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Maps have been around for centuries- they help us know what cultures were aware of in terms of their neighbors, other lands, and so on. Map making continues today, as we map other planets, the bottom of the seas, and continually produce high quality maps here that measure various aspects of culture, demographics, and geography.
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America is a continent, composed by North America and South America
United States is a nation from North America
What does this title even mean ? What if Columbus didn't exist ? By the way, if you'd asked yourself why so many African countries spoke French, you wouldn't have drawn your map this way.
EDIT: Oh my, this is bad… Didn’t see that the left part of the map was the current East of Asia.
I owe everyone an apology for my mistake. I will not delete my post as a reminder of my own stupidity.
Internet comments aren't that serious, you're fine friend
If you don't wanna delete, but wanna highlight your edit, then you could strike thru the text you would have deleted.
Columbus didn't "discover America" lmao... I can't believe the US is still teaching people this shit
Oh I know that Columbus didn’t discovered shit ^_^
My point was that OP’s title is not clear.
You:
The title:
You can see that there is no America on the map, Columbus wound up in the Orient like he intended
Oh boy… my bad
I’m so used to see American continent on the left of a map that I thought it was it
I’ll my post alive, as a reminder to my own stupidity.
You'll notice if you look that North America and South America are missing from the map. That's what the title means.
Also, there's no consensus on how many continents there are. Someone from the US would be very surprised to hear that North and South America are the same continent.
Yeah, I know.
Sorry for that…
Have a nice day