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I was browsing through a few timelines recently and I came across a bizarre map posted in the Map Thread, with no context given. Here it is:
I'm at a total loss to explain it. I mean, how can any border be as straight and neat as the one between the two big countries? And neither of these countries seem to conform to any of the boundaries associated with any of the existing languages. It's like someone just came in and randomly drew some lines on a map. I can't think of any way in hell that you'd get borders like this. They've completely cut the Haudenosaunee in half with some arbitrary line, for the Great Spirit's sake! And that bordergore in the south just seems totally inexplicable.
The image itself is called northamerica.jpg. Well, what's an America? I don't think that's even a word.
I couldn't find the timeline the map came from; the author seems to mostly be a lurker, who doesn't seem to have given us any explanation of why the borders look like this. Any ideas? I hope so; I can't even begin to figure this one out.