Maps and Maps

Today we learned about the different types of maps and the development of the different maps. After we learned about the development of the maps, we watch a short part of a video and learned how the Mercator map is biased compared to the Peter's projection. The Mercator incorrectly show how some continents are shown. Greenland is half the size of Africa, where it should be about ten times smaller. Russia is also distorted. They went into information about how the subconscious mind creates the idea of "larger means more important."   Europeans were trying to show the spots that they think are important. Which is also why the America's are on the left because we from left to right, so our mind thinks that it is more important. In reality the largest continent is Africa, not Russia and Greenland is not half the size of Africa. Some people think that the map is biased and wrongly show, however in my opinion, the Europeans were just trying to show the spots that are most important to them.