Monday, March 10, 2014

Propaganda Map

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Propaganda maps are any maps that exaggerate specific properties of a map in order to propagate a message. Artists and Cartographers can do this by personifying the countries depicted or, in this case, representing the country as an octopus to show how its "tentacles" reach out to influence other countries.

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