420 Gank Mid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqKkYYALMU

fishmech posted:

Seems legit

Redczar posted:

Overlap of historical borders and claims

Redczar posted:

For the parts in Brazil they're sourcing the Banda Oriental which was Uruguay+Rio Grande do Sol. The parts of Argentina appear to be a very generous interpretation of the borders of the Federal League, which occupied only parts of Córdoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, etc, but not the entire provinces.

duckmaster posted:

When Napoleon invaded Spain in the early 1800s the whole area was under Spanish control. They finally confirmed the news that the Spanish King had been overthrown in 1810 and the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata declared independence a few years later (this was the predecessor to Argentina). The eastern most provinces (Uruguay and that bit that stretches west) wanted to run things a bit differently and split from the provinces, declaring the Federal League, which is sort-of considered the predecessor to Uruguay. The map appears to show their rough borders.

The opposing government of the United Provinces was referred to by the brilliantly named The Supreme Directorship who fought a brief but bloody war until their defeat in 1920. The Federal League signed a treaty with them to return to the United Provinces as a federal entity. The entire country erupted into a series of civil wars, with Uruguay becoming independent in 1851; the provinces to the west of the Uruguay River had chosen to stay with Argentina as they were never really Uruguayan to start with. The area to the north of Uruguays current border was mainly worthless jungle and given to Brazil as thanks for supporting them against Argentina in the civil war (the indigenous peoples were, of course, not consulted on this one). Brazil wanted Uruguay and that worthless jungle area as a buffer against Argentinian expansion and maintained almost total control over Uruguayan foreign relations and defence, and a clause in the constitution allowing them to intervene in internal affairs whenever they drat well pleased (and they did).

In 1863 the Argentinians invaded Uruguay to overthrow the government who were allied with Paraguay; that government requested assistance from Paraguay who decided to invade Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay itself (all at the same time!) which went just as well as you'd expect. It did help to stabilise Argentinian-Brazillian relations and Brazil largely left Uruguay to run their own affairs after that.

Basically the whole area was a complete mess in the 19th century. Uruguays population at independence was about 75,000 (with a quarter of that just in Montevideo) so whole areas of South American territory could be "annexed" by a treaty between two factions, with nobody from either group having to bother actually going to that area to control it. Whoever controlled the rivers controlled the Plate; the land was just for prestige.

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Antti posted:

Tampere is a bad example of phonemic Finnish since it's pronounced [manse].

Count Roland posted:

Yeah the static "province" borders is really annoying. Its a cool idea, but way too messy to be usable right now. I'll stick with Gea Con, thank-you.

Count Roland posted:

http://geacron.com/home-en/

Zudgemud posted:

Something something oil drilling kills Brazil?

Kamrat posted:

I pressed the quote button you while your image was broken to see a link to the map, since you couldn't get it to work I had to try it for myself. It worked for me for some reason.

System Metternich posted:

One last linguistic tidbit: Manchu, the former language of the Manchurian people, was brought to China by the Qing dynasty and was intended to become the main language of the Qing's new empire. It didn't work out, though; in the 18th century there're already complaints that the language is in decline, and by the 19th century even the Imperial court couldn't speak it fluently anymore. It was (kinda haphazardly, apparently) taught to civil and military officers, but this didn't really seem to work all that well. Today there's the grand number of ten people remaining who can call Manchu their native language, all of them at least 90 years old.

Tumblr of scotch posted:

Wanna play that map in Civ.

goose willis posted:

As a New Yorker I can tell you that we loving hate tourists

Carbon dioxide posted:

I'm gonna post xkcd and nobody can stop me.

Budzilla posted:

Well Thatcher was considering to hand back the Falklands 2 years before the invasion. If the people of Gibraltar want independence or to join Spain they can. Although neither of those things will ever happen because the status quo is a much more attractive (and popular) prospect.

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

Morocco, have you not been reading the thread?

icantfindaname posted:

they're not white, no. 'western civilization' is code for 'the white race'

Elyv posted:

What game is this?

Craptacular posted:

This is an interactive one. Draw the 50 states from memory, one by one, and it'll make a map of the US. Here's my pitiful attempt.

TinTower posted:

I didn't do too bad with the map considering I'm not a septic.

It wouldn't download, though.