I counted about 5 cities that are reasonably close to where they should be... well, give or take a couple hundred miles
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Well, about half of Indonesia obviously just... sank at some point. Took some of the Philippines with it. As to W Europe and the Middle East, that's anybody's guess...
How is that wrong? Everybody knows the Tethys Sea looks like that. Don't know what's that "Mediterranean" you talk about.
in 1936 (probably before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War) the Canadian Star Weekly Magazine was correct in predicting an Italian-British conflict in the Mediterranean.
Too bad that the map depiction wasn't as crisp as the conflict prediction...
Especially ironic: the scale they added onto that map. Without it one could have assumed that it would be just a stylized map of the Med, so that you get who is involved and such, with some distorted proportions to highlight points of interest (they oversized and labeled Elba, so there is some merit to that idea) but the scale ruined it all.
Too bad that the map depiction wasn't as crisp as the conflict prediction...
Especially ironic: the scale they added onto that map. Without it one could have assumed that it would be just a stylized map of the Med, so that you get who is involved and such, with some distorted proportions to highlight points of interest (they oversized and labeled Elba, so there is some merit to that idea) but the scale ruined it all.
My favorite is that the country just north of the Austrian/Swiss border is Yellow, the color of *France*. World War II might have been a bit different if France controlled the entire northern border of Switzerland
The Romanian/Bulgarian border is quite interesting... and quite inexplicable as they drew the Danube fairly accurately... so they had the correct border right there, but chose not to use it... artistic license I suppose
It's possible it represents further Romanian claims.The Romanian/Bulgarian border is quite interesting... and quite inexplicable as they drew the Danube fairly accurately... so they had the correct border right there, but chose not to use it... artistic license I suppose
The problem is Bulgaria, which seems to have taken the southern half of Wallachia while nobody was looking
I might be able to see what's so terrible about this map if it was bigger.
The Hundred Years War seems to have ended very badly for France in this World.
Well, have here a bigger map. While nowadays we have Holstein Cows there apparently one were Holstein War Elephants, not to mention the War Elephants of England and Wales...
“Oh, the Roman Empire used war elephants? Okay. That must mean they used war elephants EVERYWHERE in the empire, so I’ll just color in the whole empire.”
It’s like coloring in all of New Jersey on a map of where you’ve been when you had a layover in Newark once.
Could have been except for the fact that they missed the entire Danube border of the Roman Empire (and given how they spill into Denmark they weren't notably precise along the Rhine border either...)
I've seen the Reddit thread that this map is taken from and the covering of the Roman Empire and Denmark refers to two things. Firstly, the Romans did ship elephants across the Empire, most famously Claudius used some in the invasion of Britain. Second, the 'spillover' to Denmark refers to an elephant that Charlemagne was given as a gift and used on campaign in the region.
The Roman Empire neither even included Holstein, I don't know what that is supposed to be. The red in Macedonia might be that one though, but I think you should restrict the yellow in Western Europe to the parts of the Carthago empire and Italia. The yellow in Arabia might be correct for the campaign to Mecca?
edit: thanks Gwrtheyrn Annwn
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Then again there are no historical sources stating that the elephant was used there as a war elephant, so coloring it yellow is a rather generous interpretation.
Sure but from memory the author admitted that and tbh it was probably included because its an interesting, if spurious, sidenote.
'Meme history' if you will.