Might be part of an insidious plot: can't be part of UK if there is no UK...
Anyways, have some infographics show:
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Might be part of an insidious plot: can't be part of UK if there is no UK...
Anyways, have some infographics show:
Well, the USSR did have northern Iran. Not when they gave Crimea to Ukraine, but still.
That was their 'Sphere of influence', pre-Soviet & then WW2, agreed with Britain (who got the south, likewise), with [but not in WW2?] a thin &v V-shaped buffer-zone where -- supposedly -- neither would intrude.
I unsubscribed after their format change. It became such clickbait rubbish for no apparent reason.
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Why do the worst maps always come from teachers/schools?! The one group of people who really should know better. I could have done better when I was 13!
Also they even failed at using a modern map, since Serbia and Montenegro are united here
Also, speaking of Monty, the lists of countries on each side are woefully incomplete. Ottomans especially are a glaring absence.
1. Most likely was made while Serbia-Montenegro Union was still a thing.
2. Eh, they do say at the start so minor Entente, Italy and Ottomans/Bulgaria can be disregarded as they joined later. Thought to be fair, so did the UK but UK was in the Triple Entente (and unlike Italy stayed that way during the war).
Because it’s just a modern map with nations colored in as they are today. “Oh, here is Austria… and here is Hungary… I know there was a nation called Austria-Hungary… it must have just been these together!” It’s what happens when you believe you’re at the “end of history.”
I mean, Balkans are not fullt correct, but to be honest it is pretty decent.
Pretty much the only big error is Congress Poland being a part of Germany.
Smaller ones are Bosnia being shown as independent (well, it was neither Austrian nor Hungarian, so I can kinda get showing it seperately) and Bulgarian borders.
Also the Montenegrin and Albanian (especially Albanian) borders might not be fully correct either.
Also, they seem to have ignored any colonial territory (North Africa, Malta, Rhodes, Cyprus).
More like Congress of Vienna. Prussia originally did have more Polish territory before losing it because of Napoleon.
Thought of course, all of Congress Poland was never a part of Prussia.
Speaking of colonies the following one is actually quite good (heck, they even mention themselves that the map is not to exact scale but even with that they still do a decent enough job)
They only got a minor hiccup in South Sudan/Uganda/Rwanda (and Burundi is suspiciously where Lake Victoria should have been)
But still compared to many other maps in this thread this is how a good educational map should be (and kudos to the teacher or whoever thought that up)
Not perfect but other than that East African mess as well as can be expected.
Iceland walks in and asks, “Room for one more?”
Also, the Greenland peninsula.