The website has recently become more interactive, serving as a forum for public discussion as well as a practical resource for teachers, students ... Africa Command website: Interactive Africa Map ...

The trouble is that his projection, which places northern Europe at the heart of the world and shrinks Africa and ... real effect on students of all backgrounds. This is about maps, but it isn ...

The initiative will see students comparing different maps ... to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the equator, reasonably undistorted – is left looking ...

Students and teachers were introduced to the new Gall-Peters Projection maps Thursday and reacted with surprise to the enlarged, narrow size of Africa and South America compared to the small and ...

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed ...

“Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya. The Arabs later adopted a similar definition. But this is the first known map of the new ...

"Eighty-six percent of our students are students of color," Hayden Frederick-Clarke, director of cultural proficiency for BPS, tells member station WBUR. "Maps that they are presented ... heart of the ...