Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the Penguins was 'Oh no, not again'. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the Penguins had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
This one is interesting because of the stuff that was included and the stuff that was not.
Zapatista Chiapas, Abhakhazia, South Ossetia, Arsakh, North and South Yemen, North Cyprusand Somaliland, but... not Denmark or Uruguay.
Are those things in western Burkina Faso, western Nepal, and northwestern ROC actual separatist movements or something?
The decisions as to which islands and lakes to include is... interesting.
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I mean, it's not...um...the worst map we have on here.
Though, that bar is so far down it's at the Earth's core, so...
They forgot to shade that large white patch in South America? Idk what it's even meant to represent.
What, you haven't heard of the Minas Gerais Sea, the world's largest inland body of water?
Well, the Minas Gerais Sea is larger than the Caspian, but smaller than the Black Sea, so it depends
I get the feeling that they colored Canada as one unit rather than as provinces. I can't see all provinces and territories having the same rough population density.
Which is odd since they used subdivisions in most other countries.
Black Sea is connected trough Bosporus to the Sea of Marmara which is connected to the Aegean trough the Dardanelles (the Aegean is part of the Mediterranean).
Everyone, you’re missing the point. It’s a map of population density IN 1500 which is using modern first division borders to represent it. It’s one of the least useful maps imaginable.
Meh, use of modern borders in historical maps is quite the low bar for "horrible". It is way too common. Which makes it a much more banal type of bad rather than weirdly specific small things which are more visceral.
For the sake of this map, which is to impart historical information that can’t be represented by modern borders, it’s more than just a backdrop.