Why do world maps always show the Americas on the west and Asia on the east?

Question

If the world is round can we make any point of the world the center in maps? Or is there a specific reason all the world maps show the continents in the same orientation?

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Answer 1

>For the deep historians, [this](https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17759/pg17759-images.html) is the proceedings of an international conference in October 1884, in Washington DC, USA, called at the request of the President of the USA for the purpose of fixing the “Prime Meridian” (i.e. zero longitude). There were many different longitude references back then, but the bulk of maritime tonnage used Greenwich as their reference (much to the annoyance of the French, who used Paris as their reference). The final adoption of Greenwich was on October 22, 1884, and at the same time, the original global time zones were also established.