poor phanties 😭
I wish Lincoln accepted that set to fight in the Civil War.
#MapsWithoutNZ
#MapsWithoutAmericas
US-ian here, yes please
Are you saying we need to use war elephants to invade New Zealand?
Where war elephants were used so far
Grey is “yet to be used upon” let’s be real
There’s a story of a logistical miracle right here… 🙆🏼♂️🤔
My guesses are: the Majapahits used war elephants at some point in the 14th century, or a British puppet used them in the 1800s.
Apparently, not very well, though. Poor olifants. 🙆🏼♂️
Those islands used to be connected ~2 million years ago, and thus all have native elephant populations.
Oh wow! I had no idea! 🤩
Yep.
Although any reasonably large cargo boat should be able to carry an elephant, anyway. That would be how the Romans did it in Britain.
Edit: Maybe? Apparently the only source on that episode is from much later.
I am curious, is the Yellow in South Arabia in reference to Year of the Elephant or is that seen as not credible and there was a whole different Elephant event in that region I never knew about?
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How did they get to the islands
Elephants love to swim!
No. Way!
On ships.
But elephant big. Trireme small.
XIII? Or possible earlier?
EDIT: I’m reading this article. Look what you made me do! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_maritime_history
War elephants in England…?
“Shit, this isn’t the tube stop I was hoping for”
Roman Emperor Claudius, so the story goes. If it did happen, it might have been for show rather than because it was really practical for warfare.
Wikipedia calls it doubtful, though there are sources which say it happened. I’m curious about Denmark though!
Looks like Denmark is grey.
Northern Denmark, yes, but some of the coloured bit is Southern Denmark.
Elephants in northern Denmark? Ridiculous!
Southern Denmark though? Elephant central.
“So?”
“So, war elephants are tropical. This is temperate zone.”
Perhaps they migrated
With coconuts‽‽
Sea turtles, mate
The elephant could be carried. A C-123K could drop the elephant in a large crate with a parachute attached
mammoths probably
That’s Roman Britain so it is probably glazing the territories held by the Roman Empire. This is likely a map of areas that were ruled by an entity that used war elephants.
No, Claudius actually boated them over to scare the locals into shape. Or reputedly so.
maybe war mastadon in prehistoric times.
Now do middleearth
in age of empires, i would mass build them all the time. after using the “trade market trick”
