Guess the Map IV: A Thousand Cries for "Hint Please!"

[Tee Kay]

It's probably a date that a country adopted something or reached a certain milestone.

Note how four out of five of the so-called "communist states", as well as Myanmar, are in grey. Presumably being a socialist/Juche One-Party State/Junta has something to do with these countries not having this thing. The notable exception is Vietnam.

 

[wabatt]

when laws against slavery were created?

 

[mitsho]

Monaco is separate. Isn't it only sports or olympics that are counted separately from France? (nevertheless no idea what it could be)

I don't think it's a continuous scale. See Iran which is both blue and red and they are not side by side. So if it's a scale that runs from oldest to youngest then it has to tracks two things that most of the times go together (exceptions: Iran, Syria, Estonia). Iran does have early women rights, so it might be related to this?

With sports, it might be a combination of olympia and world championships?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

why is Bosnia red ,but Croatia and Serbia blue

 

[emzie]

Monaco is separate. Isn't it only sports or olympics that are counted separately from France? (nevertheless no idea what it could be)

I don't think it's a continuous scale. See Iran which is both blue and red and they are not side by side. So if it's a scale that runs from oldest to youngest then it has to tracks two things that most of the times go together (exceptions: Iran, Syria, Estonia). Iran does have early women rights, so it might be related to this?

With sports, it might be a combination of olympia and world championships?

Monaco is counted separately from France in most things. It's an independent country, no?

 

[W|M]

I know that the Monaco football team plays in the French league.

 

[classical_hero]

That looks likely to be about governmental issues I think from that map.

 

[jtb1127]

Does each color represent one thing? Like with the presidential airplanes map?

 

[mitsho]

Monaco is counted separately from France in most things. It's an independent country, no?

It is, but I just quoted what a French poster said not too long ago in one of these threads. Monaco is French the same way San Marino is Italian, Andorra is Spanish and Liechtenstein is Swiss. So there is a lot of dependency, the currency being the first thing that is the same to come to mind. As stated in sports, there are no Monaco-Leagues for example... and so on and son...

 

[Arakhor]

I was under the impression that Andorra was more French than Spanish.

 

[mitsho]

might be, I've never been there nor do I know very much about it. I just thought the argument looked prettier with three different countries than two, but I don't think it makes a difference to the argument.

 

[emzie]

It is, but I just quoted what a French poster said not too long ago in one of these threads. Monaco is French the same way San Marino is Italian, Andorra is Spanish and Liechtenstein is Swiss. So there is a lot of dependency, the currency being the first thing that is the same to come to mind. As stated in sports, there are no Monaco-Leagues for example... and so on and son...

What I was trying to say was, if it's about government or when government did something, all the little micronations would be coloured differently.

 

[ThjuderEithjurd]

I was under the impression that Andorra was more French than Spanish.

It seems most Catalan to me, and depending on who you ask that may or may not be Spanish.

As for the map as lot of Commonwealth nations are purple.

 

[hoplitejoe]

 

[Tee Kay]

Damn it, this is interesting. The pattern looks a bit familiar too, but I don't know what it is!

 

[mitsho]

I donßt see it very clearly, but how can Lebanon be before Turkey? They were part of the Ottoman Empire at the time for heavens sake.

and Greenland is separate from Denmark, I only see that now. So sthg like start of national team?

Iran has 1910-19 and 1990-1999. The first part was the more liberal era under the last shah, the second relates to the "peaceful era" after the 8-years war with Iraq und the theocratic regime, there were some times of social "warming" in that time too... I don´t think it is connected to Social Rights like the 42-hours week (as that would not explain Greenland), parliaments and other basic political stuff seems also wrong (what would make Denmark, the UK and the US better than say France, Switzerland or the Netherlands?)

 

[EnglishCrusader]

Is it something to do with dates?

 

[jtb1127]

Date of a law passed?

 

[hoplitejoe]

Is it something to do with dates?

Just in case I didn't make it clear, the numbers on the scale are years.

 

[jtb1127]

Just in case I didn't make it clear, the numbers on the scale are years.