On Rare Map, China Is Center of the World

[Royale]

FOXNews.com - On Rare Map, China Is Center of the World

Very interesting

 

[rockdrummer]

Yes it is.

 

[Jiro]

ah... this is similar to what England and Japan did in old time. cool find!

 

[posts from hell]

The reason "Center of the world" was important is because it displayed power.

Nowadays normal maps shows Europe as the most centered country.

 

[KarissaMann05]

Wirelessly posted (Sidekick LX: Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.6; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920)

Wow, that map is really detail and a fantastic art. Cool.

 

[Buffalo]

Interesting! The medival maps usually put Jerusalem in the center.