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I just want to point out to the map thread that everyone seems to be doing this game of "How many cities can you name?" https://iafisher.com/projects/cities USA https://iafisher.com/projects/cities/europe Europe
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Squalid posted:i think the problem is it's impossible to tell what they were trying for. All of their decisions are confusing and inconsistent. Like why they needed to cut off the Indonesian archipelago at the Wallace line, it's just inexplicable.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Apparently during the Srivijaya and Majapahit eras Buddhism was only transiently spread to areas east of the Wallace Line, like Lombok and Sumbawa and part of Celebes. I have no idea why it seemed to stick more in Java and points west.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Er, meant to attach a pic. Arrow maps are definitely the best maps, good map op even if I don’t know of it’s correctness
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This is much more Involved than my analysis of "Russia is run by a bunch of rich ineffectual pissbabies who think murdering individuals who call them pissbabies is enough to stay in power" but I think it still stands.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I just want to point out to the map thread that everyone seems to be doing this game of "How many cities can you name?" Did I do it right? 
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I like that they moved St. Petersburg and Archangelsk to the west when they could just be in their actual positions.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Apparently during the Srivijaya and Majapahit eras Buddhism was only transiently spread to areas east of the Wallace Line, like Lombok and Sumbawa and part of Celebes. I have no idea why it seemed to stick more in Java and points west. I've read a little about the topic, and while it is fascinating unfortunately it's very poorly documented. One suggestion I've heard is that the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism in island SE Asia was closely tied to the emergence of centralized kingdoms, which imported the courtly culture, literature, scripture, and Brahmins of India. Islands like Sulawesi didn't start to centralize until the medieval period when Islam was already taking over as the prestige religion. For a long time the penetration of these foreign religions remained very shallow, and traditional shamanistic religions continued to be more important to the general population.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Did I do it right? I'm independent Kaliningrad.
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Powered Descent posted:I'm independent Kaliningrad. That’s the Russian Federation. The grey eastern country is China.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I just want to point out to the map thread that everyone seems to be doing this game of "How many cities can you name?" I can't seem to recall the last of the nine US cities with 1 million+ people
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Xelkelvos posted:I can't seem to recall the last of the nine US cities with 1 million+ people Took me ages then my wife got it. It's probably San Antonio
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So maybe Portugal's number is an average, and some idiot hosed up the decimals by three places. Can't say why it's a map though.
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I'm pretty sure that's an edit of the original map where Brazil is the red country.
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So there are two metal bands in the Isle of Man?
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Alternate title: people who know way too much Lord of the Rings trivia per million.
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I did not know the Greeks were relatively more into metal than basically everyone outside of northern Europe
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Andorra has a metal band, okay then.
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I actually find it difficult to believe that Vatican City does not have at least one metal band. And if not, I demand this be fixed.
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The Vatican has 2,3 Popes per square kilometer.
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Elyv posted:I did not know the Greeks were relatively more into metal than basically everyone outside of northern Europe Why do you think Estonia has yet to be included among the Nordic nations?
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Saladman posted:My issue wasn’t with guava’s post so much as the original poster that was claiming the US is a borderline dictatorship. Prison per capita numbers are shameful but also even for that category there are definitely a lot of countries that have wayyy more hosed up prison systems. There’s even some show about that, iirc called Locked Up Abroad or something along those lines. This isn’t defending the disastrous war on drugs, but rather the general SA line that the USA is great Satan, said by people who have lived their whole lives in Western democracies, and I think overwhelmingly the forum is Anglophone westerners on top of that,. weren't you the guy who proclaimed genuine sieg heiling fascists overthrowing a government at gunpoint both cool and good on the grounds you didn't like the guy who told you about the sieg heiling fascists
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I didn't know Sweden had any colonies.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden
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Basically any nation with enough cash up front, and easy access to the Atlantic tried their hand at the colonization game.
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What is shown on the map is Saint Barthélemy, a relatively useless Island that was sold to sweden by the french for trading right in sweden. Being tiny and mostly useless it was made into a freeport, this gave it some income (and made it a small hub for slave ships and confederate exports!) but it was still more of a financial drain so it was given back to France after a century or so.
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Acute Grill posted:Basically any nation with enough cash up front, and easy access to the Atlantic tried their hand at the colonization game. And without cash up front as with Scotland
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And sometimes there was plenty of cash, but there wasn't even a colony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor#Poyais_scheme
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:And sometimes there was plenty of cash, but there wasn't even a colony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor#Poyais_scheme The mosquito kingdom ruled just beacuse it was the british letting the mosquito people do whatever as long as they promised to gently caress with the spanish as much as possible.
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Today I learned that both the Duchy of Courland and the Knights Hospitaller had no poo poo colonies in the Americas.
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Squalid posted:cool maps i found:
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So who all had colonies in what is modern day US? French, dutch, british, spanish, russian, swedish for sure, Denmark if you count the virgin islands right?
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Germany (well, Brandenburg-Prussia, for 4 years).
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Milo and POTUS posted:So who all had colonies in what is modern day US? French, dutch, british, spanish, russian, swedish for sure, Denmark if you count the virgin islands right? England and Scottland should count as independent colonising entities. Germany, through the Northern Marianas Islands Arguably Japan, through the occupation of Guam Canada, barely Was the Republic of Texas a colony? It feels like a colony, but a colony of what? The United States itself? Strange but totally true: the Latter Day Saints Platystemon fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Platystemon posted:Was the Republic of Texas a colony? It feels like a colony, but a colony of what? The United States itself? Basically. There was very little Spanish colonization in the area so it was mostly native land. Mexican government let Americans settle in the area. Americans decided to take the land for themselves because Mexico was limiting their use of slaves
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