this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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Historic(al) Map Porn

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[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

I think Mexico needs to manifest some destiny

[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This map can be dated to between 1783 and 1802 when the United States won their independence but Spain hadnโ€™t returned Louisiana to France or the US.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yo this is cool. I wonder if anyone has any

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Interesting how the ocean is labelled "Western or Atlantic Ocean"

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

receipts, bitches.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They never should have sold us Florida. That was a huge mistake.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was just thinking about how they could take it back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, the good old days

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It'd be interesting to see this timeline.

The Gold Rush would happen in Mexican California, which means the early Chinese immigrants would be in Mexico. Which mean I might've immigrated to the United Mexican States instead of the USA, and the internet would be mostly Spanish.

Oh wow we need an alt-history for this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Even the name "America" is Italian. White America is built entirely on other cultures. You couldn't remove every name that was not White American because you'd have almost nothing left, and the stuff you did have left would still be largely built on non-white culture.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If Cuba took an aphrodisiac and California needs one...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i believe it's called the gulf of mexico because the people that historically inhabited that area (a long, long time ago) were loosely related to the term "mexico" over time, as is with happens with most words.

Did the whole america thing also happen? Yeah, is that super relevant, debatable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I never realized before that florida is Spanish for "flowery"...