Ah yes, the alternate timeline where Germany and Italy embarked on massive land reclamation projects, while Switzerland joined the scramble for Africa and Scotland decided to leave the UK physically but not politically
"Okay, we gotta make a WWI map. How should we draw Italy?" "What do you mean? It's the easiest country to draw. It's basically just a boot." "Hmm, yes, a boot. I definitely know what one looks like and have, in fact, eaten one before." "Excuse me, what?" "... driven one?" "..."
i) Why Germany and France fought? so France was one of the thirteen countries in the triple entendre and Russia was the Central Powers and as we all know they fought eachother but to get to Russia France first had to go through neutral Germany, which Germany didn't like fought back which ended in the war we know today. But why didn't France just ship their troops over the atlantic? you may ask but you should know the atlantic also was a neutral nation which caused the uk to do essentially nothin in the larger conflict as they were embroiled in deadly conflict with poseidons forces his torpedo-dolphins, which were first deployed in this war, sank thousands of british ships, he even managed to take Scottland and drag it from the mainland, but only stopped when Triton, king of the mediteranian sea, stepped in, because he was vehemently against such terraforming after the travesties of Italy and New Switzerland, and poseidon gave in as he did not wan't to fight his son. 166w.
Q: Why Germany and France fought? A: because Austria Hungry!!! (take a look at the map, it actually has "Austria Hungry" written on it lmao... strangely accurate, tho)
Greece: These islands are Greek! Turkey: No they belong to Turkey! Switzerland: Hey guys I have a peaceful solution Turkey and Greece: What? Switzerland: *annexes the eastern Mediterranean*
3:44 This map is meant for collectors of state map magnets. The magnets for the New England states are proportionally larger since those states are so small, and D.C.’s magnet is just the Capitol
I think another factor you don't seem to mention in you scoring is the intent of the map. Some randomly misleading promotional nonsense is one thing. But that last one says "study this and then answer questions". Suppose the first question is "list the Central Powers". What do you do. List what is on the map (since the question does say "study the map" even though it's utter nonsense). Or answer with your actual knowledge and ignore the map and get dinged for "not studying the map". This seems like a total trap question as a result of the ridiculous map. It already got "Nope" but i am feeling a "multiple Nope" might be justified.
The scary thing about that last map is that it looks like it was used for some test. These black and white, horribly shaded, and apparently blantantly inaccurate maps were my nightmare during history finals.
I wonder whether Tigerstar has a bunch of Nope/10 submissions on file, or whether this series is delayed by a need to have ever more dramatic Nopes/10.
One slight issue with the video, in the Nope/10 map Russia is labelled as being in the Central Powers, ofc that's very wrong and should only serve to lower the score but thought I'd point it out since it seems you missed that on your first look through
that map with the chinese on it has really good art style imo like more people should make map in different art styles like we use to do that the old european maps for example they were good
In the last map, Italy and Germany declared war on Neptune and won. Scotland meanwhile declared independence with Neptune's help. Switzerland moved to north Africa and the former Switzerland is presumably owned by France or something now.
I want to point out Russia was in fact the sole nation of the Cental Powers during World War One, with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy being Neutral which forced the Entente of Great Britain, France Spain and Switserland to fight the war in the brutal Trenches of the Balkans and Caucasus. True story, i promise (No seriously that map had Russia mentioned as the only Central Power)
What do you mean? Germany and Italy were just busy with the great Neptunia war, in which they won and had Neptune drain both the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Also, in exchange for lots of Swiss cheese, Italy granted Switzerland the eastern Mediterranean to help in the war effort. Also Denmark was flooded by the Baltics excess water
4:57 My favorite part of this map is the question below that’s asks: Why Germany and France fought? They were so lazy they couldn’t even complete the sentence to: Why did Germany declare war on France in 1914?
@@samr6408 Yeah, but regardless the question is so vague and weirdly worded. The map and the statement above makes it even weirder, considering the map adds no context as to why France and Germany fought. Also, their were a variety of reasons France declared war on Germany, but the question is phrased to make it seem like their was only one reason.
A test tailored to Chris-Chan. Somebody got hold of some of his old homework somehow, he mixed up the history of WW1 and WW2 and said the USA and Japan were "eyeing each other and eager to get it on".
Another Horrible Map: I just looked at a map of the Middle East in 1405 at the death of Timur. The Timurid and Egyptian borders are tolerable, but the Ottomans... it was horrifying. Apparently the Ottomans conquered the Byzantines and all of the Balkans before the 15th century, appears unaffected by the humiliating defeat at Ankara and isn't in a literal civil war, and conquered Switzerland, Trebizond and Venice.
@SkepticDylan it is less work to just trace a premade map than it is to create these abominations. they would be putting in extra effort to make it worse. thats why everyone is so perplexed at these "american made maps", like how are mistakes like this even made? im not talking about re-labeling a place, im talking about shifiting the very land masses then adding extra land. then naming that some random country, then somehow deleteing whole countries / continets and it somehow getting aproved for use by a text book.
@@SpahGaming It goes all the way up too. I have a history book published by the Smithsonian with map mistakes. The maps aren't an abomination, but it shows Finland having all of Karelia and Murmansk in 1937, with the post-war borders showing Finland reduced to interwar-era borders. The post-war map also shows a weird Moldova, Italy's pre-war border with Yugoslavia, and the Russian SFSR labelled as 'USSR'.
Never mind Germany being neutral in that last map, the country that started WW1 is 1) misspelled and 2) neutral. It's a wild alternate universe where GB, Portugal, France, Norway, Sweden, all of the Balkans and Turkey (apparently Ottoman empire fell apart a lot sooner, probably because of the tsunami that split Scotland from England) joined forces with African Switzerland to launch a naval invasion of Russia, bypassing the neutral states of Germany, Italy and Austria, which resulted in great famine in Austria, making it Hungry. No one quite knows what happened to Denmark, but it is better not to ask.
Don’t forget Portugal, which as it’s completely unshaded means it’s not part of either side… nor neutral…. Wait, no hang on… the sea is shaded as neutral… so is the sea land? Is Portugal, being the only completely unshaded part of the map, actually a sea? The only sea???
I assume it's from the alternate history where Poland used force field generators to protect its borders, so Germany and the USSR just said "screw it" and invade Norway and the Baltics instead.
Loved that "pathetic out of 10" rating, but on that last map, I'm surprised that you didn't make a joke out of Austria-Hungary being listed as "Austria-Hungry"
I like how you mentioned Vancouver Island being annexed into Washington, but didn’t mention how Wisconsin took the Upper Peninsula from Michigan... *10/10 this is the perfect timeline to the Toledo War*
3:34 Also of note is that Alaska is absolutely tiny in comparison to its real size and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan seems to both belong to Wisconsin and connect to Canada naturally (it actually does connect to Canada but only with man-made bridges AFAIK.)
at around 5:00 you say that no one appears to be a part of the central powers however, you can see that Russia is merely alone as a member of the central powers. Which only makes it worse
Hadrian's canal. Now there's an idea. As the wine of the feast to celebrate the completion of the Wall turned to a pounding hangover, Marcus of the XXth legion woke up to the sound of screaming. Are the barbarians so stupid as to attack on the very first day the Wall is complete?!? He got the basics of his armour on, grabbed his spear, and ran out. Not a barbarian in sight yet, but everyone from the fort was running up to stand on the wall. Even the women and children. What is going on? Marcus too ran to the Wall and up the steps. He would have pushed his way along the Wall to get a better glimpse of whatever it was, but it was obvious from the moment his eyes got higher than the battlement. Sea! There's a Sea where there's supposed to be the barbarian lands! Looking to the horizon he saw what looked like it was the lands that used to be below the wall, but now they were just visible at the horizon. Not hearing where it began, or when he joined in, all around him was a chant: "Neptune's Wall! Neptune's Wall! Neptune's Wall!" Hadrian's Wall was now dwarfed by Neptune's Wall. Apparently his commander agreed with the chant and by the time people started going ack down orders were to start preparing sites for both a temple to Neptune where it the god might gaze upon his work, and a small harbour outside the gate in the Wall that the fort was built to protect.
1:15 He didn't notice that: -there is no Yugoslavia -Bulgaria owns southern dobruja -Moscow is in wrong place -Hungary doesn't own subcarpathian ruthenia -Germany owns Norway and Denmark without the second island -Free City of Gdansk has sunk -Gotland has sunk
Free City of Danzig*. Since at that time the city was German with more than 95% of the inhabitants being German there and voting to wanting to rejoin Germany.
I thought 'pathetic/10' was the worst map but then came 'nope/10' with Hadrian's Canal separating Scotland from England. LOL!!!! I hope you keep getting bad maps sent to you. I love these videos.
Pathetic is a great word for that situation. You don’t want to be mean, because someone tried their best, but their best was an idiot. This feeling is called pity.
The map at 3:33, while generally atrocious and ungainly, does one thing absolutely right: it has given Michigan's Upper Peninsula (grossly misshapen though it is) to Wisconsin, where it rightfully belongs. This map deserves a 10/10.
5:08 that’s a old AP map used in Honors Freshman history of the world classes in Northern Indiana. The maps are actually usually worse than that, by that classes standard it’s like a 5/10
I like how Portugal has no shading in the last one. They have ascended beyond the need to even be considered neutral in these pathetic European conflicts.
The ironic thing of the first map is that it is about a writing competition for schools expressing and embracing Europe's values of modern times. Using a map that labels Kaliningrad as a part of Poland, Serbia eating up Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo as well as Czechoslowakia still being together "might" send out wrong signals. And on top of that: They used the same map for the competition in 2021. Just hilarious.
Last map may be bad, but the "problem" is arguably worse, "Study the picture below and answer the questions that follow. *image* (i) Why Germany and France fought?" First of all, how does that map give any information why the two fought? Second of all, is that even a question? It's just a caption/statement with a question mark at the end!
As a current resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I wondered if the map where Virginia was labeled as Kentucky was student produced, or a teacher daring students to “find the biggest mistake”.
gems from the last map that can be overlooked becouse of the other more noticable stuff: Austria hungry, Russia in central powers Turkey existing The benelux merged into one Germany austria hungary and italy marked as neutral Turkey sweeden and norway shown as an a part of Triple entente Portugal is the only place not marked at all
Ahhh yes, WW1, where the triple entente of Great Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, the Belgian city of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Swiss tunisia faced off against the central powers of Russia and the territory formerly known as Finland, now known as west russia. Imagine how different the world would be if the neutral powers got involved, like Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungry or the ocean. Kinda crazy that Portugal just disappeared off the face of the planet that whole time too.
That last map is hilarious, I couldn’t stop looking at Scotland running away from the rest of Britain. It’s very “Graphic Design is my passion”. Edit: Maybe the reason the sea is shaded the same as some of the counties was because they were both ‘neutral’ and hence irrelevant to the question they were asking? From a purely test creation perspective, they both are unnecessary information so just shade them the same, I guess? I dunno, they probably shouldn’t have added their names in that case but I like trying to figure out why stuff like this happens. It’d still be wrong anyway considering Germany’s labelling though so I don’t know what they were going for.
I'm from Michigan, and when I was in elementary school there was a mural that was supposed to show an outline of Michigan, except it depicted the state as entirely surrounded by water, as if all the other Great Lakes states and Ontario all just sunk into the lakes. I noticed the mistake as a kid but never mentioned it because I had no reason or cause to.
If only you had taken a photo of that mural with a smartphone that probably didn't exist yet...I don't think it would make Nope/10, but it could have been a contender.
@@timothymclean Unfortunately, my time in elementary school predates UA-cam or smartphones, but the mural well might still be there because it wasn't THAT long ago (I was in third grade when 9/11 happened, for example.) And even if I could've gotten a picture back then I probably would've gotten in trouble. I don't live far away from the school and if I ever go back there in the near future then I'll be sure to look for it and take a picture if it's still up. But again, I haven't done it because I've never had reason to.
I found these maps to be quite strange, and the last one, in particular! I noticed that according to the map, Spain, Switzerland, and even Turkey are members of the Triple Entente, Russia is the only member of the Central Powers in Europe, Hungary is "Hungry", and Portugal is... I don't know what it is, since it isn't even highlighted at all! Thanks for the video, and for "Hadrian's Canal"! Edit from 3/21/2023: I just realized that at 4:10, Crimea, which is normally a peninsula, is shown as an _island_ instead! Not only do we have Hadrian's Canal, but Crimea is finally separated from Ukraine by a _second_ North Crimean Canal! Weird!
4:45 I'm sure that Switzerland really means Swaziland, in reference to the time when the Swazi empire conquered the west half of Africa and sunk the east half, just like how they sunk the mighty Bismarck.
I think from the labeling of the Nope map it is saying that Russia is the sole member of the Central Powers. Which would also make it grammatically incorrect being it should be a singular power.
I was joking 3/10 was too generous considering the Germans apparently decided to partition Denmark with Sweden. Though now that I notice it's Danish, Copenhagen isn't the only thing that would need sanitized.
4:00 Are we just gonna ignore the Upper Peninsula becoming a wet noodle trying to eat Ontario? Along with the bite taken out of Indiana by Lake Michigan?
On the Spain one not only Granada seems slighlty displaced from its original location, but also it has been written as 'Grananda' which is quite awful from a Spanish perpective
1:06 That map is either in Danish or Norwegian, and there are 2 issues that speak out to me, Denmark is for some reason under German control, and MOSCOW IS IN BELARUS (Moskva is Danish/Norwegian for Moscow)
2:07 Greece rly sticks out there. Like theres other wrongness but that one bit def hits me in a "What were yall smokin when ya made this!?" kind of way xD
I have the map of the expanded North Eastern states. This purpose of that map is for state themed magnets, as in when you go on a vacation, you pick up a magnet of the state and you plop it on the map, the problem is new-England states are tiny, so they expand them.
A terrible thing about the last map is that the ocean had the same political allegiance as some countries. Good to know the Atlantic Ocean declared neutrality in WWI.
I would argue that the Europe map poster is just fine, the poster is meant to be for advertisement not for educational purposes and the map is just an illustration there, they didn’t have to make an accurate borders because it wouldn’t have added anything to the advertisement And just like how Jay foreman once said “no map is right and no map is wrong and all map is map”
There are central powers in that map, it’s just Russia though. It was Russia vs Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Swiss North Africa, Greece, Serbo-Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Romania.
I just wanna point out a few things i dont think anyone noticed in the first map Czechoslovakia is apparently reunited Everything about lower greece The strange borders of croation and slovenia Scotlands strange borders Norway being way sharper than usual and finally, Just look at germany and denmark
Ah yes, the alternate timeline where Germany and Italy embarked on massive land reclamation projects, while Switzerland joined the scramble for Africa and Scotland decided to leave the UK physically but not politically
Don't forget Austria Hungry!
A timeline where the Atlantropa project was realized and extended to the Baltic too for some reason.
He said noone is part of the Central Powers...but Russia was on this map ^^'
At least they got the fact right that Denmark doesn't exist. Or maybe it was flooded when draining the Baltic Sea.
@@tanja_hatsuse thanks, at least I wasn't the only one who noticed that
There were so many mistakes that he forgot that Hungary was spelled as "Hungry" in the last one
Austria (is) hungry
@Armchair Psycho
Adolf H. Germany is "Hungry" for Austria.
This is my favourite mistake
the legendary natioun of austria Hungary, not to be confused with australia hungary or austaralia hungry
"Why Germany and France fought?"
I don't know, why did they fought? What did they fighted over?
"Okay, we gotta make a WWI map. How should we draw Italy?"
"What do you mean? It's the easiest country to draw. It's basically just a boot."
"Hmm, yes, a boot. I definitely know what one looks like and have, in fact, eaten one before."
"Excuse me, what?"
"... driven one?"
"..."
Also, Austria-Hungry.
"Y'know what, screw it no italy"
I’m gonna start saying that I drive my shows lol
"Aboot what?"
"A boot."
"Yeah, aboot what?"
"😐"
The question below the map kills me.
The best part about the last map is that it's apparently part of test. My condolences to anyone who has to try and decipher that
Indeed, it practically screams "thrown together at the last minute on a Friday"
"Study this picture and answer the following questions:
1: Why?
2: Why!?
3: Oh God, why?"
i) Why Germany and France fought?
so France was one of the thirteen countries in the triple entendre and Russia was the Central Powers and as we all know they fought eachother but to get to Russia France first had to go through neutral Germany, which Germany didn't like fought back which ended in the war we know today. But why didn't France just ship their troops over the atlantic? you may ask but you should know the atlantic also was a neutral nation which caused the uk to do essentially nothin in the larger conflict as they were embroiled in deadly conflict with poseidons forces his torpedo-dolphins, which were first deployed in this war, sank thousands of british ships, he even managed to take Scottland and drag it from the mainland, but only stopped when Triton, king of the mediteranian sea, stepped in, because he was vehemently against such terraforming after the travesties of Italy and New Switzerland, and poseidon gave in as he did not wan't to fight his son. 166w.
Q: Why Germany and France fought? A: because Austria Hungry!!!
(take a look at the map, it actually has "Austria Hungry" written on it lmao... strangely accurate, tho)
Greece: These islands are Greek!
Turkey: No they belong to Turkey!
Switzerland: Hey guys I have a peaceful solution
Turkey and Greece: What?
Switzerland: *annexes the eastern Mediterranean*
Grand Theft Mediterranean
While you're here, can Northern Ireland become part of North Korea? That'll sort everything out.
3:44 This map is meant for collectors of state map magnets. The magnets for the New England states are proportionally larger since those states are so small, and D.C.’s magnet is just the Capitol
Ah, looking at that map, I thought D.C. was a large island off the mid Atlantic coast.
@@Dave_Sisson I thought it was a submarine.
@@eldrago19 My first thought was titanic or other such ship :D
Why not just show those states in a separate box?
I think another factor you don't seem to mention in you scoring is the intent of the map.
Some randomly misleading promotional nonsense is one thing.
But that last one says "study this and then answer questions". Suppose the first question is "list the Central Powers". What do you do. List what is on the map (since the question does say "study the map" even though it's utter nonsense). Or answer with your actual knowledge and ignore the map and get dinged for "not studying the map". This seems like a total trap question as a result of the ridiculous map.
It already got "Nope" but i am feeling a "multiple Nope" might be justified.
There's a first question that says "Why did Germany fought France" so I assume it's like that.
Still if I saw that Imma flip
The map seems to show Alsace-Lorraine as already part of France again so even the question visible in the video is messed up.
Choose all which apply:
(A) NoPe
(B) Nop
(C) nopE
(D) NPE
(E) *nnnn*
@@insouciantFox (A) *three times*
The scary thing about that last map is that it looks like it was used for some test. These black and white, horribly shaded, and apparently blantantly inaccurate maps were my nightmare during history finals.
I would just like to point out that the map of Spain manages to misspell Granada as “Grananda”
That map got too good of a rating!
For a second I thought you were going to say it misspelled it as Grandma
Yeah, wasn't sure if that was a misspelling or "english translation" of the city name?
How? Where did the second N come from? Thanks for noticing it!
Jesus the nope/10 map on this episode might be the worst map so far, that is atrocious
I wonder whether Tigerstar has a bunch of Nope/10 submissions on file, or whether this series is delayed by a need to have ever more dramatic Nopes/10.
That map was there for my history practice paper
Is it the worst or the 'best'? Hehehe....
@@timothymclean or an Absolutely Not/10
That is by far, the worst map ever.
Of all time.
One slight issue with the video, in the Nope/10 map Russia is labelled as being in the Central Powers, ofc that's very wrong and should only serve to lower the score but thought I'd point it out since it seems you missed that on your first look through
Also Hungry for Hungary.
His eyes were molten before he could call that part out
If he called out every problem with the Nope/10 maps, these videos would be 20 minutes long and barely feature the runners-up.
Spain is also called an entente power
Also Portugal is not central power, not Entente and not neutral... what the hell are they then?
that map with the chinese on it has really good art style imo like more people should make map in different art styles like we use to do that the old european maps for example they were good
In the last map, Italy and Germany declared war on Neptune and won. Scotland meanwhile declared independence with Neptune's help. Switzerland moved to north Africa and the former Switzerland is presumably owned by France or something now.
also Switzerland also entered an alliance with Neptune in exchange for the Eastern Mediterranean
Its the alt history where Emperor Nero won
@@australiananarchist480 that is a story about caligula
french puppet state
Austria- _Hungry_
I want to point out Russia was in fact the sole nation of the Cental Powers during World War One, with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy being Neutral which forced the Entente of Great Britain, France Spain and Switserland to fight the war in the brutal Trenches of the Balkans and Caucasus.
True story, i promise
(No seriously that map had Russia mentioned as the only Central Power)
What do you mean? Germany and Italy were just busy with the great Neptunia war, in which they won and had Neptune drain both the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Also, in exchange for lots of Swiss cheese, Italy granted Switzerland the eastern Mediterranean to help in the war effort. Also Denmark was flooded by the Baltics excess water
4:57
My favorite part of this map is the question below that’s asks: Why Germany and France fought?
They were so lazy they couldn’t even complete the sentence to: Why did Germany declare war on France in 1914?
Looking at the map, it's obviously because neutral Germany wouldn't let France cross its territory to fight the Russians.
Well didn’t Germany declare war on France?
@@samr6408 Yeah, but regardless the question is so vague and weirdly worded.
The map and the statement above makes it even weirder, considering the map adds no context as to why France and Germany fought.
Also, their were a variety of reasons France declared war on Germany, but the question is phrased to make it seem like their was only one reason.
A test tailored to Chris-Chan.
Somebody got hold of some of his old homework somehow, he mixed up the history of WW1 and WW2 and said the USA and Japan were "eyeing each other and eager to get it on".
And the answer is obviously that they didn't fight, because Germany was a neutral power XD
Another Horrible Map:
I just looked at a map of the Middle East in 1405 at the death of Timur. The Timurid and Egyptian borders are tolerable, but the Ottomans... it was horrifying. Apparently the Ottomans conquered the Byzantines and all of the Balkans before the 15th century, appears unaffected by the humiliating defeat at Ankara and isn't in a literal civil war, and conquered Switzerland, Trebizond and Venice.
Based map?
Average Medieval 2 Turk playthrough
"Hadrian's Canal" made me laugh far more than it should've
It made me laugh too!
I love how the last one seems to be an exam question too
That last map, yeah the borders are horrific but can we mention
AUSTRIA HUNGRY.
“Why don’t Americans know geography” meanwhile literally every map I ever had in school 4:50
i mean, who made the maps? probaly americans.
@SkepticDylan it is less work to just trace a premade map than it is to create these abominations. they would be putting in extra effort to make it worse. thats why everyone is so perplexed at these "american made maps", like how are mistakes like this even made? im not talking about re-labeling a place, im talking about shifiting the very land masses then adding extra land. then naming that some random country, then somehow deleteing whole countries / continets and it somehow getting aproved for use by a text book.
@@SpahGaming It goes all the way up too. I have a history book published by the Smithsonian with map mistakes. The maps aren't an abomination, but it shows Finland having all of Karelia and Murmansk in 1937, with the post-war borders showing Finland reduced to interwar-era borders. The post-war map also shows a weird Moldova, Italy's pre-war border with Yugoslavia, and the Russian SFSR labelled as 'USSR'.
0:40 that map is actually a lot worst than you are talking about
the kauskasus, moskva, are both out of place.
And yugoslavia is separated as the modern borders
@@edizgunes "sloppy modern borders in most places"
Not mentioning the fact that the kaukasus is written wrong
Germany has no copwnhagen and theres no canal border between greece and turkey now.
Never mind Germany being neutral in that last map, the country that started WW1 is 1) misspelled and 2) neutral. It's a wild alternate universe where GB, Portugal, France, Norway, Sweden, all of the Balkans and Turkey (apparently Ottoman empire fell apart a lot sooner, probably because of the tsunami that split Scotland from England) joined forces with African Switzerland to launch a naval invasion of Russia, bypassing the neutral states of Germany, Italy and Austria, which resulted in great famine in Austria, making it Hungry. No one quite knows what happened to Denmark, but it is better not to ask.
Don’t forget Portugal, which as it’s completely unshaded means it’s not part of either side… nor neutral…. Wait, no hang on… the sea is shaded as neutral… so is the sea land? Is Portugal, being the only completely unshaded part of the map, actually a sea? The only sea???
IDK why but the idea that the Picts annoyed Hadrian so much that he physically tore great Britain apart amuses me
That second map shows Germany occupying Norway, but Poland still has it pre war borders. They invaded Norway several months after Poland was annexed.
and denmark..exept for copenhagen i guess
I assume it's from the alternate history where Poland used force field generators to protect its borders, so Germany and the USSR just said "screw it" and invade Norway and the Baltics instead.
Loved that "pathetic out of 10" rating, but on that last map, I'm surprised that you didn't make a joke out of Austria-Hungary being listed as "Austria-Hungry"
I like how you mentioned Vancouver Island being annexed into Washington, but didn’t mention how Wisconsin took the Upper Peninsula from Michigan...
*10/10 this is the perfect timeline to the Toledo War*
The UP also got shrunk and twisted to the point that Wisconsin gets an elephant trunk.
Ohio is the worst place to exist same with Wisconsin
3:34
Also of note is that Alaska is absolutely tiny in comparison to its real size and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan seems to both belong to Wisconsin and connect to Canada naturally (it actually does connect to Canada but only with man-made bridges AFAIK.)
Also, Hawaii is located off the coast of Mexico.
Wisconsin owns a shriveled up Upper Michigan
3:56 they finally pushed the capitol building into the sea, where it belongs
I laughed WAY too hard at "Hadrian's Canal"!!
Clicked on this immediately for some bad maps
at around 5:00 you say that no one appears to be a part of the central powers
however, you can see that Russia is merely alone as a member of the central powers. Which only makes it worse
And Portugal isn't aligned with anything, not even neutral.
@@lily_littleangelHey, I saw your comment on that Plants vs. Zombies Garlic challenge run video!
Hadrian's canal.
Now there's an idea.
As the wine of the feast to celebrate the completion of the Wall turned to a pounding hangover, Marcus of the XXth legion woke up to the sound of screaming. Are the barbarians so stupid as to attack on the very first day the Wall is complete?!? He got the basics of his armour on, grabbed his spear, and ran out. Not a barbarian in sight yet, but everyone from the fort was running up to stand on the wall. Even the women and children. What is going on? Marcus too ran to the Wall and up the steps. He would have pushed his way along the Wall to get a better glimpse of whatever it was, but it was obvious from the moment his eyes got higher than the battlement. Sea! There's a Sea where there's supposed to be the barbarian lands! Looking to the horizon he saw what looked like it was the lands that used to be below the wall, but now they were just visible at the horizon. Not hearing where it began, or when he joined in, all around him was a chant: "Neptune's Wall! Neptune's Wall! Neptune's Wall!" Hadrian's Wall was now dwarfed by Neptune's Wall. Apparently his commander agreed with the chant and by the time people started going ack down orders were to start preparing sites for both a temple to Neptune where it the god might gaze upon his work, and a small harbour outside the gate in the Wall that the fort was built to protect.
I found this story to be quite humorous! Thanks for posting it!
love these videos man keep making them they are entertaining
1:15 He didn't notice that:
-there is no Yugoslavia
-Bulgaria owns southern dobruja
-Moscow is in wrong place
-Hungary doesn't own subcarpathian ruthenia
-Germany owns Norway and Denmark without the second island
-Free City of Gdansk has sunk
-Gotland has sunk
I did notice, but I didn’t need to say more lmao.
Also the Caucasus in the North of Ukraine
Free City of Danzig*. Since at that time the city was German with more than 95% of the inhabitants being German there and voting to wanting to rejoin Germany.
"Why Germany and France fought?"
Well out of fear of sinking into the ocean, obviously.
As a Hungarian when I saw Austria-Hungary labelled as Austria Hungry I screamed so loud that the Austrians came over to tell me to stop.
I thought 'pathetic/10' was the worst map but then came 'nope/10' with Hadrian's Canal separating Scotland from England. LOL!!!! I hope you keep getting bad maps sent to you. I love these videos.
Hadrian's canal was an A tier line
Pathetic is a great word for that situation.
You don’t want to be mean, because someone tried their best, but their best was an idiot. This feeling is called pity.
4:00 Wisconsin and Indiana have me DYING. Wisconsin is basically E.T. phoning home
“Austria Hungry”
“No I think you mean Austria - Hungary”
“NO. AUSTRIA IS HUNGRY”
The map at 3:33, while generally atrocious and ungainly, does one thing absolutely right: it has given Michigan's Upper Peninsula (grossly misshapen though it is) to Wisconsin, where it rightfully belongs. This map deserves a 10/10.
Honestly, some of these maps are pretty hilarious especially this one; 5:31 lmao
Austria HUNGRY 😂
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5:08 that’s a old AP map used in Honors Freshman history of the world classes in Northern Indiana. The maps are actually usually worse than that, by that classes standard it’s like a 5/10
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I recently saw a globe that had Sudan named as North Sudan but South Sudan didn’t even exist on the map.
I like how Portugal has no shading in the last one. They have ascended beyond the need to even be considered neutral in these pathetic European conflicts.
The ironic thing of the first map is that it is about a writing competition for schools expressing and embracing Europe's values of modern times. Using a map that labels Kaliningrad as a part of Poland, Serbia eating up Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo as well as Czechoslowakia still being together "might" send out wrong signals. And on top of that: They used the same map for the competition in 2021. Just hilarious.
3:35 it also looks like a continental plate slid hundreds of miles out of place in the Midwest
Last map may be bad, but the "problem" is arguably worse, "Study the picture below and answer the questions that follow.
*image*
(i) Why Germany and France fought?"
First of all, how does that map give any information why the two fought? Second of all, is that even a question? It's just a caption/statement with a question mark at the end!
The last one killed me xD especially given the fact that students are supposed to work and learn with it o_o
As a current resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I wondered if the map where Virginia was labeled as Kentucky was student produced, or a teacher daring students to “find the biggest mistake”.
gems from the last map that can be overlooked becouse of the other more noticable stuff:
Austria hungry,
Russia in central powers
Turkey existing
The benelux merged into one
Germany austria hungary and italy marked as neutral
Turkey sweeden and norway shown as an a part of Triple entente
Portugal is the only place not marked at all
My dad and I both enjoyed watching this entertaining video! Have you ever considered reviewing the maps in "What if?" kinds of books or online?
I was so distracted by the tiny Canadian provinces I wasn't even seeing the curse gore of butchered New England.
I refuse to belive that the last map is not a misprint
Ahhh yes, WW1, where the triple entente of Great Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, the Belgian city of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Swiss tunisia faced off against the central powers of Russia and the territory formerly known as Finland, now known as west russia.
Imagine how different the world would be if the neutral powers got involved, like Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungry or the ocean.
Kinda crazy that Portugal just disappeared off the face of the planet that whole time too.
That last map is hilarious, I couldn’t stop looking at Scotland running away from the rest of Britain. It’s very “Graphic Design is my passion”.
Edit: Maybe the reason the sea is shaded the same as some of the counties was because they were both ‘neutral’ and hence irrelevant to the question they were asking? From a purely test creation perspective, they both are unnecessary information so just shade them the same, I guess? I dunno, they probably shouldn’t have added their names in that case but I like trying to figure out why stuff like this happens. It’d still be wrong anyway considering Germany’s labelling though so I don’t know what they were going for.
I'm from Michigan, and when I was in elementary school there was a mural that was supposed to show an outline of Michigan, except it depicted the state as entirely surrounded by water, as if all the other Great Lakes states and Ontario all just sunk into the lakes. I noticed the mistake as a kid but never mentioned it because I had no reason or cause to.
If only you had taken a photo of that mural with a smartphone that probably didn't exist yet...I don't think it would make Nope/10, but it could have been a contender.
@@timothymclean Unfortunately, my time in elementary school predates UA-cam or smartphones, but the mural well might still be there because it wasn't THAT long ago (I was in third grade when 9/11 happened, for example.) And even if I could've gotten a picture back then I probably would've gotten in trouble. I don't live far away from the school and if I ever go back there in the near future then I'll be sure to look for it and take a picture if it's still up. But again, I haven't done it because I've never had reason to.
Great to see Czechoslovakia unified again
Came for this, thanks
I was looking for this. Especially because the map is puplished by a subdivision of the European Union.
3:35 some thing really really wrong has heppened to the USA there omg the more i look at it the more uncomfortable i get
The worst part about the US one with the big New England states is the fact that it very clearly says “Made in USA” in the bottom right
This is my favorite series on your channel
Ain’t no party like a bad map party cause a bad map party never stops
The "Why Germany and France fought?" is giving me big India school system vibes
1:15 that look like some thing for a video game or a documentary
I found these maps to be quite strange, and the last one, in particular! I noticed that according to the map, Spain, Switzerland, and even Turkey are members of the Triple Entente, Russia is the only member of the Central Powers in Europe, Hungary is "Hungry", and Portugal is... I don't know what it is, since it isn't even highlighted at all! Thanks for the video, and for "Hadrian's Canal"!
Edit from 3/21/2023: I just realized that at 4:10, Crimea, which is normally a peninsula, is shown as an _island_ instead! Not only do we have Hadrian's Canal, but Crimea is finally separated from Ukraine by a _second_ North Crimean Canal! Weird!
Austria definitely was hungry back in those times
The big question here is "Why Germany and France fought?"
Obvious answer to last map is that Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany are located on sea floor. Its same color as sea, you see?
4:46 and they actually labeled Hungary as "Hungry"
4:45 I'm sure that Switzerland really means Swaziland, in reference to the time when the Swazi empire conquered the west half of Africa and sunk the east half, just like how they sunk the mighty Bismarck.
I think from the labeling of the Nope map it is saying that Russia is the sole member of the Central Powers. Which would also make it grammatically incorrect being it should be a singular power.
In the second map Moscow is also right by the Polish border (near the Vilnius region) and Caucasus is in Ukraine. I would give it 2/10 max.
In the nope/10 map, the Deutsch took some lessons from the Dutch in declaring war on the sea
the second map gets worse:
its clearly a danish map, that then somehow managed to cut Denmark in half and give the west to Germany.
I was joking 3/10 was too generous considering the Germans apparently decided to partition Denmark with Sweden. Though now that I notice it's Danish, Copenhagen isn't the only thing that would need sanitized.
no its a Swedish map
4:00 Are we just gonna ignore the Upper Peninsula becoming a wet noodle trying to eat Ontario? Along with the bite taken out of Indiana by Lake Michigan?
4:45 Ah yes. Austria-Hungry
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On the Spain one not only Granada seems slighlty displaced from its original location, but also it has been written as 'Grananda' which is quite awful from a Spanish perpective
1:06
That map is either in Danish or Norwegian, and there are 2 issues that speak out to me, Denmark is for some reason under German control, and MOSCOW IS IN BELARUS (Moskva is Danish/Norwegian for Moscow)
1:02 Kosovo, is that you?
Also I love that they had enough attention to detail to have the whole of Romania
“Who needs a wall when you can have a canal?” -Hadrian ‘The something or other’, 122AD
5:10 "Austria Hungry"
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2:07 Greece rly sticks out there. Like theres other wrongness but that one bit def hits me in a "What were yall smokin when ya made this!?" kind of way xD
That last map causes pain to look at. It is actually crazy to think that some people have seen these maps and think nothing is wrong with them
I lost it at "Hadrian's Canal"
The bad maps just won't stop coming.
If the history teacher had given me the sheet with the last map, I would've stormed out of the classroom and never attend history class again
"Pathetic/10" is too harsh... it should really be "Bruh/10" or "Bro?/10"
Oh my god I laughed so hard at the last one. With Switzerland in North Africa... and it looked like it was from some kind of test???
3:30 is probably just a map for the novel A Jangada de Pedra. Maybe.
Great parody of "All star" from Smash mouth!
But we're all ignoring the most important question of all:
"Why Germany and France fought?"
It's certainly low on the crimes committed by that last map, but it is funny that for some reason they shaded every country except portugal
I have the map of the expanded North Eastern states. This purpose of that map is for state themed magnets, as in when you go on a vacation, you pick up a magnet of the state and you plop it on the map, the problem is new-England states are tiny, so they expand them.
I feel like the solution to that is to leave the New England states the size they are and just make the rest of the map at bigger
Yeah, that was the vibe I was getting. It was for either magnets or stickers, definatly for collectables.
A terrible thing about the last map is that the ocean had the same political allegiance as some countries. Good to know the Atlantic Ocean declared neutrality in WWI.
I really do love this series
I would argue that the Europe map poster is just fine, the poster is meant to be for advertisement not for educational purposes and the map is just an illustration there, they didn’t have to make an accurate borders because it wouldn’t have added anything to the advertisement
And just like how Jay foreman once said “no map is right and no map is wrong and all map is map”
Something I think you missed in the first one, unified Czechoslovakia
2:15 They also misspelled Indonesia as “Indonisia”
There are central powers in that map, it’s just Russia though. It was Russia vs Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Swiss North Africa, Greece, Serbo-Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Romania.
While Germany and Italy fount the Neptunian war, claiming the Baltic and the Mediterranean
@@ntfoperative9432 then they became Allies with the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean sea
I just wanna point out a few things i dont think anyone noticed in the first map
Czechoslovakia is apparently reunited
Everything about lower greece
The strange borders of croation and slovenia
Scotlands strange borders
Norway being way sharper than usual
and finally, Just look at germany and denmark