Hi, there's room for more contributions here, but you may be interested in a few previous responses
/u/khosikulu in Why have cartographers always pictured north as up and south as down?, with further comments in [Why do maps universally have north as up?](Why have cartographers always pictured north as up and south as down?) and How did we decide that the North Pole is at the "top" of the Earth and the South Pole at the "bottom"? Couldn't we have oriented ourselves the opposite way?
/u/Valkine in When did it become standard for "north" to be on the top of a map? And why?
/u/qed1 in When did it become common practice to draw maps with North as "up"?
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