Those countries are really small, if only they could unite into a bigger country; surely they would be strong and totally not unstable messes.
VideoDead1 on
What’s with the Gaza empire in the SE corner?
Euphoric_Judge_8761 on
The Holy African empire
TeaBagHunter on
Europeans just went there and scribbled some lines
Look at a same thing done in pakistan-afghanistan with the durond line, leading to the conflict we’re witnessing now
SnooHabits5118 on
Where is Mahdist Sudan?
fuyu-no-hanashi on
Truly a scramble
FredAAC on
So it took only 30 years to change modt of it. If you where on your 80ties in 1960 ( for the lucky ones) you would have know an ancient africa, reshaping by european nations and indépendance in a life time….must have been strange.
whowouldvethought1 on
Hargeisa is in the wrong place here. Habar yonis is a sub clan of isaaq so I doubt the authenticity of this map.
Ok-Appearance-1652 on
Didn’t know at Center of DRC there was once a big sultanate
lordplato_ on
And today there are a lot big and multicultural countries with straight borders. Of course nothing wrong could happen from this…
cccanterbury on
mapporn if you could read the labels
BlinkBlinkWirsch on
One can clearly see how the European civilizers brought order to the ancient African chaos. Order, law and order opened the way for the dark continent to join the civilized world.
ArcticTemper on
Doesn’t even show the true complexity of it, the Matebele for example ruled a large kingdom here, Zulu style, but the Mashona majority were their slaves.
Little-Letter2060 on
Well… Africa is still today the poorest continent, but we expect to get it more developed at some point. I’m not a specialist in history and geography, but despite the colonization, I guess they will have a better chance with the borders as today than at that time, with a lot of tiny and weak states.
manna5115 on
Whats up with the boundaries of the kingdom of Morocco? Looks like a mini HRE
SirRefo on
And some dummy thought it would be a good idea to just draw straight lines
HelloFromJupiter963 on
All I see are potential colonies for my 1 man empire.
traveler49 on
Nyanza is misplaced, it was the capital of Rwanda, should be Kingdom of Toro. Banyarwanda is not the name of a kingdom but of its people, usually called Bufumbira. In 1880 it was part of the kingdom of Rwanda having been previously independent.
What is now the Uganda district of Kigezi was made up of Bufumbira, North Ndorwa (on map, southern half conquered by Rwanda.), Rubanda, Kinkiizi, Kayonza, & Rukiga, small independent mountain kingdoms whose territories are too small to appear on a small scale map .
While the Tippu Tip sultanate looks impressive it was recent and ephemeral, 1860-87, lasting less than 30 years. It can be argued that he was one of the first scramblers of Africa.
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Those countries are really small, if only they could unite into a bigger country; surely they would be strong and totally not unstable messes.
What’s with the Gaza empire in the SE corner?
The Holy African empire
Europeans just went there and scribbled some lines
Look at a same thing done in pakistan-afghanistan with the durond line, leading to the conflict we’re witnessing now
Where is Mahdist Sudan?
Truly a scramble
So it took only 30 years to change modt of it. If you where on your 80ties in 1960 ( for the lucky ones) you would have know an ancient africa, reshaping by european nations and indépendance in a life time….must have been strange.
Hargeisa is in the wrong place here. Habar yonis is a sub clan of isaaq so I doubt the authenticity of this map.
Didn’t know at Center of DRC there was once a big sultanate
And today there are a lot big and multicultural countries with straight borders. Of course nothing wrong could happen from this…
mapporn if you could read the labels
One can clearly see how the European civilizers brought order to the ancient African chaos. Order, law and order opened the way for the dark continent to join the civilized world.
Doesn’t even show the true complexity of it, the Matebele for example ruled a large kingdom here, Zulu style, but the Mashona majority were their slaves.
Well… Africa is still today the poorest continent, but we expect to get it more developed at some point. I’m not a specialist in history and geography, but despite the colonization, I guess they will have a better chance with the borders as today than at that time, with a lot of tiny and weak states.
Whats up with the boundaries of the kingdom of Morocco? Looks like a mini HRE
And some dummy thought it would be a good idea to just draw straight lines
All I see are potential colonies for my 1 man empire.
Nyanza is misplaced, it was the capital of Rwanda, should be Kingdom of Toro. Banyarwanda is not the name of a kingdom but of its people, usually called Bufumbira. In 1880 it was part of the kingdom of Rwanda having been previously independent.
What is now the Uganda district of Kigezi was made up of Bufumbira, North Ndorwa (on map, southern half conquered by Rwanda.), Rubanda, Kinkiizi, Kayonza, & Rukiga, small independent mountain kingdoms whose territories are too small to appear on a small scale map .
While the Tippu Tip sultanate looks impressive it was recent and ephemeral, 1860-87, lasting less than 30 years. It can be argued that he was one of the first scramblers of Africa.