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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch 1000 Years of European Borders Change In 3 Minutes
http://www.viralforest.com/watch-1000-years-european-borders-change/This time-lapse video has never been more relevant. As the eyes of the world are fixed on events in Ukraine and Crimea, its good to have a little perspective on the ever-changing flux of borders throughout time. Very cool!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)well done.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)They seemed to break up the Austro-Hungarian Empire along about 1910 --which, if true, would have "slightly" altered what happened over the next several years.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)They have the annexation of Sudetenland in 1936, and the German invasion of the Soviet Union about 1945, and we don't get to 'Occupied Germany' until 1959. I think they've produced a series of drawings, and not tried very hard to fix them to the precise years, so that rapid changes get shown over a longer period. With accuracy, I suspect this would show more periods of a bit longer stability, and more sudden changes.
pinto
(106,886 posts)Watched it once but looks good for replays, focusing on a specific region.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)That's mind-blowing. It really helps in understanding why so many are pissed off now about so many things in the past. I kept rooting for Poland - they got wiped out a few times and kept coming back!
ChazII
(6,205 posts)Thank you!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)The map is cool
Thanks
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)and yeah, it was huge, and fairly powerful for a time, especially as the Holy Roman Empire was pretty disorganized at the time, and the Russians were just shaking off Mongol rule.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I was just talking about this with a friend from Mexico the other day. He lives in the USA now. I'm going to show this to him, so we can both get a better understanding of it. Thanks.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It will show changes to forests, prairies and wetlands from the time of the first settlers to urbanization, white flight suburban creep and agribusiness.
A tree doesn't know if it's in the US,....unless it's in a Red State and gets cut down.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)those gifs as we speak.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)have a link for this map?
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Or select "copy link location" and paste it into the url address bar and it will take you to it and you can bookmark it if that's what you wanted. You can also right click and "save image as" and save it to your computer.
h t t p : //freedom<remove>fathers . com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/US-Map-GIF1.gif
(take out all the spaces and the <remove> and that's the link. If I don't modify it it shows up as the gif.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)I do like your trick of putting the link in the title section of the reply though. It took me 4 edits to get that stupid thing to not show up as the gif, or the broken link image. lol.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; margin-left:1em; border:2px dotted #CC0000; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:6px 6px 6px #990000;"]...that's the easy way to do it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Thanks for posting it!
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)The Timurids conquer pretty much all of modern Turkey, leaving the Ottomans with only their European lands, and then disintegrate into a bunch of tiny states (that are eventually absorbed by the Ottomans) in the span of about 5 years.