Tag: Geography

rolonda:

somethingglowing:

turntables-goldcables:

neil-gaiman:

youaintpunk:

sarajevomoja:

talk about perspective. shit.

Fucking hell.

I remember the first time I saw a map of Africa to scale. My jaw dropped.

And I’m wondering how a continent so big can be so conveniently left out of our world history text books. A class on Africa isn’t a requirement for Anthro majors at my school. YOU CAN HAVE A MAJOR ON THE STUDY OF HUMANS AND COMPLETELY LEAVE OUT THIS WHOLE ASS CONTINENT.

Well goddamn

Africa, the fucking continent.

spoonmeb:

fandomsandfeminism:

fandomsandfeminism:

People: “African people in Spain? But how! There’s like, a whole sea between them!”

(Spain in the foreground, Morocco in the background.) 

For the curious, the distance here is just under 9 miles.

So yeah. There’s been travel here for as long as there has been rafts.

I love when people joke that you can fit all of Europe inside Texas, but cannot conceptualize that Northern Africa is right next to Europe and that people have been traveling since the dawn of people.

Black people in Shakespeare?!?!? That’s crazy. How would they have made it to Europe?!?!??

If mufuckas can walk to Central California from South America, a mufucka can walk and paddle their way from Africa to Northern Europe.

And you just know everybody on either shore was like “what’s over there?? let’s go see” because humans.