Mercator’s map (1636)
Once they could actually see what was there, then they had some idea what they could grab.
Mercator designed the first map which could be used acurately by saliors to circumnavigate the globe.
Then the fire-sail began,
enter global colonisation.
Know knowledge and power merge,
and for the studious profit.
The world is only soft and hard,
so from the high seat take it.
A blind eye to the world,
be blinded by your own light.
The mouths view’s only meaningful,
when seen with European hindsight.
Stars are the lies of tonight.
Stars are the light of history.
I see no lines carved on the ground,
map marks are lies of boundaries.
An index of colonised lands,
like an index of collection.
Here be ships and here be monsters,
here be European protection.
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