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Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: Ogaden on July 10, 2014, 03:01:08 pm

Title: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Ogaden on July 10, 2014, 03:01:08 pm

(http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/01/alkebu-lan-1260.jpg)

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Leo on July 10, 2014, 09:04:34 pm

Why was it rotated 180 degrees? Is that the real atrocity that the Europeans committed in Africa?

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Karl Peters on July 10, 2014, 09:14:40 pm

Most of the bigger nations on the map (Songhai, Kongo, Sokoto, etc.) were already in decline before colonization. So chances are another major power player would of came up in the surrounding area instead of the British and Portuguese merchants and sailors. Then we would restart the cycle and end up with expanding and contracting African kingdoms. However, I find it rather unlikely that Europeans would have never colonized or influenced Africa at all.

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Fake from State Jarm on July 10, 2014, 09:30:48 pm

moth

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Ogaden on July 11, 2014, 01:18:29 am

Hires of full map btw:
http://cyon.se/Alkebu-lan_1260AH_HiRez.jpg (http://cyon.se/Alkebu-lan_1260AH_HiRez.jpg)

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Buck Turgidson on July 11, 2014, 06:40:48 am

They would have had to come to Europe just to learn the Latin alphabet, or they wouldn't be able to read their own maps.

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Ogaden on July 11, 2014, 11:32:27 am

Touché, GrilledSlug.  Touché.

Title: Re: Map: What if Africa had never been colonized?
Post by: Buck Turgidson on July 11, 2014, 12:54:32 pm

Quote from: Ogaden on July 11, 2014, 11:32:27 am

Touché, GrilledSlug.  Touché.

Also, it looks like Ogaden would not have existed...