politically-loaded maps: sputtering flemishly

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az jan jananam: Sep 6, 2011; HI, I'M HARDCORE SAX HERE TO DROP A NICE JUICY TURD OF A POST FROM UP ON HIGH

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/artifacts-of-the-early-israel-lobby-1917-map-for-american-consumption.html

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/propaganda-maps-potential-nazi-supporters-1938.html

al-Idrisi's map from the 13th century for Roger of Sicily, with the Arabs at the center of the world (Sicily is also really huge). Gog and Magog are in Russia

az jan jananam fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Feb 1, 2013

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az jan jananam: Sep 6, 2011; HI, I'M HARDCORE SAX HERE TO DROP A NICE JUICY TURD OF A POST FROM UP ON HIGH

A map that supposedly came from some small Egyptian Christian expat website showing the proposed division of Egypt. It caused an outrage inside Egypt, assisted by Egyptian media demagogues. I added a translation of the legend.

Also North Africa in total-

az jan jananam fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 3, 2013

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az jan jananam: Sep 6, 2011; HI, I'M HARDCORE SAX HERE TO DROP A NICE JUICY TURD OF A POST FROM UP ON HIGH

The idea that "language is just symbols" is so bizarre to me. Language is one of the most important connections to a culture and history that we have. Attempts to stamp out a culture almost always involve language suppression.

For content- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/geography-iv-cartography-of-persia-

Ancient times. The world�s oldest known topographical map is a Babylonian clay tablet from about 2300 B.C.E. found at Nuzi in northeastern Iraq (Figure 1). It is a relatively advanced picture map, showing two ranges of hills, as seen from the side, and the rivers they flank, by a series of parallel lines. The site covered by this map may have lain between the Zagros mountains and the hills running through Kirkuk (Harvey, pp. 49-50; Harley and Woodward, I, p. 114; Figure 1). The famous Babylonian world map from about 600 B.C.E., preserved in the British Museum, shows a number of cities and places in ancient Persia (Harley and Woodward, I, pp. 111-12).