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Guavanaut posted:It would be about here I think. So in this scenario where the entire Middle East gets upheaved the Arab Shia State decided that taking land from places like Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia was alright but decided to leave Kuwait and Qatar alone?
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Basil Hayden posted:Also Arab Shia State, for that matter.
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Guavanaut posted:Duckland über alles It's a bunny! If you just tilt your head a bit.
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Torrannor posted:Interesting that there is much less overlap, and that it's also pretty different from the light hair map. Where did light eyes first show up? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29213892 The original europeans had dark skin and blue eyes, then about 7000 years ago people with pale skin and brown eyes came over from the middle-east, bringing with them agriculture.
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At the point you're making maps as crazy as the Middle East one above, you might as well merge rump Syria and rump Iraq. You could then call it...um...the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
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Tree Goat posted:When I googled "map drawn in blood" I got this old chestnut, which is pretty a propos actually. All this bold redrawing of a politically tense region and the West Bank still gets "status undetermined." Palestinians really can't catch a break.
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Patter Song posted:At the point you're making maps as crazy as the Middle East one above, you might as well merge rump Syria and rump Iraq. You could then call it...um...the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.  Why don't we ever get maps with redrawn African borders? There are enough ethnic and religious conflicts to warrant one.
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Torrannor posted:
In seriousness, the middle east is relatively compact and has a lot of areas of very minimal/no population to drive arbitrary borders through. There's also relatively few native groups of people large enough to "justify" a state of their own to play with, as compared to All Of Africa.
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Nintendo Kid posted:In seriousness, the middle east is relatively compact and has a lot of areas of very minimal/no population to drive arbitrary borders through. There's also relatively few native groups of people large enough to "justify" a state of their own to play with, as compared to All Of Africa. Yeah Africa is actually huge and complicated and filled with enormous diversity. Since most people don't really know/care anything about the continent, it doesn't get the same attention. There have been a couple alt-African maps in this thread though, one along ethnic/tribal/language lines, and one (which had Europe at the bottom) some kind of alternate history that had Cordoba still up and running. The latter in particular was odd/neat.
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Reveilled posted:
It's really just a random guess really but it's a decent one.
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Tree Goat posted:When I googled "map drawn in blood" I got this old chestnut, which is pretty a propos actually. Reposting from last year when the map showed up here before: 
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Guavanaut posted:All that alt-politics border stroking, and they missed out the one that actually happened. My favorite is Kuwait apparently untouched in the middle of Shia Iraq
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Reveilled posted:Reposting from last year when the map showed up here before: Missouri and Kentucky being in the Confederate States is really loving funny because, well, they were always in the Union. Also, why is Maryland in the CSA? Washington DC is there!
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Reveilled posted:Reposting from last year when the map showed up here before: This map can gently caress right off. Neither California nor Texas would willingly share a successor state with each other. 
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Family Values posted:This map can gently caress right off. Neither California nor Texas would willingly share a successor state with each other. The name is a hint to the thought process there: They won't have any choice, because they'll be overrun and overtaken by illegal immigration. Won't be any whites left, and won't that show all those hippies in California the error of their ways... too late!
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HonorableTB posted:Missouri and Kentucky being in the Confederate States is really loving funny because, well, they were always in the Union. Also, why is Maryland in the CSA? Washington DC is there! The Confederate government of Kentucky, though it spent most of the time it existed in exile, did technically gain control the state capital for something like a day or two in late 1862.
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The point of that map is that it is irrational and stupid, just like the Middle East map.
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I don't think that map is nearly as awful, really (speaking as someone born in Texas and living half-and-half in Ontario and Montréal). Texas and California aren't all that different even though we hate eachother, and they'll be even less different in a few decades as Texas swings more and more blue. Abolish Sequoyah and Deseret, adjust some of the CSA borders, and institute an EU-clone and I'd probably take it over the status quo. Maybe divide rump-USA and rump-Canada into two or three total states, stick upstate NY into wherever Ontario's in or in New England, and turn Hudson-Delaware an eastern seaboard state with Delmarva, Philly, and NYC. Of course we'd also have to carve up Mexico a little more. Hello, Maya Republic.
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Tree Goat posted:When I googled "map drawn in blood" I got this old chestnut, which is pretty a propos actually. No free Artsakh? Tsk, tsk.
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vintagepurple posted:I don't think that map is nearly as awful, really (speaking as someone born in Texas and living half-and-half in Ontario and Montréal). Texas and California aren't all that different even though we hate eachother, and they'll be even less different in a few decades as Texas swings more and more blue. Abolish Sequoyah and Deseret, adjust some of the CSA borders, and institute an EU-clone and I'd probably take it over the status quo. Maybe divide rump-USA and rump-Canada into two or three total states, stick upstate NY into wherever Ontario's in or in New England, and turn Hudson-Delaware an eastern seaboard state with Delmarva, Philly, and NYC. Of course we'd also have to carve up Mexico a little more. Hello, Maya Republic. Not a single person in california gives a poo poo about Texas outside of you ruining our school books FYI.
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Tree Goat posted:When I googled "map drawn in blood" I got this old chestnut, which is pretty a propos actually. I like the idea that Pakistan falls apart, yet India still doesn't control all of Kashmir.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Not a single person in california gives a poo poo about Texas outside of you ruining our school books FYI. That's your fault for not just buying them in bulk.
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Kalos posted:All this bold redrawing of a politically tense region and the West Bank still gets "status undetermined." Palestinians really can't catch a break. And Nagorno-Karabakh gets no love at all. Edit: Doh, someone beat me to it (Artsakh).
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Kalos posted:All this bold redrawing of a politically tense region and the West Bank still gets "status undetermined." Palestinians really can't catch a break. Now now the authors graciously awarded the Golan Heights to Syria. Can't take the West Bank from it too! That would be too cruel! Also, that American map isn't nearly of the same quality as the Middle Eastern map. Where are the Polar Indian Sovereign States and the Tennessee Independent Theocratic State?
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What sort of definition of Cascadia includes all of Idaho? That entirely defeats the purpose of the pipe dream.
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Arglebargle III posted:You mean Baltic? In general the place where a mutation pops up isn't going to be where it's most frequent, you get high frequency of newer mutations that aren't actually selected for through the founder effect, where a part of the population breaks away and has that mutation in a higher frequency. Ditocoaf posted:What sort of definition of Cascadia includes all of Idaho? That entirely defeats the purpose of the pipe dream. Our natural border is the continental divide! :cryingsalmon:
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Ditocoaf posted:What sort of definition of Cascadia includes all of Idaho? That entirely defeats the purpose of the pipe dream. The Census definition of the Pacific Northwest and/or the original Oregon Territory with a more sane eastern border:  I don't really know why you'd give a gently caress anyway since Eastern Washington has more people than Idaho + Eastern Oregon combined (this is a bit of an exaggeration but it's pretty close).
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More people than Idaho and Eastern Oregon combined? Holy poo poo!!
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I'm fine with cutting out Idaho if we can also trade the Tri-cities for Boise.
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What's the origin of this?
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It's called a Europa regina and was especially popular during the 16th century. A variant where the shape of Queen Europe actually follows the geography: 
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Carbon dioxide posted:What's the origin of this? The unfulfilled dream of a universal monarchy. :cryingdoubleheadedeagle:
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Not a single person in california gives a poo poo about Texas outside of you ruining our school books FYI. Is the joke that every Californian who cares about Texas already lives in Travis County?
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:Is the joke that every Californian who cares about Texas already lives in Travis County? Yes, and they all need to go back where they came from.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Not a single person in california gives a poo poo about Texas outside of you ruining our school books FYI. Yeah well we're still not even talking to you! Just btw it's not like we care or anything. Bitch. But we're totally not talking. We're seeing hotter guys.
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System Metternich posted:It's called a Europa regina and was especially popular during the 16th century. Wow. This map is interesting for other reasons. It's a Dutch map and shows a lot of exonyms that aren't in use anymore. Can anyone identify that island called 'Enkhuize', north of the Faroe Islands? I can't find it on Google Maps. It's weirding me out because Enkhuizen is the name of a Dutch town. Jan Mayen is on the map as well, showing that this was the time of the Dutch whalers, so lots of people went that general direction. But I've no idea what that Enkhuize island could be.
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 Results of the recent primary elections for the Socialist Party, shown by % of voters for the winner and probably next prime minister António Costa.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Wow. This map is interesting for other reasons. It's a Dutch map and shows a lot of exonyms that aren't in use anymore. 
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Carbon dioxide posted:Wow. This map is interesting for other reasons. It's a Dutch map and shows a lot of exonyms that aren't in use anymore. It also has Papeij (pronounced like "Popeye" in Dutch), which is a phantom island, so don't worry about it too much. twoday fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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