People
Author of Mare Clausum (The Closed Sea)
Who is John Selden?
A compressed zone on the map
What is the South China Sea?
Tilts 6 degrees to the West
What is the Selden compass rose?
The first lines to be drawn on the Selden map
What are sea/trade routes?
The year Brook suggests the map was made
Where is the Philippines?
Marked with the same visual system as provincial boundaries in China
What are rivers?
The country that drifts far off its bearing
What is Japan?
Latin term for "land belonging to no one"
Author of Dutch treatise The Free Sea
Who is Hugo de Groot?
Where Brook theorizes the Selden map was made
Where is Bantam?
What is Fenye?
Labeled in yellow in the Chinese region of the map
Structure that typically bounds the north of China in traditional Chinese maps
What is the Great Wall?
Author of News from the New World
Where is Ternate?
Symbol of true love in Japan
What is a red chrysanthemum?
The overall scale the Selden map was drawn to
The fish that sparked the release of Selden's The Closing Sea
What is herring?
Prominent Chinese merchant stationed in Hirado
Who is Li Dan?
Where the Selden map was rediscovered in 2008
Where is the Bodleian Library?
Drawn in the shape of a sail
What are the Northern Paracels?
Depicted twice on the map, one pair north of Beijing and one pair in the top two corners
What is the sun and the moon?
What is a butterfly?