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Old 04-18-2008, 20:46 PM   #26 (permalink)
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I always smile at the maps emanating from China through that period.
While the Europeans did a little bit the same sort of thing with the mercator projection, the Chinese maps were literally 90% China and 10% 'barbarian lands' around the outside, despite Zheng He.
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