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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Borders

“ If When Crimea “rejoins” Russia, it’s only the latest twist in 1,000 years of European border shifts


 The borders of Europe have been static since the breakups of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and the reunification of Germany, but look set to shift shortly, if the Duma in Moscow ratifies the stated desire of a Crimean majority to quit Ukraine for Russia. But a broader perspective, taking into account the past 1,000 years of European history, shows that change on the continent has been a near-constant. [Market Watch]
Watch as Centennia Historical Atlas software condenses Europe’s history into a 3 ½-minute video representing the shifting borders from A.D. 1,000  through 2003:



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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/19/14, 10:12 PM

    This is why you wanted to slit your wrists rather than go to your Western European History class. When there were Western European History classes.

    j_c_

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  2. Cheesy3/20/14, 11:07 AM

    100 years or so from now,maybe sooner, the few Caucasian descendants left will watch this happening in N. America.

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  3. Anonymous3/20/14, 11:10 AM

    By the way, the map changes are 20 years out of sync.

    Yes, I have a degree in Western European History. [sigh]


    Kim

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  4. Bob Gallagher3/22/14, 8:21 AM

    But how many bodies lay still in tn the grave with every one of them "border shifts"

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