I found the origin of the weird "French Empire" map at 3:15! It's an alternate history with a "Hellenic Empire" from 2013... on DeviantArt. I have no idea how Business Insider got it.
This reminds me of that time when Mark Felton made a video about two Polish ww2 generals (Maczek and Sosabowski) and how srecrewd over they got. The video is very good, but at one point, a completely inaccurate (supposed) emblem of the communist Poland appears. Turns out it originated from DeviantArt.
Business Insider gets 1/10 for using a clearly wrong map, however the map itself gets, like, a 6/10 because I can only assume it to be an alternate history map of a Greek/Byzantine colonial empire, in which case it's mostly fine, although simple, with some penalties for using otl borders
It’s weird that it uses OTL borders for Africa and South America while Eurasia consists of alternate borders. It kinda looks like they took an existing map then redrew borders where they thought of something, but left the original where they couldn’t think of anything. It feels a bit lazy that they didn’t even both to just decide where the other colonial borders would be drawn. Colonial Africa is a very simplified map to draw, and given how historically Europe drew those borders without any regards to local geography or existing cultural and political boundaries, it is sadly realistic if you draw those borders without knowing much about the continent, so to just ignore it feels exceptionally lazy.
@@malachimusclerat It's very easy to handwave the treaty of tordesillas. I mean, not even all the other Catholic powers followed the tordesillas! It's even easier for a non-Catholic realm, like a theoretical colonial Byzantium/Greece (as I assume this is), to ignore this, like Netherlands did in OTL.
It's amazing how there are things that we have sent into space that let us see the entire surface of our own planet in great accuracy and some people just decide to ignore it.
@AzureWolf168I don't think yougoslavia was referring to flat earth. And we had the coastlines nailed down using triangulation before we even started the space program anyway
5:06 - its funny and kinda creepy that out of all the big, touristy and important cities we have in Colombia they decided to mark up Armero, specially when what's left of that city are mere rubbles and ashes from what the volcano and massive landslide left after the 1985 Armero tragedy. Like... wtf it's supposed to be a kids map, first thing they'll find on google are images of the victims, death people and rubbled buildings.
my school used to have a map of the world as a poster in our hall, but for some reason burkina faso was just missing? it was just a giant lake in the middle of west africa
That first map is SO not a 7/10! Yes Micronesia has a federal system, but those islands aren't Micronesia at all, they look like Vanuatu! Which STILL isn't in that position! You also didn't notice that they labeled Bosnia & Herzegovina over Albania instead of the actual Bosnia, nor the fact Ethiopia has Eritrea! Not to mention, they're missing a few as Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Nepal, and South Sudan have federal systems as well! But I agree with the assessment about the kids book one, because at the end of the day, it's from a kids book and it still gets the point across about the different continents. No child will care about the little errors. And that Getty Images map...uniting West Africa, uniting Central Africa, uniting Central America, uniting the Arabian Peninsula, uniting the Baltics with Belarus, ASEAN as a nation, uniting most of the Stans, South Africa finally absorbing Lesotho, Buenos Aires Province independent from Argentina...I think they're onto something.
De facto reality is often more important to understand than de jure, and Spain's supposedly "unitary" system does in fact include several autonomous regions with the ability to create contradictory laws to each other
@@Copyright_Infringement But the definition of federal country implies that different regions are recognized as their own entity which joined together to form a country, but they have their right seccede. Something that catalonians and basques would argue that it's not being fullfiled.
@@javierm7087 federation ≠ right to secede. the US is a federation but last time states tried to secede we had a civil war over it. you may be thinking of a confederation
@@thezipcreator True, my bad, that isn't part of federation. but I stand on the point that the regions of a federal state must be recognized as different entities (in the past) which voluntarily joined a state, as in a modern state and not just a royal union (as is the case with Spain). Kind of a technicality now that I think of it but still.
@@javierm7087 I supposed whether this counts is up to debate, but the Spanish constitution does indeed recognize the country as being made up of multiple "nationalities" which have existed in the past, which are explicitly given the right to self-determination. That said, I would point out that most of the United States were not independent immediately prior to statehood, but instead territorial possessions of the central government (like Puerto Rico). This is true of 35 of 50 states: all except the original 13, Vermont, and Maine.
@@Generaallucas Perhaps the map is dated from before Eritrea's independence, but right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So it's not inherently wrong, but it would be outdated.
6:00: If I was gonna armchair-diagnose the map, I'd guess that the Australia piece had only one point of contact with the wall. Or at least, the other ones broke before this picture was taken. Which doesn't excuse the labels, but Australia seems to be labeled correctly.
The weird thing is that the labels seem to have happened after Australia rotated. So it was installed like that, and then someone was told to put labels on it. Which makes me think some poor intern was told to label the map on the wall, was given a label for New Zealand that was not on the actual map, and decided to fix the problem by rotating Australia.
Hey I just had an idea. Why don't you do a series where you celebrate really great maps? Drew Durnil already kind of does this, but he's not really an expert by any means. I think we'd like to see your take
France actually did try to colonize Brazil. Brazil was the first region in the Americas frequented by the French, who competed with the Portuguese. Brazil was a port of call en route to the East Indies, and it abounded in profitable resources, including logwood to dye Rouen cloth. Normans and Bretons supported the Tupinambá peoples against their enemies and the encroaching Portuguese. Binot Palmier de Gonneville made the first confirmed voyage to Brazil in 1504. On his return voyage he was attacked by Breton pirates. All his cargo was lost, but Essomericq, a native Brazilian whom Gonneville had brought with him, was baptized and was married to a cousin of the family. The descendants of that union took an interest in Brazil. The two resulting French colonization efforts failed: La France Antarctique (1555-1560) founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, and La France Equinoxiale (1612-1615). The first French colony, La France Antarctique, has often been portrayed as Huguenot refuge, but other scholars have seen the settlement as a part of France's larger colonial ambitions. Villegaignon's project prospered despite internal problems. But in 1560, the Portuguese began an all-out conquest. The natives fled to the north, accompanied by the French. In 1612, La Ravardière and Rasilly established "Equinoxial France" at Maranhão with Saint Louis (São Luís) as capital. The French Capuchin friars made known the plight of the indigenous peoples, and when the Portuguese attacked Saint Louis in 1615, the French fled. They later aided the Dutch.
At 7:47 Map from Transformers cartoon.... I think I remember that episode, they are in a race of some type I think. I read line is the race course if memory serves me.
3:16 That's apparently not even supposed to be a French Empire map at all, which explains why France itself isn't highlighted while simultaneously showing regions they never owned while missing areas that they actually did have (Indochina, most of their African colonies).
Fun fact, the red line on the Transformers map is meant to stretch from Paris to Istanbul. So that means Paris is in Provence and Istanbul has moved to Ankara.
7:42 Someone probably watched a Valefisk video and thought of sending this one 😆 Seriously though, you could make a whole video of transformer wiki bad maps
3:13 Eritrea is re annexed by Ethiopia while Letsoto is also annexed by South Africa... Also Spain isnt a federal country Spain is an Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Its also Missing Sudan, South Sudan Somalia and Iraq who are federal countries Albania is refered as Bosnia
Indeed! The _Transformers_ map, with a different route, was shown as the "NOPE/10" map in Episode 5! Hence, I think this may be the only map here that is given the "coveted" NOPE/10 rating _twice._ Thanks for the information! ua-cam.com/video/YhlxxgGYtww/v-deo.html
I still remember back in High School (2004-2011) and how we'd be given a map of the world to stick in our geography exercise book at the start of the year, only they were from the Cold War so Germany was divided and the USSR was united. This series makes that not feel so bad.
That French colonial map rates "not even wrong". The Philippines was *never* controlled by Spain, unless perhaps you want to consider French domination of Spain in 1808 to count the Spanish possessions as French? But then where's the Louisiana territory? And other Spanish possessions? And how is any part of Brazil considered to be French? And that bit in northern China? Sumatra? Saudi Arabia?!? C'mon! Whoever made this map was clearly just looking to see what he could get away with, how big of a troll could he be before getting called out for it.
The whole thing is screwed, like Russia owning enough of Manchuria that if France didn’t control Beijing, it would possibly be too close to the Russian empire for comfort. Additionally, Afghanistan, northern iran, and Tajikistan have unified. The Caucasian states United and ripped a huge chunk out of Turkey, and the French…attempted to restore the almohad caliphate? Also, Mongolia is Just Russian, and there’s an Austrian empire without most of Austria. Plus, it looks like the US Simply never existed, and a substantial part of Brazil is french (interestingly enough though, French Guiana isn’t. Oh, also, apparently the first Balkan war never happened, because Bulgaria doesn’t even have Sofia.
The french were the first to colonize near Rio de Jaineiro (one of the islands in the bay), founded the capital of Maranhão, and disputed Amapá until the start of the 20th century
The circumnavigation of Africa map is probably the Phonetician hired by Pharaoh Necho in about 610 BC, based in the rowing sail boat on the side. Of course they made it a Greek Style boat from centuries later, but we are measuring maps here.....
Yes, it is. It also shows the route of the Carthiginian Himilco to Cornwall around 500 BC and I think also the route of the Cartiginian Hanno along the coast of Africa of the same time, although the latter is hard to see because the Necho voyage is shown much thicker in basically the same place.
In the first map, Eritrea is annexed by Ethiopia and Albania is labeled as Bosnia and Herzegovina (Also Nigeria is very weirdly shaped); In the second map parts of the Spanish, British, Portuguese and Italian Colonial Empires that were never occupied by France are colored as part of the French Empire; In the third map there's too much to mention, but I wanted to mention how Central America and Southeast Asia are now unified countries, Peru annexed Ecuador, and the Black Sea is colored like the continents and it apparently unified with Bulgaria?; In the fourth map Northern Mexico and Southern Colombia don't exist; In the fifth map Egypt is labeled as White Desert for some reason, Bangladesh and Mount Everest are put in Southern China, Japan looks awful, and Haiti is labeled as the entire island of Hispaniola; The sixth map should burn in hell; In the seventh map Australia crashed into Madagascar, South Asia is weirdly distorted, and I don't even know what is going on in North America; And finally, the eight map should also burn in hell.
In the next episode of this series you should include the crudely drawn map in the Barbie movie that, according to US senator Ted Cruz, contains the 9 dash line of china's territorial claims in the ocean
I feel it’s important to mention for that last map that the route is supposed to be a car race. This is unimportant, except for the fact that it’s supposed to start in Paris and end in Istanbul. Istanbul is roughly right, but Paris?
I don’t remember the context of the transformers episode but there is a small chance that it is a real map since it’s effectively an alternate reality. Doubt it, but still possible.
Do you have any idea what exactly the map at 3:15 might actually be trying to show? I am honestly struggling what it might try to show, maybe some areas where a certain crop may be viably cultivated or something? I am struggling to come up with anything sensible
The 7th map likley refwrs to the circumnavigation of Afrika by Carthaginian traders. The departed Egypt in the Red Sea and sailed around the coast for years, until arriving back in Egypt. Fall of Civilizations recently did a podcast on Carthage and thats one of the stories told
4:00 - This looks someone's Greek/Byz Paradox game where they did some colonial stuff instead of gunning for Roman Restoration, and the magazine just picked the first map they saw that was blue or whatever lol
Thank you for punishing Getty...how often have I seen a wonderful and beautiful photo to have that freaking logo put in a place that just destroys the look that the photographer was going for!
As an Indian who recently passed class 10 the first map part of our political science book. I use to ramble a alot about it with my friend(who did not cared about it ) .
If the "french colonial empire" map is actually supposed to be thatw it notably misses much of French Africa, as well as Cambodia and Laos in Indochina.
I used to have a really bad tiny globe. It was originally for the teachers from my old school. It’s supposed to say that they mean “the world” to the administration but this globe was just incredibly bad. For one South America got longer and looked mutated along the equator. Every single island was missing. All of Europe was just gone along with Indochina. And somehow Canada lost it’s islands and I have no idea what happened to Alaska. That’s the best I could describe it through words alone. I have no idea what happened to this cursed globe but it is an abomination to map making. Then again it was made in China.
This is the first one of these where I'd seen the nope/10 before so instead of getting "Oh fk thats aweful XD" i just felt "Hey, yeah, yeah that makes sense"
3:25 france never colonise libya, ethiopia, somalia, part of indonesia, papua new guinea, part of brasil, colombia, cuba, saudi arabia, taiwan(republic of china) and few balkans,southern europe countries.
Another episode of torturing cartographer with badly drawn maps. Series that have stopped since unification of germany, continued in russian civil war but the stopped again. Beforw finally making comeback in the 21st century
I think you slept on the actual worst thing in this video, which is the caption under the Business Insider map. The more you read it, the worse it gets.
I found this collection of maps quite amusing! I found it uplifting that the fifth map got a high score! That last one, though, is... weird. Germany (which is surrounded by France, for some odd reason) looks like a blob, Austria looks like another blob, Czechoslovakia is now "Ciech", Greece is part of Bulgaria , and Russia now stretches all the way to "Ciech". I'm not sure what I am more weirded out by: the sloppiness of the borders, the misspelling of "Czech", or the fact that they made Russia even larger than it actually is! Thanks for the video!
I think you're actually right about the circumnavigation map having transparent oceans. It explains the fused Arctic islands (the underside of Alaska), the backwards Mexico, the visibility of Antarctica and the obvious Australia problem.
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Is there a way to submit the horrible maps we find? I have one that I've been wanting to send for a while.
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Where is summit bad maps
Yus!
Where do submit the maps
I found the origin of the weird "French Empire" map at 3:15! It's an alternate history with a "Hellenic Empire" from 2013... on DeviantArt. I have no idea how Business Insider got it.
One overworked intern plus one Google search?
RIP Business Insider intern bozo
A Greek East Asia world is an accursed world
This reminds me of that time when Mark Felton made a video about two Polish ww2 generals (Maczek and Sosabowski) and how srecrewd over they got. The video is very good, but at one point, a completely inaccurate (supposed) emblem of the communist Poland appears. Turns out it originated from DeviantArt.
Copyright infringement!
@@Artur_M. DeviantArt is the source of all evil, isnt it?
Business Insider gets 1/10 for using a clearly wrong map, however the map itself gets, like, a 6/10 because I can only assume it to be an alternate history map of a Greek/Byzantine colonial empire, in which case it's mostly fine, although simple, with some penalties for using otl borders
Yea it looks like those "show your empire" maps some people make after a game of Europa Universalis 4
It’s weird that it uses OTL borders for Africa and South America while Eurasia consists of alternate borders. It kinda looks like they took an existing map then redrew borders where they thought of something, but left the original where they couldn’t think of anything. It feels a bit lazy that they didn’t even both to just decide where the other colonial borders would be drawn. Colonial Africa is a very simplified map to draw, and given how historically Europe drew those borders without any regards to local geography or existing cultural and political boundaries, it is sadly realistic if you draw those borders without knowing much about the continent, so to just ignore it feels exceptionally lazy.
still doesn't explain why it includes the section of modern-day east brazil allotted to the kingdom of portugal under the 1494 treaty of tordesillas
@@malachimusclerat It's very easy to handwave the treaty of tordesillas.
I mean, not even all the other Catholic powers followed the tordesillas! It's even easier for a non-Catholic realm, like a theoretical colonial Byzantium/Greece (as I assume this is), to ignore this, like Netherlands did in OTL.
Forget for a second the geography...read the text that's under the map. WTF??
It's amazing how there are things that we have sent into space that let us see the entire surface of our own planet in great accuracy and some people just decide to ignore it.
@AzureWolf168I don't think yougoslavia was referring to flat earth. And we had the coastlines nailed down using triangulation before we even started the space program anyway
@AzureWolf168A circle is a flat shape.
You mean a sphere?
Austria casually annexed Slovenia and Czechia, with Czechoslovakia being moved up north for some reason.
Fun last map.
I'm sure the hapsburgs would love it if it were true.
Last map must've been done by one of animators kids or something in that style. That kiddo definitely got his day done by something like that.
czechslovakia invades poland and annexed it. cursed id say
5:06 - its funny and kinda creepy that out of all the big, touristy and important cities we have in Colombia they decided to mark up Armero, specially when what's left of that city are mere rubbles and ashes from what the volcano and massive landslide left after the 1985 Armero tragedy. Like... wtf it's supposed to be a kids map, first thing they'll find on google are images of the victims, death people and rubbled buildings.
Oh wait yeah
my school used to have a map of the world as a poster in our hall, but for some reason burkina faso was just missing? it was just a giant lake in the middle of west africa
Guess they really hated Burkina Faso
Maybe they were planning something
Burkina Faso pov: 😐🫥
Lmao you fr believe Burkina Faso exists?
Tbh it would probably be better for the Africans if there was a giant lake there instead of booty crisping desert
That first map is SO not a 7/10! Yes Micronesia has a federal system, but those islands aren't Micronesia at all, they look like Vanuatu! Which STILL isn't in that position! You also didn't notice that they labeled Bosnia & Herzegovina over Albania instead of the actual Bosnia, nor the fact Ethiopia has Eritrea! Not to mention, they're missing a few as Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Nepal, and South Sudan have federal systems as well! But I agree with the assessment about the kids book one, because at the end of the day, it's from a kids book and it still gets the point across about the different continents. No child will care about the little errors.
And that Getty Images map...uniting West Africa, uniting Central Africa, uniting Central America, uniting the Arabian Peninsula, uniting the Baltics with Belarus, ASEAN as a nation, uniting most of the Stans, South Africa finally absorbing Lesotho, Buenos Aires Province independent from Argentina...I think they're onto something.
Also Spain isnt a federal system
Are we going to ignore how the kids’ map labels natural landmarks in the same way as cities?
I love how absolutely random the labels are.
3:10 I would agree if the information being displayed was correct. Spain partially works as a federation but de jure is a unitary state.
De facto reality is often more important to understand than de jure, and Spain's supposedly "unitary" system does in fact include several autonomous regions with the ability to create contradictory laws to each other
@@Copyright_Infringement But the definition of federal country implies that different regions are recognized as their own entity which joined together to form a country, but they have their right seccede. Something that catalonians and basques would argue that it's not being fullfiled.
@@javierm7087 federation ≠ right to secede. the US is a federation but last time states tried to secede we had a civil war over it.
you may be thinking of a confederation
@@thezipcreator True, my bad, that isn't part of federation. but I stand on the point that the regions of a federal state must be recognized as different entities (in the past) which voluntarily joined a state, as in a modern state and not just a royal union (as is the case with Spain). Kind of a technicality now that I think of it but still.
@@javierm7087 I supposed whether this counts is up to debate, but the Spanish constitution does indeed recognize the country as being made up of multiple "nationalities" which have existed in the past, which are explicitly given the right to self-determination.
That said, I would point out that most of the United States were not independent immediately prior to statehood, but instead territorial possessions of the central government (like Puerto Rico). This is true of 35 of 50 states: all except the original 13, Vermont, and Maine.
In the first map you missed the mistake that Bosnia and Herzegovina is labeled on the place of Albanië
It is not a mistake. Albania is Bosnian. Tirana or better known as Sarajevo
He also missed France owning Catalonia
I didn't see Hawaii or Taiwan, though I was surprised they remembered to include New Zealand.
@@Generaallucas Perhaps the map is dated from before Eritrea's independence, but right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So it's not inherently wrong, but it would be outdated.
The Bosnian Albanian Union. The only two Muslim ☪️ majority countries in all of Europe.
3:58 holy MOLY that last line in the business insider map is..just awful
6:00: If I was gonna armchair-diagnose the map, I'd guess that the Australia piece had only one point of contact with the wall. Or at least, the other ones broke before this picture was taken. Which doesn't excuse the labels, but Australia seems to be labeled correctly.
The weird thing is that the labels seem to have happened after Australia rotated. So it was installed like that, and then someone was told to put labels on it. Which makes me think some poor intern was told to label the map on the wall, was given a label for New Zealand that was not on the actual map, and decided to fix the problem by rotating Australia.
Hey I just had an idea. Why don't you do a series where you celebrate really great maps? Drew Durnil already kind of does this, but he's not really an expert by any means. I think we'd like to see your take
France actually did try to colonize Brazil. Brazil was the first region in the Americas frequented by the French, who competed with the Portuguese. Brazil was a port of call en route to the East Indies, and it abounded in profitable resources, including logwood to dye Rouen cloth. Normans and Bretons supported the Tupinambá peoples against their enemies and the encroaching Portuguese. Binot Palmier de Gonneville made the first confirmed voyage to Brazil in 1504. On his return voyage he was attacked by Breton pirates. All his cargo was lost, but Essomericq, a native Brazilian whom Gonneville had brought with him, was baptized and was married to a cousin of the family. The descendants of that union took an interest in Brazil.
The two resulting French colonization efforts failed: La France Antarctique (1555-1560) founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, and La France Equinoxiale (1612-1615). The first French colony, La France Antarctique, has often been portrayed as Huguenot refuge, but other scholars have seen the settlement as a part of France's larger colonial ambitions. Villegaignon's project prospered despite internal problems. But in 1560, the Portuguese began an all-out conquest. The natives fled to the north, accompanied by the French. In 1612, La Ravardière and Rasilly established "Equinoxial France" at Maranhão with Saint Louis (São Luís) as capital. The French Capuchin friars made known the plight of the indigenous peoples, and when the Portuguese attacked Saint Louis in 1615, the French fled. They later aided the Dutch.
Yo it’s the supreme leader himself?!
Yes, I sent the map at 5:40. I did not go to that airport, but I have seen that map online before. Thanks, EmperorTigerstar!
How did you send the map?
At 7:47
Map from Transformers cartoon....
I think I remember that episode, they are in a race of some type I think. I read line is the race course if memory serves me.
3:16 That's apparently not even supposed to be a French Empire map at all, which explains why France itself isn't highlighted while simultaneously showing regions they never owned while missing areas that they actually did have (Indochina, most of their African colonies).
Fun fact, the red line on the Transformers map is meant to stretch from Paris to Istanbul. So that means Paris is in Provence and Istanbul has moved to Ankara.
7:42 Someone probably watched a Valefisk video and thought of sending this one 😆
Seriously though, you could make a whole video of transformer wiki bad maps
3:13 Eritrea is re annexed by Ethiopia while Letsoto is also annexed by South Africa... Also Spain isnt a federal country Spain is an Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Its also Missing Sudan, South Sudan Somalia and Iraq who are federal countries Albania is refered as Bosnia
3:00 Spain is not a federal system... It's a unitary system with significant devolution.
3:09 why does it look like Bosnia is in Montenegro? What happened to Eritrea? Who sank Taiwan, I'm pretty sure the island should be visible
5:40
That’s not Finland, that’s
T H I C C L A N D
Accompanied by mega Estonia - MEGASTONIA.
Actually, it turns out that the last map you covered was already covered in Episode 5, with the same rating too.
Indeed! The _Transformers_ map, with a different route, was shown as the "NOPE/10" map in Episode 5! Hence, I think this may be the only map here that is given the "coveted" NOPE/10 rating _twice._ Thanks for the information!
ua-cam.com/video/YhlxxgGYtww/v-deo.html
5:25 Im from michigan so I hate on any map that doesnt even attempt to draw the great lakes
7:49 Wasn't this map already used?
iirc it was used in the 5th episode
8:00 not exactly the first time that's ever happened
4:15 ah yes,my favorite country,the republic of the black sea.
3:12 Bro just noticed that it says Bosnia and Herzegovina but it's marking Albania
Ah yes, the Greenland and Borneo peninsulas
I still remember back in High School (2004-2011) and how we'd be given a map of the world to stick in our geography exercise book at the start of the year, only they were from the Cold War so Germany was divided and the USSR was united. This series makes that not feel so bad.
Man, I have a reaaally awful map from my old school's textbook that was so bad I took a pic of it. I wanted to know how I could send it to you
By email
That French colonial map rates "not even wrong". The Philippines was *never* controlled by Spain, unless perhaps you want to consider French domination of Spain in 1808 to count the Spanish possessions as French? But then where's the Louisiana territory? And other Spanish possessions? And how is any part of Brazil considered to be French? And that bit in northern China? Sumatra? Saudi Arabia?!? C'mon! Whoever made this map was clearly just looking to see what he could get away with, how big of a troll could he be before getting called out for it.
The whole thing is screwed, like Russia owning enough of Manchuria that if France didn’t control Beijing, it would possibly be too close to the Russian empire for comfort. Additionally, Afghanistan, northern iran, and Tajikistan have unified. The Caucasian states United and ripped a huge chunk out of Turkey, and the French…attempted to restore the almohad caliphate? Also, Mongolia is Just Russian, and there’s an Austrian empire without most of Austria. Plus, it looks like the US Simply never existed, and a substantial part of Brazil is french (interestingly enough though, French Guiana isn’t. Oh, also, apparently the first Balkan war never happened, because Bulgaria doesn’t even have Sofia.
The french were the first to colonize near Rio de Jaineiro (one of the islands in the bay), founded the capital of Maranhão, and disputed Amapá until the start of the 20th century
The whole of New-France straight-up doesn’t exist, and yet the *thirteen colonies* of all things is highlighted. I… I don’t understand…
French Andalusia had me rolling knee first into the floor
Ah, the famed Frankish Turkey.
The circumnavigation of Africa map is probably the Phonetician hired by Pharaoh Necho in about 610 BC, based in the rowing sail boat on the side. Of course they made it a Greek Style boat from centuries later, but we are measuring maps here.....
Yes, it is. It also shows the route of the Carthiginian Himilco to Cornwall around 500 BC and I think also the route of the Cartiginian Hanno along the coast of Africa of the same time, although the latter is hard to see because the Necho voyage is shown much thicker in basically the same place.
@@annayosh you are right, i could not see the Cornwall trip because it was so faint. Good eyes!
8:15 i think that’s from the episode where the autobots joined to compete in some race thoughtout Europe
7:54 France rules the waves now :)
Did the first map label Albania as B&H, lol
4:33 as a Panamanian this hit hard
RIP to the longest running Ridge Wallets sponsorship train ever 😢
In the first map, Eritrea is annexed by Ethiopia and Albania is labeled as Bosnia and Herzegovina (Also Nigeria is very weirdly shaped);
In the second map parts of the Spanish, British, Portuguese and Italian Colonial Empires that were never occupied by France are colored as part of the French Empire;
In the third map there's too much to mention, but I wanted to mention how Central America and Southeast Asia are now unified countries, Peru annexed Ecuador, and the Black Sea is colored like the continents and it apparently unified with Bulgaria?;
In the fourth map Northern Mexico and Southern Colombia don't exist;
In the fifth map Egypt is labeled as White Desert for some reason, Bangladesh and Mount Everest are put in Southern China, Japan looks awful, and Haiti is labeled as the entire island of Hispaniola;
The sixth map should burn in hell;
In the seventh map Australia crashed into Madagascar, South Asia is weirdly distorted, and I don't even know what is going on in North America;
And finally, the eight map should also burn in hell.
The Business Insider one is a Hellenic Royal Empire Map - Circa 2017 posted on DeviantArt by AdmiralMichalis on May 2, 2013.
7:44 I remember this map. It’s hilarious. Even as a kid I knew it was bad. A kid in the 2000s finding this old cartoon at my library.
Its funny how random islands near Russia are pointed out for the first one and not half of Atlantic Canada being missing.
0:55 I like hundreds if not thousands of others, have that big red Kingfisher book.
4:40 Not sure if anyone already noticed but Saint-Lucia and St. Vincent have swapped places.
That nope/10 feels a bit harsh. The relative borders feel on point, so I kinda get the feeling it's supposed to be stylized.
0:50 Yugoslavia being named Bulgaria & Austria-Hungary being named Serbia, even tho at least 1 of those didnt exist, is crazy 💀
In the next episode of this series you should include the crudely drawn map in the Barbie movie that, according to US senator Ted Cruz, contains the 9 dash line of china's territorial claims in the ocean
The French colonial empire wants to hurt me.
The connection between the continents is just so the neon bulb can extend between them
I feel it’s important to mention for that last map that the route is supposed to be a car race. This is unimportant, except for the fact that it’s supposed to start in Paris and end in Istanbul. Istanbul is roughly right, but Paris?
I don’t remember the context of the transformers episode but there is a small chance that it is a real map since it’s effectively an alternate reality. Doubt it, but still possible.
Do you have any idea what exactly the map at 3:15 might actually be trying to show? I am honestly struggling what it might try to show, maybe some areas where a certain crop may be viably cultivated or something? I am struggling to come up with anything sensible
Maybe an alternative history map
Another commenter identified it as an alternate history map from Deviantart, circa 2013.
Even then, why does Russia own Manchuria?
@@pocketmarcy6990 It's alternate history.
@@pocketmarcy6990 now that ive looked at it for a bit, i think it might be some kind of Giga Byzantium fantasy EU4 run?
2:30 Skip to the video
When the thumbnail makes you cry slightly you know it's good.
The 7th map likley refwrs to the circumnavigation of Afrika by Carthaginian traders. The departed Egypt in the Red Sea and sailed around the coast for years, until arriving back in Egypt.
Fall of Civilizations recently did a podcast on Carthage and thats one of the stories told
Where can I submit a map?
Just to add, the first map didn't include Kalinigrad as a part of Russia.
I guess the last map went with USSR = Only Russia
4:00 - This looks someone's Greek/Byz Paradox game where they did some colonial stuff instead of gunning for Roman Restoration, and the magazine just picked the first map they saw that was blue or whatever lol
BRO I SUBMITTED THE ONE IN THE THUMBNAIL LESS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
3:11 Also, Switzerland has a confederal system, not a federal one but that’s just nitpicking
Thank you for punishing Getty...how often have I seen a wonderful and beautiful photo to have that freaking logo put in a place that just destroys the look that the photographer was going for!
As an Indian who recently passed class 10 the first map part of our political science book. I use to ramble a alot about it with my friend(who did not cared about it ) .
7:51 absolutamente terrible 😵😵💫
Babe wake up, the new Emperortigerstar horrible maps video dropped
If the "french colonial empire" map is actually supposed to be thatw it notably misses much of French Africa, as well as Cambodia and Laos in Indochina.
5:02 Caribbean Islands are all wrong! They put St Vincent in between St Lucia and Martinique and it all goes down hill from there.
3:10 missed ethiopia's reannexation of eritrea
I used to have a really bad tiny globe. It was originally for the teachers from my old school. It’s supposed to say that they mean “the world” to the administration but this globe was just incredibly bad. For one South America got longer and looked mutated along the equator. Every single island was missing. All of Europe was just gone along with Indochina. And somehow Canada lost it’s islands and I have no idea what happened to Alaska. That’s the best I could describe it through words alone. I have no idea what happened to this cursed globe but it is an abomination to map making. Then again it was made in China.
I love the getty images one with the Turkish-Afghan-Pakistani-Georgian-Armenian-Azerbaijani-Caspian-Turkmen-Kyrgyz Khanate.
first map labels Albania as Bosnia and Herzegovina
This is the first one of these where I'd seen the nope/10 before so instead of getting "Oh fk thats aweful XD" i just felt "Hey, yeah, yeah that makes sense"
Like the maps I read.
@AzureWolf168 I just wanted the first comment without saying something cringe like "first".
"Poland has disappeared"
Historically Accurate map atleast
I found a very bad world map in a monetary museum in Indonesia, where can I submit it?
I have a map to send you. A map from Air Canada.
Can't find an email.
3:25 france never colonise libya, ethiopia, somalia, part of indonesia, papua new guinea, part of brasil, colombia, cuba, saudi arabia, taiwan(republic of china) and few balkans,southern europe countries.
The first map, Spain is highlighted as federal but it's unitary..
Stern yet fair. Great work EmperorTigerstar!
Another episode of torturing cartographer with badly drawn maps. Series that have stopped since unification of germany, continued in russian civil war but the stopped again. Beforw finally making comeback in the 21st century
3:13
So, we're really gonna ignore how they put BiH into Albania, huh?
Spain and South Africa are not federal, but Iraq is. They also coloured in Albania when it should be Bosnia.
3:10 You forgot to mention the fact that Albania is labeled as Bosnia for some reason
4:04 2nd Uruguay can't hurt you...
6:27 why is alaska labeled as a country?
3:11 Seriously no mentioning that Albania is highlighted as Bosnia&Herzegovina?! :D
How could I submit a map? I don't really see any clear instructions on how to do so.
I think the fact that you missed that Albania was highlighted as Bosnia and Herzegovina for the first map
Yay!!! Its bad map time!!!!
South Africa definitely does not have a federal system. We could only be so lucky...
I think you slept on the actual worst thing in this video, which is the caption under the Business Insider map. The more you read it, the worse it gets.
Getty Images really said "f-u" to Uruguay
You forgot about Ciech and Rumania in the transformers map
How do you send maps
As far as horrible maps go, the 1st is probably a 9/10
I found this collection of maps quite amusing! I found it uplifting that the fifth map got a high score! That last one, though, is... weird. Germany (which is surrounded by France, for some odd reason) looks like a blob, Austria looks like another blob, Czechoslovakia is now "Ciech", Greece is part of Bulgaria , and Russia now stretches all the way to "Ciech". I'm not sure what I am more weirded out by: the sloppiness of the borders, the misspelling of "Czech", or the fact that they made Russia even larger than it actually is!
Thanks for the video!
You should mark 5:04 because they literally swapped two countries! St. Lucia and St. Vincent!
I think you're actually right about the circumnavigation map having transparent oceans. It explains the fused Arctic islands (the underside of Alaska), the backwards Mexico, the visibility of Antarctica and the obvious Australia problem.