Day 8- Maps

Today in class we talked about maps. At the beginning of class, we talked about a map that was upside down and what we thought about it. Some people said that the map was upside down and he said that it could be orientated whatever way because there is no "top of the map". The next thing that we did was take notes on different maps such as a map of America, the world as a map view and a what it looked like. The map that everyone thinks is normal and correct is false and created for sailing back a long time ago. The second map looked stretch and distorted but we found out that that is what the world looks like and I found that very strange because I thought that Greenland was a huge country like the size of Africa but that wasn't the truth. The map that was distorted was what is what it looks like from space which I found puzzling compared to everything that I've seen in the past in school and in general. The final thing was that the original map was designed to make Europe look bigger than 3^rd world country’s such as Africa.