Have you ever looked at the world from this point of view?
"This map, with south at the top, shows why humankind emerged in
Africa, why it was from Africa that our species may have begun the settlement
of the planet. Africa is the mother continent to which we all ultimately
belong, from where human beings acquired their deepest genetic traits. "We
are all Africans under the skin", says anthropologist Christopher Stringer.
(...) Maps, so seemingly objective, are actually propaganda. They represent
the lowest common denominator of the conventional wisdom. But what if the
conventional wisdom is wrong? What if the Mediterranean basin is no longer
the center of civilization?" (Robert D. Kaplan, "The Ends of
the Earth", Random House, 1996)