The article does get to my base assumptions, but it takes awhile. (1) North Star was what people navigated by first, so would orient maps to that regardless of which way the words were written -- so people started writing the words to fit. (2) Compasses, pick north or south for same reason. North was picked because we were already using the North Star.
It all just makes so much better intuitive sense than a "Conspiracy of Northern European Hegemony"
It all just makes so much better intuitive sense than a "Conspiracy of Northern European Hegemony"