The best way to know the date of a map is to check if Portugal exists: If it does you can imeddiately narrow it down to between 1143 and the present day. And if it has the modern borders you know imeddiately that the map was made after 1250
@User-qz2wz3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Tip helps a lot
@igorsmihailovs523 жыл бұрын
This is even better advice than the one which told you to spin around with eyes closed for 5 minutes "and then You will be facing North", with a footnote "it only works if You are lost on South Pole". Sorry, I don't remember who was the author of this comment.
@BananenLP3 жыл бұрын
But you have to aware of the Iberian Union between 1580 and 1640, where Portugal might not be drawn as an independent country
@anawesomepet3 жыл бұрын
If you can see that book, it is from at least 200,000BC (To avoid confusion) If the book EXISTS, it is from at least 200,000BC sry for the possible confusion. New Update! If it is made of paper, it is from at least 100BC.
@matpk3 жыл бұрын
@@BananenLP Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project.
@KhAnubis3 жыл бұрын
Yes! More people calling it Dr. Congo!
@thebarber43973 жыл бұрын
Hey
@Pennyorsomething-music3 жыл бұрын
KhAnunis I laughed so hard when I first heard you call it that
@Mr.BigShot_383 жыл бұрын
Dr. Congo what do I have Dr. Congo: you are insane
@pizza_113 жыл бұрын
The chad pronunciation
@munkey81813 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@gregh3783 жыл бұрын
I recently went to a wedding in a castle. I saw a world map on the wall that was made to look like a 200 year old antique, but showed South Sudan. It was the strangest artefact.
@haiiwje3 жыл бұрын
Yoooooooo that's cool
@samhansen97713 жыл бұрын
Wow, those mapmakers in 1820 sure had some great foresight! (;
@anandhinataraj67603 жыл бұрын
Whoa, really?
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
@@anandhinataraj6760 no
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 no
@johanrosenberg63423 жыл бұрын
Not a map or an atlas, but I once found my grandfather's old elementary school history book. It was quite interesting in that it contained an entire chapter on WWII. But because the book was written in 1943 it had to end on a cliffhanger...
@gustavju46862 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of some of the school books I had that ended in the Iraq war.
@luizsa83003 жыл бұрын
That last Atlas is a treat for all geography enthusiasts! It’s a veritable encyclopedia of the world as seen from the Western perspective at the turn of the last century and was probably quite expensive.
@PalkkiTT3 жыл бұрын
I love old maps! ❤️🗺️ I bought a giant Europe map from 1962 from my school for 10€. It was just lying in storage.
@haiiwje3 жыл бұрын
Cool
@Rian_063 жыл бұрын
you should have stolen it😎
@SpaghettiRoad3 жыл бұрын
That sounds awesome!
@DebsStuffs3 жыл бұрын
Your school must be very cool. Mines only have maps about The U.S states :(
@PalkkiTT3 жыл бұрын
@@DebsStuffs Well im from Finland.
@WhyDoIBeHere3 жыл бұрын
Awesome and super interesting analysis, enjoyed every second of it! One thing to add is also the fact that it matters who drew the map. Countries dont always agree on international borders/changes and might draw two different maps at the same time.
@dappergander3 жыл бұрын
Back in the 90s, I introduced my Thai girlfriend (now wife) to my 100 year old great-aunt. When she told my great-aunt that she was from Thailand, my great-aunt appeared confused. Finally my girlfriend said, "I'm from Siam". My great-aunt smiled. That was a country she knew!
@anthemsofeurope24082 жыл бұрын
So your great aunt was born in the 1890s? Wow, she even saw the German Reich, Russian Empire and colonial age. Thats just impressive
@tommatom35132 жыл бұрын
@@anthemsofeurope2408 and also means she saw some things...
@Periwinkleaccount2 жыл бұрын
@@anthemsofeurope2408 or she was born quite after that, but before the name “Thailand” became more popular.
@saulgoodmanKAZAKH2 жыл бұрын
Remembered my grandma learnng two years ago that Yugoslavia didn't exist anymore
@dom-fell3 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic! Love old maps and finding out how the world has changed through them
@Mr.Vini22043 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was a kid, getting an atlas with my friends and laughing so much because of that one country with a full green flag... Ah, good times
@Ywthg5w6gwvyw3 жыл бұрын
Libya
@CyrilioWasTaken3 жыл бұрын
@@Ywthg5w6gwvyw Gaddafist Libya
@PASTRAMIKick3 жыл бұрын
One time my mother brought a globe map from my grandparents house, but they didn't even think anything of it, so I always passed by it and noticed weird things but didn't really stop to thoroughly inspect it until one day I did and noticed more weird stuff like it had Yugoslavia, West Germany, East Germany, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, only one Sudan and a bunch of other stuff that was completely out of date, by what I saw it was probably a map from the 80s which is pretty cool.
@mdwquiz3 жыл бұрын
Mapmakers often made deliberate mistakes as a form of copyrighting, so they could see who was copying their maps when the mistake was copied as well.
@SeanMacadelic2 жыл бұрын
Paper Towns
@awesomepotato-4B18 ай бұрын
"excuse me, does your map has the city my girlfriend on it? " "yes, it's on page 5" "A-HA! you copied my map! my girlfriend never existed and never will."
@theblock20833 жыл бұрын
Doctor Congo caught me off guard, couldn't stop laughing
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
So funny bro 😀🙂😍😙😃😀🤣😅😄😃🤣😀🤣😀🤣😃😅😃😚😃🤣😀😙😀🤣😀🤣😃😅😃😅😀🤣😀😙😀😂😀😋😀😑😍😍😋😍😑😍🧐😬😰🥶😠😖😍😜😜😍🤪🥰🤪🥰🤪🥰🥰🤪🥵🤮🥵😟🥵🤢🤢😬🤮😬🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🕋🕋🕋🕋🕋🕋🕋🛐🛐🛐🛐🕌🕌🕌🕌🕌🕌🕌🕌✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
@GreenSoda13 жыл бұрын
same
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 Bruh
@Frahamen3 жыл бұрын
It's definitely more accurate than calling it a "democratic" Republic
@watsuphumans35813 жыл бұрын
Congo line as Zaire line
@-haclong23663 жыл бұрын
01:50 Constantinople was called "Konstantiniyye" in Turkish, only people in the city called "Istanbul".
@WTXYN3 жыл бұрын
yeah, and Greeks living in there called it something like Istanbul, Turks as well
@loux77743 жыл бұрын
Sad it is not called Constantinople anymore
@johncleese-mogg3653 жыл бұрын
My granddad had an atlas from the 60s I found in my house that has the USSR and Yugoslavia as well as many other places. There is a mistake in it that suggests that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were Soviet socialist republics, as they use the same borders which are listed on the key as 'SSR'
@rahandg3 жыл бұрын
that’s not a mistake, they were part of the SSR, under dictator Will Smith
@JESL_TheOnlyOne3 жыл бұрын
Not a mistake. Political sub-division.
@toasty65703 жыл бұрын
@@JESL_TheOnlyOne you might actually be right, the ssr were sub divisions of the ussr and same goes for Ireland, Wales and Scotland for uk.
@JESL_TheOnlyOne3 жыл бұрын
@@toasty6570 Strike "...might actually be.." and insert "are". Yes, I know more than a little about cartography. Thanks for the support.
@toasty65703 жыл бұрын
@@JESL_TheOnlyOne yes sir , sorry sir oorah
@agger613 жыл бұрын
This was like a fun history lesson, please make more of these types of videos!
@steffeg13 жыл бұрын
My wife actually wanted to throw away my grandpa's old globe. Good for her she didn't, I'd send her straight back home to Siam.
@Georges_IV3 жыл бұрын
DAMN 😂😂
@vir98573 жыл бұрын
Goddamnnnnn
@robertqld3 жыл бұрын
Was it to the Prussian consulate in Siam via aeromail o. The 4:30 auto-gyro? Lol
@TheJerida3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@Hollywood20213 жыл бұрын
There's no direct flights there, you have to transfer in Formosa
@felixrugel2809 Жыл бұрын
Can we appreciate the amount of effort with the information and the animation put into this video?
@tzarkormeister49783 жыл бұрын
I love this, I’ve been doing this with every globe I see and im glad to see other people enjoy doing this
@Nugcon3 жыл бұрын
Finding when maps were created was more interesting than I imagined
@f52033 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely amazing. The best series om youtube! Please continue it!
@ASMRMrA3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this!!!! I have an old map of Italy that used to be my grandads. It's from between WWI and WWII but would LOVE an exact year
@SpaghettiRoad3 жыл бұрын
Send a picture me!
@douglasandfabianofranca14432 жыл бұрын
@@SpaghettiRoad whats the name of these lines betwen years and green and red
@Aostrele3 жыл бұрын
I loved this! I wanna see more! I also like flags.
@haiiwje3 жыл бұрын
Mee to
@yorkshireball_animations3 жыл бұрын
Me too
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
I like flags too, but the only one on my wall is the flag of my country ):
@haiiwje3 жыл бұрын
@@MrFrankenBeans519 what flag
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@haiiwje Im from Canada, so the Canadian flag
@Cosmic_Taco3 жыл бұрын
Why don’t you have at least 1mil?! You are one of my favourite channels and your content always gives! Keep it up!!! :D
@walker_andrej3 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely incredible - I have a world map bought in Lithuania, I wonder if I'll be able to pinpoint the date as accurately as you 😅
@PlanetPlays3 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Old maps are very interesting, please make more of this!!
@-Faris-3 жыл бұрын
I once came across a map which had Yugoslavia and South Sudan at the same time. Strange trippy moment I’ll tell you that
@chilln06483 жыл бұрын
I like these kinds of videos. My stepdad recently found an atlas from the early 1930’s I think. It was made in the city I live in, Chicago, so it’s very U.S centric, but they do have maps for the rest of the world.
@skyhawkmatthew3 жыл бұрын
Great video! For the atlas, it shows the New Territories north of Kowloon as part of Hong Kong, which were ceded on a 99 year lease in 1898 (precipitating the 1997 handover).
@ThePerderder3 жыл бұрын
This is, by far, my favourite video from your channel. These enquiries are tons of fun, and I would absolutely love to see more. Congrats!!
@quintiax3 жыл бұрын
I bought the first interwar map and asked a similar question on Reddit about when the map was made. Thank you for giving a proper year!
@axelfrick41063 жыл бұрын
That Atlas is super cool. I can picture myself just sitting and staring at it for days
@OrlindeEarfalas3 жыл бұрын
This was a super intresting video! Thank you so much! :D
@mariushaakonssen3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and well done video :) Amazing!
@matpk3 жыл бұрын
Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project.
@mrsokolov89543 жыл бұрын
I have a map hanged in my room that says it was made in 1920, and I guess that's about right, but only for it's borders. The map had probably the first edition printed in 1920, but they kept on making new edits to name changes on the map, and while making those new edits they seemed to have no intention with messing with the borders again with each new update. The cherry on the cake is Ireland, because after it became independent I guess that they just said "Fuck it, I'm not doing this again" and changed the name of the British Empire to British Isles. So basecaly Britain doesn't exist in my map.
@DaedalusYoung3 жыл бұрын
The problem with older maps I think is that it took so much time to make them. There's a map of my town that was surveyed in 1846-1847 and released in 1849. Chances are it was out of date before it was even released.
@radio_marco3 жыл бұрын
11:30 Switzerland is pretty much the same as now. The only thing is, that Jura was still a part of Bern on this map. Now is it independent.
@BritishSoldier-kr9xf3 жыл бұрын
Man All those maps are more or close to hundred years old
@robertqld3 жыл бұрын
Another one for your father-in-law's atlas I noticed when you talked about Macau. Hong Kong also included the New Territories which only happen in 1897
@ahwhite20223 жыл бұрын
Glad to see others do this when they stumble across maps. Of course, I can’t do it with your level of geographic historical detail.
@sofiarosel12893 жыл бұрын
This content is incredible - the research and effort is just *chefs kiss*
@bombkatten44823 жыл бұрын
This was a great video! Please do more similar stuff! :D
@B..P3 жыл бұрын
I've pinpointed my map to the first half of the year 2012 or last day of 2011, from 31st December 2011 (Samoa switches the International Date Line) to 28th of May (Malawi changes it's flag)
@dw6203 жыл бұрын
10:55 Ha... Don't knock Prince Henri of Orléans too much, please! One did not simply walk into Tibet in the 1890s and the locals did not actually know the source of the Irrawaddy at the time so he technically did "discover" how the geography pieced together. Salomon Andrée was not so lucky, but it took 33 years to find out what had happened...
@applesound3 жыл бұрын
This is funny since my grandma has the same map and always when I visit her I always see the map and, I always wondered what exactly year that was made and, then this video came out.
@timtam.3 жыл бұрын
i love the way you said “Dr. Congo”
@Frahamen3 жыл бұрын
Bordering the country of "Car".
@mete83843 жыл бұрын
1:34 There’s also a missing province of Turkey, Hatay, which joined Turkey in 1939
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
no
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 No
@jerry23573 жыл бұрын
The most recent world atlas that I own is from 1986 (reprinted 1988), so still has the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany etc. I also have the Bloomsbury Pocket Encyclopaedia of the World, 1991 printing. This is interesting because it has the information about Germany still split into West and East, but the East section is headed “Germany, Federal Republic of (former German Democratic Republic)” and there is a note “Since 3 October 1990 part of Federal republic of Germany”. There is also an entry for “Germany, Federal Republic of (former West-Berlin)”, with a similar note to the one given for East Germany. I remember being at a meeting in Frankfurt in late 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the topic of the possibility of German reunification came up over lunch. The opinion of educated people was that it would never happen. Of course, less than a year later, it did happen.
@marianamauricio3 жыл бұрын
loved the video!!
@thelobsterperson3 жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic, fantastic video. Interesting, a joy to watch, and superbly edited. Love your stuff, dude.
@OriginalPiMan3 жыл бұрын
I wonder what date (range) you'd arrive at for each of these maps if you followed the XKCD flowchart.
@YukiteruRJ3 жыл бұрын
Loved the video! It keeps getting better!
@maikotter99453 жыл бұрын
I once owned an atlas printed in the 1960s, who showed Germanys boarders of the year 1937 (!)
@mammutkung3 жыл бұрын
These videos are always entertaining always happy when spaghetti road uploads a vid.
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
no
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 No
@formicidaeinc.80753 жыл бұрын
I'd love to have a look at an old atlas like that
@gtr_cmaster56173 жыл бұрын
We need more of this keep it up man
@binancehighlights40383 жыл бұрын
6:42 Belarus changed it's flag at July 7 1995. And your map has new one, so it's made after 7.7.1995
@Ernzt83 жыл бұрын
Great video! That must have been a lot of work
@tihomirgalov3 жыл бұрын
On this map, Bulgaria is still divided into the Kingdom of Bulgaria and East Rumeli, despite the reunion happened in 1885
@ANONYM00SE3 жыл бұрын
whenever i see my globe or map around my house i see D. R. Congo and i ALWAYS read it like “Dominican Republic of Congo” instead of Democratic Republic of the Congo idk why
@Efoxx3 жыл бұрын
1:30 in this map Turkey is not in the today's shape. In 1939 Hatay was annexed by Turkey from french mandate of Syria
@SverigeNorge043 жыл бұрын
I found an old Norwegian map of Europe from the 50s when I was cleaning my grandma's basement, I asked her if I could keep it, she said yes and now I have it in my room :)
@dw6203 жыл бұрын
Is Morokulien on the map? ; )
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
@@dw620 no
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 No
@Utoob83 жыл бұрын
@@MrFrankenBeans519 No
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@Utoob8 No
@GreatGloves3 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Finland! I have never visited at St Petersburg, because I have a stubborn impression that I will be robbed there😬
@Toblehrone Жыл бұрын
There was a world atlas in my elementary school that was made during the early 1990s, and there were two copies that were different versions/printings. Stuff that the older version had that was left out of the newer version (that I remember) included Bonn as the capital of Germany, spelling Belarus as "Byelorussia", and a cliffhanger on the official borders of the former Yugoslavia (I even remember a white space being put over Bosnia and Croatia, with the SR borders being used as placeholders) .
@mb16.3 жыл бұрын
1:40 also Brusa is Bursa now, Angora is Ankara(Capital city of Turkey) now
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
No
@Phantom____________________3 жыл бұрын
Man his voice is so wholesome
@tolosate3 жыл бұрын
I do like maps ! I have a 17th century map of my city, I try to have an old one for each place where I stay a couple of years :)
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
No
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 No
@petermanuel50433 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. Thanks!
@frankhooper78713 жыл бұрын
When I was about 16, I found a couple at world atlases someone had throw out with their trash and liberated them [1967] - one of them included current heads of state: Hitler in Germany. I still have them - never throw away books LOL
@johnrickdelgado22943 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THIS!! You should have a series about maps 👀
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
no
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 No
@0249er3 жыл бұрын
Turkey doesnt actually have its current borders on the first map. the province of hatay on the map is part of the French mandate of Syria whilst it would join turkey later
@brromo3 жыл бұрын
i've seen a map online with independent South Sudan, but not an independent Montenegro
@neilmaguinness65283 жыл бұрын
Love this content, definitely my kind of thing. Hope its popular with the audience at large!
@Covid-bv4hp3 жыл бұрын
Hey Spaghetti, Tunisia had their old flag on your original map. On 1999 they made minor changes to the crescent on the map. It's not really noticeable until you put both new and old flag next to each other.
@Shadow_Drip Жыл бұрын
I love old maps, they're always fun to look at and see what changed
@Loifey3 жыл бұрын
It’s pointing at Sweden and Norway, I am scared
@grzegorzha.3 жыл бұрын
Makes sense since he's Danish.
@ladycake15153 жыл бұрын
Me living in Sweden and getting nervous...
@Loifey3 жыл бұрын
@@ladycake1515 same…
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
@@grzegorzha. no
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
@@ladycake1515 no
@mcseelmann3 жыл бұрын
very interesting, would love to see more videos with this topic
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
no
@MrFrankenBeans5193 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 No
@asheep77972 жыл бұрын
@@MrFrankenBeans519 yes
@CEKROM3 жыл бұрын
6:24 Hong Kong was not so happy about this handover.
@nsgaminggeek3 жыл бұрын
Hey, for future reference, if it’s FR Yugoslavia (the one encompassing only Serbia and Montenegro), it can’t be older than 2003, since the name was changed to State union of Serbia and Montenegro.
@Bayern_Supremacy2 жыл бұрын
I have an Atlas from 1912, my grandfather gave it to me on my birthday. He got it from HIS father.
@jameshumphreys97153 жыл бұрын
It is always good to have old map so you show children how the world has changed a lot.
@hazzalofta33373 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it take time for the information to be compiled back then
@PikIdo3 жыл бұрын
6:29 Yeah I'm pretty sure there were never two New Zealands at the same time
@alix97513 жыл бұрын
I loved this video, please do more like this !! :D
@wertsdsf11623 жыл бұрын
Maps are great! I have one of Germany and one of my hometown. Both are about 110 years old.
@simbiant43 жыл бұрын
um, small little detail. 7:10 when you panned down, I noticed "Nunavut" written on the top part of Canada, Nunavut was not formed until April 1st 1999.
@WhizzKid201211 ай бұрын
i do that a lot. this map you showed in the start is 1998 to 2011, and the next one is 1923 to 1924
@SarkisCube3 жыл бұрын
There should be a game where the objective is to guess the year of map, if some game developer is reading this, please create one!
@Jlimmer20003 жыл бұрын
This was very cool! Loved the vid!
@FlagAnthem3 жыл бұрын
Ah, my favourite sport: time lock old maps
@lenar34573 жыл бұрын
Antartica (probably all covered with ice sheet) LMAO
@Oba9363 жыл бұрын
Always a good day with some Spagetti on the road. :)
@OntarioTrafficMan Жыл бұрын
Even today we have straightforward maps which should not exist. For example, York University train station in Toronto was closed in 2020 and demolished in 2021 but it still appears on some new route maps issued as of 2023. And these maps are produced by the same company which demolished the station.
@pallo06203 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Just a small nitpick, at 7:08 instead of showing Mauritania's flag you showed that of the Maldives
@SuchDarkness3 жыл бұрын
Have you seen EmperorTigerstar's map from the 1700s that contained Poland-Lithuania? Maybe he can give you a closer look at that one so you can determine it's exact date
@danielmcallahan3 жыл бұрын
Soooooooo exited!! Love your videos so much
@oasis12823 жыл бұрын
no
@danielmcallahan3 жыл бұрын
@@oasis1282 ???
@Jonassoe3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure I had that exact world map as a kid, or at least an edition of it. I tried memorizing the flags :D
@melkerweden89463 жыл бұрын
My grandparents have a map like the first one in their garage with red dots on everywhere theyve been to
@broncosfan24103 жыл бұрын
I would love to see your knowledge by trying to name all of the flags countries and capital cities of the world.