Why is the majority of the Earth’s landmass in the northern hemisphere?
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Besides the geologic/scientific explanations, there’s also the notion that at some point in time, it was someone living in the northern hemisphere that drew a map and defined it that way. Except for the fact that we all “accept” that north is north, and south is south, had a society that lived in the Southern Hemisphere been the dominant and advanced society that then traveled and colonized large parts of the rest of the world, we just as easily could have a map that displays the Southern Hemisphere at the top of the map. There is no scientific or other reason that I’m aware of that the top of a map has to be north. Just turns out that what we call western culture “won” when it comes to how a map is typically drawn and displayed.
I supposed an argument can likely be made that shows that due to the fact that there is more land in the northern hemisphere, that led to more people living there, and that contributed to the way we look at maps…
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