Since North America is taking forever, I figured it's been too long since I've made a regional video and this is one I hadn't done yet. Enjoy!

@death-istic9586

3 ай бұрын

Love your videos!💚

@nolifergustav3741

3 ай бұрын

Can you do a history of Norway?

@ehtuanK

3 ай бұрын

Why did Poland-Lithuania appear at 2:49?

@EmperorTigerstar

3 ай бұрын

@@ehtuanKThe King of Poland became the King of Sweden for a few years, creating a personal union.

@lachlanandrews3596

3 ай бұрын

Yet another wonderful and good video! Thank you so much dude. I love your content.

was expecting this to start at 65 million years ago

@notlucas6859

3 ай бұрын

u seem familiar

@EpicgamerwinXD6669

3 ай бұрын

I was expecting something a few Billon years ago to start with.

@BIMAMINECRAFTGAMING

3 ай бұрын

Hei bro wat ar yu duing

@faze_fox2092

3 ай бұрын

true.... 💀

@gp5313

2 ай бұрын

​@@notlucas6859he's king from toh

Nice detail on the expanding ice during the peak of the Little Ice Age of the XVI-XVII Centuries

@ortherner

3 ай бұрын

Just use Arabic Numerals instead of the Roman ones.

@zyzie1471

3 ай бұрын

​@@orthernerno

@kjj26k

2 ай бұрын

So Iceland was totally surrounded then? Goodness! How did they survive?!

@wibbliams

Ай бұрын

Kinda like how greenland survives today, I'm guessing​@@kjj26k

@antoninduda9078

23 күн бұрын

16th to 17th centuries

As a Norwegian i believe in my unbiased opinion that the map is upside down

@lodestar536

3 ай бұрын

For real it was messing with my head

@MacoLmao

3 ай бұрын

Same

@irp3ex

3 ай бұрын

as a russian, it is obviously sideways

@Yxcell

3 ай бұрын

As an American I think it looks fine. :P

@georgemakrov6174

3 ай бұрын

As a person who lives in the exact spot that is the north pole, i don't care

Fun fact: The Greenland Norse communicated with the other Norse so infrequently that when Denmark sent missionaries to Greenland in the 1700s, they thought they would still find them there, despite the fact that they had not communicated with each other in over 300 years

@AdistuffRBX

3 ай бұрын

What happened to them?

@mariotheundying

3 ай бұрын

Did they die or moved?

@RemyistStudio

3 ай бұрын

@@AdistuffRBXit got very cold and their lifestyle was not suited for it at all

@avrowolf

3 ай бұрын

@@mariotheundying Bit of both

@supernimo739gaming7

3 ай бұрын

​@@mariotheundyingprobably migrated or abandoned the area

Russian rapid expance from year 1600 and it's instant change of music from calm and peaceful to "YOLOOOOO" rush was abit spooky

@renaigh

3 ай бұрын

but when the Americans do it, it's Patriotic and Freedom.

@_kitaes_

3 ай бұрын

​@@renaighno it's the same

Ah yes, the Polish-Swedish personal union of 1592. Something I 100% forgot about

@sushiroll9401

3 ай бұрын

> be king of union > lose to uncle > be angy

1:23 hello there Mongolia

@Donald_Trump_2024

Ай бұрын

dont know how many people noticed it

@pieceofschmidtgamer

16 күн бұрын

Mongols: Oh hai, Mark!

@andrewjgrimm

16 сағат бұрын

✅ Can handle cold temperatures ❌ Can sail

I really like the choice of music for the beginning of the video. It sounds cold and mysterious, like the topic.

The retreat of the Kingdom of Ice is disconcerting.

@Admin-gm3lc

3 ай бұрын

The place actually becomes more habitable, as it was millions of years ago. The ice age happening there is a deviance, not a norm.

@spartan9572

3 ай бұрын

Every empire has to fall one day...

@mr.pearly7478

3 ай бұрын

@@Admin-gm3lc that's not true. Google "Little Ice Age Wikipedia", it shows the growth of the ice sheets, that we can see in the video, from the 1400s to the 1800s. The graph on that page perfectly shows how abnormal the retreat of ice and rising of global temperatures is. It's abnormally rapid and not naturally caused.

@Punaparta

3 ай бұрын

​@@Admin-gm3lccringe

@jackalenterprisesofohio

3 ай бұрын

@@Punaparta I mean they're kinda not wrong, scientists have said we are still techincally in an ice age.

2:51 Russia was waiting for the cool music to begin!

3:21 The sheer magnitude of Britain's rise was enough to force the ice sheets back

11 days from now, I will do something I have dreamed of for most of my young life: Cross the Arctic Circle. Love that this was uploaded now.

@bestrafung2754

3 ай бұрын

You should upload it to KZread!

@ortherner

3 ай бұрын

Good luck!

@baconhairbacana1964

23 күн бұрын

How did it go?

Why no one talks about Approximate Arctic Ice Extent? They conquered whole Arctic and were undefeated for so many years.

@kjj26k

2 ай бұрын

Sea Power personified.

What was that bit of land that Norway owned in Canada? Ive never heard anything about that.

@a.bastianwiik5592

3 ай бұрын

Axel Heiberg Island, mapped by Otto Sverdrup, CLAIMED by Norway until he made a deal with Canada to sell his data regarding the Sverdrup Islands to them.

@jackalenterprisesofohio

3 ай бұрын

@@a.bastianwiik5592 But He wouldn't have had too, if he used today's sponsore Nord VPN, Nord VPN is a *gets shot*

All those small ethnic groups shown on the map are mostly still around today, considering how sparsely populated Greenland, Northern Canada, and Northeast Russia were by European settlers.

Sad to see the proud nation of Approximate Arctic Ice Extent lose so much land.

Incredibly minor detail, but I think you missed Nunavut splitting off from the Northwest Territories in 1999.

@EmperorTigerstar

3 ай бұрын

Nope. It’s there. The territorial/provincial borders are just a light color.

@watrblu3043

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@EmperorTigerstar I’ve zoomed all the way in on the map, and I can see the other territorial border(Yukon/NWT), but I still can’t see the Nunavut border.

@watrblu3043

3 ай бұрын

Oh, it appears in 2020 for some reason

@EmperorTigerstar

3 ай бұрын

@@watrblu3043it’s definitely there from 1999 onwards.

@hadilol

3 ай бұрын

​@@EmperorTigerstarYes, you're right

The extension of the ice sheet during the Little Ice Age is impressive! But I notice that happens well after the norse colonies on Greenland collapse- so it seems the ice inhibiting trade after the Medieval Warm Period can't be a contributing factor to their failure as some propose.

Thank you for this amazing video on the history of Canada!

The extent of arctic ice is a really nice touch! Good job. Makes sense to include it since it definitely played a role in where people could go by boat.

@owenfarmer1588

2 ай бұрын

i agree

Incredible work, especially on the sea ice detail.

AD 1: and thus, the Arctic was created

In 1 AD, the Arctic was invented.

The music swapping the second the Inuit overtook the Thule was nice

Went to an Arctic museum a couple months ago. It was good as well as calm as the first song in this video

I really love your way of exploring different map perspectives.

@doridore1234

3 ай бұрын

i mean when mapping the arctic a polar projection makes more sense

@samuelleandro2275

3 ай бұрын

@@doridore1234 Yeah, but look at his Mexican American war video. It doesn't use traditional projection. That's what I'm referring to.

It's amazing how the Arctic Empire has lasted so long. Still unfortunate that they're losing land pretty quickly.

Nice to see the world map change from this angle

Would have been cool to include the magnetic pole moving around too

@kjj26k

2 ай бұрын

That's what I was thinking, the thing is half way to land by now, iirc?

Sad fact:The artic ice has decreased rapidly from 1900 to now

2:20 what are Bel., Ob., Ka., Lya., So., and Pel. short for?

@Admin-gm3lc

3 ай бұрын

Apparently these are Belogorsk, Obdorsk, Kazym, Lyapinsk and Pelim tribal unions (as russians named them)

awesome video as always

I would also love to see this based on July each year instead of December. A great video.

I love how the snow really took over at some point

Just here for hl2 episode three

@egill624

3 ай бұрын

Emperor Tigerstar forgot to include the 7 hour war and combine invasion 😔

You depict Moscovy as being part of the Kalmar Union at 2:28

@Mimi.1001

2 ай бұрын

Possibly Sweden and Muscovy were switched accidentally. Muscovys color also sticks out like a sore thumb.

@kjj26k

2 ай бұрын

Didn't actually, it's hard to see but there is not a line going from Muscovy to The Kalmar Union, unlike Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

if the artic completely melts then my island is gonna drown... here's hoping that doesn't happen

@Joshy-

3 ай бұрын

@@soralb6368 I just did some research on my own and there's an article from nasa (.gov) from a year ago that says melting ocean ice affects sea level- unlike ice cubes in a glass. Here's a paragraph from the article: "An often-overlooked ingredient makes a significant difference: saltiness. Various studies show that because floating ice is made of fresh water, it actually increases sea level slightly when it melts into the salty sea - unlike what happens in your water glass."

@SuchDarkness

3 ай бұрын

@@soralb6368if anything the water level would decrease as the ice has a higher volume than liquid water

@LeDoctorBones

3 ай бұрын

@@soralb6368 When someone says "The Arctic completely melts" they of course include the glaciers of Greenland and Northern Canada (Though, I admittedly have no knowledge of Canadian glaciers.). And Greenland is part of the Arctic. I do, however, agree that Antarctica melting is worse than the arctic, though, that does not mean that the arctic alone wouldn't move water levels up.

@EnDerRAGON

3 ай бұрын

@@SuchDarkness That's because ice is less dense than water. In order for something to float it has to displace its weight in water, so when the ice melts the reduction in displacement is exactly the same as the increase in liquid water. Thus, the water level will not change.

@SuchDarkness

3 ай бұрын

@@EnDerRAGON yes i know

Thank you so much

Jan Mayen was hold by Netherlands officially? I knew they were exploring Arctic region - eg. Barents expedition, but I wasn't aware of their official settlement.

Rip Dorset killed to the last

i was half expecting this to be a continental drift video 💀

No matter where it is on the map, Britain will somehow make an appearance

Nice

Imagine if somehow the Russians had colonized Canada coming through the polar ice in the 17th century haha...

1 AD Atlantic: “And that is how i spawned in”

Sad Austria-Hungary didn’t claim Franz Joseph Land

Interesting

On a regular world map, the distances between the continents of the northern hemisphere seem large, but a view from the north pole changes the view

Nice.

What was Norway doing in Northern Canda in the 1910s/20s ?

Whoa Iceland had a while where it was completely locked in by arctic sea ice in December? Norway owned some of the canadian arctic? POLISH lITHUANIAN SWEDEN? Wild! Also sad to see that sea ice recede. It really was so strong for so long.

Now do Antartica, every year

@SeSazCh

3 ай бұрын

he already did that

@berankb

3 ай бұрын

@@SeSazCh oh my bad

Wasn’t expecting the mongol empire to show up. For a long time, I’ve wondered what the mongol empires northern “border” was like

im a bit disappointed you didn't include the pole itself. like the movements of magmetic north pole and geographical north pole and other major north pole definitions that I can't think of rn at 4am

I didnt realize Norway owned a few of the islands in the northwest territory for a while. Interesting! Did they do anything with them?

@TheIconicWatermelon

3 ай бұрын

yea noticed that too, dunno why borway had that

Question: 4:06 why Norway owns a little bit of Canada?

Did thule cease to exist and become the inuit in a blink of an eye or are they the same peoples just going by a different name? I heard the dorset peoples had a bad end

Seeing all the ice slowly melting after 20th century is very sad

Canadian control over Nunavut was pretty limited until the 1950s, so it is a little confusing as to why the British are shown to already have much control over the area by the beginning of the 1800s.

nice

I like maps like this, usually on a typical world map everywhere looks so far away. Here every major geopolitical entity of the last century is so huddled together. I guess that's why it was a Cold War.

Watched the video upside down as having the prime meridian down felt like a more natural perspective 😄

Now we need the history of the antarctic :D

yooo we LOVE the arctic!

Dorset culture - most northern civilization ever? It was possible to settle far north of Greenland in Middle ages?!

@supernimo739gaming7

3 ай бұрын

Dorset, Nganasan, and Saami.

"History of the Antarctic: every year" next please

This makes me think, could Siberian and North American peoples theoretically migrate across the polar ice? Or is this just nearly impossible due to needing to store many months of food, and keep warm.

@kamikazekalamari

3 ай бұрын

Thatts the main theory of how most humans got to America, trough the Bering strait

@ArdaSReal

3 ай бұрын

Not only possible it happened. The first humans to come to the americas come over the frozen bering strait from siberia!

@hunkulous1462

3 ай бұрын

@@ArdaSReal that I understand, as dumb as this sounds: I more mean after the Bering strait closed, was it possible for even very small groups to cross the North Pole- for example: could peoples have the means to *cross* the North Pole from North of the Hudson Bay into Russia during winter when it heavily freezes over?

@ArdaSReal

3 ай бұрын

@@hunkulous1462 that is being discussed there are some artifacts found in Alaska that could only come there from europe like venetian glass. But it might also just have washed up there, it seems likely tho

@supernimo739gaming7

3 ай бұрын

Probably around it, like the Asians that migrated from siberia (Kamchatka ) to Canada. I think it's impossible to cross the north pole

4:08 The US had a colony on Svalbard and NOBODY told me?!

Wow

The upside down map is confusing me

Putin: "65 million years ago the Earth was in a cooling phase...."

That’s crazy, how much the ice shrink within only a few decades because of global warming

There is significant error. Muscovy wasn’t russia till the 1721

02:50 Where is Poland-Lithuania? I've been going back over and over, but I can't find it

@halftime919

3 ай бұрын

Nowhere, but it had to be added to the colors to make sense with the change of color of Sweden, I think it would have been better to just add "personal union" instead of changing the color of the country.

3:16 Arctic Sea Ice Maximal maximum. 4:36 Arctic Sea Ice Maximal minimum. .

4:09-4:11 Describe Russian Civil War in 3 seconds in this video

Decisive Industrial Revolution victory.

Interesting how the Arctic didn't exist until the 10th century.

early! basically Canada greenland history lol

By around 1914, Canada was independent and secured all territories except Newfoundland. I don’t think the Brits had the northern region for that long into the 20th century, they technically gave it to Canada in the late 19th centiry

@Dave_Sisson

3 ай бұрын

Canada and Australia (see Antarctic video) did not instantly go from colony status to independence like many countries. Rather things were phased in, starting with the grant of "responsible government" in the 1850s which was quasi-independence with various extensions of that status going on for about a century.

I hope you didn't forget Hans island!

Очень бы удивился если бы про Шпицберген была достоверная информация

Greenland is a weird case where Europeans are actually the indigenous people and American Indians moved in later.

why and how did USA and UK acquired territories in nowadays Norwegian Svalbard ?

Nice ice sheet lmao!

So the closest island to the North Pole is own by Russia? I never realized that 😮

@_kitaes_

2 ай бұрын

denmark actually

Fun fact: Norway waa a part of Denmark until 1814

Norway had claimed and integrated the entirety of Greenland into the kingdom when they discovered it. Was still owned by Norway while being unexplored

@nolifergustav3741

3 ай бұрын

So maybe add a lighter green to the rest of it?

You left out the northern part of the Mongol Empire.

👍

This is probably the map with the least amount of casualties you've ever made

@mappingshaman5280

3 ай бұрын

Except it shows the russian civil war and world war 2.

@Kamarovsky_KCM

3 ай бұрын

@@mappingshaman5280Well, most of the casualties of these conflicts happened just off-screen, as most of the European part of Russia ain't shown here. So still might count as having a fewer number of deaths.

@kjj26k

2 ай бұрын

Probably a few million deaths from the movement of colonizers in and out of the arctic circle.

What do the lands with European colors as outline and fill with white mean?

@ArdaSReal

3 ай бұрын

Probably claimed but not actually under their control

I think the true Arctic was the friends we made along the way.

Arctic will be free of ice!🐻‍❄🐻‍❄🐻‍❄

The idea that what happens AROUND the Arctic matters is kind of funny But I suppose it is important to the 11 people who live there

Hyperborea

Finally I'm early!

Bjarmaland incorrect probably

Probably would have been better to put Greenland at the bottom. Nice job though despite that.