The number one reason why I prefer teaching Roman history to teaching Greek history.
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The number one reason why I prefer teaching Roman history to teaching Greek history.
Tabula Candida 
This is similar to drawing Great Britain. England and Wales are pretty straightforward, the pen completes the Scottish east coast and then you just think “no-one knows how all the west coast and islands look anyway, just make it up”… squiggle, squiggle, squiggle…
Somewhere a teacher of Colorado history is cackling smugly.
As is the one in Saskatchewan – especially if topography is involved … how do you smugly cackle? I’d like to learn (and I’m sure other enquiring minds want to know).
Honestly, I don’t know how you can cackle and not sound a bit smug.
I’ve got the evil cackle pretty much down pat (blood relative Evil Witch). Smug? Unfortunately a great-grandson peed on her as she was changing his diaper. No more need be said.
I live on the West Coast of Scotland and even we would just squiggle squiggle – With mercator projection the trickiest of them all are the countries that are actually relatively small but look enormous when spread out – Greenland etc. And, how do you draw Antartica (not that I’ve ever had to, to be fair and more an issue for a teacher of Geography).