Iirc Joeseph Smith claimed that was an ancient "Jaredite" word for honeybee.
The "Jaredites" were an imaginary people from Mesopotamia who left after the collapse of the tower of Babel in sealed boats and ended up in the good ol US of A.
Obviously there is no achaeological evidence for this group of people because Joeseph Smith made them up for his cult fanfic
I like how sporadic state names are, then you get to the midwest and it's just like "fuck it, let's keep Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Ohio". Honorable mention for the Utah-Wyoming-Colorado-New Mexico section
The map renames the actual EPA ecoregions as if they were states. "Deseret" here is just the Central Basin and Range ecoregion, but that happens to line up pretty well with the proposed State of Deseret so the author seems to have just gone with it
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thesystemisdown@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 343d
I'm not too sure where the source data for this post originated, but here is the Wiki for US Ecoregions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecoregions_in_the_United_States_(EPA)
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 343d
What is Deseret? turns out it is not a misspelling of desert on the map.
grte@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 343d
Mormon's fantasy empire.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 343d
Yeah, I looked it up and started to read about it but decided to has better things to do with my time than finish the article.
PaulDrye@lemmings.world · 9 pts · 343d
It was the name the original Mormon settlers in Utah gave to the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 343d
Iirc Joeseph Smith claimed that was an ancient "Jaredite" word for honeybee.
The "Jaredites" were an imaginary people from Mesopotamia who left after the collapse of the tower of Babel in sealed boats and ended up in the good ol US of A.
Obviously there is no achaeological evidence for this group of people because Joeseph Smith made them up for his
cultfanficnokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 343d
Yup, I linked it in my reply.
Carvex@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 343d
What’s up with the Boston portion of Arkansas? What makes it different than Ozark?
Edit: Boston Mountains
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 343d
This is just fanfic.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 343d
I like how sporadic state names are, then you get to the midwest and it's just like "fuck it, let's keep Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Ohio". Honorable mention for the Utah-Wyoming-Colorado-New Mexico section
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 343d
Maybe they should all be named after tribes
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 343d
Yes, and also not use the name of the whole continent for itself like a spoiled bitch.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 343d
Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 343d
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1n72as0/the_united_ecoregions_of_america
wakest@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 343d
why is Deseret on here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
Skua@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 343d
The map renames the actual EPA ecoregions as if they were states. "Deseret" here is just the Central Basin and Range ecoregion, but that happens to line up pretty well with the proposed State of Deseret so the author seems to have just gone with it
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d
source?
Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 343d
/u/Bradinator- on reddit
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 343d
thank you
atocci@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 343d
Iowa ❤️