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re: Cool video shows the changing borders of Europe over 1000 years
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:58 pm to cypresstiger
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:58 pm to cypresstiger
You khan crimea river.
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Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:14 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:26 pm to fr33manator
1000 years ago was right at the end of the Viking age but I’ve always been fascinated by the amount of influence they had from Ireland to Constantinople while never being a dominant empire in their own lands.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:33 pm to fr33manator
What I took from that is that 1970-present day has been the most peaceful time in Europe since 1000 years ago.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:57 pm to Cdawg
Very cool.
Good one on Asian borders
Good one on Asian borders
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:57 pm to fr33manator
And all the college libs think we were so bad with America being "taken" from the indians. They should have fought harder to stop us. Bottom line, it's changed hands less than all those conquering nations in Europe. We ain't so bad. LOL
Posted on 4/3/25 at 10:05 pm to TigerFanatic99
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So wait, Ukraine was never really a country
Posted on 4/3/25 at 10:14 pm to TigerFanatic99
Ukraine was Russian Empire since the 1600s except for that blip in early 1900s. Ukraine has been a country for about 30 years. It belongs to Russia.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 11:48 pm to fr33manator
The Europe map should now just show the Middle East as covering all of Western Europe
Posted on 4/4/25 at 12:21 am to fr33manator
My takeaways:
Poland was around in the 1100’s?
frickin super power
The mongols really fricked some shite up. One of the better papers I wrote in college was just about this. Terrifying really.
I’m not mad at Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union they lost a lot. I don’t blame them.
People forget the US is one giant island with relatively new history. We have forgotten what it’s like to lose territory.
Poland was around in the 1100’s?
frickin super power
The mongols really fricked some shite up. One of the better papers I wrote in college was just about this. Terrifying really.
I’m not mad at Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union they lost a lot. I don’t blame them.
People forget the US is one giant island with relatively new history. We have forgotten what it’s like to lose territory.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 12:36 am to YungBuck
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My Hungarian homeland holding strong the entire video
Seems like only England.
You got swallowed by ottoman and lost ground all throughout eventually losing most of it after ww1. I mean look at Romania.
And France got taken by Germany at one point.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 3:46 am to fr33manator
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Germany is younger than the United States.
I'm in the middle of a book right now call "The Iron Kingdom" about the rise and fall of Prussia. It is very interesting.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 6:34 am to dgnx6
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Seems like only England.
Conquered, at least partly, by angles, saxons, Vikings, Normans, and now...musselmen.
This post was edited on 4/4/25 at 6:50 am
Posted on 4/4/25 at 6:46 am to jmh5724
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1000 years ago was right at the end of the Viking age
I'm currently reading a book about the Norman Conquest that touches on this very subject.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 6:59 am to fr33manator
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Germany is younger than the United States.
And Mexico is younger than the United States.
That didn’t seem to come up when the name of our Gulf was changed.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:02 am to Willie Stroker
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And Mexico is younger than the United States.
That didn’t seem to come up when the name of our Gulf was changed.
Well, for one, it was the Spanish who named it the Gulf of Mexico. They did so because the people who lived there (we call them the Aztecs) referred to themselves as Mexica, hence the name "Mexico."
Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:22 am to RollTide1987
Wasn't it the Gulf of Cortez at one point as well?
This post was edited on 4/4/25 at 7:23 am
Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:32 am to fr33manator
France gets picked on but they held their ground over time
Posted on 4/4/25 at 7:48 am to Crawdaddy
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France gets picked on but they held their ground over time
France was once the most powerful nation in Europe. They get a bad rep but most of it has to do with the fact that they lost a whole generation of men in the First World War and the Spanish Flu. That's not even mentioning the 150+ years of political instability in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
Posted on 4/4/25 at 9:16 am to RollTide1987
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France was once the most powerful nation in Europe. They get a bad rep but most of it has to do with the fact that they lost a whole generation of men in the First World War and the Spanish Flu. That's not even mentioning the 150+ years of political instability in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
I feel like the internet/American view of the French as a bunch of surrender monkeys comes entirely from their inability to stop the blitzkrieg in WWII and ignores essentially everything before then.
What they experienced in WWI was horrific.
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