More Historical & Interesting Maps You Need To See

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +508

    Would you be in support of a United EU Army?

    • @bernardoviana1774
      @bernardoviana1774 Před 3 lety +19

      Sim, eu apoio

    • @hispano-german957
      @hispano-german957 Před 3 lety +23

      Yeah

    • @absorbingsulfuricacid9959
      @absorbingsulfuricacid9959 Před 3 lety +4

      Idk

    •  Před 3 lety +30

      I'm sure I would.

    • @user-xv1ko9vr4i
      @user-xv1ko9vr4i Před 3 lety +17

      there is a european sea guard (frontex) in the mediterenean sea but the results in preventing immigration are poor, so i think that an eu army however hopefull would not fare better. furthermore i dont think that british and americans would allow it, they would rather have nato in its role.

  • @Mikzalable
    @Mikzalable Před 3 lety +569

    The reasons Norway doesn't have as much forest cover as Sweden and Finland is because of how mountainous it is and the tundra in the north

    • @Kaizoku_Zoro
      @Kaizoku_Zoro Před 3 lety +11

      Yep

    • @melon7514
      @melon7514 Před 3 lety +16

      An the reason Iceland doesn’t have many trees is because the Vikings chopped them down

    • @stephenknizek2651
      @stephenknizek2651 Před 3 lety +2

      I thought it was because of the Vikings. 😆

    • @mazzaker18
      @mazzaker18 Před 3 lety +23

      @@melon7514 No. its cuz its an island made by volcanic activity relativly recently on a earth lifespan timescale wich means less land usable for tree's to grow.

    • @melon7514
      @melon7514 Před 3 lety +10

      @@mazzaker18 Iceland began to form 60 million years ago, which is pretty recently in the grand scheme of things, however Hawaii began forming 5.1 million years ago and definitely has trees. Furthermore, the volcanic activity of Iceland would allow for the soil to be rich in nutrients. Also I looked it up to double check, and yes, the Vikings did cut down many birch forests

  • @wiiwario6115
    @wiiwario6115 Před 3 lety +56

    1-8: these maps are truly important because it really tells us a lot about certain things we have right now or had in the past.
    9: this map shows where Kentucky is.

  • @caleb.z
    @caleb.z Před 3 lety +346

    Venus is so island dense because there isn’t water to erode and smoothen out the land.

    • @theraginginfernape9496
      @theraginginfernape9496 Před 3 lety +8

      oof fair

    • @ishaqazad5662
      @ishaqazad5662 Před 3 lety +23

      You also have to consider, the fact venus has no moon(s), to cause a tide. Gravity, a thin atmosphere, and little to no wind / tectonic movement, will also be contributing factors.

    • @boomerix
      @boomerix Před 3 lety +25

      @@ishaqazad5662 "little to no wind" is not really correct, as Venus has storms and a massive, never ending Cyclone on it's south pole.
      www.space.com/20371-venus-vortex-storm-changes.html
      Also the atmosphere of Venus is much denser than the one on Earth

    • @ishaqazad5662
      @ishaqazad5662 Před 3 lety +3

      @@boomerix well played, Einstein.

    • @caleb.z
      @caleb.z Před 3 lety +6

      @@ishaqazad5662 Yeah, the lack of tide would also play a part, but as @Not Your business said, it does have plenty of wind.

  • @GeographyWorld
    @GeographyWorld Před 3 lety +667

    Hopefully everybody here likes maps.

    • @fiammanerapatrick3215
      @fiammanerapatrick3215 Před 3 lety +18

      Of course I do. That's why I'm here

    • @UnsaneMan
      @UnsaneMan Před 3 lety +23

      Well not the MAPS Community (unrelated to actual map) but I like geography :)

    • @MissingGamer
      @MissingGamer Před 3 lety +2

      @@UnsaneMan true

    • @Tristanluvgod
      @Tristanluvgod Před 3 lety +2

      Love ur contrnt

    • @CactusCarrot
      @CactusCarrot Před 3 lety +2

      lol vegan You could also use the word “cartography” but I like using the word map more.

  • @coniption_fit
    @coniption_fit Před 3 lety +263

    The Umayyad Caliphate did push past the Pyrenees into Aquitaine, but they were pushed out of France by 759.

    • @adiuntesserande6893
      @adiuntesserande6893 Před 3 lety +13

      Which is why Charlemagne then founded Andorra, because the only possible invasion corridor from Iberia came through there, making it an easy strategic chokepoint to defend once he retook it.

    • @afrovarangian
      @afrovarangian Před 3 lety +8

      @@adiuntesserande6893 The battle of tours was won by Charlemagnes grandfather, Karl the Hammer.

    • @flukislucas
      @flukislucas Před 3 lety +2

      @@afrovarangian "Charles" the Hammer.. Unless Charles meant Karl in 8th Century Franconia

    • @afrovarangian
      @afrovarangian Před 3 lety +21

      @@flukislucas Charles=Karl. France (or those that ruled it) was still Germanic back then.

    • @MaestroBlur
      @MaestroBlur Před 3 lety +2

      @@flukislucas Francia, Franconia is a region is Southern Germany

  • @Gabriel-ip6me
    @Gabriel-ip6me Před 3 lety +71

    I absolutely love how in the first map the area where Canada is supposed to be just says "Barbarians" instead 😂

    • @noneofyourbusiness2012
      @noneofyourbusiness2012 Před 2 lety +2

      PLUS, let's not forget about the Sea of Hate :))

    • @curlyfries2956
      @curlyfries2956 Před 2 lety +2

      It’s accurate

    • @anonemouse4070
      @anonemouse4070 Před rokem +1

      I don't get the east coast being japonica, Japan was an entente ally in ww1, seems like a fake made with ww2 hindsight

    • @mikejunior2404
      @mikejunior2404 Před 11 měsíci

      Native Canadian Indians are barbarians from the blood line of Ghangus Khan.

  • @WHix-om4yo
    @WHix-om4yo Před 3 lety +40

    Great video as always! In the map at 2:55, the cats on Britain's knees are 'Orange Free State' and 'Transvaal'. The Empire had some messy things happening there in 1900.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 3 lety +397

    Japonica? Didn’t Japan fight on the side of the Allies during WW1? Why would the Central Powers let an enemy have that

    • @mohdadeeb1829
      @mohdadeeb1829 Před 3 lety +65

      Also Romania

    • @cinefreak2307
      @cinefreak2307 Před 3 lety +89

      I thought the same thing. I think it was probably some paranoia due to Japan`s ascencion at the time as a power in Asia.

    • @draganbiljetina5116
      @draganbiljetina5116 Před 3 lety +35

      Are u the guy who is always commenting on Drew's videos???

    • @sean7173
      @sean7173 Před 3 lety +41

      it's because the first map is fake, almost definitely.

    • @HolyShitNew
      @HolyShitNew Před 3 lety +6

      Dragan Biljetina he is the real one

  • @yobama9880
    @yobama9880 Před 3 lety +27

    Great video!
    8:58 In the 8th century Muslim forces pushed into southern France. 3:40 I love how Corsica is depicted as Napoleon

  • @glointhadark
    @glointhadark Před 3 lety +53

    For the map with cartoon representatins of countries, I think that the cats attacking Britain's legs represent the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, colonies in modern South Africa which fought Britain for their independance in the Boor Wars.

    • @eggsD
      @eggsD Před 3 lety +4

      *Boer

    • @booperdooperproductions2545
      @booperdooperproductions2545 Před 3 lety +3

      They weren’t colonies, they were fully independent states up until the end of the Second Boer War.

    • @M.Ghilas
      @M.Ghilas Před 3 lety +4

      and the manholding the women is north Ireland and Ireland

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Před 3 lety +40

    2:35 the problem in Britain is the orange free state and Transvaal, aka the Boer republics.
    Portugal held the key, aka the Baía de Maputo, or bay of Delagoa

    • @theheiroflotharingia8543
      @theheiroflotharingia8543 Před 3 lety

      lol i didnt think i actually got that right

    • @Blaqjaqshellaq
      @Blaqjaqshellaq Před 3 lety

      Maputo Bay was in the Portuguese colony that's now Mozambique, which had overland access to the Boer republics.

  • @ABtheButterfly
    @ABtheButterfly Před 3 lety +14

    The best part of "New Prussia" map is Bismarck North Dakota being only capital that doesn't change
    And also straight of hate that cracked me up

    • @kaaronhudson8112
      @kaaronhudson8112 Před 3 lety

      Is the straight of hate is where they went after the playa haters ball?

  • @TheMrMe1
    @TheMrMe1 Před 3 lety +80

    10:56 "This is most evident in Nordic countries [...] and Iceland"
    Iceland IS a Nordic country, thank you very much. It is not however a Scandinavian country, as Scandinavia specifically refers to the Scandinavian peninsula in Europe (though Denmark is usually counted as part of the region too).
    Bottom line: All Scandinavian countries are Nordic, but not all Nordic countries are Scandinavian. The Nordic countries are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, of which the latter three are also Scandinavian.

    • @aronarnarson
      @aronarnarson Před 3 lety +3

      Yes Iceland is in my opinion the most Nordic

    • @pog7126
      @pog7126 Před 3 lety +1

      @@aronarnarson hæ íslendingur

    • @SirFaceFone
      @SirFaceFone Před 3 lety +4

      Estonia: 😔

    • @dejlislive5751
      @dejlislive5751 Před 3 lety +2

      @fjf sjdnx Hold up. Mexico is a country? now it feels like I'm being bamboozled, that's like saying Denmark exists...

    • @DoktorApplejuceAbridged
      @DoktorApplejuceAbridged Před 3 lety +1

      I thought Scandinavian refered to the language family, and therefore Iceland was included.

  • @tdrbg0752
    @tdrbg0752 Před 3 lety +80

    You forgot Malta in the forest coverage map. It was only 1%

    • @maarten9272
      @maarten9272 Před 3 lety +9

      He didn't include micro nations.

    • @jojieriveral5035
      @jojieriveral5035 Před 3 lety +8

      lol not even 1% tho most of matla were humid and desert waste lands plus its small size and of course the humans inhabitants makes malta an almost one of the countries who doesnt have forest

    • @SantaCelest1na
      @SantaCelest1na Před 3 lety +6

      Vatican city have 0%

    • @nOtstrO
      @nOtstrO Před 3 lety

      НА НОЖЪ!

  • @Sofus.
    @Sofus. Před 3 lety +36

    Iceland was covered by forest, until the Vikings age. Today there is a program to restore the forest, but in the cold forests grow more slowly.

  • @mrmacguff1n
    @mrmacguff1n Před 3 lety +64

    1:30 they literally cal Chicago "Slaughterhouse" 😂
    They aren't wrong tho

    • @KDH-br6hy
      @KDH-br6hy Před 3 lety +3

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @couchcamperTM
      @couchcamperTM Před 3 lety

      back than it was famous for animal slaughter, not man slaughter

  • @sergeyangmar
    @sergeyangmar Před 3 lety +20

    I believe "map of forest" lacks a bit of context as Ukraine, for example, has a relatively small percentage not due to deforestation, but because it historically has a massive amount of steppes. For some reason people think that lack of forests is always bad and forget that there're other types of terrain are equally important: because of steppes Ukraine has one of the worlds best soils for agriculture.

    • @roddbroward9876
      @roddbroward9876 Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah, if the Netherlands and Denmark once had many forests, they were chopped down a looong time ago, same with northern Germany and the North European Plain in general. Those are very flat fertile areas and people have been farming there since the neolithic. Also the Netherlands reclaimed a lot of land throughout history, so much of it is not supposed to have trees to begin with.

    • @ZopcsakFeri
      @ZopcsakFeri Před 3 lety +2

      I also think that categorising forestation into 25-50-75% increments is just plain dumb, as it basically ends up all green. Choosing the color grading wisely, that map could have been much more interesting!

  • @jpfl14999
    @jpfl14999 Před 3 lety +187

    This channel is so underrated...

  • @corentinf8896
    @corentinf8896 Před 3 lety +20

    8:58 Yes it's accurate, the muslims arrived in France and were stopped at Poitiers in 732

  • @fabienj3202
    @fabienj3202 Před 3 lety +93

    Hi, i am a french geography teacher, could i ask the main sources for your maps. I would be very pleased (the ww1 is present in most french high school history manual from 70s-90s btw ). Thanks for yor channel, very inspiring! :)

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +30

      Send me an e-mail via the address in the video description and I can send you the images!

    • @nelsonricardo3729
      @nelsonricardo3729 Před 3 lety +3

      Is WWI no longer taught in French high schools? That would be odd…

    • @fabienj3202
      @fabienj3202 Před 3 lety +6

      @@nelsonricardo3729 As far i understand (englishtongue is akward for me) WW1 is a big part for 13n years old students and for 17 years ols students in French Cursus (Don't know if i am understable sorry )

    • @priyanshgautam9971
      @priyanshgautam9971 Před 3 lety +3

      @@fabienj3202 French people doesn't speak English

    • @leroiarouf1142
      @leroiarouf1142 Před 3 lety +4

      @@priyanshgautam9971 english dont speak french

  • @ChicoBranquinho
    @ChicoBranquinho Před 3 lety +3

    I think the Portuguese symbol depicted in John Bull's map is the king of Portugal holding the key to the Portuguese African empire that was very coveted by the Brits. I would guess the map is dated around the 1890's, back in the day of the infamous Rose map. Loved this exquisite video

  • @juannunez5767
    @juannunez5767 Před 3 lety +36

    I'm guessing that Japan was chosen to take over the west coast on both maps because they were hands down the supreme imperial power in the Pacific at the time. They wiped the floor with Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, and they did pretty well against German forces in the early part of The Great War. And while they were a big part of the Allies, they were also rivals of other Allied countries in the Pacific like China. it was probably clear that Japan would have single handily dominated the Pacific without America in the picture and their alliance was purely one of convenience to Japan and could be flipped.

  • @Hochmann2
    @Hochmann2 Před 3 lety +2

    In 1995, Inwas living in Quito, Ecuador and there was a small war between Ecuador and Peru, the War of Tiwintza. I was in college and I saw in the window of a teacher’s office a cartoon showing Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori as an octopus sticking his tentacles into Ecuador and other countries in South America.

  • @danilochagas4644
    @danilochagas4644 Před 3 lety +4

    From what I heard when I went there (and I'm not sure if I got it right), they estimate that when the first settlers arrived to Iceland 25% of its surface were covered by forest. But it was a much more fragile environment, the forests didn't recovered at the same rate that they were used to and between the centuries of 1200 and 1800 the world had experienced a proportionally small global freezing period, which may not have been relevant for continental Europe but for them it was harsher times.

    • @alluvium1465
      @alluvium1465 Před 3 lety +2

      That is right, the volcanic soil there is really light/airy, so when the first settlers cut the trees, the wind blew away the topsoil. No one really realized what was happening until the entire island was deforested, and Iceland is still the most ecologically devastated country in the world.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +16

    That Central Power-controlled USA map is pretty much the American version of the New Germany/Australia map also made during WW1. I really like the details of that John Bull map. Wow history is certainly filled with interesting and cool maps

    • @IRTG2006
      @IRTG2006 Před 3 lety +3

      You’re everywhere

    • @beaniao3502
      @beaniao3502 Před 3 lety

      I dont think Ottomans would call Tallahassee Baghdad, they would more then likely just have the official name Tallahassee as it has been, and they themselves would likely use a Turkified version of that name

    • @realhawaii5o
      @realhawaii5o Před 3 lety

      Am I subscribed to your comments?

    • @coquimapping8680
      @coquimapping8680 Před 3 lety

      @@realhawaii5o What?

  • @joeperez3520
    @joeperez3520 Před 3 lety +3

    I love maps, too! I've been collecting them since I was 7 years old! 😍

  • @IRosamelia
    @IRosamelia Před 3 lety +2

    I was in Reykjavik two years ago and visited the main museums. I distinctly remember being told in the old days Iceland was covered in forests but humans around the middle ages logged it almost entirely and caused a huge erosion problem. efforts to this day haven't been succesful to counter it. 🌳🌳🌳🌳

  • @totalwarrior7938
    @totalwarrior7938 Před 3 lety +8

    Ottoman's position of the man also refers to their nickname of that time: the sick man of Europe.

  • @delorean5032
    @delorean5032 Před 3 lety +29

    Imagine Japan not being on the imperial rule map despite having the longest lasting imperial family.

    • @1882osr
      @1882osr Před 3 lety +5

      I'm pretty sure the map is about being ruled over by a formally external empire. Being the Imperial power doesn't seem to be counted.

    • @harrypadarri6349
      @harrypadarri6349 Před 3 lety +1

      @@1882osr But how do you even define external and internal rule? It’s a bit easier for the time of colonialism but gets messy for older empires. Take the Roman Empire for example.

    • @DarkRaven4649
      @DarkRaven4649 Před 3 lety +1

      @@1882osr That seems unlikely to me, considering China and Iran being two major hotspots, despite their Empires being very long-lasting and predominantly homegrown, with brief interludes of foreign rule (Alexander, Parthia, Abassids and Mongols for Persia, Mongols again then briefly Japan for China).

  • @davidkasquare
    @davidkasquare Před 3 lety +3

    Iceland used to have forests, but they were chopped down, and then the lands used for extensive sheep herding. They are planting new forests now.

  • @leocarlsson3753
    @leocarlsson3753 Před 3 lety +2

    Regarding the Forest map! I have a friend who works for Sweden in the European Parliament, and a couple of years ago they had bill on the preservation of forests, and a belgian politician asked my friend "how many forests do you have?", and my friend was confused on how to answer. "It's kind of just ONE forest??", since all of it's kind of connected and the rest of the woodlands is parks, and the belgian could nog comprehend how a country could only have one forest, mistaking it for being one SMALL forest like in Belgium

  • @Badsean
    @Badsean Před 3 lety

    You are not alone my friend, I also love maps right down to the tiniest detail. I do own quite a number of them! Keep moving forward i love your channel!

  • @FunkBallGX
    @FunkBallGX Před 3 lety +80

    Yeah, the Francs beat back the Muslim armies in modern-day France meaning it was occupied at some point by them

    • @jamespyle777
      @jamespyle777 Před 3 lety +12

      Battle of Tours

    • @orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332
      @orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 Před 3 lety +24

      Pretty sure the muslims never actually controlled the land, their army entered then was beaten back, they didn't settle.

    • @alexanderchatziioannidis4767
      @alexanderchatziioannidis4767 Před 3 lety +11

      @@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 This, southern France was just the site of an invasion but they were beaten and expelled quicker than they could really settle/control the land.

    • @andrasbalogh4291
      @andrasbalogh4291 Před 3 lety

      @@jamespyle777 I think it's the battle of Poitiers, but it doesn't really matter. We learnt in school that if Charles Martel had lost that battle, christianity may have been done for.

    • @himlingpatrice
      @himlingpatrice Před 3 lety +2

      @@andrasbalogh4291 For a strange reason, French call that battle "Battle of Poitiers" when english call it "Battle of Tours"...

  • @joeperez3520
    @joeperez3520 Před 3 lety +5

    The "key" may symbolize the fact that the oldest alliance (even to this day) is between Britain and Portugal, making Portugal think it is a very important friend of John Bull.

  • @ChrissieBear
    @ChrissieBear Před 3 lety +5

    2:40 What instantly jumps to sight is that the octopus has FORESKIN on its tentacles.

  • @udaysj6758
    @udaysj6758 Před 3 lety

    Amazing presentation!!! Its very high yielding. ☺️

  • @estherward5907
    @estherward5907 Před 3 lety +18

    1:35 japan was in the enetente

    • @davidozab2753
      @davidozab2753 Před 3 lety +4

      Japan apparently wins either way.

    • @snowy3896
      @snowy3896 Před 3 lety +1

      Romania too, so it wouldn't make sense for us to get any island in the Caribbean. (plus we've never had any colonies)

    • @GTAandApplechannel
      @GTAandApplechannel Před 3 lety

      @@davidozab2753 definitely

  • @enesakhan4032
    @enesakhan4032 Před 3 lety +11

    5:52 that round island is Elysium mons ... one of the largest volcanic mountains on Mars ..
    edit: sorry i thought it was Olypus mons first (both looks like islands tbh :D) so after some ppls warning i checked and seen that map's North side was on the bottom thats why i assumed that island was Olympus :D

    • @jedgar63
      @jedgar63 Před 3 lety

      You beat me to it😊

    • @manmanman4825
      @manmanman4825 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah and it's about the size of France.

    • @foxxo_exe966
      @foxxo_exe966 Před 3 lety +2

      Its not Olympus mons, its Elysium mons, Olympus is on the other side on the green cicle on the right of the map. See this: www.researchgate.net/profile/Bryn_Hubbard/publication/251730490/figure/fig4/AS:686972993544192@1540798533164/A-map-of-Mars-with-major-landmarks-and-key-regions-annotated-Place-names-are-marked-on-a.png

    • @josephmorgan4316
      @josephmorgan4316 Před 3 lety +2

      So no, the island there is actually Elysium Mons. The map is upsidedown (North is on the bottom) so on this map Olympus Mons is on the right of the large continent on the right hand side, and appears as the distinctive dark green circle here.

    • @joni4867
      @joni4867 Před 3 lety

      @@josephmorgan4316 ohh thats smart thanks

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150

    Beautiful presentation! Congrats!

  • @brodieshawn63
    @brodieshawn63 Před 3 lety +2

    The very first map you showcased was the cover of Life Magazine in 1916. It was used as propaganda to garner American support for WWI. It was used to imply that the Central Powers would not simply stop if they won the war in Europe, eventually America would become a target so they should help out while they can.

  • @Anoupou
    @Anoupou Před 3 lety +4

    9:00 In the early days of Islam, the French territories in the southern half were plagued by Saracen raids. Corsica is the first territory to suffer one, in 704; then come the Pyrénées-Orientales of the Duchy of Aquitaine and the province of Septimanie (approximately the former region of Languedoc-Roussillon), in 717. The latter is invaded and occupied from 719 to 759. Its wali (governor) depends on the wali al-Andalus, and sits in the city of Narbonne, which is used as a base for the raids: Carcassonne, Béziers, Agde and Nîmes are taken in 725, then Avignon and Autun are raided and Lyon is occupied the same year. The city of Luxeuil was raided in 731, Bordeaux and Sens in 732; but the Saracens were defeated in Poitiers in October, which marked a halt to their expansion in France. The Saracens nevertheless occupied several cities of Provence from 734 to 739: Avignon, Arles, and Marseille. The region of Valence and the Alps were raided from the end of the ninth to the tenth century. The Saracens finally settled in Fraxinet in the Massif des Maures from 889 to 975.

  • @Joostuh
    @Joostuh Před 3 lety +2

    In the Netherlands the forests had to make room for people and farmlands. What nature we have left is under immense pressure from recreation and pollution.

  • @Krzesimirowicz
    @Krzesimirowicz Před 3 lety

    I love maps too:) Your channel is really interesting, great job!

  • @user-so6ee3dz2f
    @user-so6ee3dz2f Před 3 lety +1

    Great video, nice maps, interesting toppic... WELL DONEEEE

  • @fandomguy8025
    @fandomguy8025 Před 3 lety +4

    0:46 I feel like this map is just "The Man in the High Castle" but if it was WW1 instead of WW2.

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean Před 3 lety +5

    Great video, pal.

  • @alexacdc1234
    @alexacdc1234 Před 3 lety

    Magnificent video! This series is one of my favourite of all time!

  • @lipsarath8728
    @lipsarath8728 Před 3 lety +1

    I didn't even imagine that MAPS can depict so much...... THANKS GENARAL KNOWLEDGE FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO AND I REQUEST YOU TO MAKE MORE OF THEM.

  • @erikperik1671
    @erikperik1671 Před 3 lety +6

    5:47 the map of Mars is wrong in two ways:
    1st it's upside down.
    And 2nd most of the water would be on the northern hemisphere only, since the southern hemisphere is much higher elevated.

  • @therealdave06
    @therealdave06 Před 3 lety +4

    I'm a mapper, and I only click on these videos because there's a more than zero chance that I might be on here. It didn't happen this time though, but I've been on Memeuless' map videos a few times lol

  • @GarrettFruge
    @GarrettFruge Před 3 lety +1

    These were really cool! I especially liked the maps of Venus and Mars, they kind of looked like worlds in a fantasy book or game.

  • @texasguy4316
    @texasguy4316 Před 3 lety

    I always enjoy your videos. Very intriguing.

  • @mrmr446
    @mrmr446 Před 3 lety +6

    Iceland used to be forest covered until the vikings landed and used the timber for fuel and housing. The amount of France described as having been under Muslim rule is slightly exaggerated but there was a brief state in the south centered on Narbonne if memory serves in the ninth century.

    • @GeographyWorld
      @GeographyWorld Před 3 lety +1

      Ireland used to be covered on forest until the British chopped them down for farmland and wood for building their navy.

    • @Lazer-bp9lf
      @Lazer-bp9lf Před 3 lety

      I've never heard of any Muslim rule in the centre of France. The most further they went in Europe from the Iberian peninsula was like the Southern part of a France.

    • @mrmr446
      @mrmr446 Před 3 lety +2

      The map shown should just show the south next to the Pyrenees as far as the Loire around Toulouse and Montpellier I think the map tries to include Poitiers but the battle took place outside Muslim ruled territory

    • @skiteufr
      @skiteufr Před 3 lety +1

      @@mrmr446 the southern part of France where muslims were during some decades was called Septimania.
      But it was not part of France then, not even ruled by the Franks. They were Wisigotic land

    • @giuliopatruno7849
      @giuliopatruno7849 Před 3 lety

      It apperars that every small incursion is depicted in the map. Muslims never took Sardinia, they just tried to besiege some ports. Same with every other place in South Italy except for Sicily. That part of France was being razed but no attempt at conquering was ever made by muslims, let alone succeding in it

  • @WHO-hm5ve
    @WHO-hm5ve Před 3 lety +3

    Lithuania has 33% land coverd by forest because, lithuania's economy is based on agro culture

  • @JimmiAlli
    @JimmiAlli Před 3 lety +1

    The two cats biting at Britain’s legs are the Orange Free State and Transvaal - reference to the Boer War which was fought around 1900 - the date on this map.

  • @easyjdier
    @easyjdier Před 3 lety

    Dude, I just subscribed! I'm 0:09 seconds into the video and I heard all I needed to hear for me to stop, comment and hit that subscribe button. Your first three words- "I like maps!" That did it.
    Wanna guess about my feelings about them? :) Hope the rest of the video is good

  • @icarus5
    @icarus5 Před 3 lety +5

    4:06 napoleon is sitting in the name of where him born, so thats why is napoleon in.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY Před 3 lety +11

    “Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.”
    ― Mike Tyson 😄

    • @SpahGaming
      @SpahGaming Před 3 lety

      why is this on a map video?

    • @ndescruzur4378
      @ndescruzur4378 Před 3 lety

      why is this on a map video?

    • @coquimapping8680
      @coquimapping8680 Před 3 lety

      @@SpahGaming maybe it has to do with japonica since they sided with the allies

    • @SpahGaming
      @SpahGaming Před 3 lety

      @@coquimapping8680 it still has nothing to do of why they are the victor in both maps

  • @Jharrisimages
    @Jharrisimages Před 2 lety

    8:56 In 719 and 732 CE the Umayyad dynasty that controlled the Iberian Peninsula invaded and, for a short time, controlled southern Gaul. They lost the area in 759 to the Franks. In the 10th century the Andalusians invaded and took control of a small island off the southern coast of France called Fraxinet, but it was ultimately lost in 972 CE.

  • @sachabride8971
    @sachabride8971 Před 2 lety

    At 9:00 The reason why there is a part in France is due to the Sarrasins (Omeyyades) expansion stopped by Charlemagne and his army at Poitier in France in 732. They did reach this city after conquering most of the iberian peninsula (except the northern kingdoms that would eventually conquer back Spain and Portugal territory during La Reconquista achieving that in 1492 (more than 700 years later lol) for Spain and earlier for Portugal.

  • @bananaman4612
    @bananaman4612 Před 3 lety +12

    The text on the cats says "Orange Free State" and "Transvaal"

    • @jxavier3876
      @jxavier3876 Před 3 lety +1

      I guess because the boers where nuisances to the British goal of holding key empties all across the world, although at that time Britain would have already won the boer war.

    • @JimmiAlli
      @JimmiAlli Před 3 lety

      Jude Xavier no because the Boer War was still going on in 1900

    • @jxavier3876
      @jxavier3876 Před 3 lety

      Jimmi Alli I thought it was a ww1 map🤔

    • @dirktween244
      @dirktween244 Před 3 lety

      Only one side, used those names.

  • @thepolloelectrico1117
    @thepolloelectrico1117 Před 2 měsíci

    Just like Sheldon had "Fun with Flags", your channel should be called "Merryment with Maps". I love it btw!

  • @tobenweston1687
    @tobenweston1687 Před 3 lety +1

    7:00 Indian plate is a sub-plate of the Australian plate and so it the Madagascan plate to the African plate. Pretty cool

  • @daveizdebski
    @daveizdebski Před 3 lety +6

    4:11 ofc Poland votes for a unified EU army knowing their history...

    • @kamilszadkowski8864
      @kamilszadkowski8864 Před 3 lety +2

      Actually, our history tells us to vote against it. Poles are very divided on that matter. It's not like our dear "western allies" were ever known for reliability.

    • @daveizdebski
      @daveizdebski Před 3 lety

      @@kamilszadkowski8864 Poland is best at war when they dont exist lol

  • @axllbill1123
    @axllbill1123 Před 3 lety +5

    7:46 where is Japan!?

  • @absorbingsulfuricacid9959

    I love your videos they are so educational and your videos make me love Geography more

  • @saritalevinthal3455
    @saritalevinthal3455 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for the upload I enjoy maps

  • @julesbasichowskistephansen9715

    10:13 I'm from denmark, why there no one who female than or male.
    Maybe neutral or don't know. (Not really, lol)

  • @EdgySniper497
    @EdgySniper497 Před 3 lety +9

    11:08 - I imagine this, like many other divided German statistics, has something to do with it's East-West divide during the Cold War.

    • @cake0539
      @cake0539 Před 3 lety

      If you look at a religion map of Germany you can see, that the former east german states are mostly atheist while the west german states are mostly christian.
      (protestant in the north and catholic in the south.)

  • @IVAN-zm8pz
    @IVAN-zm8pz Před 3 lety +1

    "Jamaica will become New Romania" 1:46.
    I almost spit my drink out!!!

  • @is7040
    @is7040 Před 3 lety +1

    I think the key in Don Carlos' hands has "Deli / Goa" written on it. It might be a reference to the resielience of the Portuguese in India at the moment of Britain's presence. Also, yeah, there was an incursion into the region of Provence of the Umayade Empire around 720 AD which lasted for around 10 years.

  • @hoyinching9313
    @hoyinching9313 Před 3 lety +3

    1:16 Imagine Germany Empire win the war

  • @simon6495
    @simon6495 Před 3 lety +3

    I love the channel so don’t take this the wrong way, just a small note. You said you don’t know precisely who made the first map, of America with the American reservation. And then you say it is weird ‘they’ would make this reservation look so bad but also put that forward as a solution for the native population. If you don’t know if the Americans made the map that statement doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I don’t like you bashing the American treatment of natives, but this seemed like an inaccurate statement to me. Especially if the same map exists on the opposite side, trying to get America to join the central powers, it’s likely the first one was made by one of the allies to try and convince America.

    • @aronarnarson
      @aronarnarson Před 3 lety

      Most Americans were strongly against entering WW1 which lead the government to make propaganda in support of war in order to get public opinion pro war. It might have been made by the Committee on Public Information

    • @simon6495
      @simon6495 Před 3 lety

      Aron Arnarson I get that, but he doesn’t know though. So to say funny this is how they represent reservations when you don’t know exactly who made that map don’t seem right to me

  • @hugoaberg1168
    @hugoaberg1168 Před 3 lety +1

    You are such a legend, Im starting with the one on the thumbnail.

  • @vladgogulancea345
    @vladgogulancea345 Před 3 lety +1

    what is more interesting about "New Romania" in the first map is that Romania did not made an alliance with central powers in WW1, so the map must be made in 1915 before Romania enters the war, and nobody know what side Romania would chose, going with antant will help Romania gaining transilvania and unit all romanian spechers in one country (wich did happen) but at the same time King Carol was german ( second in line for bavaria's throne, before German unification) and saw as a betrayal fighting against them. Romania enters the war after he died.

  • @afurorenormannorumliberano9857

    The vikings chopped down the forrests of Iceland long time ago. That's why 😢🌲

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Před 3 lety

      Filipe Saramago To build boats. Vikings were big on boats....

  • @rafaxd8178
    @rafaxd8178 Před 3 lety +4

    Well, the muslims invaded France after had conquered Spain and were defeated in the battle of Poitiers by Charles Martel, grandfather of Cherlemagne. So yes, the south of France has been under islamic dominion for a briefly period of ten years proximately.

    • @skiteufr
      @skiteufr Před 3 lety

      Wrong. They never settled or occupied the land like in Spain. They pushed through raids and were defeated by Charles the Hammer of God

    • @giuliopatruno7849
      @giuliopatruno7849 Před 3 lety

      It apperars that every small incursion is depicted in the map. Muslims never took Sardinia, they just tried to besiege some ports. Same with every other place in South Italy except for Sicily. That part of France was being razed but no attempt at conquering was ever made by muslims, let alone succeding in it. Also it's worth noting that Charles Martel was not a King

  • @streamofconsciousness5826

    6:00 that is Volcano Mons the largest protuberance in the solar system. There are three in a row, the next one of them is the dark green dot on the south eastern coast of the eastern continent. The third looks like the Southern most tip of that central mountain range. If Mars looked like that we would be making a lot more effort getting there.
    That WW1 map was wild, and European one with humans was art. The red turkish style pants to fill in under the Baltic.

  • @fuzzfreefilms5394
    @fuzzfreefilms5394 Před 2 lety

    3:40 Those cats are "Oranje Free State" and "Transvaal", as Britain was fighting them in the second boer war in modern South Africa. Love your maps, keep the odd maps coming as well. Cheers.

    • @fuzzfreefilms5394
      @fuzzfreefilms5394 Před 2 lety

      * not modern, but the situation that was in beetween dutch/german descendants & british empire in southern africa in 1900 ^^ (*phew, this took some rephrasing...)

  • @tomanders1
    @tomanders1 Před 3 lety +4

    7:15 but I thought all of Africa's problems were due to those pesky colonizers. Weird.

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, there's a map you won't see on the evening news nor on university campuses.

  • @mohdadeeb1829
    @mohdadeeb1829 Před 3 lety +3

    11:10 Erich Honecker killed Many men .

    • @paolob.5667
      @paolob.5667 Před 3 lety +2

      Also the women were very emancipated under communism, with a relatively high part having a very good education

  • @Vaniljebjoern
    @Vaniljebjoern Před 3 lety +1

    Denmark once had the biggest navy in the world. For such a small country, that requires A LOT OF WOOD. I can't remember the exact number, but i believe the danish forrest percentage was as low as 5% at a time. Trying to implement new forrest in Denmark is still a huge issue, that the changing governments tries to solve.

  • @TheAnon03
    @TheAnon03 Před 3 lety +1

    10:00 Iceland has naturally low tree density and the Icelandic people needed what there was, the great forests in the UK were mostly cleared for farmland, Norway has a lot more wilderness than Sweden but is also far more mountainous so that's probably why, and I think Lithuania has a lot more swamp/marshland than the other Baltic states.

  • @ericvulgate
    @ericvulgate Před 3 lety +7

    islam was never established in france, although they did try.

    • @petarkardum5063
      @petarkardum5063 Před 3 lety +1

      Same with Croatia.

    • @drust2831
      @drust2831 Před 3 lety

      It was
      A franc army (with Charles Martel) from the north, pushed them back

    • @zekun4741
      @zekun4741 Před 3 lety +1

      it's crazy how spain was conquered in 8 years and southern france was getting raided to hell and the umayyads were close to paris. it's shameful that they got that far without facing any real resistance, until they came across a military leader who had studied the campaigns of alexander the great

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety

      @@zekun4741 The Jews and the Arian Christians in the peninsula supported the Muslims in their conquest of Hispania. It was not long ago that the Visigoths had been forced by the Franks to convert from Arianism to Catholicism, but the former continued to have much support among the people.

  • @austriahungary2288
    @austriahungary2288 Před 3 lety +3

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  • @davids9520
    @davids9520 Před 3 lety +1

    A very good video. It is always interesting to learn something new.

  • @mumflrpumble9107
    @mumflrpumble9107 Před 3 lety +1

    5:25
    Of course! We'll settle in Venus!

  • @1981baunilha
    @1981baunilha Před 3 lety +4

    First time I'm disappointed by a video of yours... So many mistakes, omissions, and misunderstanding (of history or geology/geography) that could have been avoided by doing some background research, unfortunately, because I quite like your channel... For example: The map of Mars is upside down, and the round circle/island there is an extinct volcano (Elysium Mons)... With the tectonic plates on the earth, you seem surprised that there are countries on multiple plates, there's a simple reason for that: where oceanic portions of tectonic plates "collide" they cause volcanism that creates chains of islands (like Japan and New Zealand, a different reason for Iceland being split between two plates). You claim Finland wanted to reclaim independence, while Finland became independent for the first time in its history in 1917. The woman in Ireland trying to hit the British soldier likely represents Ireland's struggle for independence, and Portugal is Britain's "oldest ally", so I would guess that the key likely represents the key Portugal holds for Britain to the rest of Europe (this could probably be researched on google)...

  • @abdullahmahdialsulaiman
    @abdullahmahdialsulaiman Před 3 lety +7

    First Again
    And Nobody Cares

  • @joaosampaio2585
    @joaosampaio2585 Před 3 lety +1

    Hi General,
    I love your content and the way you make your videos.
    Thank you for the pleasure.
    Mais uma coisa, tu és português certo ?

  • @Impact720Gaming
    @Impact720Gaming Před 3 lety

    at 4 minutes if anyone is wondering the music is called bravura march. Very fun piece of music

  • @atomic32205489
    @atomic32205489 Před 3 lety

    Awesome video! I especially liked the planets if they had the same percentage of water as earth.

  • @BigBrotherMateyka
    @BigBrotherMateyka Před 2 lety +1

    3:45 The gnawing cats very much appear to be "Orange Free State" and "Transvaal".

  • @WallySketch
    @WallySketch Před 3 lety +1

    The first map is a cover of Life magazine (Feb 10, 1916) and distributed by The American Rights Committee showing what would happen if Germany wins WWI and takes over North America. It's an early example of WWI Anti-German propaganda. In the original cover of Life magazine “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” was written under the map.

  • @michaelbrennan6123
    @michaelbrennan6123 Před 3 lety

    The 1900 comic map is using the national symbols for the nations at the time. Example: the French woman is named Marianne. She is dressed in the colors of the French Revolution and the fashion style of the early 1800s. Some countries like england or the USA had multiple symbols depending on what was being emphasized. Example: Uncle Sam represented our strength while Lady Liberty (real name Columbia) represented American freedom and generosity .

  • @singh_z_king7350
    @singh_z_king7350 Před 3 lety

    Amazing content

  • @tomonetruth
    @tomonetruth Před 2 lety

    Love the Kentucky one!

  • @quemcantaoconto3172
    @quemcantaoconto3172 Před 2 lety

    I like that you mention Portugal very often on your videos🥰

  • @mbgal7758
    @mbgal7758 Před 3 lety +1

    Norway is very low in forest because it’s so mountainous and like Iceland is an arctic climate with glaciers. One of the largest forests in the world passes through Norway, Sweden, Finland and in to Russia