters Projection world map is one of the most stimulating, and controversial, images of the world. When this map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it generated a firestorm of debate. The first English-version of the map was published in 1983, and it continues to have passionate fans as well as staunch detractors.
This map was featured in “The West Wing,” but map dishonesty is anything but fictional. Check out this clip to get an accurate look at the size of Africa and explanation as to why it’s been like this:
http://youtu.be/n8zBC2dvERMFavoured by National Geographic if one 2D representation of the world is to be used in the media and integrated into education then perhaps this, the winkel tripel projection is the most accurate because it displays both curvature and a truer land mass:
Source: http://livelearnevolve.com/peters-projection-world-map/
Wow... Eurocentric deception knows no bounds... this is crazy. everything we know is a lie. thoughts?
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thought we knew africa was big as ?
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In before the lock
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thought we knew africa was big as ?
maybe in numbers, but when the principle world map that formed our view of the world is flawed, then thats not worth mentioning? -
Anyone with a brain knows. I don't know what OP's point is.thought we knew africa was big as ?
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Repost thread.
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OMEGA_CONFLICT wrote: »Repost thread.
youre right, my fault haha -
mods you guys can delete the thread since it was made a year ago.
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If your geography teacher was worth a ? you already knew how map projections work
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OMEGA_CONFLICT wrote: »Repost thread.
youre right, my fault haha
You should know better kid -
Interesting...I knew there were inaccuracies, but...interesting
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just going to say that i got taught this in public school decades ago
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I was taught this in middle school, but we didn't have the actual Peters Projection Map...knowin about it and being able to actually (finally?) visualize it decades later is...something
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Well if yall approve, then ? it i guess lol
honestly my main reason for posting it was the west wing clip but so far not one of yall have even mentioned it hahahaha -
just going to say that i got taught this in public school decades ago
Sadly never got taught this here in LA... and I was in honors through out my entire grade school. then again LAUSD is ranked one of the absolute worst school districts in the country -
so just to be clear you're literally saying that the map was deliberately altered by europeans to make africa look smaller to further hold back the black man because nothing says race superiority like who's continent holds more square mileage.
wow... afrocentric victim playing knows no bounds -
Mainstream_rap_sucks wrote: »so just to be clear you're literally saying that the map was deliberately altered by europeans to make africa look smaller to further hold back the black man because nothing says race superiority like who's continent holds more square mileage.
wow... afrocentric victim playing knows no bounds
No one said that but you. Nice straw man though. -
Rubato Garcia wrote: »Mainstream_rap_sucks wrote: »so just to be clear you're literally saying that the map was deliberately altered by europeans to make africa look smaller to further hold back the black man because nothing says race superiority like who's continent holds more square mileage.
wow... afrocentric victim playing knows no bounds
No one said that but you. Nice straw man though.
someone didnt read the first post or watch the video attached. -
Read the first post in its entirety, didn't watch the video
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go go MarylandSadly never got taught this here in LA... and I was in honors through out my entire grade school. then again LAUSD is ranked one of the absolute worst school districts in the country
better than another state at something somehow
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Mainstream_rap_sucks wrote: »so just to be clear you're literally saying that the map was deliberately altered by europeans to make africa look smaller to further hold back the black man because nothing says race superiority like who's continent holds more square mileage.
wow... afrocentric victim playing knows no bounds
The video actually says hold back third world nations. Why you so intimidated by the black man? -
who still look at maps anyway?!
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Not really. People would be just as unable to pick important places out on the right map as they are on the wrong map, so what difference does it make? And it's not like everyone didn't know about this. We learned in my high school that any 2D map of a 3D object was a flawed depiction of reality. -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »
Not really. People would be just as unable to pick important places out on the right map as they are on the wrong map, so what difference does it make? And it's not like everyone didn't know about this. We learned in my high school that any 2D map of a 3D object was a flawed depiction of reality.
Well clearly i wasnt the only one who didnt know about this specific projection. and its a "the More you know" kind of thread. who really cares besides that.
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I never said you were the only one that didn't know. You asked whether it was worth mentioning. I'm saying "No" because the people who need accurate maps know the difficulties attached to making maps while a large portion of people who don't need accurate maps can't even use the one they have properly.
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Those crackers!
