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Terra Australis, a hypothetical continent that, according to the most advanced European geography of the 17th–18th centuries, was supposed to balance the landmasses of the Northern Hemisphere.

In its place, explorers eventually discovered Australia, New Zealand, Tierra del Fuego, and Antarctica, along with numerous smaller islands.

But what if such a continent had actually existed? From where would it have been settled? From Asia during the Austronesian expansion? Later by Polynesians? During the earliest human migrations by the ancestors of Australian Aboriginal peoples? Or perhaps by the ancestors of Native Americans, arriving through North and South America?

How might its existence have affected world history?

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u/Any_Record2164 — 1 month ago

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The workd in a cloverleaf

In addition to the post why the Middle East is actually middle:

In the Middle Ages, the land that we call the Middle East now, was really placed at the center of the world.

The harmonious image of a cloverleaf is disrupted by the recently discovered America, England, and, for some reason, Denmark and Sweden, which are depicted as an island.

The Bünting cloverleaf map, also known as The World in a Cloverleaf, (German title: "Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat/Welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen") is a historic mappa mundi drawn by the German Protestant Pastor, theologian and cartographer Heinrich Bünting. The map was published in his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Book of Holy Scripture) in 1581.

u/Any_Record2164 — 2 months ago

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Why Middle East is actually Middle?

It's also called the Near East, which is understandable given the Far East.

But why "Middle"? It's the middle between what and what?

u/Any_Record2164 — 2 months ago