It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator, and his 16th century map ... to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on ...

Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century ... Southern Europe and North Africa. Image via David Raumsey Map Collection ...

Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century ... appear on the map: gray Senegal parrots in West Africa contrasting with the ...