The History of Europe: Every Year

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Cites bmn__ · 2018-05 · on “Every Ruler in Europe Every Year Since 400 BC”

I liked the variant with names of countries and population count better that was published four months earlier: [this video]

Cites cs702 · 2019-06 · on “Interactive time-lapse map of the transfer of Native land between 1776 and 1887”

Most parts of the world have gone through similarly horrific waves of border expansion and contraction at the cost of human lives and cultures, going back to the beginning of civilization. Take the borders of Europe, for example: [this video] I doubt the expansion of, say, the Roman Empire in what we now call Europe and Africa was any less violent than the expansion of the English-speaking world in what we now call North America. Humankind's track record on this earth is full of atrocities.

Cites roenxi · 2020-10 · on “Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)”

> Can you look at the last decade of US military actions and say this has increased European security? Here is a video [0] of the borders of European countries over the last 1500 years. There is potentially a correlation behind their stability since 1945 (11:16 in the video) and the US having a number of troops stationed in Germany comparable to the German army. It is debatable whether it was all to do with the US; but the circumstantial evidence is substantial. The border redrawings may resume one day. [0] [this video]

Cites secondcoming · 2020-10 · on “The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018)”

This is an animated map of who owned what parts of Europe over the past 1000 years. Do you consider 'colonialism' to be different to any other form of human expansion done since time began? [this video]

Cites godelski · 2023-02 · on “The US military has decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron”

> So, tell me again about why everything is the fault of "The West", including all the western countries who have never attacked anyone, in your mind? Not the person you're responding to, but I think it is important to recognize that the US is practically the military of The West (and some more like Japan and Korea), or rather those on the side of democracy in the cold war. Lots of this is because after a bunch of very big wars in Europe (Napoleonic Wars, WWI, WWII) -- and a bunch of smaller wars -- the countries essentially decided that it was best to have smaller militaries and out source it to somewhere that didn't have a long history of border disputes. Helped that the US already had a s

Cites svilen_dobrev · 2023-06 · on “History is just one damn thing after another”

> as experienced by people living at the time there's another twist of all this. Communication back in time has been.. mostly missing - and slow if any. So people in two distant cities could be on two different planets, with similar outcome :) Seems those "linear" timelines, put in that context, look more like bitemporal things.. so its possible that city B learned that city A was in war when that war actualy ended, or later.. and reaction (if any) might be misplaced.. As of maps of "rivers".. that's similar to how people migrations - or army moves are shown. btw, there's this history-map of europe 1-year-per-second: [this video] and also this, i don't know are they of same author: [LINK]

Cites godelski · 2024-06 · on “Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals”

It's often forgotten how much conflict there was in Europe (and most of the world) in the 18th and 19th centuries. How this was fairly "normal" It's really forgotten how relatively peaceful our time is. I'm not complaining, in fact, I want to protect it. And that means we can't forget what was. [this video]