Return of Horrible Educational Maps
- Thread starter Westphalian
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Honestly, it’s not terrible for a map that was clearly done before modern computing software made projection translation effortless. The sizes are off, but…
Russian Hokkaido, Greater Albania, Greater Bosnia, Greater Israel, Muslim Taiwan, half of South Korea deleted... Pretty sure there are others, but all of the errors are hard to spot at a glance.
Christian Hokkaido would make for an interesting TL....
Ummm... what happened to the Black Sea?
Crap! I didn't even notice the Muslim Taiwan, that would be interesting too...
There is a lot going on with this one....
Speaking of religion maps, have here an odd one. Not actually wrong, but I find their choice of simply flat-out labeling the most dominant christian denomination without any further information slightly weird
well it does specify on the map that it's talking about Christianity, specifically, and not religions in general.
But with that map one could assume that Japan is about as Catholic as Italy, which is obviously wrong but you won't get that info. Or an alternate example, given that that map shows the Germany as dominantly Protestant that map might suggest that Japan is more Catholic than the Germany, which completely ignores the detail that Germany has about fifteen to twenty times as many Catholics as Japan.
Being open to such misleading assumptions is why this map deserves a spot in this thread. Admittedly it might not be horribly educational, but at least it is of questionable educational value.
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Hmm...
Given that Constantinople was called the Second Rome and later on Moscow the Third Rome then I guess in this case Rome would be the Fourth Rome.
"But we are already Rome!"
"Silence, unbeliever!"
Next map unrelated (although who knows, maybe the Fifth Rome will be there somewhere...)
Ha! I wonder if that was taken somewhere in my area... as most of the Italian restaurants around here are run by Greeks, I can see how someone would make the mistake... maybe
It is merely showing how the world will look by the time they degrade.
Crazy Boris
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Looks like an adaptation of a map from the early 16th century with only the eastern parts of the Americas known to the Old World.
And someone kept sneezing as they were trying to draw Europe
And forgot about Madagascar
And didn’t go any further east than India
When the Mediterranean Sea turns into a hungry guinea pig and starts nibbling at the Red Sea which has become a cornstalk, you have to accept some sort of mess.
I can't un-see that now
- and it's made me spot Eurasia about to eat the remains of Iceland (?) with its Scandinavia and southern Europe (?) jaws... Let me help you then. Imagine the Indian Ocean and Red See as an elephant opening its mouth in a bark of laughter while raising his trunk, one of those yellow fishermen hats on his head.I can't un-see that now