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The reasons Norway doesn't have as much forest cover as Sweden and Finland is because of how mountainous it is and the tundra in the north

Venus is so island dense because there isn’t water to erode and smoothen out the land.

The Umayyad Caliphate did push past the Pyrenees into Aquitaine, but they were pushed out of France by 759.

1-8: these maps are truly important because it really tells us a lot about certain things we have right now or had in the past. 9: this map shows where Kentucky is.

I absolutely love how in the first map the area where Canada is supposed to be just says "Barbarians" instead 😂

Hopefully everybody here likes maps.

Japonica? Didn’t Japan fight on the side of the Allies during WW1? Why would the Central Powers let an enemy have that

You forgot Malta in the forest coverage map. It was only 1%

Great video as always! In the map at 2:55, the cats on Britain's knees are 'Orange Free State' and 'Transvaal'. The Empire had some messy things happening there in 1900.

For the map with cartoon representatins of countries, I think that the cats attacking Britain's legs represent the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, colonies in modern South Africa which fought Britain for their independance in the Boor Wars.

Iceland was covered by forest, until the Vikings age. Today there is a program to restore the forest, but in the cold forests grow more slowly.

10:56 "This is most evident in Nordic countries [...] and Iceland" Iceland IS a Nordic country, thank you very much. It is not however a Scandinavian country, as Scandinavia specifically refers to the Scandinavian peninsula in Europe (though Denmark is usually counted as part of the region too). Bottom line: All Scandinavian countries are Nordic, but not all Nordic countries are Scandinavian. The Nordic countries are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, of which the latter three are also Scandinavian.

Great video! 8:58 In the 8th century Muslim forces pushed into southern France. 3:40 I love how Corsica is depicted as Napoleon

The best part of "New Prussia" map is Bismarck North Dakota being only capital that doesn't change And also straight of hate that cracked me up

1:30 they literally cal Chicago "Slaughterhouse" 😂 They aren't wrong tho

This channel is so underrated...

2:35 the problem in Britain is the orange free state and Transvaal, aka the Boer republics. Portugal held the key, aka the Baía de Maputo, or bay of Delagoa

8:58 Yes it's accurate, the muslims arrived in France and were stopped at Poitiers in 732

Hi, i am a french geography teacher, could i ask the main sources for your maps. I would be very pleased (the ww1 is present in most french high school history manual from 70s-90s btw ). Thanks for yor channel, very inspiring! :)

I believe "map of forest" lacks a bit of context as Ukraine, for example, has a relatively small percentage not due to deforestation, but because it historically has a massive amount of steppes. For some reason people think that lack of forests is always bad and forget that there're other types of terrain are equally important: because of steppes Ukraine has one of the worlds best soils for agriculture.

Imagine Japan not being on the imperial rule map despite having the longest lasting imperial family.

Ottoman's position of the man also refers to their nickname of that time: the sick man of Europe.

I think the Portuguese symbol depicted in John Bull's map is the king of Portugal holding the key to the Portuguese African empire that was very coveted by the Brits. I would guess the map is dated around the 1890's, back in the day of the infamous Rose map. Loved this exquisite video

I love maps, too! I've been collecting them since I was 7 years old! 😍

The "key" may symbolize the fact that the oldest alliance (even to this day) is between Britain and Portugal, making Portugal think it is a very important friend of John Bull.

You are not alone my friend, I also love maps right down to the tiniest detail. I do own quite a number of them! Keep moving forward i love your channel!

I'm guessing that Japan was chosen to take over the west coast on both maps because they were hands down the supreme imperial power in the Pacific at the time. They wiped the floor with Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, and they did pretty well against German forces in the early part of The Great War. And while they were a big part of the Allies, they were also rivals of other Allied countries in the Pacific like China. it was probably clear that Japan would have single handily dominated the Pacific without America in the picture and their alliance was purely one of convenience to Japan and could be flipped.

Iceland used to have forests, but they were chopped down, and then the lands used for extensive sheep herding. They are planting new forests now.

From what I heard when I went there (and I'm not sure if I got it right), they estimate that when the first settlers arrived to Iceland 25% of its surface were covered by forest. But it was a much more fragile environment, the forests didn't recovered at the same rate that they were used to and between the centuries of 1200 and 1800 the world had experienced a proportionally small global freezing period, which may not have been relevant for continental Europe but for them it was harsher times.

In 1995, Inwas living in Quito, Ecuador and there was a small war between Ecuador and Peru, the War of Tiwintza. I was in college and I saw in the window of a teacher’s office a cartoon showing Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori as an octopus sticking his tentacles into Ecuador and other countries in South America.

Magnificent video! This series is one of my favourite of all time!

2:40 What instantly jumps to sight is that the octopus has FORESKIN on its tentacles.

That Central Power-controlled USA map is pretty much the American version of the New Germany/Australia map also made during WW1. I really like the details of that John Bull map. Wow history is certainly filled with interesting and cool maps

Great video, nice maps, interesting toppic... WELL DONEEEE

I love maps too:) Your channel is really interesting, great job!

Great video, pal.

5:52 that round island is Elysium mons ... one of the largest volcanic mountains on Mars .. edit: sorry i thought it was Olypus mons first (both looks like islands tbh :D) so after some ppls warning i checked and seen that map's North side was on the bottom thats why i assumed that island was Olympus :D

Amazing presentation!!! Its very high yielding. ☺️

I always enjoy your videos. Very intriguing.

1:35 japan was in the enetente

Yeah, the Francs beat back the Muslim armies in modern-day France meaning it was occupied at some point by them

I didn't even imagine that MAPS can depict so much...... THANKS GENARAL KNOWLEDGE FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO AND I REQUEST YOU TO MAKE MORE OF THEM.

Beautiful presentation! Congrats!

0:46 I feel like this map is just "The Man in the High Castle" but if it was WW1 instead of WW2.

5:47 the map of Mars is wrong in two ways: 1st it's upside down. And 2nd most of the water would be on the northern hemisphere only, since the southern hemisphere is much higher elevated.

I was in Reykjavik two years ago and visited the main museums. I distinctly remember being told in the old days Iceland was covered in forests but humans around the middle ages logged it almost entirely and caused a huge erosion problem. efforts to this day haven't been succesful to counter it. 🌳🌳🌳🌳

Regarding the Forest map! I have a friend who works for Sweden in the European Parliament, and a couple of years ago they had bill on the preservation of forests, and a belgian politician asked my friend "how many forests do you have?", and my friend was confused on how to answer. "It's kind of just ONE forest??", since all of it's kind of connected and the rest of the woodlands is parks, and the belgian could nog comprehend how a country could only have one forest, mistaking it for being one SMALL forest like in Belgium

In the Netherlands the forests had to make room for people and farmlands. What nature we have left is under immense pressure from recreation and pollution.

9:00 In the early days of Islam, the French territories in the southern half were plagued by Saracen raids. Corsica is the first territory to suffer one, in 704; then come the Pyrénées-Orientales of the Duchy of Aquitaine and the province of Septimanie (approximately the former region of Languedoc-Roussillon), in 717. The latter is invaded and occupied from 719 to 759. Its wali (governor) depends on the wali al-Andalus, and sits in the city of Narbonne, which is used as a base for the raids: Carcassonne, Béziers, Agde and Nîmes are taken in 725, then Avignon and Autun are raided and Lyon is occupied the same year. The city of Luxeuil was raided in 731, Bordeaux and Sens in 732; but the Saracens were defeated in Poitiers in October, which marked a halt to their expansion in France. The Saracens nevertheless occupied several cities of Provence from 734 to 739: Avignon, Arles, and Marseille. The region of Valence and the Alps were raided from the end of the ninth to the tenth century. The Saracens finally settled in Fraxinet in the Massif des Maures from 889 to 975.

These were really cool! I especially liked the maps of Venus and Mars, they kind of looked like worlds in a fantasy book or game.

I love your videos they are so educational and your videos make me love Geography more

I'm a mapper, and I only click on these videos because there's a more than zero chance that I might be on here. It didn't happen this time though, but I've been on Memeuless' map videos a few times lol

10:13 I'm from denmark, why there no one who female than or male. Maybe neutral or don't know. (Not really, lol)

You are such a legend, Im starting with the one on the thumbnail.

Thanks for the upload I enjoy maps

7:46 where is Japan!?

4:06 napoleon is sitting in the name of where him born, so thats why is napoleon in.

Dude, I just subscribed! I'm 0:09 seconds into the video and I heard all I needed to hear for me to stop, comment and hit that subscribe button. Your first three words- "I like maps!" That did it. Wanna guess about my feelings about them? :) Hope the rest of the video is good

Just like Sheldon had "Fun with Flags", your channel should be called "Merryment with Maps". I love it btw!

Lithuania has 33% land coverd by forest because, lithuania's economy is based on agro culture

The text on the cats says "Orange Free State" and "Transvaal"

A very good video. It is always interesting to learn something new.

The very first map you showcased was the cover of Life Magazine in 1916. It was used as propaganda to garner American support for WWI. It was used to imply that the Central Powers would not simply stop if they won the war in Europe, eventually America would become a target so they should help out while they can.

4:11 ofc Poland votes for a unified EU army knowing their history...

Iceland used to be forest covered until the vikings landed and used the timber for fuel and housing. The amount of France described as having been under Muslim rule is slightly exaggerated but there was a brief state in the south centered on Narbonne if memory serves in the ninth century.

The two cats biting at Britain’s legs are the Orange Free State and Transvaal - reference to the Boer War which was fought around 1900 - the date on this map.

Hi General, I love your content and the way you make your videos. Thank you for the pleasure. Mais uma coisa, tu és português certo ?

“Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.” ― Mike Tyson 😄

1:16 Imagine Germany Empire win the war

7:00 Indian plate is a sub-plate of the Australian plate and so it the Madagascan plate to the African plate. Pretty cool

I like that you mention Portugal very often on your videos🥰

I love the channel so don’t take this the wrong way, just a small note. You said you don’t know precisely who made the first map, of America with the American reservation. And then you say it is weird ‘they’ would make this reservation look so bad but also put that forward as a solution for the native population. If you don’t know if the Americans made the map that statement doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I don’t like you bashing the American treatment of natives, but this seemed like an inaccurate statement to me. Especially if the same map exists on the opposite side, trying to get America to join the central powers, it’s likely the first one was made by one of the allies to try and convince America.

11:08 - I imagine this, like many other divided German statistics, has something to do with it's East-West divide during the Cold War.

Yo nice video!

Awesome video! I especially liked the planets if they had the same percentage of water as earth.

islam was never established in france, although they did try.

7:15 but I thought all of Africa's problems were due to those pesky colonizers. Weird.

I think the key in Don Carlos' hands has "Deli / Goa" written on it. It might be a reference to the resielience of the Portuguese in India at the moment of Britain's presence. Also, yeah, there was an incursion into the region of Provence of the Umayade Empire around 720 AD which lasted for around 10 years.

there is a series, available at amazon prime, where is shows us a cenario where the axis won the ww2 and shared the US on a similar way to what your map showed us. it's called "The man in the high castle", look it up

The vikings chopped down the forrests of Iceland long time ago. That's why 😢🌲

Well, the muslims invaded France after had conquered Spain and were defeated in the battle of Poitiers by Charles Martel, grandfather of Cherlemagne. So yes, the south of France has been under islamic dominion for a briefly period of ten years proximately.

At 9:00 The reason why there is a part in France is due to the Sarrasins (Omeyyades) expansion stopped by Charlemagne and his army at Poitier in France in 732. They did reach this city after conquering most of the iberian peninsula (except the northern kingdoms that would eventually conquer back Spain and Portugal territory during La Reconquista achieving that in 1492 (more than 700 years later lol) for Spain and earlier for Portugal.

Norway is very low in forest because it’s so mountainous and like Iceland is an arctic climate with glaciers. One of the largest forests in the world passes through Norway, Sweden, Finland and in to Russia

11:10 Erich Honecker killed Many men .

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Denmark once had the biggest navy in the world. For such a small country, that requires A LOT OF WOOD. I can't remember the exact number, but i believe the danish forrest percentage was as low as 5% at a time. Trying to implement new forrest in Denmark is still a huge issue, that the changing governments tries to solve.

what is more interesting about "New Romania" in the first map is that Romania did not made an alliance with central powers in WW1, so the map must be made in 1915 before Romania enters the war, and nobody know what side Romania would chose, going with antant will help Romania gaining transilvania and unit all romanian spechers in one country (wich did happen) but at the same time King Carol was german ( second in line for bavaria's throne, before German unification) and saw as a betrayal fighting against them. Romania enters the war after he died.

First time I'm disappointed by a video of yours... So many mistakes, omissions, and misunderstanding (of history or geology/geography) that could have been avoided by doing some background research, unfortunately, because I quite like your channel... For example: The map of Mars is upside down, and the round circle/island there is an extinct volcano (Elysium Mons)... With the tectonic plates on the earth, you seem surprised that there are countries on multiple plates, there's a simple reason for that: where oceanic portions of tectonic plates "collide" they cause volcanism that creates chains of islands (like Japan and New Zealand, a different reason for Iceland being split between two plates). You claim Finland wanted to reclaim independence, while Finland became independent for the first time in its history in 1917. The woman in Ireland trying to hit the British soldier likely represents Ireland's struggle for independence, and Portugal is Britain's "oldest ally", so I would guess that the key likely represents the key Portugal holds for Britain to the rest of Europe (this could probably be researched on google)...

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The round island in the Mars map is Olympus Mons! It's so tall it would probably rise a few dozen kilometers above the "sea level".

The New Britain map comes from a German-American newspaper called "The Fatherland"

"Jamaica will become New Romania" 1:46. I almost spit my drink out!!!

Very interesting & we learnt new things 🌸

8:56 In 719 and 732 CE the Umayyad dynasty that controlled the Iberian Peninsula invaded and, for a short time, controlled southern Gaul. They lost the area in 759 to the Franks. In the 10th century the Andalusians invaded and took control of a small island off the southern coast of France called Fraxinet, but it was ultimately lost in 972 CE.

This video i like! I want more of that please

at 4 minutes if anyone is wondering the music is called bravura march. Very fun piece of music

Romanian Jamaica and Turkish Florida might be one of the most cursed things I've ever seen.

3:45 The gnawing cats very much appear to be "Orange Free State" and "Transvaal".

the island that you pointed out on the terraformed mars map was olympic mons