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This content analyzes historical maps from the 16th and early 17th centuries, highlighting significant discrepancies between these older depictions and modern geographical understanding, particularly concerning Greenland, Friesland, Asia, and the North Polar region.
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welcome I wanted to show these three
maps today one is from 1595 this one
here is from 1606 let's see this one is
the 1595 and this one is also 1606 so I
want to focus on a few different points
first of all an interesting point here
is we have Greenland with no ice and
that's pretty interesting to have
charted mountains and rivers and even
right here we can see some towns one
town two towns that's how they mark
their towns as you can see in Iceland
here which is spelled Island at the time
many towns and totally ice-free and
again this would be
1606 and yeah you you get an idea of
what the towns look like what the
forests looked like and what I wanted to
focus on was this little island here
called it appears as if it's called
Freeland here but at times it's called Friesland
Friesland
like Friesland maybe and you can see how
many towns actually there are in
Friesland i mean if this is not some
imaginary town
now if we jump over here we also see Friesland
with many towns Iceland still many towns
Greenland free of eyes and if we jump
we can see it here Friesland and here it
has the s and this map shows up really
crisp so here we have Greenland
Greenland Iceland again spelled with a s land
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and here it is again now if we jump over
to this map for modern-day map
which of course is a little exaggerated
but there is no sign whatsoever a
Friesland I mean like none not even
close and I'm just gonna focus on three
Maps today but hundreds and verify this [Music]
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now the next thing I wanted to focus on
was these towns in Asia or what we call
Asia in modern times now Asia would be
up here and over here we would have Europe
Europe [Music]
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Sweden and Finland right here we have
Russia and in in these times Russia was
called ruse and this is shortly after
the name was Tartarian so already we see
Tarte area replaced with ruse but what I
was going to focus on was these parts of
Asia which we would now call Mongolia
and just to have a reference let's see
what it looks like on this man
smarter so yeah we're gonna be talking
no not Mongolia I was totally wrong
sorry so yeah this is just Siberia and
very remote I mean you know Moscow is
over here by Europe and most of the
towns are in this lower area and I mean
when you're talking this is like
equivalent to you know our Alaska but
much bigger and much more and so yeah
let's have a look on the old map now of
this region and we see many towns
amongst these mountains here and here a
bigger one well that appears to be a
castle smaller but still substantial and
even something here I'm not sure what
that is it's coming in a little grainy
for me and here we have tarter wild
these are in the tartar cities now let's
jump over to the very same same maker by
the way this is marcador again this map
of mercado is very very similar also of
1595 but what we can see sorry I was
having an issue now what we can see is
in this northern part of Asia we have 1
& 2 towns in this region where we had
about a half a dozen before and we still
see this strange thing I don't know if
it's a figure of a man or a statue and
now he has no color and yeah much less
activity much less activity as we saw in
you see Friesland ricotta always felt it
was important to put Friesland in his
maps I mean you know you you're pretty
limited here he has his for sports and
Friesland is zoomed in whereas typically
it is here you can see it's a very it's
not even very small it's it it's a fair
sized island it's about half of Iceland
so yeah again here it is now in this
later version of a 1595 map and really
again this is all about an 11 year
change from 1595 to 1606 and here we now
see nothing we see ghosts ghostly shells
of towns but not significant not like we
see in these maps when we look at
Friesland or in this one very
significant very significant town
activity it's it's very clear and he
puts this in the corner of his map and
then we see this and there may be one
here or maybe but really they've become
ghosts and so next i want to focus on
this very most obvious part of this map
of 1595 which is this i mean this is
absolutely amazing this north polar
region and again ricotta Mikoto gave us
this map I mean maybe not this exact
version but when we started using this
map this is McCotter who gave us this
and he's a very respected map maker and
we can't assume that
he was a fool and and put this island
here with great detail and here in the
center is Rufus is what he calls
it and this is the North Pole this is a
magnetic Black Rock as it's been
described in the text that we do have I
mean there's a lot of a lot written
about this and obviously there's map
making and we can see this in hundreds
if not thousands of maps even in this
map we see it we see it in this version
and this map makers name was Paulus
marula and this island appears to be
gone now just a little tip shows up on
maps these days or Google Earth is Nova
Simla just a little piece of it and it
even has that name still but definitely
this North Pole is gone and yet up to a
certain date we always had this and here
if you look to the left we have
Greenland and Greenland almost connects
in most maps and then we would have
Iceland right here and in this map we
cannot see Friesland and it would be off
right about here so this North Pole here
we see we have pygmies a region
inhabited by pygmies now this I think is
written in Latin and these rivers and as
it's been written and again I don't have
the writings here but I've heard there's
a lot of a lot of information and these
rivers were said to flow
word I think one maybe one or two float
outward and one float inward but it was
as if it was a drain and sailors would
get pulled in and it was very difficult
to get out and really fascinating and
only 11 years later we now see a portion
of this pygmy portion missing it's
missing it's been faded out and these
islands have changed right here which
pretty much you know you might be able
to know regardless here's the Nova's
imlah that I was talking about and yeah
these islands have completely changed
some things are just gone some some
parts of it are completely gone and so
the next thing that I wanted to focus on
was something on this map actually and
I'd like to do another video more on on
the Americas North America but I found
this really fascinating how right by
where Chicago might be we have shylaja
and we have a town again we see a town
on the river and in all maps this is
this region here is always she laga and
to me it always seemed like it was very
much like Chicago but here again you can
see the North Pole in this map as well
and Iceland is called island and we can
see it here Iceland and Greenland and
here I believe we can see Friesland so
Friesland is still here and even another Island
Island
close to the east coast of Canada and
you know I encourage you to pull these
videos up and study them for yourselves
I mean they're really really fascinating
and especially these areas work you know
if you look on Google now you know I
mean what are you gonna get when you
look at green wonder here's what you're
gonna get and I don't really think I
don't really think this we're seeing
what we're seeing I think this is just
kind of imposed over I mean this doesn't
look and I've played around with
Antarctica and you'll see pure ice and
then if you zoom in and allow it to load
a little bit and it's doing it a little
bit here things will load and I've
actually pulled up lakes and Green
Mountains in Antarctica and I've done
the same thing with the deserts in
Nevada where it looks like just a bleak
white kind of tan desert and then you
zoom in and there's all sorts of amazing
things but yeah I find it fascinating
that you know these older maps
completely show all the rivers and we
get a better picture of what's really
going on from these older maps than we
do from from these Google images that's
for sure I mean here we can see Iceland [Music]
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now let's note on this map how this
little town right here called Saxa mixed
to skull Bouldin beautiful castle of
skull Bouldin has three would look like towers
towers
three skyscrapers and if we jump over to
this version down here we can't see
these three skyscrapers to mid-size and
one larger than the others and this
skull Holden Castle now I find it really
interesting that if we look at where the
ice is it appears to me as if the ice is
sitting right on top of this area and
once again let's have a look right where
that would be bone [Music]
but again giant chunks of missing I mean
when we looked at those older maps there
were towns all over Iceland and it was
completely ice-free and that's not what
we see now and we certainly don't see
our little island of Friesland which was
half the size of Iceland in thousands of
maps going back as far back as map
making goes and I find it really
fascinating and of course our north
polar region is completely missing and
and I don't know I mean I think what are
we really looking at here I mean what
has what has Google given us but I find
it interesting that there is no imagery
here but yet if you go over here there's
a little trick that I've seen I saw it
on YouTube and you can go to this little
island here pretty much in between [Music]
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Alaska and that Siberian region you to
zoom in to this little island here and
all of a sudden it's like I don't know
if someone was leaving this this is a
little clue but this thing goes on and
on and I think it goes right to the
North Pole and I followed it and I don't
know I don't know if I'll do too much of
it right now and you can go back and do
this yourself but it appears you know I
mean this looks this line looks more realistic
realistic
then this blue now it turns into two
lines and yeah I don't know if that's an
error or if it was a little gift but yes
I mean I think that you know and I don't
know how much we could we can really
zoom in but yeah there's activity here
there's action as there has been shown
in all of these older maps so it's
pretty fun actually I'd encourage you to
go take a little trip down this line
here and it's very much full of full of
more truth and I think what we see here
so that's it for today
thanks so much for watching please like
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