The Spread Of Buddhism, Flemming, 1846

Arctic cultures, 900-1500

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes ‘If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with secondly.’ Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African states and not with the colonial creation of the African state and you have an entirely different story.

Chimamanda Adichie (via stay-human)

Areas where Buddhism is a major religion and the predominant traditions

The architecture of dissent: Urban design influences how public protests can take root

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An elaborated map of “continental” unions.

Europe in 800 AD

Countries’ view on South China Sea conflict

A Look at NOAA’s Ultimate Desktop Model of Earth

Asia According to India, a map from Yanko Tsvetkov’s Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Collection, available in paperback from Amazon and as an ebook on iBooks.

Map showing the distribution of slaves in the Southern States, 1860

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