Geographic Games,Cartographic Cognition,and Consciousness of Sovereign State in Modern Times:A Socio-Cultural Study on the History of Territorial Perceptions
In modern Western Europe,the emergence of territorial states under the West-phalian system was accompanied by new understandings of space,sovereignty,and interna-tional relations.This transformation reshaped how people perceived and experienced these concepts.The dissemination of new geopolitical thinking and national identities relied not only on texts but also on vivid,intuitive,and visualized images.Consequently,during the flourishing period of geographical discoveries,land surveys,and new atlases,games with maps became popular as tools for both education and entertainment.Due to their engaging,accessible,and inexpensive nature,these games served as an effective medium for knowl-edge dissemination and geopolitical enlightenment.Geographical games incorporated territo-rial boundaries,historical traditions,and domestic and international events into virtual sce-narios,while simultaneously reflecting the rules of diplomacy,territorial integration,and public governance in reality.Moreover,through a microscopic,everyday,bottom-up ap-proach,these games popularized knowledge of national spaces,forming narrative clues and frameworks based on geopolitical communities.In doing so,they subconsciously deepened political loyalty and emotional attachment to the territory and the motherland.From this per-spective,such games illustrate how the abstract notion of the"sovereign state"was visual-ized and politically socialized.This allows for the exploration of the cultural contexts and normative systems that have shaped individual and state behaviors on a foundational and long-term level.
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