Destiny of Ancient Maps
2011-08-02
Mr. Liu Gang new book “ancient map password”, involves a series of sino-foreign ancient map of authenticity. On the surface, this is just an academic question, a historical truth and some historical figures historical contributions, historical position of problem. But essentially, the ancient map destiny is behind a political issue, a huge interest problem, a civilization. The 15th and the 16th century, a lot of ancient map, with a great historic change, European pan-modernity will this historical period described as a “geographical discovery”, “great voyages era”, and with brave, exploration and so on good vocabulary will its fixed in history textbook. Generations by European pan-modernity enslaving the people, seem to have forgotten, is eulogize, being in honor of “geographical discovery” era, is actually European colonialism crazy, crazy expansion of the breed. Say none exaggeratively, europeans every geographical discovery, are accompanied with brutal killings and plunder. And those ancient map fate, criterion and the killings and plundering closely related, which doomed their destiny.