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00:00The world map is a lie.
00:02You can't handle the truth!
00:04Africa is 14 times bigger than Greenland.
00:06But Greenland looks bigger?
00:07Africa is also 1.5 times bigger than North America.
00:10Also doesn't show, and that's not an accident.
00:12So this map that we know is called the Mercator Projection.
00:15It was created in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator.
00:18Great for sailing, but terrible for accuracy.
00:21It stretches land near the poles and shrinks land near the equator.
00:24And who sits near the poles?
00:25Europe and North America.
00:27And who gets shrunk?
00:28Africa, Asia, Latin America.
00:29Centuries before Mercator, Arab geographer Al Idrisi made maps that were more accurate.
00:34Even if they were south up, they respected the true scale of the world.
00:37And this map is in every classroom, teaching you from day one that Europe and the Americas
00:42are the biggest and the center of the world.
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