Altered Maps XVIII: Continuing Curious Cartography

[warpus]

Ah yes the Ostrau corridor

 

[Voidwalkin]

TBH if states generally war less as tech advances, you'd expect to see fragmentation and odd-looking borders more often because defensibility would be less if not totally irrelevant.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Amazing map, amazing post, and an amazing comment section

https://twitter.com/x/status/1837148250274427017

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, well why would some smaller slavic states be more "european" than other small slavic states?
And why would Romania/Moldavia be also more european than the latter?
Let alone Israel (Lebanon has a large christian community, but so does Syria - and to a degree the same can be said about Egypt).
Russia... well, it is currently massively a warmonger, but it is historically an important european country in all fields (culture/science-math etc).

Yes, the comment section is horrible. Was this made specifically to troll, then? ^^

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Russia... well, it is currently massively a warmonger

Makes them all the more European in my book

 

[Samson]

Makes them all the more European in my book

You do not need to do much supposing, you can just look at the battles. The overall map gives that impression, but it does not do justice to the interactive one. I have to admit I suspect there is some selection bias based on who wrote most of the history, but it is certainly hard to argue the opposite.

The map trying to record every battle ever fought

The low countries and Brittany seem to take the crown. I an surprised the classical world has so few.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

You do not need to do much supposing, you can just look at the battles. The overall map gives that impression, but it does not do justice to the interactive one. I have to admit I suspect there is some selection bias based on who wrote most of the history, but it is certainly hard to argue the opposite.

If it only includes battles with Wikipedia articles, then yes it would be very biased. I have a mod for Civilization V which adds hundreds of Great Generals, I had to do quite some work to keep it from being too Eurocentric because I was initially using Wikipedia's list of historical battles

 

[Voidwalkin]

I have a hunch that the effectiveness of European fortifications between 1200-1750 reduced how decisive battles could be, resulting in losers retaining political control and coming back the next year.

 

[Kyriakos]

How is there only (eg) one dot/battle for Constantinople in 200-1500?

 

[Samson]

How is there only (eg) one dot/battle for Constantinople in 200-1500?

They seem to have four if you zoom in enough, and one makes sense as one, and then another lists 21 battles over more than a millennium. They may have a data management problem.

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[Kyriakos]

 

[amadeus]

Amazing map, amazing post, and an amazing comment section

These are the kinds of people I only see on the internet and wonder if they actually exist.

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Arakhor]

I'd expect good English in the Philippines and Singapore, but Malaysia is a surprise. Maybe I simply don't know enough about their history.

 

[Birdjaguar]

View attachment corruption map.png

 

[danjuno]

I'd expect good English in the Philippines and Singapore, but Malaysia is a surprise. Maybe I simply don't know enough about their history.

Like Singapore, they are one of the many, many, many countries that celebrate independence from y'all.

 

[Kyriakos]

Countries where same-sex marriage is legal:

 

[Tee Kay]

[English proficiency map "excludes countries where English is the primary native language"]

Singapore soon won't count for this map as English is close to being the majority native language.

 

[Kyriakos]

Need bridge? Why not Chile?

 

[Miniskirt]

The 5 Maritime National Monuments of the United States: