In Medieval cartography, religious and historical ideas usually overshadowed accurate geographic proportions such as in the T and O map which represented the three known continents in the form of a cross with Jerusalem at its center.
In Medieval cartography, pictorial icons as well as religious and historical ideas usually overshadowed accurate geographic proportions. A classic example of this is the T and O map which represented the three known continents in the form of a cross with Jerusalem at its center.