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Did you know California used to be an island?
Often there has to be research done on the cartographer because some of them folks were just as fraudulent as Christopher Columbus. They would draw elaborate pictures based on word-of-mouth having never left their own continent/country.
Not to be the Debbie Downer, but I was trying to prove melanated aboriginals based on a map that labeled "negra" and "Ethiopian-look-a-like" people, but found that the cartographer never left their country to begin to be considered a first-hand account of anything in the "Americas" or at least that was how the story was told of his life..
Not to be the Debbie Downer, but I was trying to prove melanated aboriginals based on a map that labeled "negra" and "Ethiopian-look-a-like" people, but found that the cartographer never left their country to begin to be considered a first-hand account of anything in the "Americas" or at least that was how the story was told of his life..
…and at a time where there was no satellite imagery of you didnt survey it yourself you were just guessing.
I agree some of them could be frauds but not all of them. Some of those maps are way too detailed to be a "word of mouth" drawing.
Some of the ancient aboriginals were dark-skinned but not all of them
The truth is you don't need satellites to draw world map, people have been doing it since the beginning. How do you think the piri reis map was created?
You definitely don’t what I was saying though is that if you never left your town how you gonna draw an accurate map of some of other land. You can do that now with airplanes and satellite imagery but back in the days you had to get off your rear end.
Fraudulent people been selling ideas to the hopeless trying to gain a modicum of trust, to poison minds and snatch valuables.
Agreed. I am on the fence about all them maps. On one hand, word of mouth is just as credible, especially if that was the word around town, but on the other hand.. Ex. the current word around town will lead me to put bioengineered particles in my body to save my life.. potentially!
And deceitful people will go thru any means no matter how small the detail. I remember when my cousin told me she went to Africa and then some 10-12 years later she was estatic about getting her "first" passport. When I pulled her card, she tried to clean it up and say her "first adult self-dependent" passport. She ain't the 1st liar of all time!!
I agree some of them could be frauds but not all of them. Some of those maps are way too detailed to be a "word of mouth" drawing.
Some of the ancient aboriginals were dark-skinned but not all of them
Agreed. I am on the fence about all them maps. On one hand, word of mouth is just as credible, especially if that was the word around town, but on the other hand.. Ex. the current word around town will lead me to put bioengineered particles in my body to save my life.. potentially!
And deceitful people will go thru any means no matter how small the detail. I remember when my cousin told me she went to Africa and then some 10-12 years later she was estatic about getting her "first" passport. When I pulled her card, she tried to clean it up and say her "first adult self-dependent" passport. She ain't the 1st liar of all time!!
Ok i see your point, i'm just saying people have been drawing maps since way back in the day. Whether they used satellites, planes, ships, that's another discussion.
Busted.I had a cousin tell me he went to France for a weekend. I looked at him like
“bruh, it would take you a whole weekend to get there and back“.