Перевести и вставить нужные слова из двух вариантов.perception of geography a common/general (1) mistake in hand-drawn maps is the tendency/trend (2) to make europe too large and africa too small. people from all parts of the world tend/pretend (3) to draw the world this way, including the africans. one of the facts/factors (4) involved here is that old maps were drawn with “mercator projection technology/technique (5)”, which makes the areas nearer the north pole including europe seem abnormally/normally (6) large. other areas in the middle, such as africa, seem smaller than in reality/realization (7). however, the mercator maps also enlarge greenland and canada, and people usually do not make mistakes about their dimensions/diameter (8). thus, a better explanation must lie in people’s ideas about relative/relevant (9) importance of the continents. the size of europe tends to be exaggerated/deteriorated (10) because of its importance in people’s minds. similarly/analogously (11), africa becomes smaller because people tend to underestimate/overestimate (12) its importance.