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File: Scottish colonization.png (595KB, 2550x3300px) Image search: [Google]

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>>2071253

File: 1280px-Insel_Kalifornien_1650.jpg (445KB, 1280x918px) Image search: [Google]

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From when the Spanish thought California was an island

>>2072079

Heh. I can't believe I actually fell for the "We used to be developed before the Soviets" meme.

>>2071983

what happened? did the brits take them over or did they just die out?

>>2072534
Their colonies merged out with eng;ish colonies during the unification

>>2072513
We "who"?

>>2075979

Eastern Europeans like pretending that they were on par with the West before 1945.

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>>2071983
>>2073086
>>2072534

>>2074828

>play eu4
>reach this cluterfuck
>exit game

>>2076386
What is it a map of?

>>2076392
switZerland pretty sure

>>2076392
>>2076403
looks like switzerland before it became switzerland
also why is the east/west reversed

>>2076392
>>2076403
>>2076417
Both maps show Switzerland, as seen from the North. No idea why they did choose it that way back of the time.
If you are interested, run this trough google translate: http://www.zb.unibe.ch/maps/bis/publications/ks/kartographiegeschichte_hoehener_kloeti.pdf

>>2076387
This is the Tschudi map from 1495/97, which makes it one of the earliest maps of a single country.
Making maps is still popular in Switzerland, nowadays they look something like this
https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&lang=de&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen,ch.bfs.gebaeude_wohnungs_register,ch.bav.haltestellen-oev,ch.swisstopo.swisstlm3d-wanderwege&layers_visibility=false,false,false,false&layers_timestamp=18641231,,,&X=186588.17&Y=715458.51&zoom=6