为什么地图要画成北方朝上.docVIP

为什么地图要画成北方朝上 　　Leading： 　　随着全球经济一体化的发展，地图在人们的工作和生活中的使用越来越频繁。现在，全世界的地图方向都是统一的，上北下南，左西右东。为什么地图要画成北方朝上？在文中，让我们共同回顾一下历史，来了解史上的几种地图绘制，并找出将地图画成北方朝上的原因。 　　Now it is hard to visualize① a map that does not feature north at the top，but this was not always so. 　　The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the world was drawn about 3，800 BC，and represents the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia，Iraq. This，and others that followed it，were little more than rough sketches of localized features；it was not until many centuries later that the ancient Greeks placed the science of map-makin