How could medieval cartographer fuck up so badly?

close enough

>>1811864
>MONSTROUS RACES

Ahahahahahahhahahahahahah

>>1811864
>monstrous races

Seems accurate.

>>1811864
>sub-saharan Africa is full of monstrous people seems accurate to me.

>>1811879
>Yawron
>Sdnalsi Hsitirb

Wtf I hate Hsitrib now

>monstrous races
More accurate than modern cartographers desu.

>retards ITT thinking "monstrous races" means black people

>>1811864
>How effective they are, thy plans, O lord of eternity!
>The Nile in heaven, it is for the foreign peoples
>And for the beasts of every desert that go upon (their) feet;
>(While the true) Nile comes from the underworld for Egypt.

silly Europeans didn't know the Nile comes out of the waters of the Deep

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I like how Chinese maps fuck up the west as bad as European maps fuck up the east. Though OP's pic is a lot worse than usual, especially for the 15th century.

>>1811910
It's called humor you fucking Borg cunt

>>1811960
European maps fuck up the east Chinese maps seem to fuck up EVERYTHING

>>1811910
>sees "monstrous race" thinks it doesn't mean blacko wackos

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looks about right to me

>>1811864
lmao how did he fuck up euphrates and tigris?

>>1811864
>Prester John
noice

>>1811864
>Mongols, Pigmies, and "cannibals" living right next to one another

I love this

>>1811864
I like how he put China in the Caucasus.

>pigmies

kek

also why the fuck is europe made so bad? You would expect some precision in this region, but what the fuck

>>1811910
Well, it was my first thought. What did it mean then?

>>1812264
Sciapods, cynocephali, giants with a face on their chest and the rest of medieval mythological creatures

>>1812032
That yurop map fucks everything too tho

>>1811864
>that tigris and euphrates
Wat the fuck

>>1811864
>Japan
>earthly paradise
they knew