Thursday 3 March 2016

Every Battle Ever Mapped

A Dutch company is attempting to map all the battles in history, and so far it has counted 12,703 of them. 
It looks like Europe and the US are the bloodiest parts of the world with Greenland, Canada, Russia and Australia coming out of it with relatively few dots on it's land.
The data project Nodegoat has the first recorded military conflict in history as the Battle of Zhuolu, in eastern China, in about 2500BC.
Unfortunately, as us humans are a bunch of idiots the map will forever need to be updated for new conflicts.   

14 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

What? I am guessing you never got that beginners guide to finance and map reading from Santa this year then. I have dispatched a 5 year old with an atlas to show you where the middle east is.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

5 year old - 'but Lucy, almost the entire continent of Europe is covered and half of the USA so how can the middle east be more covered?.
Lucy - I know 5 year old child, I think Mr q has been sniffing his guns again. Just nod and smile patronisingly.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

Smiling and nodding patronisingly here.

Falling on a bruise said...

5 yr old - Lucy, I don't think Mr q knows that the colour of the dots corresponds to the date of the conflict and not the intensity. Does he not know how to use a key to the map?
Lucy - just carry on smiling 5 yr old.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

You made an assumption and went with it rather than find out what the colours meant, that's what's interesting.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

It shows your slapdash attitude towards research which explains why you are woefully ignorant on son matters such as climate change and would rather go with what you choose to believe rather than fact find for yourself. It does make sense considering just how plain wrong you are on many subjects.

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...
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Falling on a bruise said...

Good for you, still wrong about it all of course but well done you for refusing to follow the rest and continuing to beat your lonely frum.