Why didn't the grey countries make significant contributions to world history like the blue countries?

Why didn't the grey countries make significant contributions to world history like the blue countries?

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I already see one flaw with your map
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>Sweden gave us Minecraft

S - P - A - C - E

norway gave us the cheese slicer

because you are a dumb retard dont know history

Today it's slightly less the case, but the area between Germany and Western Russia is not very densely populated. Much less so historically, and it urbanized rather late (whereas Western Europe did so spectacularly during the high Middle Ages, especially in Italy). This had multiple consequences: lack of urbanization meant lack of concentration in the city, less "specialization", thus less hands and minds preoccupied with great achievements. Also why industrialization set in very late there.

Pic related also explains why almost every great Frenchman was born in Paris or moved there later in life whereas the great folk of England and Germany are more evenly split out (and even then almost every great Irishman moved to London at some point... except when they moved to America or France).

remove iberia, they're africa tier if you factor in their population

Ireland have an excuse, the eternal anglo fucking around until the last century (well, to a lesser extent)

Nah. We just did it all before patents/prizes came to be.

If Italy and Greece count, so should we.

>what is population

>Turkey not included
?

magyar cigany

Because we don't owe the world a shit
The world can go kindly fuck itself

Because my fucking country xas made to be irrelevant.

Belgium is a meme country but it's a very important meme country, make it blue

>this dumb meme chart

>literally saved protestantism on the continent
>insignificant

France is highlighted though

you can make similar cases for lots of the greyed out nations

subhuman jealous of greeks

None of your business lmao

I just realized Turkey is basically Eastern Europe

Yes?

very good post

You could argue about countries like Sweden and Poland not being overly significant, but fucking Austria being grey? Now that is just retarded.

>Austria
>Switzerland

>Poland
>Not blue

What a shitty map is that

because we are peaceful and nice people, and the blue countries are evil opressors

true
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Belgian_inventors

>Switzerland not blue
Bernoulli
Euler
Guillaume
Rohrer
CERN

Jesus Christ, OP.

>No Poland/Lithunia
Commonwealth was a major player up until the partition, contributions to overturning the Turkish advance into Europe which I'd say is fairly significant that Vienna didn't get cockroach'd.
>No Balkan States
Yugoslavia's existence showed a fracture within the idea of communists uniting across the world under a single faction. There's also the Balkan Wars in the 90s.
>No Denmark or Sweden
Denmark played a significant role in the development of medieval England, held immense power going into the Renaissance. There's a reason other Nordic countries might dislike Sweden, because they ruled over most of Scandinavia and were a major player in the Thirty's Year War.
>Vatican isn't blue
Pope. Crusades. Corruption helped create the protestant movement, helped create Anglicanism, Catholicism and Christianity as a whole did have effects on overall development of the European world.
>Turkey isn't blue
The whole reason why Europeans were trying to go around Africa or sail west, to avoid the eternal roach.
>Austria and Hungary
Hungary was a powerful player in the late medieval era. Austria fucked their way to the top of the European political structure in several countries. Austria-Hungary was a thing
>Czechoslovakia
Bohemia.
>Finland
Fairly certain the Winter War meme'd Finland to prominence with just one man.
>Belgium
Waffles.
>Ireland
For showcasing what happens when you depend on one food for all your eating and drinking.

Most of those blue countries don't become blue (or even countries) without direct action/invasion/defense by most of those grey countries.

Curious as to what constitutes a significant contribution to world history.