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System Metternich posted:The Isle of Man ceded to Ireland and/or becoming independent; a good map. DrSunshine posted:Have to say, it's pretty nice being part of that yellow grouping and not be some sort of human/bear hybrid.
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my dad posted:It's a fun little derail, but we've pretty much exhausted it by this point. Case in point: What's going on in New England/the Maritimes? I'm really surprised that it would be different from North America as a whole.
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Gleri posted:What's going on in New England/the Maritimes? I'm really surprised that it would be different from North America as a whole. Quebec probably. Or just that that's where a large number of immigrants from the red areas went.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:16
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The Isle of Man is not part of the UK. It is also habitat for others!! 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Also, another map just because it's true; we have been writing a lot of words. 
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DrSunshine posted:It is also habitat for others!! Does anyone know how Poland managed to stave off the bubonic plague? Seems odd that Poland of all places would be unaffected.
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DrSunshine posted:It is also habitat for others!! Andorra you fuckers Wouldn't want to live in Marseilles at the time!
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HorseRenoir posted:Does anyone know how Poland managed to stave off the bubonic plague? Seems odd that Poland of all places would be unaffected. Furthermore, why is Milan an island of health in Italy?
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Kurtofan posted:Andorra you fuckers That's not Andorra, more like Southern Gascogne/Northern Aragon? How did commercial waypoint Bruges get off lightly?
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a primate posted:Furthermore, why is Milan an island of health in Italy? Because the first people to catch it were literally walled up along with all there friends and family.
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HorseRenoir posted:Does anyone know how Poland managed to stave off the bubonic plague? Seems odd that Poland of all places would be unaffected. They weren't very connected with the outside world at the time.
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Sep 25, 2014 20:52
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Is that because of the Teutonic Order previously conquering all of Poland's coastal territory?
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Didn't Poland and the Netherlands have a large Jewish population relative to the rest of Europe? I heard that certain Jewish practices and customs lowered the spread and severity of the plague. alternatively: the jews did it!
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Sep 25, 2014 21:03
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Let me guess: Parked in Transylvania?
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That's a nice looking whale. Sadly it can't coexist with Romanian fish at the same time..
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Ego-bot posted:Didn't Poland and the Netherlands have a large Jewish population relative to the rest of Europe? I heard that certain Jewish practices and customs lowered the spread and severity of the plague. I think it's more that Poland had a relatively large Jewish population after the plague because everywhere else was blaming the plague on them and killing them/driving them out.
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Ego-bot posted:Didn't Poland and the Netherlands have a large Jewish population relative to the rest of Europe? I heard that certain Jewish practices and customs lowered the spread and severity of the plague.
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Nessus posted:The Jewish and Muslim practice of "taking a loving bath now and again" was probably condusive to general health but its importance may be overstated, as might the filthiness of the average person back then. Even the average dirt farmer likely rinsed his hands and mouth on a regular basis, if nothing else. The Jewish communal baths were sometimes hotbeds for infection, actually. Remoteness or merciless quarantine efforts were probably responsible for the few green spots on that map. A lesson we better remember when ebola goes airborne.
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made of bees posted:I think it's more that Poland had a relatively large Jewish population after the plague because everywhere else was blaming the plague on them and killing them/driving them out. *Twice! Though only for about a decade or two each time.
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Poland didn't escape the plague. There are no reliable statistics about the plague in poland. Edit: Found the quote: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time - John Kelly posted:Poland, like Germany, was squeezed by an octopus-type envelopment. In the July 1349, the first wave of plague entered the country near one of history’s favorite playgrounds, the Polish city of Danzig, where World War II (and later the Solidarity Movement) began. In a series of follow-up assaults, the Black Death took the country from the south via a disease prong advancing northward through Hungary from the Venetian-dominated Balkan coast, and from the east via a thrust out of Russia. Then, in 1351, just as the survivors were telling one another the worst was over, Y. pestis sent a fourth plague prong across the River Oder from Frankfurt to conduct a mopping-up operation. There are no reliable death figures available for Poland but, tellingly, as in England and France, wages in the country soared after the plague, due to a tremendous manpower shortage. Magrov fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:We did? I know we had Caribbean and African possessions, with the obvious triangle trade that comes with it, but this sorta sounds like we also helped other people get their slaves. Is Scotland warping into another dimension here or somethkng?
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icantfindaname posted:Is Scotland warping into another dimension here or somethkng?
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Ego-bot posted:Didn't Poland and the Netherlands have a large Jewish population relative to the rest of Europe? I heard that certain Jewish practices and customs lowered the spread and severity of the plague. The Jews were probably almost wiped out by the plague. http://www.haaretz.com/life/science-medicine/.premium-1.614893 quote:Ashkenazi Jews descend from 350 people, scientists say
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mcustic posted:Slovenia erased all the Roma and many other minorities from all registries after it achieved independence and continues to pretend they never existed. Some of them still live there, stateless, unemployable and without access to basic services. I think you're getting it mixed up with Slovakia? A Buttery Pastry posted:Also, another map just because it's true; we have been writing a lot of words. loving English, always forgetting that Wales exists.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I think you're getting it mixed up with Slovakia? Nope.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:loving English, always forgetting that Wales exists.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Could it be any other way? It is a realistic portrayal of the future of the UK, not some fantasy dreamt up by utopian idealists. That or had Wales join the Scotland/Northumbria side.
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my dad posted:It's a fun little derail, but we've pretty much exhausted it by this point. Case in point: What happened in Hokkaido? Edit: Apparently the Ainu people are hair as gently caress.   Action-Man fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Paul.Power posted:They could at least have called it "United Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland", though. Wales and England had been the Kingdom of England straight up for like many hundred years, with the abolishment of a separate Welsh law system in the mid-1500s cementing the thing. If you merely grant scottish independence by say reversing the act of union then your result is to detach Scotland from "England" which includes Wales.
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ecureuilmatrix posted:How did commercial waypoint Bruges get off lightly? Yeah, I'd like to know as well.
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah, I'd like to know as well. I don't blame the rats for avoiding Belgium.
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Hogge Wild posted:I don't blame the rats for avoiding Belgium. Belgium wasn't invented until 1830.
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I'd love to see that body hair map for women.
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ecureuilmatrix posted:How did commercial waypoint Bruges get off lightly? There's actually just a lack of good historical data on Bruges and its surrounding land during the Black Death and estimates vary pretty widely. That map's using a very optimistic one. Though even the more dire estimates have its impact, at worst, being about average. The theory for why it made out better than the other trade port cities is because of disruptions caused by the Hundred Years War. Acute Grill fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Nice to see my local team represented in Montana, where Dick's doesn't even have a retail location! 
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How are more Falcons jerseys bought in DC than Redskins? 
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Irradiation posted:How are more Falcons jerseys bought in DC than Redskins? There's a big boycott over the Redskins name going on this year. Now why the Falcons over any other team, that's the real question.
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