Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[Little Faith]

No, the map is stupid for a couple of reasons.

It is true that the indigenous people inhabiting Greenland, northern Canada, northern Alaska and the northeastern corner of Asia belong to the same ethnic group, namely the Inuits.

But then the map puts Lapland, Svalbard and a couple of Russian arctic isles into the mix as well.

The Saami of Lapland have no relation to the Inuit, neither linguistically, genetically nor culturally. Any shared identity would solely rest in both being indigenous groups inhabiting grim arctic wastelands. I don't think Svalbard had any indigenous population before Norwegian whalers and Russian miners made it their base of operations.

And the various Russian isles, if they had any indigenous population it would probably be of some central Asian ethnicity.

 

[eduhum]

I admit that I put Russia and Lapland into the mix only because why not.
In this Alternate History, those parts volunteered to be in the country because WW4 and also their ancestral would be respected.

The rest is kinda objective.
But this map was not made on a serious perspective…

Hell, I almost threw Iceland into the mix.

I just made it because I recently discovered inuit culture, which I like pretty much.

 

[really]

Link to video.
Time lapse map of every nuclear explosion ever on Earth

 

[Kyriakos]

Worth it even if it had been just for the Fyromia bit

 

[keli]

Looking at this and the last page of this thread, both the maps and the comments, I can safely say this is a place where people let out their nationalistic perversions.

 

[Kyriakos]

Looking at this and the last page of this thread, both the maps and the comments, I can safely say this is a place where people let out their nationalistic perversions.

Innit?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

You haven't seen greater Balkan maps m8. Those will hammer you in.

 

[Tee Kay]

What I have been messing with for the past two weeks or so:

Spoiler :

Work in progress!

 

[W|M]

Spoiler Educational Background of World Leaders :

 

[Kyriakos]

Erdogan was also a footballer, no mention of that in the map? :/

Moreover: who is supposed to be seen as the ruler in Egypt? (head of state is obviously the military in this map, but why is ruling 'party'/person/whatever not the same?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Bosnia has three presidents and no real head of government, a chairman of the council of ministers yes, but I wouldn't call him the head of government.

 

[really]

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-3.95,49.30,1310
Live map the wind. It was a bit blowy here earlier.

 

[W|M]

Travel times when departing from Rome during the time of the Roman Empire:

Spoiler :

 

[Borachio]

So it took 3 weeks to get from Rome to Lyon. But only a week from Lyon to London?

It's the mountains that slowed people down a lot isn't it? Which might explain why it took the same time to get to parts of Spain on foot.

 

[W|M]

The map only shows the time it takes to get from Rome to various destinations, so I wouldn't imagine that it actually would have taken a week to get from Lyon to London. What slowed people down the most was actually land, as land travel was a lot slower than sea travel.

 

[madviking]

what's up in the bay of biscay

 

[really]

The Garonne river might speed up travel from the med by making an overland trip preferable to going around Spain

 

[madviking]

yea, i know, but why does it randomly skip a part of the coast of spain closer to it in favor of a part of the coast of spain that's farther away?

 

[Kyriakos]

what's up in the bay of biscay

Teleportation point

 

[JohannaK]

yea, i know, but why does it randomly skip a part of the coast of spain closer to it in favor of a part of the coast of spain that's farther away?

Hmmmmmm... streams?