Kitchen perspective

This map represents the best perspective of our universe in around 1100 CE, note the UK and Ireland is top left and Jerusalem is dead centre of the map (predictably for the authors and the era). It's perhaps not what's on this map that's interesting it's more what's missing! This is essentially a map of Europe and its fringes, however, Europe occupies only 10 million square kilometers and is the second smallest continent. The missing bits of this map represent the remaining 130 million square km of land, ergo, the best view of our planet in those days was missing not only space and the entire known Universe but also 92% of the surface area of our own local planet, and therefore the majority of the flora, fauna, people, cultures inhabiting those places. 

It always slightly baffles me that many millions of people still hold with the view that the best way to think about our morality and cultural grounding is through the lens of a particular peoples that lived in the Middle East way before 1100 CE and who wrote down how they saw things over centuries in various stories and narratives which were often later edited, translated, lost, ignored and aggregated into the many so called "holy books" that emerged from the late Bronze age onwards, all contradictory and all containing many omissions, logical falacies and factual errors. The peoples that authored those stories had much less perspective on our universe than even the people that made this map, which is hardly any at all! To me, religions and other backward looking traditions that take this view are doing something that's akin to taking holiday advice from someone who's never left their own kitchen i.e. likely to end in dissapointment and almost certainly lost luggage!