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Everything else aside, the thing that bothers me the most is that their picture of Cleopatra is very clearly not Cleopatra
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Everything else aside, the thing that bothers me the most is that their picture of Cleopatra is very clearly not Cleopatra
Aside from the borders, if you zoom in you gonna notice that despite the blurriness it is obvious that Portugal is actually submerged in all maps.
Also bit of an odd choice which empires have been chosen to be displayed. Ancient Egypt I can understand (for its time it was big and populous) but the Aztecs?
Imagine some Monty-Pythonesque bureau of empire license registration or such:
Schengen map unrelated
Wow Portugal is even submerged in the Portuguese Empire map.
To say nothing about the fact they forgot a number of colonies of the Portuguese Empire, including countries that still speak Portuguese to this day
The Tang and Qing definitely deserved to be on this list more than the Aztecs.
Most countries are on a very strict low landmass diet, I guess? Especially the UK:
Well, you see, to be an empire it kind of needs to be a single state and the vassals thereof, which the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period, as marked in the name, was not.
Come to think of it, this is even doubly wrong. Not only is the shown picture not Cleopatra, in the time period of her regency Egypt had already been a roman client for several decades, hardly a state of sovereignty you could call an empire.
Ah well, on to the next map
Spanish rump government in... portugal!?
I'm loving the Swiss lesotho.
