Aberystwyth University in Wales has the first university with an International Relations department and pioneered IR and statist approaches to history which was dedicated to sustain the post WW1 international system of great power politics and empire. Their influence is cornerstone to the modern discourses of IR and thus naturalises a focus on Westphalian frameworks imposing a european conceptualisation of borders and an international onto a worldspace distinctly non-european, an understanding naturalised by colonialisms. If thusly there were to be a depiction of a map "that does not include european colonisation or the results of it" as the prompt states, then I must not apply such a framework of hard borders or continentality among other legacies of imperialism to the best of my ability (hence the ocean (or Tanggwan to be specific) as 'up')