World maps are wrong- 8th grade

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He created a digital globe

He systematically mapped the Earth on a grid.

He made a flat map of the world.

He created a world map with curved navigational routes.

The Goode Homolosine Projection

The Dymaxion Projection

The AuthaGraph World Map

The Mercator projection

To minimize distortion for the entire world

To make the map land-oriented

To make the map ocean-oriented

To create an interrupted pseudo-cylindrical projection

It was too difficult to read.

It distorted the shapes of the continents.

It was too small.

It distorted the size of land masses and bodies of water.

He created a world map with curved navigational routes.

He created a world map that distorted land masses and bodies of water.

He created a world map with curved lines of latitude.

He created a world map that made curved navigational routes straight.

It would take too long.

The route would pass through every line of longitude at a different angle.

The route would be too difficult to read.

The route would be too straight.

Because they help us to navigate around the world

Because they help us to locate different places around the world

Because they help us to get a sense of supremacy

Because they shape our perception of the world and the way how we see it

This projection makes the southern countries larger and it gives them a sense of supremacy

This projection makes most of the countries with same seize

This projection makes the northern countries larger and it gives them a sense of supremacy

This projection gives us the feeling that the southern countries are powerful

Gerardus Mercator

Ptolemy

Buckminster Fuller

Hajime Narukawa