Fantastic! Compare this utterly bullshit Chinese world "map" from 1609: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Sancai_Tuhui_World_Map.jpg https://u

Fantastic! Compare this utterly bullshit Chinese world "map" from 1609: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Sancai_Tuhui_World_Map.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Sancai_T... With Piri Reis map from 100 years before: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91XW2CEmU4L._AC_SL1500_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91XW2CEmU4L... (which is a part of an atlas, picturing many areas of the world with literally amazing detail and precision) Granted, Piri Reis did an amazing job, even raising a few conspiracy theories on how he did it, but here is the fairly average European map of the world from 1609: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct001217r/ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct001217r/