Return of Horrible Educational Maps
- Thread starter Westphalian
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Hmm. My favorites are
Caspian Sean
*Any* sign of the 49 parallel as a border (and Canada describing anything west of Superior)
Germany
Saudi Arabia
Modern boundaries for Indonesia/Malaysia/Mozabique
The source was a google image search for "1908 world map". I just saw it, realized how truly terrible it was and saved it onto my laptop.
I hadn't actually noticed "Caspian Sean", had a good laugh when I saw that.
Between Ottoman Ukraine, polish Belarus, the Portuguese rule over the entire west African coast, the fact that Denmark is counted as part of the Netherlands while Iceland has a kind of monarchy in exile thing going on, and the horror that has inflicted Antarctica, I would say that this map has no redeeming qualities.
I hadn't actually noticed "Caspian Sean", had a good laugh when I saw that.
Between Ottoman Ukraine, polish Belarus, the Portuguese rule over the entire west African coast, the fact that Denmark is counted as part of the Netherlands while Iceland has a kind of monarchy in exile thing going on, and the horror that has inflicted Antarctica, I would say that this map has no redeeming qualities.
BTW, I did a google image search for the map above, what I got was
"Best guess for this image: have no mouth and i must scream"
Sounds about right.
"Best guess for this image: have no mouth and i must scream"
Sounds about right.
Thanks for finding it, I did the original google search ages ago and couldn't find the source when I tried to look for it.
Other gems:
The Adriatic Sea south of Britain.
The Spanish colony of New Grenade.
The Adriatic Sea south of Britain.
The Spanish colony of New Grenade.
Good god that is catastrophic. Dutch Denmark, Ottoman Ukraine, Poland is just modern Poland+Belarus smashed together... ach.
Oooooooh, missed that the western border of Russia south of the modern Baltic nations followed exactly the 1991 USSR breakup borders with Belarus and Ukraine. Note, as best as I can tell, the Ottomans at the beginning of the 18th century did control almost that far north since it had the Khanate of Crimea as a Vassal.
Good job on taking away both the St-Lawrence valley AND New-Orlean, the only territories really owned by France ...
I thought people would appreciate how shit it is.
It couldn't be more wrong if it tried.
It couldn't be more wrong if it tried.
I have this globe!I found this:
Rest assured, I have other sources of geographical knowledge.
