i recommend everyone learn to recognize colonization on a map. it's a really great skill to have when you're trying to figure out what the truth is in a heavily propagandized media environment
Surely it was the local natives who decided it should be called Lake Victoria? They were probably calling it that for hundreds of years before Europeans arrived.
South parts were colonized by Ottoman Empire and other north Africans after Roman Empire collapse until crusades so for around 1000 years. That is way more than modern history of America.
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lvxferre@mander.xyz · 78 pts · 60d
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 60d
You really be effort posting in this thread today
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 60d
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
Yeah ent
oymology is quite interesting to me as well but not on special interest lvl lollvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 59d
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
lmao
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 60d
Thanks for this, as it explains a lot.
Also, wouldn't Qhadafia be better explained through Rhodesia?
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 60d
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 60d
I would like to live on the cheese coast.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 60d
I'm quite fond of Deutshland myself
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d
I already do
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 9 pts · 60d
This gets more amazing the more I look at it, but why Duckstan?
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 60d
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 6 pts · 60d
Thanks for the explanation but I was more wondering what Iceland has to do with ducks.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 60d
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 60d
Probably because of the common eider. I'm not sure what is its state in the wild, but Iceland makes up the majority of eiderdown harvests globally.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 60d
i recommend everyone learn to recognize colonization on a map. it's a really great skill to have when you're trying to figure out what the truth is in a heavily propagandized media environment
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 5 pts · 59d
Surely it was the local natives who decided it should be called Lake Victoria? They were probably calling it that for hundreds of years before Europeans arrived.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 59d
signs of colonization on a map:
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 59d
We need more pixels this is gold
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 60d
Oh my God it's incredible
Ikonaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 59d
You could have just kept Ireland as it is now
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
true, unfortunately...
vane@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 60d
South parts were colonized by Ottoman Empire and other north Africans after Roman Empire collapse until crusades so for around 1000 years. That is way more than modern history of America.
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
The east side of Britain was colonized by the Vikings. "Big Wota" = the Danelaw + Scotland.
plutopos@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 60d
Some Northern Italians would thank you for separating them from the Southern ones
Archimedes@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 60d
I like it. Nice straight lines.
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 60d
The line through the middle of Sweden and Norway is not far off from separating the southern swedes and norweigns from the samÃ.
bizzle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
The Mediterranean should actually be named after Haile I
davici@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d
I think the cheese coast border works pretty well