Map of Europe: 1000 AD to present day
 

Look at all those changes over the time

blocked on mobiles :-/

hm spain, france and hungary were the most constant (size wise) nations in the last 1000 years..

This is why nothing matters except your own happiness and that of those you care about.

it looks like a replay of the game civilization.

United kingdom seems pretty steady

why i laugh at the Eurotrash here crying like babies about American intervention in Europe - Europeans have been killing and raping each other by the millions forever, same as the Middle East - without the United States being involved.

I don't understand why England keeps changing colour (nor why it gets renamed Great Britain half way through) all I can think of is a change of royal family causes the colour changes.

what's also interesting about hungary is how much poland changed over the same period!

You mean your European ancestors?

I would almost think you don't realize the US is only a few 100 years old.

Most towns in Britain have houses older than the US! :D

It would have been nice to see the dates going by.

i'm alive today because my great grandparents were smart enough to leave Europe early in the 20th century.

That sounds like something the Nazi's would say.

That sounds like something that trolls would say

Did you miss the topic title and video or something.
You really don't make much sense.

Smart enough to go to North America? biggest troll in gfy history :thumbsup

you are right auschwitz was much better than long island... :disgust

looks like a game of risk

Since 1000 AD? For a starters, that is before 1066. Things changed a bit now and then.

3:24 min. of pure history !

Very impressive video about history!

Game of thrones or something like that.

yes, obviously but after that, there are still quite a few changes on that map. (Like I said, for some reason England changes to great Britain) apart from 1066 and the English civil war (which at the speed that map is drawn should only be a blip) I cannot think of any reason for changes.

wales joining (most of it) then all of it, scotland merging, ireland in out in out, grabing chunks of france though out the middleages, then depending on who was king, showing as part of france, or part of france showing as britain.

It was fun to watch

The borders within what is now the UK changed a lot. The English civil was wasn't until 1642.

I don't know what all the colours represent either but I am guessing if you watch them you can see which country they originate in and follow.

I would imagine that the reason it becomes Great Britain is because of the joining together of England, Wales and Scotland to be Great Britain (rather than separate states) in the early 1700's which became United Kingdom in the early 1800's when Ireland joined.

The UK/GB/England has changed so much during the span of this clip that it makes it some of the most interesting history to follow. It also why if Scotland does break off it wouldn't be all that shocking int he long term view of history. I mean, good luck to the them but still.

Great video! Would have been better with the year displayed somewhere.

The same things occurred in the provinces of china and regions of Japan. Although I have no knowledge of African history I can guess they had their problems too.

you should look at the grand scale of things.

These wars have happened over hundreds of years.

The US has only been around a few hundred and already had a major civil war.