Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...