When I was young, I always thought of South as being up, since the sun is at its highest point in the sky then. For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, The north-up map actually advantages you since the sun is in the North at noon.
It is racist, especially when designing a map you want the whole world to use. It is therefore best to get it right, than to feign superiority. Sports is different, because most people don't die if your team loses or wins in sports. Making world maps that feign superiority subconsciously, yeah, that could have life changing consequences down the line.
I didn't think I was the only one who noticed his bias view. Based on his voice he sounds of European decent which makes him bias about the map being used.
Any map will have some side on top of it if it has any text or legend or something on it that requires it to have a certain orientation for the map to be accessed. Thus all maps are racist. Still it's nice to have maps though
You're just a whiny liberal who're jealous of the fact that it was europeans who conquered the world and spread their version of the map of the world everywhere they went. it has nothing to do with rasicm and everything to do with what makes sense for the dominant cultures which was/is european.
@@aurelia8028 They may have "Conquered the World and have Ruled the Planet" but look at thier condition now. These "Conquerors of the World" are getting bullied by Syrian Refugees.
Fun fact - when a compass shows you 'north', it's actually pointing to the Earth's magnetic South Pole, as opposites attract magnetically so the North Pole of the compass will point to the South Pole of the Earth's geomagnetic field. That's one of the reasons the Egyptians had north facing towards land away from the Mediterranean Sea, in my opinion. I do think they would have known about the properties of electro-magnetism as they hint at being capable of using electric currents and magnetic fields for various projects in their hieroglyphs.
@@leaderunith4l324 Right, thats why they called "Upper Egypt" the southern part of egypt while "lower egypt" was the nile delta despite it being higher up on a North-South map. I don't think there's much evidence that anyone knew about magnetism back then enough to know about compasses, it was invented thousands of years later.
North and south are just constructs any way. With regards to magnetism they don't mean anything except that they are opposites. Like maybe if the Egyptians knew about magnets and how they orient in a field they would know that opposites attract, they would in theory know that the north pole has the opposite charge of the south pole. Even, knowing that the needlepoint pointing towards the pole has the opposite pole there in its direction attracting the needle, why would it affect their mapmaking? Don't jump to wild conclusions man! Leads to bad decision-making.
That's a good way to summarize it. For many Asians cultures East was up. For the Egyptians, South was up. So it's no surprise that Northern Europeans thought of North as up. Every now and then I find "upside down" maps, but I'd be interested in seeing more maps that show East at the top of maps.
I saw this video in my subscriptions and saw the video while I was watching it, I thought I was watching a video of a channel 200.000 subscribers or something like that for the quality of the video, you really deserve more subscribers
Tbh, rectangular and mercator maps are hugely innacurate the authagraph map doesn't explicitly show the northern side up (except Australia) , so it could be a cool compromise. And also a flipoff to those crappy maps that were used to
"That's still Colorado or Wyoming." As a Coloradan, it saddens me how true this is. Both of us really got short-changed when they handed out shapes to the states. Literally everyone else has a unique, semi-recognisable silhouette, and meanwhile we're over here with fucking squares.
Rectangles- not squares. And actually Colorado's shape only appears to be rectangular. Though they are parallel it's northern border is about 21 miles shorter than it's southern border and it's western and eastern borders are equal in length but not quite parallel. So it's a quadrilateral- not a rectangle. Wyoming too (presumably)- sorry! But the two states are different shaped quadrilaterals (slightly).
Since we read left to write and the sun goes east to west, a map that puts Asia on the left hand side could make sense, but solar eclipses move from west to east
Everybody just hateful. The only reason it's drawn this way is cause we started using compass and compass north is attracted to earth south, it makes it easy to use compass and maps together if they both are on top. The Nile flows to earth south pole. Europeans did disagree on who should be center and Greenwich was chosen, took time but most maps used that so it basically evolved with use. I can't believe people would put this on race and politics Sure you can make a map with sunrise on top or any other direction but it would be ridiculous to read the map while using a compass that points north. Also most of land is towards earth south or compass/map north. We read top to bottom and this also makes it natural to use
Earth flat the upside down map is representative of that fact by having the North Pole the center of the room and the outermost is antartica shoreline. I could break down so many great points in this video that only further the notion the world is flat and stationary
Robot thinking... If A = all knowledge of "stuff" being teached to us in modern history relies on the fact of the earth being a sphere And if B = the earth being a sphere is a lie Wouldn't it make all those things from A lies too?
You knew the truth that South is up and North is down. Antartica is mostly ice, and this ice continent is on top, then comes the oceans below it and finally almost all of the solid continents at the bottom. Artic is partly ice because of the relatively low temperature and it is compressed between many solid continents gravitating down (which is North). Ptolemy map is a joke, have a look at Piri Reis map which is developed by Al-Jabbar khawarizm, this chap had a weekly session with a dozen of cartographers in the 9th century.
I was following you all the way until you country’s to the north thinking they were better than others wasn’t racist. Geesh. Not too many people is pointing this out in the comment section either. Especially when the countries are divided up between mainly white counties verses mainly countries with people of color. And you failed to mentioned that all those reasons you named as to why they thought they were better, they obtained those things through exploitation and slavery and whole bunch other other underhanded things. Just conveniently leave that out huh? I’m sick of this narrative mainly held but white supremacist that no one educated, sophistication or evolved before white people. The Moors taught white people everything they knew at the time. But whatever, go off.😂
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I don't like the idea of people saying up-and-down North and South are not real directions. It doesn't feel good because it's not the truth. We know that that's a non truth why we feel quizzy. We know because we experience forces that are upward and downward. It's an energy that we understand. We throw something up and then it falls down the gravity axle the down motion. Is anything that isn't pulling down is up. It's directional it's forces it's understanding what things look like.
The sun must be above our head at the highest point of the day. When someone then takes a picture of you with the sun above your head, he/she is facing north with the camera. That's why the maps must be turned around also, the sun must be above our head, that's normal.
Gravity, there's no such ting as gravity mon! Jamaican me crazy with all this gravity talk. N no I'm not really Jamaican but I probably fooled you just like they fooled us with the gravity theory. 😜
@@MrCognito you should be more careful of the content you display saying things like "i'm not too familiar with indigenous words" believe it or not there are more then "European decent" ppl living on the planet but yet it doesn't matter because by 2050 you will be a dying race anyway....
Actually, "North" is the direction that exaltation comes from God! Psalms 75: 6, explains this by leaving out the direction north! It is embedded within the mind of man to say "up" north or say "down" south! We look up to God, no matter where we are on the globe! Genesis 1: 14 says, the stars are for signs! This is still true today and as long as the earth shall last! I write in Paleo-Hebrew, which is the first written alphabet given to man from God! God used the asterisms around the north star, pointing us to Christ! You just need to know how to read it! Remember, the earth is young! Google, the Northern Cross, by Aquilla Fleetwood, youtube!
👍👎👈You forgot to mention that most of the world's people are right-handed which is also linked to the Right hand rule hence , Thumbs up = good, nice , like and thumb down is bad or dislike. :) So are you goofy or regular ? ;P
Shit ok that's totally make sense now every picture of earth something off , earth is actually upside down. We learn everything on it so no need to change so no one going to change it it's make confused,
Bro... Alexandria Egypt lmao 🤣 😂 😆 HELL NAW THT EUROPEAN IS NO WHERE NEAR RELATED TO US EGYPTIANS 😂 🤣 😅 😆 POTOLEMY LMAO LMAO HELL NAW HAHAHAHA WOW THEY TRYN HARD TO BE CONNECTED TO US WITH THEY SUPER SMALL COUNTRY HAHAHAHA 😂 🤣
Agreed with a lot except for the line " the northern countries better in education and economy and are therefore sorta justified being in the north" Well technically when this map was made the southern countries were better in education and GDP. It took Europe a whole bunch of stifling and stealing to become better. Also creating divides and power Vacuum's in the countries they left behind ensuring they would struggle to rebound back to where they once were The n Mercator map is a racist view propogated by the Church. In my opinion a map should be created regardless of any of these factors and should just be the truth. Accepted both ways in their true sizes.
I said countries not hemisphere. Countries like India/Egypt etc appear smaller in the map compared to what they actually are. They make countries in Europe/Canada and USA bigger as well as Russia India/Egypt/middle Eastern countries were richer. They were also far more advanced than the whites coming out of the "Dark ages"
quite interested in this doesn't make sense. mathematically doesn't work yet my numbers work? also NZ looks true North.. these old geniuses who claim the world's round must of lived where horizontal and vertical are the same? because I got a couple of high rise buildings that are pointing out sideways. ? a simple protractor says we in Auz are pointing horizontally at 130 degrees? and for water to level ion a sphere? that gravity... Whoo doggy must be smart gravity ? because th
or...and i might sound crasy...but maybe north is "up" on the map because because thats just the direction north is from the relitive perspective of a person on earth? honestly why do poeple insert politics in the most mundane arbitrary things.
from the relative perspective of a person on earth, "up" is away from earth, "down" is toward earth. north, south, east and west can only correspond to forward, backward, left and right, depending on the way you're facing
There's a lot of "upside down" maps out there, but I'm really interested in seeing more East-side up maps
They say the Nile used to run from east to west...
Southside up, not upside down.
Silly little fun fact: Pokémon’s Hoenn region is actually an east side up orientation of Kyushu island in Japan.
When I was young, I always thought of South as being up, since the sun is at its highest point in the sky then.
For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, The north-up map actually advantages you since the sun is in the North at noon.
It is racist, especially when designing a map you want the whole world to use. It is therefore best to get it right, than to feign superiority. Sports is different, because most people don't die if your team loses or wins in sports. Making world maps that feign superiority subconsciously, yeah, that could have life changing consequences down the line.
I didn't think I was the only one who noticed his bias view. Based on his voice he sounds of European decent which makes him bias about the map being used.
Any map will have some side on top of it if it has any text or legend or something on it that requires it to have a certain orientation for the map to be accessed. Thus all maps are racist.
Still it's nice to have maps though
You're just a whiny liberal who're jealous of the fact that it was europeans who conquered the world and spread their version of the map of the world everywhere they went. it has nothing to do with rasicm and everything to do with what makes sense for the dominant cultures which was/is european.
@@aurelia8028 They may have "Conquered the World and have Ruled the Planet" but look at thier condition now.
These "Conquerors of the World" are getting bullied by Syrian Refugees.
@@aurelia8028 wrong... The only dominant cultures for people of color who have been here the longest since the beginning.
Fun fact - when a compass shows you 'north', it's actually pointing to the Earth's magnetic South Pole, as opposites attract magnetically so the North Pole of the compass will point to the South Pole of the Earth's geomagnetic field.
That's one of the reasons the Egyptians had north facing towards land away from the Mediterranean Sea, in my opinion. I do think they would have known about the properties of electro-magnetism as they hint at being capable of using electric currents and magnetic fields for various projects in their hieroglyphs.
I’m pretty sure they based their maps off the direction the Nile flowed
@@leaderunith4l324 Right, thats why they called "Upper Egypt" the southern part of egypt while "lower egypt" was the nile delta despite it being higher up on a North-South map. I don't think there's much evidence that anyone knew about magnetism back then enough to know about compasses, it was invented thousands of years later.
North and south are just constructs any way. With regards to magnetism they don't mean anything except that they are opposites.
Like maybe if the Egyptians knew about magnets and how they orient in a field they would know that opposites attract, they would in theory know that the north pole has the opposite charge of the south pole.
Even, knowing that the needlepoint pointing towards the pole has the opposite pole there in its direction attracting the needle, why would it affect their mapmaking?
Don't jump to wild conclusions man! Leads to bad decision-making.
No, the reason was that the Nile flows "north" and since rivers generally tend to flow downwards, they though the "south" must be Up
@@aerohydra3849 VERY LAUGHABLE REMARK WHEN YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS OR INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRE FLOOD NEPHILIM CIVILIZATIONS OF THE WORLD.
In the Roman Era and Dark Ages, mapmakers put whatever direction they wanted as up. East was the most popular...
You got the stuff in this video; never thought up and down being so significant. Great presentation with conviction. Waiting for your next one!
Simply a matter of orientation and perspective depending on geographical or cultural location.
That's a good way to summarize it. For many Asians cultures East was up. For the Egyptians, South was up. So it's no surprise that Northern Europeans thought of North as up.
Every now and then I find "upside down" maps, but I'd be interested in seeing more maps that show East at the top of maps.
Not.
@@SharisVoice Not.
South is up
You've got a great channel, man. Keep doing what you're doing and I'm certain it'll take off!
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm really happy you enjoy the videos.
Funny coincidence, I also have a video about maps coming out later today! Great video!
Thanks! Can't wait to see it!
Lol.
Wow u growed so much
This video was okay until you said it's not racist.
I saw this video in my subscriptions and saw the video while I was watching it, I thought I was watching a video of a channel 200.000 subscribers or something like that for the quality of the video, you really deserve more subscribers
Haha, thanks. Awesome that you like it.
If North is the opposite, what about east and west are they opposite too?
Great job brother, it helps me a lot .
Tbh, rectangular and mercator maps are hugely innacurate
the authagraph map doesn't explicitly show the northern side up (except Australia) , so it could be a cool compromise. And also a flipoff to those crappy maps that were used to
You deserve way more attention.
I'm happy you enjoy the videos!
I found this video cool so I just subscribed to his channel lol
Awesome. Glad you enjoyed the video.
"That's still Colorado or Wyoming." As a Coloradan, it saddens me how true this is. Both of us really got short-changed when they handed out shapes to the states. Literally everyone else has a unique, semi-recognisable silhouette, and meanwhile we're over here with fucking squares.
Rectangles- not squares. And actually Colorado's shape only appears to be rectangular. Though they are parallel it's northern border is about 21 miles shorter than it's southern border and it's western and eastern borders are equal in length but not quite parallel. So it's a quadrilateral- not a rectangle. Wyoming too (presumably)- sorry! But the two states are different shaped quadrilaterals (slightly).
Seeing a Gall-Peters map is one thing
And upside map is another
BUT A GALL-PETERS MAP UPSIDE DOWN IS TERRIFYING
1:15 East is up I'm fearless when I hear this on the low
Since we read left to write and the sun goes east to west, a map that puts Asia on the left hand side could make sense, but solar eclipses move from west to east
Everybody just hateful.
The only reason it's drawn this way is cause we started using compass and compass north is attracted to earth south, it makes it easy to use compass and maps together if they both are on top.
The Nile flows to earth south pole.
Europeans did disagree on who should be center and Greenwich was chosen, took time but most maps used that so it basically evolved with use.
I can't believe people would put this on race and politics
Sure you can make a map with sunrise on top or any other direction but it would be ridiculous to read the map while using a compass that points north.
Also most of land is towards earth south or compass/map north. We read top to bottom and this also makes it natural to use
Earth flat the upside down map is representative of that fact by having the North Pole the center of the room and the outermost is antartica shoreline. I could break down so many great points in this video that only further the notion the world is flat and stationary
Robot thinking... If A = all knowledge of "stuff" being teached to us in modern history relies on the fact of the earth being a sphere
And if B = the earth being a sphere is a lie
Wouldn't it make all those things from A lies too?
True, but assuming a flat Earth is possible, many things happen regardless of the shape of the Earth.
ok, but B is false
Outer space? Globe? Smh 🤦🏻♂️
Eddie Santos lol flat earth!
....and gravity! 😣
what's wrong with it then?
You knew the truth that South is up and North is down. Antartica is mostly ice, and this ice continent is on top, then comes the oceans below it and finally almost all of the solid continents at the bottom. Artic is partly ice because of the relatively low temperature and it is compressed between many solid continents gravitating down (which is North). Ptolemy map is a joke, have a look at Piri Reis map which is developed by Al-Jabbar khawarizm, this chap had a weekly session with a dozen of cartographers in the 9th century.
that's not how gravity works lol
I was following you all the way until you country’s to the north thinking they were better than others wasn’t racist. Geesh. Not too many people is pointing this out in the comment section either. Especially when the countries are divided up between mainly white counties verses mainly countries with people of color. And you failed to mentioned that all those reasons you named as to why they thought they were better, they obtained those things through exploitation and slavery and whole bunch other other underhanded things. Just conveniently leave that out huh? I’m sick of this narrative mainly held but white supremacist that no one educated, sophistication or evolved before white people. The Moors taught white people everything they knew at the time. But whatever, go off.😂
The Nile flows down into Egypt, meaning that South Africa is actually North Africa.
I vote for the map to be flipped up as the old civilizations had it
Maps serve different purposes. Putting Europe top center helps make it the orgin point for world travel
The map used in the UN flag is the true map..
We live on a disc ......
This video is such a mindfuck
IT IS 12 IN THE FLIPPING AM, good video
Thanks! East coast I guess? Does your username have anything to do with my Grey/Gray video? XD Coincidence? :)
Mr Cognito It's a coincidence, my name is "Grey" but everyone spells it "Gray" for some reason
After revisiting the video there may have been some influence
Neat. Still kind of funny.
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I don't like the idea of people saying up-and-down North and South are not real directions. It doesn't feel good because it's not the truth. We know that that's a non truth why we feel quizzy. We know because we experience forces that are upward and downward. It's an energy that we understand. We throw something up and then it falls down the gravity axle the down motion. Is anything that isn't pulling down is up. It's directional it's forces it's understanding what things look like.
Wait was that the anthem of the European Union on he background?
Ode to Joy at the end. Also the Anthem of Europe.
I meant at the end.
That's what I mean. Ode to Joy is also the Anthem of the EU.
The sun must be above our head at the highest point of the day. When someone then takes a picture of you with the sun above your head, he/she is facing north with the camera. That's why the maps must be turned around also, the sun must be above our head, that's normal.
I don't quite get it. Please explain this to me more
@@mueni333_ You must be with two persons to do this, at noon. Do you have a smartphone?
@@WGDO5805 yeah
@@mueni333_ So start doing it with another person.
who decided that up there was north though
justification of racism 😂😂😂
Up is always better.
Rich up
Heaven up
God up.
Map makers chose them to be on the top.
I am Armenian and I think the upside down map is correct
Im tired of people thinking Chinese people are indians
people think that?
Kingdom Come Deliverance soundtrack
I guessed Colorado when you showed it
bro, up is not north. North is in front, the cartesian plane is 2D
Wait did he say the earth is curved? Mmmm .. not so not so at all
South Africa is the real Egypt.
Yes because North America totally has better schools and safer streets than Australia
7:32 what do you mean by that?
Maths is not opinion.
The geophysics orientation equation: Z = 1/2(1+1/X)Y.
So, few words and more science!
Ice floats to the top
2:36 Nobody excepted.
The sun rises first in NZ before anywhere else. The Northern star is above NZ. It is the true most Northern country.
This is way to baised towards the status quo
Hence, The Global South
Not sure bruh but did you just call RA...RAY 🤣
That’s how it’s supposed to be pronounced
Mr Cognito well I guess you’re right, but why do some people call the god RA
Hakumen Date I guess because that’s the way it looks like it’s pronounced
7:00 what did you called Uluru?
Somebody pointed it out. I admit I'm not familiar with indigenous words.
Good videos though
@Neklad you can't call in aryes rock anymore, apparently it upsets the abbos, but all the one I know really don't care
What if the pyramid represent the African continent.. revealing that it's up
Lets just relabel North to South on all maps and compasses. Problem solved. lol
Put the southside up.
Gravity, there's no such ting as gravity mon! Jamaican me crazy with all this gravity talk. N no I'm not really Jamaican but I probably fooled you just like they fooled us with the gravity theory. 😜
what better theory do you suggest, then?
Tolemy lost the map.
Well a big G'day from the land down under!
South goes on top because it makes sense, doesn't matter what is common. It should be south up because that is the correct orientation.
and why is that?
great Video BUT!!! there is only one direction from your optic and is NOTH,, Why change to see the Real map?, ha ha honestly good video
literally nobody:
me at 3am:
Apart from some mispronunciations, pretty good video!
I have a habit of doing that when I'm flying through the script, what words did I mispronounce?
Uluru for one , and I thought Ra was wrong but I just learned he's also called Re so I guess just one word wrong.
Ra can be pronounced "ray". As for Uluru, I have absolutely no idea how to say it. I'm not too familiar with indigenous words.
@@MrCognito you should be more careful of the content you display saying things like "i'm not too familiar with indigenous words" believe it or not there are more then "European decent" ppl living on the planet but yet it doesn't matter because by 2050 you will be a dying race anyway....
Actually, "North" is the direction that exaltation comes from God!
Psalms 75: 6, explains this by leaving out the direction north! It is embedded within the mind of man to say "up" north or say "down" south! We look up to God, no matter where we are on the globe! Genesis 1: 14 says, the stars are for signs! This is still true today and as long as the earth shall last! I write in Paleo-Hebrew, which is the first written alphabet given to man from God! God used the asterisms around the north star, pointing us to Christ! You just need to know how to read it! Remember, the earth is young!
Google, the Northern Cross, by Aquilla Fleetwood, youtube!
ok, but let's not assume everyone is a christian
👍👎👈You forgot to mention that most of the world's people are right-handed which is also linked to the Right hand rule hence , Thumbs up = good, nice , like and thumb down is bad or dislike. :) So are you goofy or regular ? ;P
Was it racist no then u make a racist claim you don’t even know
Roman Empire.
Original map has the world is up side down
Thinking about Sri Lankan map .up down chenge🇱🇰
Shit ok that's totally make sense now every picture of earth something off , earth is actually upside down. We learn everything on it so no need to change so no one going to change it it's make confused,
this video is out of topic half the time
and then india be like vasudhaiva kutumbh kam
All to conceel where you live on this diametric electro-magnetic linear level realm.
kind regards alls
Bro... Alexandria Egypt lmao 🤣 😂 😆 HELL NAW THT EUROPEAN IS NO WHERE NEAR RELATED TO US EGYPTIANS 😂 🤣 😅 😆 POTOLEMY LMAO LMAO HELL NAW HAHAHAHA WOW THEY TRYN HARD TO BE CONNECTED TO US WITH THEY SUPER SMALL COUNTRY HAHAHAHA 😂 🤣
Agreed with a lot except for the line
" the northern countries better in education and economy and are therefore sorta justified being in the north"
Well technically when this map was made the southern countries were better in education and GDP.
It took Europe a whole bunch of stifling and stealing to become better.
Also creating divides and power Vacuum's in the countries they left behind ensuring they would struggle to rebound back to where they once were
The n Mercator map is a racist view propogated by the Church.
In my opinion a map should be created regardless of any of these factors and should just be the truth.
Accepted both ways in their true sizes.
Most civilizations in North hemisphere china, India and middle east are in North Hemisphere
Only inca are big civilization in South hemisphere
I said countries not hemisphere.
Countries like India/Egypt etc appear smaller in the map compared to what they actually are.
They make countries in Europe/Canada and USA bigger as well as Russia
India/Egypt/middle Eastern countries were richer. They were also far more advanced than the whites coming out of the "Dark ages"
@@sundeep18 north mean northern hemisphere
@@sundeep18 not such thing name dark ages
Awesome
Great! Glad you enjoyed it!
not's perspective but Truth can no's be Buried under lie! we know and follow who is who make up side Down Truth!
quite interested in this doesn't make sense. mathematically doesn't work yet my numbers work? also NZ looks true North.. these old geniuses who claim the world's round must of lived where horizontal and vertical are the same? because I got a couple of high rise buildings that are pointing out sideways. ? a simple protractor says we in Auz are pointing horizontally at 130 degrees? and for water to level ion a sphere? that gravity...
Whoo doggy must be smart gravity ? because th
or...and i might sound crasy...but maybe north is "up" on the map because because thats just the direction north is from the relitive perspective of a person on earth? honestly why do poeple insert politics in the most mundane arbitrary things.
from the relative perspective of a person on earth, "up" is away from earth, "down" is toward earth. north, south, east and west can only correspond to forward, backward, left and right, depending on the way you're facing
I was expecting an academic video and got some irrelevant drivel instead
This is a weird video
This is video is so biased lol
Listening to white people describe their academic racism is not racist. It's just the way it is. Yeah okay
Fun fact : the nazis promoted the same kind of ridiculous theories that are being promoted by this video.
source?
What a bunch of nonsense and waste of my time