The earliest known compasses humans used were called "zhi nan zhen," meaning "south pointing needle." It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
I guess, but those were really more of a divination tool, rather than a navigational one. They didn't start using them as a traditional compass until the 1100's.
![[Not the Onion] The looming Eurasian menace](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/75a35862-f14e-448b-ad22-46b6388d4ec0.png){kind=link}
World Wars Episode I: The Eurasian Menace
Episode II: Attack of the Drones
Episode III: Revenge of the BRICS
Episode IV: A New Cope
Episode V: The (American) Empire Strikes Back
Episode VI: Return of the USSR ?
Plot twist: USSR returns but not on Asian ("Eur"asia is Eurocentric nonsense; Europe is a peninsula) continental substrate
Asia as a concept was created by the europeans though - it is was the greeks called anatolia or asia minor.
Why is it upside down?
because wh*tes decided which way was right side up
Up is North, because North is at the top of a compass, and is the direction a compass will always point towards.
Antarctica is clearly earth's hat. The compass has nothing to do with it.
I prefer this explanation, tbh.
The earliest known compasses humans used were called "zhi nan zhen," meaning "south pointing needle." It pointed south. European navigators using the technology inverted this so it would point north.
I guess, but those were really more of a divination tool, rather than a navigational one. They didn't start using them as a traditional compass until the 1100's.
i'll take it