Japanese map from the 1930's
Japanese map from the 1930's
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>sweden
wtf
Post the buddhist maps, those are way better.
They always have a unique viewpoint
check out how big fuji is compared to the himalayas
It's cute though, I like it.
>Mt. Rushmore
clown
>Las Vegas
clown
What are they trying to say?
Drawing chink and fin like high tech degital photo
Do we know how old the map is? Circus Circus build in 1973 is huge, and the largest permanent big top circus in the world.
I've noticed that
Yeah we were like really good at sports back then.
Very old italian map of the world
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> Apartheid South Africa
> Manchurian subhumans
> Chinese jewing Indonesia
> jap Brazilian is thriving while black Brazilians are sleeping
My sides weren't prepared for this.
>Hey Giovanni, what should I put in these unknown areas?
>Idk Mario, just fill it up with mountains and beasts so it doesn't look blank
>Greek is a Turk in a skirt
pretty poor 2bh
what did they mean by this?
old Nordic map
they were warning us of their imminent invasion
kek
c. 2400 years ago
my ancestors ;)
It is a map from 1565, what did you expected?
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same era, the dutch were better
GET IN THE CAN
What is that gigantic island where Hawaii is supposed to be?
WTF!
they mark a route for whale hunt in my country???
straya
>no scary animals
2/10
Australia?
just realized it might be new guinea
How the hell did they go about mapping this shit out in the fucking 16th century? Can someone explain this to me?
>Finns shown as wh*Toids
wtf I hate Japan now
>Kings finance explorers
>explorers venture forth
>draw rough approximations of coastline that they see
>maps drawn by different explorers stitched together when they return
Possibly, it could also be Australia along with Terra Australis; that peninsula I suspect is Cape York.
pic related is a section of my favorite map, the Tabula Peutingeria
you can see Rome right of the center
Nice map.
>scotless
wtf i love Japan now
i don't know if that tiger is supposed to be Clémenceau the Tiger but I love. Also nice Napoléon hat
>Sweden
THEY KNEW
Good map/
Dutchies are where they belong, under sea level.
Wtf, they mapped india, arabia, africa and south america and basically everything more accurate than Scandinavia, literally their neigbour.
What's wrong with the dutch?
Russian bear farts on Finland
Fucking japs bantering us from a century ago
How do you read this?
*BRRAAAP*
nice
I wonder if Tile north of the Orkney islands is related to the mythical Thule.
Found the merchant
If you think that is strange check out the Piri Reis map of 1513.
It not only has America down pat 20 years after Colombus, it also depicts Antarctica very correctly, that is it shows very accurately the land parts of Antarctica, i.e. without the ice.
It was sourced by a Turkish geographer from much, much older maps, now lost.
They would lift a lot of it from older maps, then refine it based on their own observations.
>Ireland
How did the Japs know about GAA?
what the fuck is that cow thing in brazil
Thats a big cow.
Japs emigrate to Brazil wanting a fertile place where their descends would never be hungry again.
kek, ofc not
How are you so sure? Especially since our sources from antiquity are few and far behind. Often place-names tell us more than the record.
we wuz Hyperborea and shit
>Androphagi
literally means "man-eaters"
unsurprisingly it's in Eastern Europe
well the landmass in the middle is the Italian boot, the one above it shows what is now Hungary and the Balkans (Sabaria is present-day Szombathely, Arrabone is Győr), and in the lower section you can see a part of Africa
the whole map is horizontal, as you might've guessed
according to the caption, he's pearling
They should've put their scouts on auto-explore, too many clouds
bump
Shina pig www