The world's oldest border? 

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I didn't understand about the movement of the tectonic plates until you showed the image of the pasta and the fiddle, and now it all makes sense. Thank you.

I like to think Russia was in a constant state of panic until Berwick upon tweed declared peace between them

My favourite Hadrian's Wall fact is that all the forts are in really dumb places, because the Roman's wanted them to be at identical intervals, so there's a bunch of forts that are placed at the bottom of hills

So... I get the joke, but Hadrian's wall was much more effective than just requiring people to just hop over. First of all, it was made mostly of wood, because building stuff out of stone and brick in those days, especially without logistics support, was less feasible. But it was built very strong with similar methods to ship building, and it was manned and guarded, complete with gates and ballista emplacements, as well as proper corbels, parapets, and machicolations. Just all made out of wood, not stone. It was a proper wall, not just a fence. The remains today are indeed stone, but that was used for the foundations, which is of course why they remain today, because that part of the wall was built to really last. You can see along the wall protruding sections where there would have been rooms and areas for sleeping, war rooms, break rooms, all kinds of rooms, built into the wall itself, on the English side of course because you don't want to be caught unawares by barbarians just trying to have your morning scones and tea. But there are some remains of full-scale barracks and everything scattered about along the length of it. This is part of how we know it was a really effective wall.

Mark used to be my geography teacher about 8 or so years ago. So cool seeing him here

Forgotten wars happen to the best of us. The Netherlands was at war with Jersey from the 17th century to the 21st century, until somebody noticed we had declared war four hundred years ago, but nobody could find the peace treaty. So, we signed an official peace declaration with Jersey a few years ago, and now all is well again.

The violin part hurt my heart, please never do that again 😂

"Can I borrow your violin?" "What are going to use it for?" "Oh, just smashing it into a bowl of pasta"

Great episode, hopefully we won't have to wait another three years for the next one!

The inconsistant number of “men” in the intro always gets me

2:52 the tap water joke is so true tho

That Art Attack music at 3:30 brought about a wave of nostalgia in me

2:23, as a violinist, this brought me physical pain.

*Top 10 Most Anticipated Anime Comebacks*

Don't you love how for each video they essentially have to write two sketches. The one they put in the title and then the one for the ad. Such respect for these legends!

soon the official name will be The United Kingdom of Great Britian, Northern Ireland and Berwick upon Tweed

"Mr Bean was an alien" "The production company was English" *"Well saved"*

Last time I was this early, Scotland almost left the UK.

Fun fact! The part of Laurentia which Scotland split off from is now the Canadian province of Nova Scotia (or New Scotland for non Latin speakers) which was founded by Scottish immigrants… perhaps obviously. Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island bears an uncanny resemblance to the Scottish highlands and many of the road signs are in Gaelic as well as English. Now you know

1:43 Truer words were never spoken

I love how they pretend to go to Berwick upon Tweed but it's clearly just somewhere in london

Finally another one see you boys in 20 years

Fun fact, Hadrian's wall used to be pretty formidable, fifteen feet tall or so and thick enough to have a walkway on top. It also served as a convenient source of building materials for the folks living nearby.

I love the small details like the soundtrack from art attack while Mark drew his map.

4:40 To all the people who got mad when they said "men" 3 times instead of 2 for the intro in that other video.

Bonus points for including the Art Attack theme tune 👍

Lol NI: "Doesn't really have a flag, long story" Yes.. yes it is.. 😂

I am completely blown away that the picture you used to depict 500 (or so) people is a picture of the administration building of the Berkeley Unified School District (in the good ol' U S of A), where I worked for 33 (count 'em) years and it's conceivable that I am actually IN this picture!!!! Weird!

legend has it that jay and mark are still repeating men in unison

You don't know how much we have been suffering without Map Men

You should make more of MapMen. Both of you are hilarious and great chemistry with Mark

As someone who's never been to Berwick, I can confirm that Jays Berwick accent is 100% accurate

The Crimean War thing isn't actually true. The 1757 Treaty of England set in law that England included Berwick. After that any separate reference to Berwick was merely a matter of style rather than law. I excuse your mistake though. You are Map Men, not Legal Treaty Men (Legal Treaty Men, Legal Treaty Men, Legal Treaty Legal Treaty Legal Treaty, Men Men Men Men)

Tom Scott and Jay Foreman uploaded a video today im so happy

I really appreciated the Art Attack music during the art montage

I sure do appreciate the tunes from Lemmings you slip into your educational learnings.

Sticking around for the joke at the end was worth it 100%

Moral of the story : ALWAYS WATCH A JAY FOREMAN VIDEO TILL THE END. Edit: It seems the speed at which likes were coming is decreasing, but together we can stop that. Please hit more likes.

I grew up near Berwick and spent alot of time there and with people from there that accent at 1:08 had me absolutely creased lmao, pretty much nailed it.

1:54 Mark: Try 400 million! Jay: (autotune) WAAAAAAAAAAA

Legend said that map men would never return Legend was wrong

3:05 “Scotland has their own starship.” Amy Pond: Good for them.

The Genius of how Jay talks Geortish at 01:07 deserves an acting award

Do an intro where you say “we’re the maps, and here are the men” but you’ve put the maps on your heads and your heads behind the curtain

OMG MAP MEN IS BACK I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER YES JAY MY MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And mark too. Yes can't forget him. Edit: Holy poo I've never got so many likes thanks all! Edit 2: Toilet humour is king.

I live near Berwick-upon-tweed and the way the local's talk is 100% spot on. Haven't a clue what people are on about half the time

Only now I realise that the _Art Attack_ theme plays when Mark draws the map. *OMG I LOVE THIS CHANNEL*

You briefly imply it (with the names of the landmasses) but I didn’t realize when I first watched this that the American Appalachian Mountains were the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands. And now I want someone to hike the Appalachian Trail, but then get in a ship so they can *keep* hiking until they get to the end of the mountain range.

This video was 1/3 ad and I'm not even mad

It's taken me 20 minutes to watch this 5 minute video because I have to keep pausing due to uncontrollable and almost sickening attacks of laughter. Well played

Rewatching all these hoping they make more

Nice art attack throwback at the end - a tv theme I did not know I had memorised, until that moment.

LAST TIME I WAS HERE TO WATCH A NEW VID OF YOURS, BRITISH POLITICS WAS COMPREHENSIBLE

Was that the ArtAttack theme thingy? U know the show you watched as a kid... And failed at everything? Edit: 3:25 for those wondering

One of the best channels on RU-vid. This stuff is brilliant.

Omg at 0:50 are those sound effects from the game Freeways? The Easter eggs in this series are always so subtle yet so wonderful

Nice use of the 'Art Attack' theme tune.

hahahah! Scottish guy here. Absolutely love this video for taking the piss out of absolutely everyone

I was not expecting the use of Dumbo's circus music in this video but i am so glad it happened. You have earned me as a subscriber for this. (Also i love history and maps, and those parts were good too)

Wow Jay is replying to old videos, hi Jay thanks for the fun vids dude 🙂👏

The bit about the Berwick Upon Tweed peace treaty made me look up whether Berwick was specifically mentioned in the 1783 Treaty of Paris (peace treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States). It appears not to have been, although the 1746 Wales and Berwick-Upon-Tweed would make that moot. However, I was reminded of one of the more obtuse provisions of the Treaty, regarding the Mississippi River, which might make a basis for an interesting video in the future. The 1783 Treaty of Paris between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States stipulates that British citizens shall "forever" have the right to freely navigate the Mississippi River. At the time, the Mississippi was the international border between the United States, the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain (Louisiana Territory) and the British-then-Spanish possession of West Florida (now part of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida). This may or may not have been abrogated by Pinckney's Treaty of 1795, which claimed to exclude anyone not American or Spanish from the river (or at least the part that formed the boundary between the United States and Spain). In 1803, the Louisiana Territory was ceded to the United States by the First French Republic (which took over the Spanish claim in 1801).At that time the MIssissippi became internal to the United States ("flowing unvexed to the sea" since with the exception of the Civil War). The thing is, Googling the question, "do Brititish citizens still have the right to travel the MIssissippi" I don't get a terribly clear answer. I am tempted to write a letter to the US Coast Guard and ask them what their policy is on this today.

Your maps are better than your history. The Antonine wall was definitely to keep the people North of it from coming any further South. It was defensive. Hadrian's wall -not really. There were very few people between it and the Fort-Clyde valley (90 miles away) and the sparse population in between was fairly amenable to the Romans. It was more a customs post, producing revenue and, above all, a containment measure against the Brigante. They were the people of Northern England with whom the Romans did have trouble. As in Hungary and elsewhere, a common Roman tactic against a resistant people on the empire's border was to build a barrier BEHIND them. This cut them off from allies beyond, real or potential, and controlled their trade and contacts. The Brigante had well established trading routes to Leith, which was really one of their main ports, and alliances in Midlothian. The wall meant they could be invigilated, their trade taxed, and it deprived them of a potential hinterland for escape and reorganisation. Though the tactic was used elsewhere, Hadrian's Wall was the most physically impressive of such barriers built. The others were usually more akin to the Antonine Wall.

As person who loves instruments that horrific science caused me to yelp in a way that I never knew I could. Please don’t do that ever again.

This channel is hilarious. It’s no coinkidinc that I have already, well almost, subscribed. 🤣

I was about to click away when the promotion was half done, but you told me to stay for a silly joke at the end.

Love the show, but to be a pedant when Berwick was incorporated into northumbria it was explicitly stated that in future treaties Berwick would be counted as part of England, so they weren't technically at war with Russia at all, the peace treaty was just a publicity stunt.

I'm amazed I was able to recognise the Art Attack theme that quickly. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

The Art Attack theme tune playing int he background of the map creation scores nostalgia points with me

It gets even funnier,considering that "Российская Газета" is an official name of newspaper,made by the Russian Parliament :/

MAP MEN IS BACK! YEE HAW

3:24 Do i hear Mr Maker? 😂 Perfection!👌

3:26 - The Art Attack music was an unexpected throwback!

I grew up in Berwick for most of my life. The people don’t feel particularly Scottish or English, we feel mostly on our own.

That joke in the end was totally worth it

I didn't expect to laugh at this video as much as I did. Great video!

You guys are funny as any comedy team. Thumbs up

omg, the art attack theme

Game of Thrones new episode hype: [ 7/10 ] Map Men new episode hype: [ 13/10 ]

I haven't heard the Art Attack music 8n such a long time. Thank you for that blast of nostalgia

I haven't laughed whilst learning in a way your videos make me do so. Thank you.

Okay now i am going to wait for 2021 for next update of Map Men

at 3:26... that Art Attack theme tune hit me with some major unexpected nostalgia for my childhood!

Not sure if anyone said this but Hadrian's Wall was actually much larger than it is now. With many forts and watch towers and men manning it.

3:26 omg, that song brings so much nostalgia

Are you flippin shittin' me? Map Men are back? That's what I call x-mas!

0:56 - this looks nothing like Berwick-upon-Tweed at all! If I didn't know any better, I'd say that they were actually at 12 Staplehurst Rd, London!!!

That Art Attack theme unlocked some fond childhood memories. Thank you

Any good history lesson worth its salt starts with how the geography shapes the situation in fundamental ways.

0:59: I can tell by the architecture that you're in London. 1:44: there's a buffer state between England & Scotland one foot wide called British Railways. Used to be a buffet state but they replaced it with a trolley service, only to discover that the trolley was too wide to fit in the country.

I love how you made the 'Russian' newspaper still look readable with its backwards letters, yet somehow still look kinda Russian. Hats off to you both once again.

You should definitely do an episode on your favourite fantasy maps with geographical inaccuracies...

The Northumberland flag and the Soviet Union flag go surprisingly well together

HBO: "Hey guys Game of Thrones is ba-" Jay and Mark: "MAP MEN BITCHES"

I’m Scottish, and The English passive aggressiveness in this video is fantastic lol

Jay can really cram a lot of things into a sentence. Also, what about Berwick o‘ Bama?

2:36 “Koinkidink” ?

"you must come visit sometime, especially around sailsbury" don't think I didn't notice that you beautiful cheeky sods

2:23 as a musician this scene greatly disturbed and hurt me

"excuse me, would you say something?" - 1:06 LOL!!!!