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About the book >.>.> But maps do not just reflect these historical circumstances: as part of the power structures organisation and administration of societies they have a reciprocal elationship with them. Maps are both predictive and descriptive they are proactive and reactive they can push both physical and intellectual boundaries and they can encourage research and debate. This is as true for maps made in prehistoric times as for those produced today. For example maps could reinforce influence or alter contemporary beliefs. Thus the first map illustrated in this book the Babylonian World Map (Map 1) shows the world (with Babylon at its centre) and its encircling earthly ocean as believed by the Mesopotamians in c. 600 B.C.E.; the mappae mundi in Chapter 3 ‘The Medieval World’ show medieval concepts of the world and were used to convey much theological (see for example Map 16) moral historical and zoological (Map 17) information in a spatial framework; while the Peter’s projection (Map 96) gave 20th- century map-users much to think about when seeing new shapes and relative sizes of continents. change the world? (SP)