At the beginning of the year most world history teachers need to teach the different types of maps. But this video above is the one I like students to see the impact of the Mercator map which was developed for sailors in the 1500s - not to show what the world really looked like. Here is a great short article on how African gets the short end of the stick on the Mercator. I found the article from a tweet from Bill Gross who is a tech guru.
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