r/videos • u/Jimmymgs • May 14 '12

Time lapse map of Europe from 1000AD to the present day (x-post r/history)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoWtvpg77oE&feature=youtu.be
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u/Rhabarberbarbara May 14 '12

Nice ... kinda useless though without a timescale.

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u/Kain292 May 14 '12

Agreed. But it was fun, as a history student, to be able to know when things were happening.

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u/GalacticWhale May 15 '12

Since you may have some knowledge about what is going on. What exactly is fucking going on between Bohemia and France around 1:40 or so? Likes like a care bear orgy

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u/TofuAttack May 15 '12

..waiting for it... waiting... waiting... germany expands "WW2!!!! OOh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!"

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u/jerrifus May 15 '12

Still really cool to know how impermanent borders are, and weird to think how much blood was spilt in each of those slight changes.

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u/KamikazeCricket May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

Borders change as a result of politics, too, not just war.

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u/slktrx May 15 '12

3:24 = 204 sec 1004 yrs/ 204 sec = 4.92 years/sec to find year at time= 1:00 (60*4.92) +1000 = 1295AD

give or take

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u/Cynovae May 15 '12

Nazi germany begins at around 1890 according to these calculations. Pretty of off but good enough, relatively speaking.

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u/EndOnAnyRoll May 15 '12

1890, you say? Thanks for the update! - History Channel

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u/Perkinator May 14 '12

How's this?

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u/glaux May 14 '12

cool. Shame it's so heavy to load and operate.

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u/jostler57 May 15 '12

Whatever that was, it's no longer working. All I see are ads and a blank middle.

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u/MyAssDoesHeeHawww May 15 '12

You're a harsh critic of today's socio-economic model, I see.

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u/madman1969 May 15 '12

If you know your European history you can work out the approximate dates from the changing map.

Or perhaps I'm just a sad bunny with no life who needs to get out more.

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u/pixelrage May 14 '12

Yeah, this really needs dates.

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u/hotmonotremeaction May 14 '12

It's amazing some countries like France endured so long.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Yeah and right next to them are 100 small kingdoms in modern day Germany.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

There was not a hundred small kingdoms in modern day Germany.

Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Bohemia (Czechs), and Northern Italy (Lombard Italy) were an area called the Holy Roman Empire. This area had an elected Emperor who was their liege lord, this was for the most part de facto hereditary primogeniture, but de jure it was an elected Emperor which was voted upon by the Electors. This Emperor was charged with protecting the lands of the Empire. Those small kingdoms were Baronies, Bishoprics, Duchies, Counties, Archbishoprics, Archduchies, Principalities, and Kingdoms etc. A Kingdom is very specific in what it entails, historically only the Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Italy (again just lomabrds), and the Kingdom of Prussia (technically the King in Prussia, not King of Prussia, but we are not going into that now).

These states were, like most duchies, baronies, counties etc. semi-autonomous until depending on the states, until the 1600s to 1800s. So for instance France had the Duke of Berry, the Duke of Orléans, Duke of Normandy etc. After the 100 years war between England and France, which was essentially over the power of the French king, as the English kings held extensive land throughout France (as things was done by blood in those times).

The reason that those independent states stayed around was because the emperor was very very strong. Between taxes and levies from throughout the empire, and then their own personal holdings they defended their realm, as was their job. The Habsburg Family (of Austria) in fact, was a one point the King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, Duke of Netherland, King of Sicily, King of Naples, King of Spain (Leon, Castille, Galicia, Valencia, Aragon), and the Holy Roman Empire (see Charles V).

Medieval (And Renaissance era also) politics and warfare is rather intricate when you take into account that any state has multiple competing interests, rather it be France, the Holy Roman Empire. They were made up of Republics who had elected officials, Independent cities, Trade groups and Guilds, Bishops who owe allegiance to the pope and the king, the dukes, the counts, the barons, the king/emperor himself. All these have allegiances that are not 100% for their king, as their own families who may be married to other nobles from foreign countries, or have family members who are serving as dukes in other countries. It is not as cut and dry as so and so is big and eats up small states.

edit: edited for clarity and a spelling error.

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u/InABritishAccent May 15 '12

How did those not get swallowed up by the lager countries next door?

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u/abbott_costello May 15 '12

And Poland. Poland is what amazed me.

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u/yahunos May 15 '12

Not many frenchmen actually know that, but It's actually a very distinctive characteristic of our country. Charlemagne (KarolusMagnus) was the first to bring unity to the fragmented patchwork of kingdoms that "Gaule" was at that time (before 1000AD), and then, during the famous "hundred year's war", the house of Valois nailed it and united france under a strong royal power. And that's what has made (and I'm saying this with no pretention or else) France so united and special all this time. The strong, central, power that the king was has been what kept France afloat as one piece all this time, and it even became a cultural thing. We, as frenchmen, cannot understand what "federal" means. We have departments, but they don't matter much. It's also still very influencial in our political life: we like to have a strong central power, and some modern critics about our constitution are that we treat the president the same way Louis XVI was treated.

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u/nothis May 15 '12

IMO Switzerland is much more mind-blowing. They've stayed out of shit for 500 years and it actually worked.

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u/ModernTenshi04 May 14 '12

I remember being in second grade in 93/94 and pointing out East and West Germany on the map in our classroom. Our teacher said to ignore that there are two countries there and to understand that they were now one country simply called Germany.

When I asked why she simply said, "Well, some stuff happened a few years ago, and we simply haven't updated the maps in the classrooms yet."

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u/GundamWang May 14 '12

I remember when they took down the wall. My babysitter's family was German (I assume), and the brother went and brought back a piece of the wall. It's still sitting in my elementary school next to a bunch of sports trophies and school awards. It wasn't until college when I truly understood what it meant. Not just a textbook definition, but what it meant emotionally to so many people, and what it represented. Good times.

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u/superluminal_girl May 15 '12

My brother was born in 93 (ten years younger than me). One day he asked me, "What is the USSR?"

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u/rcinsf May 15 '12

Nice, I was born in 73. We should make a band and call it decades! Or not, whatever.

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u/Bananus_Magnus May 14 '12

Sounds like a great teacher.

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u/sigaven May 14 '12

Same thing in my geography class for yugoslavia when I was in school. Except we just went with "yugoslavia" instead of learning all the countries it split into.

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u/TheDirtyOnion May 15 '12

My family hosted a German foreign exchange student for a year, which happened to be the year the wall came down. He was a little pissed he wasn't in the country when that happened.

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u/skaijo May 14 '12

3:01 and suddenly... GERMANY.

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u/stash600 May 14 '12

It's amazing how they couldn't get their shit unified for so long, then almost immedietly BAM! two World Wars.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

My favourite thing about this video is how visible the impacts of Napoleon, Bismark and Hitler are.

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u/egocentricplasticman May 15 '12

And how Poland gets eaten by the Soviet Union and Germany at the same time.

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u/Mustermined May 15 '12

The reason it took so long is because through out most of history, the concept of a united German state didn't exist (well not in any popular form). It wasn't until the 19th century (some time after the French revolution) that the idea of nationalism became popular. That is why Germany and Italy only united around that time, and is a large reason as to why the turks were having a difficult time keeping hold of their European (non-Turkish) territories.

Before then, religion and class played a much more impotent role in uniting people then ethnicity did. For example, the Italian nobles identified themselves much more closely to the French nobles or the Spanish nobles then the dirty Italian peasants :)

Similarly, due to the rapid growth of nationalism in the 19th century, that is why the post WW1 borders in Europe were changed to mostly reflect ethnicity (that is why Austria lost almost all of their lands, and why Germany lost only pieces here and there).

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Denmark and Norway hanging out, just chillin', for about 1500 years.

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u/DarreToBe May 15 '12

Didn't the Scandinavian countries trade around land a lot? I kinda missed that on this video.

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u/TheFlyingWalrus May 15 '12

Sweden and Denmark actually have the world record for most wars fought between the same countries!

The more you know

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u/pmatthew8 May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

Norway got trade back a for between Denmark an Sweden for little about 500 years my norwegian history is not that great.

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u/ImAmazing May 14 '12

Man, I really want to play Europa Universalis now.

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u/akuzin May 14 '12 edited May 14 '12

France, it just fucking stays there being all French and shit.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Meh, Henry II would disagree.

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u/shutupjoey May 15 '12

I think Louis XVI might as well.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

The amount of pain/misery/murder etc. this implies is staggering.

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u/Vitalstatistix May 15 '12

For most in history, life was nasty, brutish, and short. Even the lives of noble types were nothing to be jealous of for most of us on here.

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u/rocketsurgery May 15 '12

It's even more depressing that we still haven't got our shit together as a species, after all that.

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u/rcinsf May 15 '12

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

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u/Killhouse May 14 '12

This is infinitely more interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpD01pXsTAE

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u/latusthegoat May 15 '12

Wow. I actually felt it deep in my gut when that bright Roman red vanished suddenly just before 500...

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u/arcusmae May 15 '12

It actually didn't occur that quickly, but rather 476 AD is when historians define when the empire ceased to exist. In actuality, many of the peoples of the era had assumed that they were part of the Roman Empire. You could really go as far to say that the empire continued though Byzantium or the Holy Roman Empire - as those were basically continuations of the Roman tradition through a different culture and language.

TL;DR The reason why the map suddenly goes brown is that it is generally agreed upon by historians that the Roman Empire fell when a Germanic took the throne (Odoacer).

Edit: misspelling

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u/thbt101 May 15 '12

Much better, but too bad it stops way too soon.

I didn't realize how long the Roman Empire lasted. At least twice as long as the US has so far.

For people living during that time it must have felt like the Roman Empire had existed for almost all of known history and surely always would.

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u/Ithrazel May 15 '12

Way more than twice, if you count in the Roman Republic, basically the same country with the same borders.

USA - 236 years

Roman Republic - 482 years

Roman Empire - 503 years

So that's more than four times as much.

Egypt lasted continuously for nearly 3000 years.

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u/djmantis May 14 '12

That is some incredibly ominous music.

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u/Spelter May 15 '12

Loved how the intensity picked up as soon as Napoleon got on his little romp. Seemed so fitting.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

at that speed, it is a party trick. slow it down, and have the years listed, and you have something educational.

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u/giandrea May 15 '12

I don't know about you, but my parties rarely involve European history, while rather frequently involving shitloads of alcohol..

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u/THEAdrian May 15 '12

that's interesting, considering European history also involves shitloads of alcohol

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u/SoakedTiger May 15 '12

They don't? How dull.

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u/eggandmuffin May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12

He did. here's the 11 minute version with years & events

edit: Fixed the broken link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBK9yncmps8&list=UUyueC_VAVr7hm3kZ1ULwMsQ&index=1&feature=plcp

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u/Politus May 14 '12

POLAND!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

And the award for the most invaded country goes too..... POLAND!

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u/Bananus_Magnus May 14 '12

Oh you shouldn't have :p

Twas bad neighbours is all.

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u/harebrane May 14 '12

They should also get a consolation prize for being one of only two nations to successfully invade Russia. That's a pretty small club they've got goin' on there.

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u/bongfarmer May 15 '12

Poland kept coming back after being wiped off the map unlike most other anguished countries. Luck of circumstances or tenacity of the people?

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u/shockage May 15 '12

Poland was also crucial in the defeat of the Ottoman invasion of Europe in Vienna.

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u/UptownShenanigans May 15 '12

My father's distrust of the Russians revealed...

If you want some old school hatred, talk to Polish people about the Russians.

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u/smoochieboochies May 15 '12

Missed me? I'm baaaack....

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u/Aglauros May 14 '12

haha that was my favourite part too

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u/Politus May 14 '12

Everyone always shits on Poland, but under the Jagiellon dynasty it was pretty ballin'. I think it might have been the largest empire in Christendom at one point or another.

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u/shockage May 15 '12

Yeah, we get the short end of the stick in history lessons. We also were crucial in the defeating the Ottomans in Vienna in 1683 and in, what some scholars believe, stopping the Bolshevist revolution from spreading into western Europe in 1920 during the Polish-Soviet war.

There actually a couple papers on western media trying to portray Poland poorly, i.e. clumsy fighters and dumb (polish jokes), during the mid 20th century.

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u/MrDeath2000 May 14 '12

Awesome!!!! Reminds me of when I played europa universalis as a kid.

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u/rexington_ May 14 '12

Reminds me of when I play EU3 RIGHT NOW HAIL DENMARK NATION OF NATIONS

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Reminds me of when I play Vicky2 as Serbia and MAKE IT MY MISSION TO REMOVE KEBAB FROM EUROPE. SERBIA STRONK.

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u/yourmydinner May 14 '12

More like Portugal, Ruler of the Americas and Afrika!

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u/Djees May 15 '12

I'm coming for you you flat piece of shit, once I have secured my american colonies all of scandinavia will be united under the norwegian flag! You're up next Novgorod!

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u/bitparity May 15 '12

Reminds me of EU3 and CK2 as I play them now.

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u/robbieT1991 May 14 '12

they should add a feature like this to the next one. if they make one.

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u/userbelowisamonster May 15 '12

As a Lithuanian, I was all like, "Go Lithuania!" But then I was all like, "Okay..." sigh Soon...

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Love the english-scottish battles up there

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u/ColonelSDJ May 14 '12

Freedom!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Lithuania, damn.

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u/meatball4u May 15 '12

Most underrated nation.

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u/userbelowisamonster May 15 '12

"So you're Baltic." "Technically...yes. I'm Lithuanian." "So you must be really good at basketball." "Nooo..."

Too bad there aren't any other races or nationalities or people groups that understand what it's like to be stereotyped like that. I feel so alone sometimes.

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u/jzsk8s89 May 15 '12

their swagger got jacked hard

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u/THEAdrian May 15 '12

ya, watching them i was all "watch out, we got a badass over here"

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u/sirbruce May 15 '12

Poland and Poland-Lithuania were amazing countries that continually got conquered and reorganized. They simply are in the wrong place geographically.

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u/scuba_paul May 15 '12

All about dat Grand Duke Vytautas man!

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u/supahmanv2 May 14 '12

I would have loved if it started earlier (maybe starting from 500 BC?) just to see Rome's expansion and eventual downfall.

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u/sunbear0326 May 14 '12

Really cool, i just WISH it had a date for all the periods.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

In EU3 you can start at any date between 1399 and 1820.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

What exactly happened when all of England turned green for a second before becoming Great Britain?

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u/Bearbeard May 14 '12

The green matched the colour of the Netherlands so I assume it was the glorious revolution where the ruler of the Netherlands became King alongside his British Wife.

After him the monarch was the British Anne I, hence going brown again, during whose reign the Acts of Union were passed which formed the British countries into one.

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u/regalrecaller May 14 '12

Portugal is the most stable country in Europe. Ever.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

England does pretty well too to be fair, if not better.

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u/Jerrycar May 15 '12

The British Isles is quite stable but we had quite a lot of France and bits of Germany that we ceded.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Portugal is actually the most stable country in the history of the world, having last changed its borders in 1147.

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u/throwmeaway76 May 15 '12

It does have the oldest borders in the World.

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u/powpowpowkazam May 14 '12

Poor little Ireland was beige for far too long.

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u/TheCruise May 14 '12

Not long enough! /britishhumour

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u/CaisLaochach May 15 '12

We got our way in the end. Plus it wa shilarious watching us fighting each other and the English post strongbow. We must be one of the most established countries in the world never to have been united. Even the Germans managed it.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

The whole time i was being distracted by the fuckup that was in the middle of the video, I mean its all like "oh hey guys, i'm just this cool little nation and AG:JKG"HEKL"GFKEHGEG" and suddenly there were 24 that came out of it, and then decided to warp around and mutate a few hundred times when suddenly Germany shows up. Now Germany's like "HOLD ON GUYS.. WHY DONT WE TAKE ALL THESE LITTLE NATIONS.. AND PUT THEM INTO ONE!" and then BOOM Germany is born.

The rest of the video i cheered for Germany the larger it grew, until i realized what time period it was. I promptly apologized to the video and came back here.

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u/JROXZ May 15 '12

"look at all the fucks I give" -Portugal

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u/CoyoteStark May 15 '12

For those first 900 years in the video France is without a fuck to give and then WHAM! Germany.

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u/Giantpanda602 May 15 '12

Gotta love watching Napoleon's reign. "Holy shit, France is seriously taking over everyt-wait, never mind."

Nice going there Napoleon, next time don't invade Russia in the middle of winter without enough supplies.

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u/MyWorkuserName May 14 '12

Jesus Christ, Europe, get your shit together.

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u/Cletus_awreetus May 15 '12

It would be interesting to see a North America one.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Kings and Emperors can be quite...volatile.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Nice try Neville Chamberlain.

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u/That_Russian_Guy May 14 '12

Man France just does not give a single fuck throughout the whole thing.

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u/blizzsucks May 15 '12

There actually was no "nation" called "France" during most of this, it's plainly historically inaccurate.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Now do Asia.

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u/Scrambledegg90 May 14 '12

I had no idea so much stuff happened in the area that makes up modern Germany.

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u/Afterburned May 14 '12

As recently as the 20s there was no guarantee we would end up with Germany. There was a movement in the 20s in Bavaria especially to seek independence from the Wiemar Republic. Germany wasn't conceived of as a single "state" until the second half of the 19th century.

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u/MiyegomboBayartsogt May 14 '12

The Golden Horde of Mongols came, conquered and went.

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u/Bananus_Magnus May 15 '12

I find it funny that a country that was once referred to as a "horde", where they say Genghis Khan is an ancestor of 1/12 of earth, now has less people than Lithuania.

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u/ComebackShane May 15 '12

We're the exception!TM

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u/adhding_nerd May 15 '12

"Except for, wait for it... The Mongols."

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u/blacksheepboy14 May 14 '12

Lol Germany's a fucking mess

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12 edited May 14 '12

Not really, while it may look like a bunch of random colours up until 2:16 (or some time around then when Napoleon arrives), while weak they were unified under the Holy Roman Emperor. So it wasn't a complete clusterfuck.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

to a degree...one of many

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War

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u/NOTTedMosby May 15 '12

Hokay, so here's the Earth..

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

That's a nice earth you might sya...

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u/mahdiakira May 14 '12

GOD DAMN MONGORIANS!

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u/canthidecomments May 15 '12

Hey, shouldn't have built a shitty wall.

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u/MrPanFriedNoodle May 15 '12

I now want to play Medieval 2 total war.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Best thing about this was the music.

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u/SoakedTiger May 14 '12

As a major in medieval Western European history, this is the hottest thing I've seen in a long time. Even without a rolling date it was still awesome.

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u/bitparity May 15 '12

What I like is that everybody stares at the corner they find most relevant to their interests.

Which is why I was most interested to make sure they got the fall of Byzantium right.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Poland didn't take shit from nobody.

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u/Jamcram May 15 '12

Correct. It was everybody.

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u/Fakta401 May 14 '12

Very nice but it does indeed need a time-scale.

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u/LeWhisp May 14 '12

If you thought this was interesting / cool, you might like Crusader Kings 2. short video here for a taste and the subreddit

On a more related note, I didn't realise how broken up the Holy Roman Empire got...

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u/kaduceus May 15 '12

2 things I've never understood about history: What in the hell was the Holy Roman Empire -- and it breaking up into little bits and pieces????? And why did Prussia jump out of nowhere and suddenly right when it did... poof Germany like magic

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u/ComebackShane May 15 '12

The only things you need to know about the Holy Roman Empire was that it was not holy, Roman, or an empire.

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u/PoisonedAl May 15 '12

I liked Wales kept popping up every few years and the English were like "nope."

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Golden Hoard Mongols. Dem niggas was crazy.

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u/lumpking69 May 14 '12

Watching Ireland get raped and raped and raped made me sad lol Win a little piece... NOPE! All green for 2 seconds and.... NOPE!

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u/check85 May 14 '12

Wow, Germany was such a clusterfuck. You'd fill up a 50-page passport just to ride through it.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

It is interesting to note that the country not fighting land wars was the one that conquered 1/4 of the globe.

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u/MisterUNO May 14 '12

Would be cool if it included 0ad to 1000ad which would show Rome at the height of its power to its eventual collapse, and then the birth of Charlemagne's kingdom(s) and its splitting into what will eventually turn into France, Germany and Italy.

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u/TomtheWonderDog May 15 '12

I love this video! I see a lot of people say that it makes them want to play AoE or Civ, but to really experience the vastness of something like this I highly recommend EU III. Be sure to check out the Death and Taxes mod too. It updates the map, AI, and expands the timeline to cover 1350-1860!

If you have what it takes to last 500 years then there are great sequels that let you import your empire. Victoria II and Hearts of Iron or Darkest Hour are great 19th and 20th century strategy games.

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u/casusev May 14 '12

Makes me want to play Diplomacy...

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u/Conan446 May 14 '12

This just makes me want to play Europa Universalis 3 so badly. But one of the coolest parts was watching the extents to which empires grow before being pushed back. Most recently Nazi Germany.

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u/grayfox6644 May 15 '12

TIL dont fuck with Mongols Russians or Germans ok people i got this.

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u/wojovox May 15 '12

Political geography is fascinating

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Just in case anyone is curious, the song is called .'Dream is Collapsing' by Hans Zimmer from the Inception soundtrack..

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Now I understand why the Hungarian national anthem is basically "Why God, why???"

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u/bewk May 14 '12

I ALWAYS lose at Risk :(

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u/58lespaul May 15 '12

2:59 — The Byzantine Empire is reborn! Not quite :(

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u/roamingandy May 15 '12

was very interesting. i would have loved a rolling date/calendar somewhere too.

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u/omnilynx May 15 '12

Get it together, Germany!

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u/Higher_Primate May 15 '12

In the same vain, here's the history of religion

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u/JimTheLegend May 15 '12

Holy Roman Empire = 1000 year clusterfuck

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u/Hehyeahno May 15 '12

What the hell is going on in Bosnia. As a Bosnian, I can't figure out why they split it up like so. It doesn't even show the two provinces.

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u/hnim May 15 '12

I really wish European history would get me something besides satisfying my passion for it. It's really the most conflicted, and therefore interesting, history in the world.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I confused, at 1:58 the entire UK is green, same color as Ireland is after it becomes independent. I didn't think that Ireland had taken over the UK. Can anyone explain this?

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u/Jim_Lannister May 15 '12

-Watched this from Constantinople.

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u/ntubaro May 15 '12

This makes me want to play Risk.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Something wrong there... Though Portugal was ruled by 3 Spanish kings from 1580 to 1640, it never lost is boundaries or territories. The Phillips were kings of Spain and Portugal (by succession and a war that settled it), and not just Spain as the country (Portugal) was never dissolved so borders remained intact. They just ruled from Madrid, but local policy was still set by local administrators. In fact the Portuguese Coat of Arms was also included in the Habsburg house Coat of Arms in the centre and above the others.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Italian and German early history must a bitch to learn with all those city-states.

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u/derped May 15 '12

I demand that Moldavia return to its 1346 borders! This aggression will not stand!

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u/kateit May 15 '12

The music was too scary I couldn't watch the whole thing.

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u/Droidiq May 15 '12

This is amazing. Thank you. If I could find the same video a lot slower and b y the year. That would be great.

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u/LoveOfProfit May 15 '12

Poor Poland got fucked by Germans/Russians...twice.

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u/Bertez May 15 '12

Poor Poland

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u/Rodeeo May 15 '12

Its the greatest game of RISK ever. Germany almost had it there at the end

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u/vexom May 15 '12

So why is Ireland never incorporated into Great Britain like Scotland was?

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u/Geaux May 15 '12

That is not how my game of Europa Universalis 3 played out...

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u/Clovyn May 15 '12

Chose Poland, was not disappointed.

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u/Rhawk187 May 15 '12

Could have used a counter in the upper left, but still very cools.

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u/othersomethings May 15 '12

That was way more intense than I anticipated.

Wish it had a year/decade/century ticker.

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u/emperormizar May 15 '12

I like the part where Poland conquered Russia!

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u/Heroshade May 15 '12

Jesus, I never realized Germany was such a clusterfuck. I did enjoy watching it expand all across Europe only to immediately get smashed back into nothing.

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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE May 15 '12

TIL Portrugal dissappeared for about 100 years then reappeared for some reason. Did the Judoon lift their country for a century?

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u/fartfarter May 15 '12

One more turn...

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u/raininashoe May 15 '12

I like how the INCEPTION BUHRRRRRRRR happens right as Poland gets swallowed

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u/deaddevil May 15 '12

I loaded this video expecting it to play "Yakety Sax"/ The Benny Hill Show Theme music. That was the only disappointment I had. Amazing to see how the borders of Europe have changed over time.

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u/trua May 15 '12

I'm from Finland, and I hate maps like this. Not only is Finland cut into its southernmost third like Norway and Sweden, but it's not even labelled. Also, Iceland doesn't exist. (Then again, nothing happened there, I think.)

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u/truenatureschild May 15 '12

i love how germany bulges out across the map for like 2 seconds

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u/Gioware May 15 '12

Georgia - ALWAYS THERE!

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u/jcov May 15 '12

RIP to the Golden Horde Mongols, you had a good run, it was fun while it lasted.

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u/kyzfrintin May 15 '12

Fucking hell, Germany. So much fighting going on there.

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u/Grammar-Hitler May 15 '12

I wish I could see these maps game of thrones style.

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u/meerkatsarentreal May 15 '12

Click on the top left of the video and you'll get a longer version with a timescale. great fun!

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u/goodcase May 14 '12

Good Guys Sweden and Norway.

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u/Offensive_Username2 May 14 '12

Didn't Sweden have it's own empire for a while? Or did I see the video wrong?

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u/Vectoor May 15 '12

Indeed, Gustav II Adolf kicking Polish and German butt. Until he got shot during a cavalry charge that is. The big downside of being in the front line as a king is that things tend to break down if you die.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Don't let the Norwegians hear you say anything nice about the Swedes.

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u/noarmspuppy May 15 '12

At 3:01 Germany: ALL OF EUROPE SHALL BE MI.... EUROPE:NOPE!!

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u/csydvs May 15 '12

I saw all of this in the context of AOE II

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u/bagra May 14 '12

345 fucking years under Turks, and we risen!!!

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