I should send you a copy of MacArthy's Universal Corrective Map of the World
I was introduced to this wonderful topsy-turvy map in the late '70s or early '80s by a geography professor. It was a joke, son. We being on a globe and there being gravity, all of us are pointing upwards.
Between 1718 and 1776 50,000 convicts were transported to the USA, but I don't suppose California had been invented then?
Well, the US state didn't exist until 1850, but the Presidio de San Francisco was founded in 1776 and that of San Diego in 1769. The word California, referring to an island inhabited by black Amazons, is first recorded in 1510 in Las Sergas de Esplandián by García Ordóñez Rodríguez de Montalvo. Sir Francis Drake landed near San Diego in 1579 and claimed California for the English Crown. He called it Nova Albion, which is Cod-Latin for New Britain.
It's your fault we started out the way we did
Another big influence on the early make-up of the 13 colonies was the number of white indentured servents from the UK and black slaves from Africa.
