Borders are not natural facts. They were drawn by people, in rooms, on specific dates — and they can be redrawn. Watch three regions of the world get redrawn across the twentieth century.
One empire controlled this land in 1914. By 2000 it had fractured into 15 countries. Watch the same territory get redrawn by war, defeat, and ideology across eight decades.
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Data: cshapes R package (Weidmann et al., 2010) · Rendered with roughsf · Palette: MetBrewer Redon