The Nieper river that flows from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea is hilarious.
Interesting clear demarcation of the Europe-Asia border here, and significantly westward of the modern definition: following the Don from the Sea of Azov to its source, and then over land to the southernmost reach of the White Sea.
Crete and Cyprus into Asia, Iceland into America, Malta into Africa
NATO was so small back then.
Today’s definiton is the one that was invented by insecure Russians. Everyone just ate that up though.
I see NATO was already present.
And Paris is misspelled (also kinda weird location).
Seems Europe then ended before Muscovy
**Everyone minding their own business**
Turkey: N A T O
It’s terribly stupid.
NATO
f=s
Putin should see this map and wonder that there is no Russia on the map. Oh wait, no its there. Its just sad little spec tho.
Interesting that Finland is actually on the map and it’s not just “East Sweden”.
I really wonder how they did this – it’s super accurate for the time. How, without triangulation?
We can see here definite proof that NATO already existed in 1602 and Russia is just some kind of made up bullshit that doesn’t exist.
What the hell happened to the whole Stockholm area
So Turkey was the first country to a-Nato-lia bilities
CIA?
NATO?
🧐
My favorite bits are, “what’s Ireland shaped like again? Idc it’s a potato” Greece being on steroids, and Finland shriveling away.
Call this a hunch, but people back then really did not know how rivers worked, huh?
Tartaria!!!!!!!!!!
Germa
You pulled one of the worst map from the period
So interesting how back then, going to a different nation was probably seen as visiting a different “land” instead of a country.
Don’t show this to putin
Interesting to note here:
Because frequently -especially from Anglosphere redditors- you’ll hear:
ItAlY DiDnT eXiSt, or GrEeCe DiDnT eXiSt, or GeRmAnY DiDnT eXiSt until the 19th century.
The modern nation-states didn’t exist, but those countries certainly existed as ethnocultural areas, and people back then certainly referred to them by those names. As we can see on a map from 1602.
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Ah, those were the days. Not like todays days
The good ol’ days when Bergen was capital
is confirmed turkey invented nato
Finland just got out of the pool.
The Nieper river that flows from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea is hilarious.
Interesting clear demarcation of the Europe-Asia border here, and significantly westward of the modern definition: following the Don from the Sea of Azov to its source, and then over land to the southernmost reach of the White Sea.
Crete and Cyprus into Asia, Iceland into America, Malta into Africa
NATO was so small back then.
Today’s definiton is the one that was invented by insecure Russians. Everyone just ate that up though.
I see NATO was already present.
And Paris is misspelled (also kinda weird location).
Seems Europe then ended before Muscovy
**Everyone minding their own business**
Turkey: N A T O
It’s terribly stupid.
NATO
f=s
Putin should see this map and wonder that there is no Russia on the map. Oh wait, no its there. Its just sad little spec tho.
Interesting that Finland is actually on the map and it’s not just “East Sweden”.
Or – in other words – Europe [Anno 1602](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sggdmfi51fk)?
HIS PA NI A
I really wonder how they did this – it’s super accurate for the time. How, without triangulation?
We can see here definite proof that NATO already existed in 1602 and Russia is just some kind of made up bullshit that doesn’t exist.
What the hell happened to the whole Stockholm area
So Turkey was the first country to a-Nato-lia bilities
CIA?
NATO?
🧐
My favorite bits are, “what’s Ireland shaped like again? Idc it’s a potato” Greece being on steroids, and Finland shriveling away.
Call this a hunch, but people back then really did not know how rivers worked, huh?
Tartaria!!!!!!!!!!
Germa
You pulled one of the worst map from the period
So interesting how back then, going to a different nation was probably seen as visiting a different “land” instead of a country.
Don’t show this to putin
Interesting to note here:
Because frequently -especially from Anglosphere redditors- you’ll hear:
ItAlY DiDnT eXiSt, or GrEeCe DiDnT eXiSt, or GeRmAnY DiDnT eXiSt until the 19th century.
The modern nation-states didn’t exist, but those countries certainly existed as ethnocultural areas, and people back then certainly referred to them by those names. As we can see on a map from 1602.