Maps!
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
The Map Braggadocio Track
The map Braggadocio track. I really do like that point about everyone just putting their country in the middle. That's something we in this telling of history generally put on China, but that feels like a universal imperial kind of thing. There is an oldest surviving regional map in the world, and it's from the ancient kingdom of Babylon. It's a map that lets you tell yourself we're the middle and there's some other stuff.
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