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Why is north up? Has north always been up? What used to be up before north was up? Does it matter if a direction other than north is up? And have you ever been on a year five geography trip where you got lost in the woods and wet yourself in front of Mr. Dugdale?
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Map Men finally returns after almost 2 years. Excited to see the future episodes, they’re all amazing!
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On the topic of Tolkien, he DID actually play around with orientation. Dwarves put East up on their maps (like on Thror's map that Thorin follows in The Hobbit). Also, the fact that the Elvish words for north and south are related to the words for right and left respectively strongly implies that Elves and other peoples influenced by them usually drew maps with West upwards.
Tolkien would likely have said that he put north at the top on his maps of Middle-earth to simplify for the readers (especially since Middle-earth is supposed to be our world in a bygone age)...
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Actually, Tolkien could and did imagine a different orientation. In his legendarium, maps produced by Elves or allied peoples were oriented towards the west. However, they were printed in northern orientation for the convenience of readers.
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Fun fact, a common way to navigate and give directions in Hawaii (on land at least) is mauka and makai, or mountains and ocean. So each island has their own little North Pole that people navigate around.
As for left and right, people typically refer to landmarks like hills or regions. It’s not the east or west side of the field, it’s Diamond Head or Ewa.
Edit: additional fun fact: this has made me absolutely useless at navigating anywhere without a visible mountain or grid system. I regularly get lost in suburbs because my mental north is governed by changes in elevation.
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1:05 Jay really showed a clip from an old episode and expected no one to notice.
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I like how early maps are the blobby ones we draw off the top of our head lol
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My grandfather was a meteorologist and went on a couple expeditions to Antartica. Every map he has hangs with the south to the top. He also has a habit of remounting globes upside down, even those in the library at his college.
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I've very often wondered why in every single movie involving aliens approaching planet Earth, the planet is always oriented in a north-up fashion. Like, why couldn't an alien spacecraft approach us from another of the possible 359 degrees??
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i love mapmen. you guys are like a modern monty python skit show combined with geography. can’t wait till the next one!
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In Finnish, the root word for "north" ("pohjoinen") is "bottom" ("pohja"), like the bottom of a vessel. As structures were erected with the doorway facing south and the Sun, thus the "bottom" of the structure (aka. the part opposite of the opening) was facing north.
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As a Geography teacher, I'm thrilled to see another video! Map Men, along with Geography Now, is one of my most commonly-used video series to supplement the information I teach!
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I am a Diagnostic Imager and we are trained to flip chest radiographs upside down to spot rib fractures. It really does help to look at the image with new eyes and spot hidden lesions!
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Interesting correction, Tolkien DID actually make at least one map with East at the top: Thorin’s map in The Hobbit. Though it is meant to be handed down from his ancestors, so it could be another case of older maps simply being different
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The thumbnail with the upside down UK just reminds me of how Pokémon's in-universe equivalent to the United Kingdom, the Galar region, has a map shape inspired by the UK's but inverted, so the game can have the player go north from the protagonist's unsubtly Scottish-inspired home in the south
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The delivery of "It's because of the rock type," was so perfect that I lack the words. Top-notch.
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Fun fact:
In the past, Chinese people preferred to build houses with their front door facing south, so the North is literally the "back" of the house.
The character for "back" (北) was then used to mean "North" as well.
So that's why "North" in Chinese languages is written 北. It was originally depicting two people turning their back to each other!
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When one of my college professors published a book on military history, he specifically commissioned the maps to not have north at the top, so that readers would be forced to actually look at the terrain and other features, rather than just thinking "oh, yeah, that's a map of Western Europe."
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I don't know how Egiptians drew their maps but 'Lower' Egipt comes from it being closer to the sea level and 'Upper' Egipt from being at higher elevation. And its not the only place in the world that does that.
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I remember taking a course in ancient civilizations in ninth grade, and one of the first things the teacher tried to do was to untrain us from using the words "up" and "down" while studying maps. She was not entirely successful, but it was interesting playing a kind of Where's Waldo with the maps oriented in unfamiliar directions.
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@markcooper-jones7494
10 months ago
It's good to learn, and here are three things we've now learned: - Tolkein did make a map without North at the top. He's more imaginative than we gave him credit for. - Lower Egypt is named for being in the lowlands. This is the sort of mistake we consider *embarrassing*. - Orientated isn't a word. It's oriented. Which sounds worse, but is actually correct. I blame the fact we were incredibly young when we said that. Thank you for watching, and do stop being cleverer than us.
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