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Maps, Projections & Bias in the Study of World History Adapted from Ms. Patricia Cutaia White Plains H. S. White Plains, NY Based on the article “Innovative Ways to Look at New World Historical Geography.” by W. Dirk Raat.

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  • Maps, Projections & Bias in

    the Study of World History

    Adapted from Ms. Patricia Cutaia

    White Plains H. S. White Plains, NY

    Based on the article “Innovative Ways to

    Look at New World Historical

    Geography.” by W. Dirk Raat.

  • What’s at the

    center? Does this

    say anything to us

    about bias? Who

    writes the history?

    Anybody see where

    we get the term

    “the Orient” from?

    http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.3/images/raat_fig01b.jpg

  • The Maya Cosmos. Adopted with modifications from Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings: The

    Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (N.Y.: William Morrow, 1990), p. 67, fig. 2:1. Drawing by Linda Schele,

    courtesy Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (permissions Nov. 7, 2002).

    http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.3/images/raat_fig02b.jpg

  • Who created this map? Hint it was between 1405-1435….

  • Mercator ProjectionWhat does the position of

    the equator say?

  • http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.3/images/raat_fig05b.gif

  • Brazil’s

    perspective

    Her influence

    from…

    Africa

    Portugal

    http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.3/images/raat_fig06b.jpg

  • Gall-Peter’s Projection

  • Comparing Projections

  • "Political" Map

  • USA in global perspective

  • The Myth of Continents

  • Which

    continent is

    this?

    Which

    continent is

    this?

  • Sorry…

    • They broke away from each other and

    shifted away…

    • Then India rammed into southern China

    and to create _______________?????

  • Regional World Maphttp://desip.igc.org/worldmap.html

    http://desip.igc.org/worldmap.html

  • So why do we do this?

    • Amero and Eurocentrism

    • Cultural identities

    • There is no such thing as Asian,

    African, American super-cultures