It is very easy. It is a lyric monologue done by the poetic abstract voice to directly send his message to the reader.
In 1946, Jordan became an independent state officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, but it was renamed in 1949 to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan after the country captured the West Bank (Palestine) during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and annexed it until it was lost to Israel in 1967.
World maps do have changed during the centuries because we grew in knowledge and technology, but the maps have also been shaped by differences in culture, religion, experience, and geography and also because of different natural disaster
The earliest of civilizations were based around river valleys. This allowed them to irrigate fresh water to their crops allowing for better farming and therefore, bigger and better civilizations.
That would be the Himalayas and have the highest mountain range in the world.
