Imagine showing a modern map to someone back then! I'd love to know all the questions they'd ask. Obviously one of the main things is german reunification, but if they ask why Germany is so much smaller than the German Confederation, then you'd have to explain 2 World Wars. And Italian Reunification would be a big point too, I suppose. I don't know if the Ottomans were called the "sick man of Europe" back then, but if not you'd have to explain why they lost their whole empire. I think they'd be extremely shocked about Russia. Sure, maybe they'd understand an independent Poland and Finland, but there are so many more countries in eastern Europe now. One of the questions would probably be asking why Ireland exists without northern Ireland. I suppose Austria would also be shocking. I don't know if their empire was as unstable as Austria-Hungary, but if not then you'd have to explain a lot. Sometimes I wish historians had a time machine to go back and show this map to someone back then and find out all the questions they'd have to ask.
As a Hungarian, it would be hard too to explain, why is the Hungary became little as hell, and what happened to the Habsburg Empire (it called Austria-Hungary only from 1867).
Up until the mid 1800s Austria was, in competition with France, the most important power in mainland Europe. In 1815 it was pretty stable. It was the rise of nationalism, later in the century, that would make it increasingly unstable. In fact nationalism is probably the main force driving the change seen in these 2 maps...
I have some time period suggestions for more of these: 1954 (just after the allies left Germany and Austria) 1870 (just before the Franco-prussian war) 1774 (just before the American and French revolutions) 1750 (just before the 7 years war) 1700 (just before the war of Spanish succession) I love these map videos and I really want to see more of them
If he was going to make another one I’d pick 1700. 1954 would be just uniting some countries and splitting Germany. The other ones would be too similar to 1815 to be interesting
@Ramazan C How could the Dutch creat the Netherland? If there was no Netherlande from the begining, there was no Duch. Who come first. The chicken or the egg?
i'm a history buff who knows lots about european history and am pretty knowledgeable about geography and the borders that existed in different times, and because i focus on history more than recent events, i'd say it puts me in a weird spot where maps like the pre-great war map, and victorian maps of europe are more familiar to me than the modern one. weird isn't it?
I feel your pain, brother. A related thing: when walking through cities, my vision feels more like a collage of all the black-and-white photographs I have seen of these places also.
I hope you revive this series by changing the map next to 1648! That's probably the next most fitting date back in time and I'd love to see it. Keep going further back, these "changing the map" videos are your best! Keeping going back, 1492, 1300, 1200, 1066, 800.
Nice video! Oh, and I see you included the part of Prussia that is now Czech this time around :) (I’m the guy who mentioned you forgot to add the area to the German Empire in your video about the 1914 map)
Even my country that gets completely Ignored as a country and merged into another area that is mistakenly called a country by everyone even though IT'S A DAMN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNION THAT IS ALSO THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO MY COUNTRY.
There is a line in Orson Well's film THE THIRD MAN. It is about Italy and it's history. An historical comment made by the character that was played by Well's. Besides that I don't know if you ever seen that movie, but it is an excellent film and is considered to be one of the best films ever made. It is worth watching.
@Esteban Outeiral Dias Really, mozzarella and tomato sauce on bread. That is an Italian creation and the origins are easily traced. Greece had flat breads. Pasta did not exist in Arab countries. Pasta can be traced back a thousand year on the Italian peninsula and possibly longer. The Italian peninsula not only produced the Roman Empire they had the Renaissance which gave Europe their culture. It is so common for people to try to alter the history of Italy and detract from it's history, that there is phrase for it. I won't state it here for it may be taken as an insult.
@Masterdeetectiv im british and a lot of stuff that make up our culture are from other countries (who wouldve guessed right 🤣) so yes i think you are right
Thank you!!!! I knew about 90% of this history, but I was never able to visualize it...Your map presentation was fantastic, and clarified many of the things I wondered on how Europe was before WWI...Your presentation should be shown in world history classes...It would teach many students who thought that Germany and Italy were countries long before the 1800's...and show them that they were, in fact, very recent countries...
People tend to think that the German states were a total mess. But I think it's rather brilliant. The local people had their respective identity and government, whilst most of the states were also organized in a bigger European Union type alliance.
@Survivory Tube Ähm... Not so fast, Herr Voisin... Germany has also access on nukes. And this since decades, thanks to our American friends. Germany it's the only member of the NATO, that the Americans offered that option. That shows exactly how the trust us, as an ally...
Very well done ... Great presentation! Though two centuries ago not many people had either access to maps nor would the vast majority have had the leisure to indulge in such an exercise.
i love it i like the videos you did with the interwar period forgot what year it was exactly and the 1914 one hope you do more and quick suggestion i think you should do one in 1942 when the axis powers dominated europe
Maps are too underrated when studying history. Like seriously. I was shocked at seeing how much of Europe the Ottoman Empire actually had :/ some of those places are now part of the EU. that also explains that weird border between Croatia and Bosnia. 8:51 The border between this empire and the russian one is so hilarious no wonder they've fought each other for the rest of the cenruty :/ it was so predictable lmao
You sir, are one of the best explainers out here. You have the perfect voice wich comes with a solid knowledge and explanation. I Enjoy watching ur vids!
Something that would be great is a video about the changes going back every 100 years for as far as we have reliable data... ofcourse in such a video it would be best to only talk about major changes and not the smaller details, but it would still be fun to watch.
I am glad you included Hanover. The Americans go on a lot about us Brits employing German mercenaries in the revolutionary war, but actually they were just loyal Hanoverian citizens serving their king.
65% of the Germans that fought for the British in the Revolutionary War were actually from Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Hanau, not Hanover. So many were in fact mercenaries.
Very well done! Obviously, there are some oversimplifications and inaccuracies; many of today's states were certainly more predictable than you say, and already existed long before 1815. But you manage to make the main point: there is nothing static or 'this-is-supposed-to-be-the-way-of-things' about almost any national border.
Fun fact: After Napoleon was exiled the first time, he came back and was surrounded by a French Regiment. He then shouted "I am your Emperor! Who would shoot their Emperor?" The soldiers then joined forces with Napoleon and he rose to power again for 100 days (I think?)
Thank you so god damn much man! No one ever seems to recognise the fact that Norway and Sweden were in a personal union and not just the same country. We fought abloody war in 1814 to achieve a union with Seden and not straight up anexation. Thank you for being a good mother****** and actually researching stuff before you tell people about us!
An interesting map project would be to match all the different treaties and established borders and see which sections of national borders have lasted the longest and which territories have been under the control of their nations for the longest, even if as vassals or autonomies. As in which areas can politically be understood as being the areas they claim to be.
Wow. Superb essay. I'm going to watch it again. However, it would be better if the map had been panned slightly farther south (not much information at the top), and stretched a bit to the east, even at the expense of altering the aspect ratio (squeezing), if necessary.
I love these types of videos ! I bet my ancestors under the Ottoman empire never thought that one day their map would look like today considering how powerful and dictatorial it was ! I wonder what it’ll look like 200 years from now ! I have some not so good predictions haha !
@Usama Ayech Yes but humanity has always been moving in an extremely fast pace. Back then writing was seen as "fast paced", then letters, then messenger systems, then post mail etc... things were shocking to the people back then as well and so they thought the end of the world was coming soon but it did not come. The same thing is happening now. We keep seeing technology move fast so we worry that the end times are coming etc...but they most likely will not be coming as soon as we think and at the end of the day, again, only God knows when.
@Miranda Pillsbury The humanity is developing in unprecedented pace .. just 20 years ago we used to write letters that need weeks to arrive, now at our fingertips we transfer money, communicate and entertain .. where are we heading ? what the life would look like in a 50 years time ? it is scary
@Usama Ayech People have been saying this for thousands of years. Only God knows when Jesus is coming. To say Jesus is coming soon is ridiculous. All the end times signs have been there since ancient Greek times and yet they have not come yet.
I own an atlas from 1856, where all the tiny German and Italian states are all listed. Imagine having to remember all of them for an exam 150 years ago...
Its funny because the Swiss confederation used to include Mulhouse until 1796, when the French aggressively invaded and annexed Mulhouse as well as what is now the southernmost part of Alsace. Fun fact: the swiss have been neutral ever since.
thank you very much for making this video! I have a class of "congrès de vienne " and I literally understood nothing as there are drastic changes of the maps from 19century to today.
I know is an old video but here are some fixed mistakes: Morocco, Spain and Portugal changed territories since 1815 Spain took some small territory close to Ceuta in Morocco in 1860 Africa War. Portugal and Spain had some micro-disputed territories normally called fresnos or contiendas, all this tiny gaps where finally fixed in 1926. And we can't forget of Couto Misto micronation.
Meh : losing land in wars -> germany Meh: losing land because of 1 serbian man -> austo-hungarian empire *0 IQ* : losing land by the north sea -> NeThErLaNdS
(To the tune of "The Battle of New Orleans") In 1815 we took a little trip Way on down to old Vienna to see Klemens Metternich Now that the wars were over and we'd whupped Napoleon We wanted to see order and some peace for everyone.
My 4x great grandfather was either 21 or 19 in 1815 and his son, my 3x great grandfather, was one of the last Grand Army men alive from the US civil war of the 2nd Maryland infantry
My Great Grandma or Great Great was born in 1830 or 1830 in Ostfriesland (East Frisia) And my family got its roots in America around 1850. So my family left before Germany was unified. It was quite interesting to learn this. And this is confirmed through both family stories and online death records. She died in 1920 at the age of 90. Damn that would be a fucking wild life. Witnessing the German unification, some small wars, and even WWI. She was an Amazing woman and she has passed down some stories to our family. And thanks to her my family lives in America today.
@Hat for a cat Saying that I am writing a paragraph is a bit hypocritical. Well my name is in Swedish so figuring that out isn't too hard, is it? The reason that matters is because you really glorify the polish siege of Moscow when it doesn't really matter historically.
@Hat for a cat 1. It isn't about that, it is about defeating Russia and succeding in holding up an army in the Russian terrain because of how enormous it is. If you read anything about the armies that was closest to defeating Russia Sweden is almost always brought up, and that is just a fact, and i know that through reading about history, the Polish conquest is not nearly as known. 2. It cerainly did result in long lasting political consequences, through that war, Russia was able to rise to a major European power, taking the Swedish Empires place as the biggest power in Europe, if it was not for that war, Russia would probably not be close to anything it is today, remember that the Great Northern War was kind of the last blow for the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. There are still Swedish speaking towns in Ukraine aswell. 3. I am not undermining Poltava, The Swedish Empire did lose the war and it did fall of the place it had as a major power. 4. Saying that the siege of Moscow had long lasting effects is just ridiculous, sure it had some effects but the struggles between Poland-Lithuania and Russia are much older than the siege.
@Nice Guy and I can easily tell you're a swede, and what does it matter? I don't feel like writing a paragraph in response, so I'll just say it like that: 1. Charles XII *nearly* taking Moscow wasn't as influential as you think it was. It definitely isn't nearly as known as the other examples, actually I even don't think, that it's more known than the Polish conquest. 2. It certainly *did* result in lasting political consequences. 3. You're undermining poltava 4. If we're trying to determine which event had more "results" I'd say it's the polish taking moscow, seeing as this later resulted in long-standing Poland-Russia struggles and this would lead to the annexation of Poland, and world-wide consquences, such as tensions and unrest (polish uprisings and emigrations, later strengthened by the happenings of the year of 1848) which would later have consequences lasting to this *exact* day.
@Hat for a cat I can so easily tell you are polish, why do you think that nobody knows about poland siezing moscow? Becuase it didn't result in any thing at all, so nobody cares about it, and the famous ones are Charles XII, Napoleon and Hitler, the reason for the two first being famous is because it was very successful at first against the Russian Army, but then they starved and froze to death, the last one is because it was the leargest military operation ever.
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Europe in 1815: we won't have a major war in at least 100 years!
Europe in 1914: we got so close...
one more year ;-;
Good point
@Scipio Africanus it was restricted in only one area though
What's with the German Danish war 1864, the Prussian Austrian war 1866 and the German French War 1870/1871.
its funny how most of people don't know crimean war made the tensions rise and eventually was one reason why world war 1 had started
Imagine showing a modern map to someone back then! I'd love to know all the questions they'd ask.
Obviously one of the main things is german reunification, but if they ask why Germany is so much smaller than the German Confederation, then you'd have to explain 2 World Wars. And Italian Reunification would be a big point too, I suppose. I don't know if the Ottomans were called the "sick man of Europe" back then, but if not you'd have to explain why they lost their whole empire. I think they'd be extremely shocked about Russia. Sure, maybe they'd understand an independent Poland and Finland, but there are so many more countries in eastern Europe now. One of the questions would probably be asking why Ireland exists without northern Ireland. I suppose Austria would also be shocking. I don't know if their empire was as unstable as Austria-Hungary, but if not then you'd have to explain a lot.
Sometimes I wish historians had a time machine to go back and show this map to someone back then and find out all the questions they'd have to ask.
@C V "similar borders to the modern"
Take a look at Hungary bro 💀
Todays border and historical border are literally two different things.
As a Hungarian, it would be hard too to explain, why is the Hungary became little as hell, and what happened to the Habsburg Empire (it called Austria-Hungary only from 1867).
Up until the mid 1800s Austria was, in competition with France, the most important power in mainland Europe. In 1815 it was pretty stable. It was the rise of nationalism, later in the century, that would make it increasingly unstable. In fact nationalism is probably the main force driving the change seen in these 2 maps...
They'd be extremely confused as they didn't have accurate maps like we do today
@SciBlast Officialsweden owned norway
What I’ve learned from playing EU4 is:
*POLAND KEEPS MOVING*
Gotta keep avoiding those Germans
and disappearing
Poland is in your heart not on the map
@Ben Mountain Gangster 😱😱
@Riley Davis gas state*
I have some time period suggestions for more of these:
1954 (just after the allies left Germany and Austria)
1870 (just before the Franco-prussian war)
1774 (just before the American and French revolutions)
1750 (just before the 7 years war)
1700 (just before the war of Spanish succession)
I love these map videos and I really want to see more of them
The allies left austria in autumn of 1955 (not 1954) and they left germany (completely) decades later.
1870 map is practically the same to the 1815 map other than north german federation, Italy and Romania
@TentTheGamer perhaps
If he was going to make another one I’d pick 1700. 1954 would be just uniting some countries and splitting Germany. The other ones would be too similar to 1815 to be interesting
i'm pretty sure even the modern map is unrecognizable to most people today
@United States of America cap, im american in 6th grade and we havent even learnt about european history yet.....
It makes sense when you think about it. The biggest change is just German unification and many regions such as Poland gaining independence
I recognize the whole map
soamd123 you're right
unrecognizable to most americans
I love that. Netherlands didn't loss land to a nation no they lost it to a sea. Really shows dutch enerigineering is nothing to laugh at
@Ramazan C How could the Dutch creat the Netherland? If there was no Netherlande from the begining, there was no Duch. Who come first. The chicken or the egg?
So what you're saying is we shouldn't laugh at Dutch engineering because they lost land to..water? Confusing
Svensk Drama 3 no? they gained the land
Well, Dutch Indies does make lots of money to engineering so, colonialism on it's best?
Cathal Hughes mean
You should make a map of Europe in 1618, before the 30 Years War.
Good idea
Ah yes, and Alsace was independant back then.
He should do a map of europe in 117 AD that would be fun
Maghreb Mapping no he died in 1821
i'm a history buff who knows lots about european history and am pretty knowledgeable about geography and the borders that existed in different times, and because i focus on history more than recent events, i'd say it puts me in a weird spot where maps like the pre-great war map, and victorian maps of europe are more familiar to me than the modern one. weird isn't it?
I feel your pain, brother.
A related thing: when walking through cities, my vision feels more like a collage of all the black-and-white photographs I have seen of these places also.
I always hated looking at maps that didn't have Germany as a unified state Hahaha. The tiny states in the middle always gave me a headache
@spydow I am Pole and I can say the same.
As a French, I love it. Always feels safer when Germany looks like a broken pot.
Well don’t play eu4
'Countries aren't static and change a lot.' - Me: *Laughs in portuguese*
Agrees in spanish
I’m Portuguese
Huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehue
GOA: laughs in Konkani
Portuguese Brazil and Portuguese Africa: well yes, but actually no
Such an improvement from the last two videos, great work! Maybe for your next video you could do 1492
@Milky Way how about 1215
Spencer O'Dowd how about 1300
What about just continue working backwards? Europe in 1789? 1715? 1648? 1618?
I hope you revive this series by changing the map next to 1648! That's probably the next most fitting date back in time and I'd love to see it. Keep going further back, these "changing the map" videos are your best! Keeping going back, 1492, 1300, 1200, 1066, 800.
On April 1st make a video called “Changing the map of europe to the year 2219” where you just make up stuff
XD
Well he would classify it by modern wantings and real facts(eg millatary )
You sir, are a genius
Nice video! Oh, and I see you included the part of Prussia that is now Czech this time around :) (I’m the guy who mentioned you forgot to add the area to the German Empire in your video about the 1914 map)
Thanks! I was a lot more rigorous in the map drawing process this time around. I'm glad that it shows :)
Love to every single country in Europe
From 🇩🇰
You are from savoy
I’m also danish hej alle sammen
@abcde_ghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz No it's not but it is just south of there.
@Josephine Stalin which country is that? the faroe islands? :0
Even my country that gets completely Ignored as a country and merged into another area that is mistakenly called a country by everyone even though IT'S A DAMN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNION THAT IS ALSO THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO MY COUNTRY.
why is italy so full of culture?
italy 200 years ago:
There is a line in Orson Well's film THE THIRD MAN. It is about Italy and it's history. An historical comment made by the character that was played by Well's. Besides that I don't know if you ever seen that movie, but it is an excellent film and is considered to be one of the best films ever made. It is worth watching.
@Esteban Outeiral Dias Really, mozzarella and tomato sauce on bread. That is an Italian creation and the origins are easily traced. Greece had flat breads. Pasta did not exist in Arab countries. Pasta can be traced back a thousand year on the Italian peninsula and possibly longer. The Italian peninsula not only produced the Roman Empire they had the Renaissance which gave Europe their culture. It is so common for people to try to alter the history of Italy and detract from it's history, that there is phrase for it. I won't state it here for it may be taken as an insult.
@Masterdeetectiv im british and a lot of stuff that make up our culture are from other countries (who wouldve guessed right 🤣) so yes i think you are right
@Esteban Outeiral Dias not stealing its just how culture spreads
@Esteban Outeiral Dias improve*
Can you please make a video about the map before the french revolution and how it changed in the wienna congress?
Riktigt bra kvalitet!
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"In addition to losing a bit of land to the North Sea"
Netherlands: THAT DAMN SEA
Thank you!!!! I knew about 90% of this history, but I was never able to visualize it...Your map presentation was fantastic, and clarified many of the things I wondered on how Europe was before WWI...Your presentation should be shown in world history classes...It would teach many students who thought that Germany and Italy were countries long before the 1800's...and show them that they were, in fact, very recent countries...
People tend to think that the German states were a total mess.
But I think it's rather brilliant. The local people had their respective identity and government, whilst most of the states were also organized in a bigger European Union type alliance.
@Cringe Fairy Yep! And that was exactly what Europe's original catastrophe was...
@Survivory Tube Ähm... Not so fast, Herr Voisin... Germany has also access on nukes. And this since decades, thanks to our American friends. Germany it's the only member of the NATO, that the Americans offered that option. That shows exactly how the trust us, as an ally...
Well, only after 1815, it was a total mess when it was part of the holy Roman Empire
Ah, the 19th century. Truly one of the most interesting time periods
Very well done ... Great presentation! Though two centuries ago not many people had either access to maps nor would the vast majority have had the leisure to indulge in such an exercise.
Please make more map videos, this was really well done
Love this. If you ever come back to this, could you do the map of Europe in 1440?
These are awesome videos. So amazing. Keep making them😊
i love it i like the videos you did with the interwar period forgot what year it was exactly and the 1914 one hope you do more and quick suggestion i think you should do one in 1942 when the axis powers dominated europe
Please make more of these
Suggestion: 1900. I think it would be interesting to see how the world looked as the 20th century began.
1914s just a better year right before the great war when the archduke got assasinated
Maps are too underrated when studying history. Like seriously. I was shocked at seeing how much of Europe the Ottoman Empire actually had :/ some of those places are now part of the EU. that also explains that weird border between Croatia and Bosnia. 8:51 The border between this empire and the russian one is so hilarious no wonder they've fought each other for the rest of the cenruty :/ it was so predictable lmao
please make more videos like this. i love them so much
You sir, are one of the best explainers out here. You have the perfect voice wich comes with a solid knowledge and explanation. I Enjoy watching ur vids!
The ironic thing about the German Confederation is that the Prussian part of Prussia isn’t even in it lol
@Kelly Mcbright are you trolling ?
@ElYisusKing No. It was not.
@Kelly Mcbright Kingdom of Prussia was ruled by the house of Brandenburg
@ElYisusKing No, it was not.
@Kelly Mcbright Prussia was Brandenburg with another name lol, that's why the capital was in Berlin and not in Königsberg
Something that would be great is a video about the changes going back every 100 years for as far as we have reliable data... ofcourse in such a video it would be best to only talk about major changes and not the smaller details, but it would still be fun to watch.
I am glad you included Hanover. The Americans go on a lot about us Brits employing German mercenaries in the revolutionary war, but actually they were just loyal Hanoverian citizens serving their king.
65% of the Germans that fought for the British in the Revolutionary War were actually from Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Hanau, not Hanover. So many were in fact mercenaries.
Thank you France, Spain, and Portugal for keeping your borders the same.
And Morocco. Don't forget that famous European nation with the same borders.
tornadonuniversify If you mean they gained the most land than no, Russia had more land.
We can't be bothered. Cheers from Portugal.
But france changed its borders....
Very well done! Obviously, there are some oversimplifications and inaccuracies; many of today's states were certainly more predictable than you say, and already existed long before 1815. But you manage to make the main point: there is nothing static or 'this-is-supposed-to-be-the-way-of-things' about almost any national border.
Fun fact: After Napoleon was exiled the first time, he came back and was surrounded by a French Regiment. He then shouted "I am your Emperor! Who would shoot their Emperor?"
The soldiers then joined forces with Napoleon and he rose to power again for 100 days (I think?)
@Survivory Tube It isn't, it really happened.
Well that's what I learnt at school, at least.
Although the shouting part might have been embellished.
Thank you so god damn much man! No one ever seems to recognise the fact that Norway and Sweden were in a personal union and not just the same country. We fought abloody war in 1814 to achieve a union with Seden and not straight up anexation. Thank you for being a good mother****** and actually researching stuff before you tell people about us!
An interesting map project would be to match all the different treaties and established borders and see which sections of national borders have lasted the longest and which territories have been under the control of their nations for the longest, even if as vassals or autonomies.
As in which areas can politically be understood as being the areas they claim to be.
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? HOW DO YOU PERFECTLY REDRAW THE MAP, LIKE REDRAW THE ALREADY DRAWN SOMEWHERE BORDERS
Very well made, excellent video!
nice video, even more detailed than the other ones
Wow. Superb essay. I'm going to watch it again. However, it would be better if the map had been panned slightly farther south (not much information at the top), and stretched a bit to the east, even at the expense of altering the aspect ratio (squeezing), if necessary.
I love these types of videos !
I bet my ancestors under the Ottoman empire never thought that one day their map would look like today considering how powerful and dictatorial it was !
I wonder what it’ll look like 200 years from now ! I have some not so good predictions haha !
@Usama Ayech Yes but humanity has always been moving in an extremely fast pace. Back then writing was seen as "fast paced", then letters, then messenger systems, then post mail etc... things were shocking to the people back then as well and so they thought the end of the world was coming soon but it did not come. The same thing is happening now. We keep seeing technology move fast so we worry that the end times are coming etc...but they most likely will not be coming as soon as we think and at the end of the day, again, only God knows when.
@Miranda Pillsbury The humanity is developing in unprecedented pace .. just 20 years ago we used to write letters that need weeks to arrive, now at our fingertips we transfer money, communicate and entertain .. where are we heading ? what the life would look like in a 50 years time ? it is scary
@Usama Ayech People have been saying this for thousands of years. Only God knows when Jesus is coming. To say Jesus is coming soon is ridiculous. All the end times signs have been there since ancient Greek times and yet they have not come yet.
@Miranda Pillsbury Even American imperialism will not last for long, Jesus is coming very soon
@Usama Ayech So I guess this phony stability is sort of a good thing? Yay to American imperialism in this case (lol).
Absolutely brilliant video! Thanks :)
its so funny how he is pronouncing the german states and i love it
I think it's cool how some of the small countries stayed the same for many, many years '
I own an atlas from 1856, where all the tiny German and Italian states are all listed. Imagine having to remember all of them for an exam 150 years ago...
with no telephone, radio, TV, cinema, or internet for distractions it may have been much simpler than you think.
"countries and states are not static"
*takes a look at switzerland*
Its funny because the Swiss confederation used to include Mulhouse until 1796, when the French aggressively invaded and annexed Mulhouse as well as what is now the southernmost part of Alsace.
Fun fact: the swiss have been neutral ever since.
Belagerungsmörser the Sheep Aha and whom?
Oh wait no, never mind, I see what you meant 🤣
Switzerland DID change.
thank you very much for making this video! I have a class of "congrès de vienne " and I literally understood nothing as there are drastic changes of the maps from 19century to today.
I’ve watched so much Alternate History of the World, that this is more normal to me than the 2019 map.
*they says that the netherlands is still in war with the sea*
God created earth, and the Dutch created the Netherlands.
sea gekoloniseerd
Woosh r/wooosh
They meant one of of Netherlands province, which was underwater, that’s what they mean, they just didn’t say it.
Woosh do you mean the sea is losing because then you are right
Perfekt video! Jag hoppas att du kan göra mer sådana videor!
Imagine if someone in 2220 making a video about “ changing the map of Europe back to 2020”
We will unite wales,scotland,england and this part of ireland to make the United Kingdom
We give Saarland, Bavaria, Hanover, and Holstein to Germany.
We would break Benelux into luxembourg belgium and netherlands
We unite all of spain, and catalonia.
So we add an independent romania
these videos are really well made
Great video! You should do 1715, 1615 and so on.
I know is an old video but here are some fixed mistakes:
Morocco, Spain and Portugal changed territories since 1815
Spain took some small territory close to Ceuta in Morocco in 1860 Africa War.
Portugal and Spain had some micro-disputed territories normally called fresnos or contiendas, all this tiny gaps where finally fixed in 1926. And we can't forget of Couto Misto micronation.
You should make a follow-up video to this in 200 years!
I love how Portugal never changes for hundreds of years
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Thanks!
A list of European countries that will not change:
Portugal 🇵🇹
Spain 🇪🇸
M0r0cC0 🇲🇦
məɹɔko
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@Mazing Morocco it’s from the video not this comment
👏👏I love your channel! ❤️
as a strategy games player this is more recognisable than the modern day map
I looked for copper, struck platinum. Awesome video!
Please do more of these!
Meh : losing land in wars -> germany
Meh: losing land because of 1 serbian man -> austo-hungarian empire
*0 IQ* : losing land by the north sea -> NeThErLaNdS
I hope that is a joke
especially because of your username RandomDutchGuy
"This was a personal union between sweden and norway"
OH REALLY?!
Ps. I love this series,make more please
Pps. Can you make before the cold war?
Just discovered the channel...
Politics, geography and history...
Insta-subbed!
Wish we could turn back time- to the good old days
That moment you realized that Switzerland had different borders a long time ago
What software or websites do you guys use for these redraws???
I enjoyed that, very interesting when you see it pictorially .
That's really great video, didn't think it will be that awesome when I was clicking it. Good job!
There are alot of shapes on maps which almost never change and you can see alot of these on both maps and most historic maps
(To the tune of "The Battle of New Orleans")
In 1815 we took a little trip
Way on down to old Vienna to see Klemens Metternich
Now that the wars were over and we'd whupped Napoleon
We wanted to see order and some peace for everyone.
But what about a video about the 1941 borders? That'd be easy!
this is one of my favorite videos, i want more
Can you please make an average map of Europe between like 1000 and 2018?
Europe 1444 next time.
Wtf man it was a mess
Yes that’s cool
AoCII *cough cough* AoHII would be happy!
Yes
Yes
My 4x great grandfather was either 21 or 19 in 1815 and his son, my 3x great grandfather, was one of the last Grand Army men alive from the US civil war of the 2nd Maryland infantry
If Napoleon had started two months earlier or waited till spring we would all be speaking French right now
10:45 Italian flag in Italy lol
Seems like a dango to me
Is so beautiful
LOL
This is honestly, really good
On the border between the Netherlands and Prussia there was a tiny country called Central Moresnet which existed between 1815 and 1919.
the area with all the small countries shifted from centtal europe (germany and italy) to the balkans.
TheKewlPerson yea the balkans is where all my hopes and dreams go
Good observation
The oldest maps that look familiar to me is from 1880. In Europe, and if America, then 1775.
Interesting to see Germany so splitted in so much mini-states 😳
is it just me or does anyone else find it funny that he pronounced most of the German states in the most American way possible
Long overdue! Great work!
My Great Grandma or Great Great was born in 1830 or 1830 in Ostfriesland (East Frisia) And my family got its roots in America around 1850. So my family left before Germany was unified.
It was quite interesting to learn this. And this is confirmed through both family stories and online death records. She died in 1920 at the age of 90. Damn that would be a fucking wild life. Witnessing the German unification, some small wars, and even WWI. She was an Amazing woman and she has passed down some stories to our family. And thanks to her my family lives in America today.
She was an adult when the 1848 Revolutions happened and lived to see the end of WW1
Hi. Good videos! Could you make a introduction video about the Danish language? It's the first Scandinavian language I plan to study this next year.
Thanks! Stay tuned :)
Very good mapping!
You should do a map of Europe during WW2 and perhaps the cold war and 117 A.D.
You could also compare Europé 2018 to Europé 1755.
FINALLY ANOTHER CHANGING MAP OF EUROPE THANK U :DDDD
Btw keep them coming them coming pls!!!
I’m from America but my family comes from Germany and France so thank you for this history
SAIL DOLFIN my family?lol I’ve never asked.probly depends on what side of the family
1721, the end of the Great Northern War which was a major conflict in Poland,Russia and Sweden
@Hat for a cat Saying that I am writing a paragraph is a bit hypocritical. Well my name is in Swedish so figuring that out isn't too hard, is it? The reason that matters is because you really glorify the polish siege of Moscow when it doesn't really matter historically.
@Hat for a cat 1. It isn't about that, it is about defeating Russia and succeding in holding up an army in the Russian terrain because of how enormous it is.
If you read anything about the armies that was closest to defeating Russia Sweden is almost always brought up, and that is just a fact, and i know that through reading about history, the Polish conquest is not nearly as known.
2. It cerainly did result in long lasting political consequences, through that war, Russia was able to rise to a major European power, taking the Swedish Empires place as the biggest power in Europe, if it was not for that war, Russia would probably not be close to anything it is today, remember that the Great Northern War was kind of the last blow for the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. There are still Swedish speaking towns in Ukraine aswell.
3. I am not undermining Poltava, The Swedish Empire did lose the war and it did fall of the place it had as a major power.
4. Saying that the siege of Moscow had long lasting effects is just
ridiculous, sure it had some effects but the struggles between Poland-Lithuania and Russia are much older than the siege.
Jeb Bush I don't think you get it man, i was sarcastic you see, so grow up
@Nice Guy and I can easily tell you're a swede, and what does it matter?
I don't feel like writing a paragraph in response, so I'll just say it like that:
1. Charles XII *nearly* taking Moscow wasn't as influential as you think it was. It definitely isn't nearly as known as the other examples, actually I even don't think, that it's more known than the Polish conquest.
2. It certainly *did* result in lasting political consequences.
3. You're undermining poltava
4. If we're trying to determine which event had more "results" I'd say it's the polish taking moscow, seeing as this later resulted in long-standing Poland-Russia struggles and this would lead to the annexation of Poland, and world-wide consquences, such as tensions and unrest (polish uprisings and emigrations, later strengthened by the happenings of the year of 1848) which would later have consequences lasting to this *exact* day.
@Hat for a cat I can so easily tell you are polish, why do you think that nobody knows about poland siezing moscow? Becuase it didn't result in any thing at all, so nobody cares about it, and the famous ones are Charles XII, Napoleon and Hitler, the reason for the two first being famous is because it was very successful at first against the Russian Army, but then they starved and froze to death, the last one is because it was the leargest military operation ever.
This reminds me of all the times I change the date in Europa Universalis 4 and Victoria 2 to see how the map changes
What program do you use to make maps like this?
Really good video man 👍