The Weird 16th Century Maps of Sebastian Munster

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  • Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025

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  • @GeographyGeek
    @GeographyGeek  5 месяцев назад +5

    Thank you RareMaps.com for supporting another video! This video would have not been possible with them.

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 5 месяцев назад

      Hi. I watched your video from 2 years ago about Terra Australis.
      You mentioned Schöner's globe of 1523 as lost, but it was found again by George Nunn in 1927 according to wiki (great article - Schöner's globe)
      Schöner's manuscript globe from 1520 is on there and shows Terra Australis.
      Notable is that the northern coast looks a bit like Australia..

  • @CuntreeMylz
    @CuntreeMylz 6 месяцев назад +100

    I like old maps and i can not lie

    • @onlyonewhyphy
      @onlyonewhyphy 6 месяцев назад +1

      "cannot"

    • @neversarium
      @neversarium 6 месяцев назад +14

      ​@onlyonewhyphy you guys created a hideous language and yet force everyone to use it perfectly. That guy surely knows more languages than you.

    • @alexhutchings4815
      @alexhutchings4815 6 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@neversarium don't worry both are correct...

    • @onlyonewhyphy
      @onlyonewhyphy 6 месяцев назад

      @@neversarium "Cannot" 🖕🏻

    • @East10Outpost
      @East10Outpost 6 месяцев назад +2

      Samesies

  • @sayingthisaboutthat1046
    @sayingthisaboutthat1046 6 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you for this video. I love old cartography. And a huge shout out to you for giving rare maps attribution!

  • @kickapootrackers7255
    @kickapootrackers7255 6 месяцев назад +15

    Always good to see old maps and writings ,Thankya Kindly GG

  • @Worldspire
    @Worldspire 6 месяцев назад +10

    Old maps are so cool. Wish we made maps like that today

    • @lettybastien4624
      @lettybastien4624 6 месяцев назад +2

      They print old maps all day long in China.

  • @AlexanderWeurding
    @AlexanderWeurding 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @AIGeographyTeacher
    @AIGeographyTeacher 3 месяца назад

    Your content never disappoints! Thanks for making learning fun! 😄📘

  • @SteveSmith-zz4ih
    @SteveSmith-zz4ih 5 месяцев назад +3

    Its mind boggling that people now a days doubt there were Cannibals, it was a common practice in a lot of places and dare i say it may still be practiced in certain places. Maps are fascinating i wonder if there are still some yet to be discovered.

  • @kman7169
    @kman7169 5 месяцев назад

    Love it . Have benn browsing the site on my own periodically . Thanks

  • @erikm8372
    @erikm8372 6 месяцев назад +9

    07:00 I wonder if those African "Monoculi" cyclops stories came about after the discovery of elephant skulls, as has been suggested with Homer’s cyclops, since their skulls can resemble those of a giant human with one eye socket (the trunk)l and tusks resembling large, fearsome teeth.

    • @BSWVI
      @BSWVI 6 месяцев назад

      😮💡🤔 that makes a lot of sense.

    • @vehicularalchemy
      @vehicularalchemy 5 месяцев назад

      Aren’t cyclops real? My wife has delivered many babies in her career and has told me of a couple cyclops that she delivered…very real but very sad bc they don’t live too long

    • @Azuris190
      @Azuris190 5 месяцев назад

      I believe it pushed their fantasy, but they were not dumb and encountered Elefants, even in antiquity.
      Besides that People love telling Stories, i also believe that people just misunderstood what they got told.
      You can see this with some medieval depictions, a Rhinoceros literally depicted as a fat Horse with Armor and Horns.
      You can even see a Glimpse of Truth behind Stories as the Odyssey.
      Some Years ago they showed a Documentary about Scientists that took the Route described in the Odyssey and found out that the Currents and Whirlpools described in there were real.

    • @KSeezy-hs1ox
      @KSeezy-hs1ox 3 месяца назад

      @@vehicularalchemyi don’t understand ?deliver babies cyclops??

    • @vehicularalchemy
      @vehicularalchemy 3 месяца назад

      @@KSeezy-hs1ox yes she has delivered a baby cyclops…it was a baby with one eye in the middle of its face and it only lived for like 20mins and its blood was BLACK…very real, very rare, no joke…it was the product of an older cult leader taking advantage of a young lady in the backwoods of Mississippi…so sad but again very real

  • @martinfromseacity2010
    @martinfromseacity2010 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks, good info

  • @nozrep
    @nozrep 4 месяца назад +2

    Prester John… more confusion… lol because in modern day Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast series “Wrath of the Khans”, he mentions how prester john was like, somehow a corruption of the name “Gengis Khan” across many geographies, languages, and translations. So now I am confused again even more. Was the mythical “prester john” from Africa? or Asia? as I had previously thought Asia since Dan Carlin had read from historical sources that linked prester john to gengis khan and it was all a huge massive mix up and misinterpretation or mistranslation amongst Europeans back in those days.

  • @scottbogfoot
    @scottbogfoot 6 месяцев назад +5

    2:29what are the calling Newfoundland on this map? Corterili?

    • @redstone5062
      @redstone5062 6 месяцев назад +2

      Corterealis after the explorer Corte Real.

  • @Pedritox0953
    @Pedritox0953 5 месяцев назад

    Great video!

  • @erikm8372
    @erikm8372 6 месяцев назад +1

    07:35 I’m guessing those lakes they’re citing as the source of the Nile are Lake Victoria and…? Lake Nakuru? I forget the other large one. Lake Malawi? Although that’s not near where I’m thinking of. I’m thinking those lumpy mountains and "hills" drawn below the two lakes are actually the Rift Valley and Kilimanjaro.

  • @cpt_nordbart
    @cpt_nordbart 6 месяцев назад +4

    Oh hey it's the guy from the 100 Mark bank note.
    And yes I am that old.

  • @Xsiondu
    @Xsiondu 5 месяцев назад +1

    309k subs and only 33k views in 2 weeks? What has the algorithm got against this guy?

    • @Xsiondu
      @Xsiondu 5 месяцев назад

      I bet it's because North America looks like an AR 15 in these maps

  • @talkinghead3169
    @talkinghead3169 5 месяцев назад +5

    No one ever wonder how these maps were made, centuries ago, without flying above the land?? Mmm!

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 5 месяцев назад

      You could use the internet to find out how thry did such a supernatural thing...

    • @talkinghead3169
      @talkinghead3169 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah, cause you always find the truth on the internet!

    • @KarlMonsos
      @KarlMonsos 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@talkinghead3169 yeah, came to this channel hoping to find a truther, guess not Moving on...

    • @proto-geek248
      @proto-geek248 5 месяцев назад +2

      It's called cartography. Read about it.

    • @BEATINGYOU
      @BEATINGYOU 5 месяцев назад

      Look up khanubis, he did a great video on it ❤

  • @stupidminotaur9735
    @stupidminotaur9735 6 месяцев назад +6

    Giants are well known from the tip of SA, there's 2 living tribes famous for being tall and some of their members play now professor basketball.
    2. christian king in africa Europeans would receive ambassadors from him and they knew his general location, south of Egypt
    3. giant lobsters some would grow truly huge in north america

  • @justicesonofman
    @justicesonofman 5 месяцев назад

    Which map shows Prester John @ 7:55 please?

  • @MarcusAgrippa390
    @MarcusAgrippa390 6 месяцев назад +5

    Didn't his descendants have a TV show?
    The Munsters...

  • @Fummy007
    @Fummy007 5 месяцев назад

    1:20 the indes aren't further west. that big peninsula in the middle is not "India" but the Malay peninsula, called the golden peninsula on maps of the time.

  • @scottbogfoot
    @scottbogfoot 6 месяцев назад +1

    Can you do a video with the premise behind it being, if you wanted to collect and display just one map for each country which historical maps would you choose? You could go through continent by continent. Whsts the most desirable map of , say, France and from what period and for what reasons. Thanks Cheers from Newfoundland! 😊

  • @orangepeel3465
    @orangepeel3465 2 месяца назад

    Excellent

  • @madzen112
    @madzen112 6 месяцев назад +2

    'Can't you, you know, spice it up a bit...?'

  • @onlyonewhyphy
    @onlyonewhyphy 6 месяцев назад +2

    Is Cyclopie and old word? Never heard it. Is that their collective name?

  • @JoshuaRolen
    @JoshuaRolen 6 месяцев назад +1

    One Piece has some Sea Monsters that look like fish birds, and their bird face is the same as a fish bird monster on the sea monster map.

  • @_SLKK
    @_SLKK 6 месяцев назад +4

    European travellers from the past saw the elephants sculls and proclaiming that it belonged to a giants cyclops. They thought that the big hole in the centre of the elephants scull was for a eye...

    • @andybeans5790
      @andybeans5790 5 месяцев назад

      I love what we know about how myths were created, IIRC there were elephants on Cyprus despite it being an island

  • @Ohmanwhyyourfeelingshurt
    @Ohmanwhyyourfeelingshurt 6 месяцев назад +3

    Human meat is called Long pork

    • @lesliewelch6551
      @lesliewelch6551 5 месяцев назад

      Long pig, we taste like pork, but sweeter, once you have eaten this, you get a taste for it and need to continue eating it. 🍽🍽🍽

  • @johnsmartin1473
    @johnsmartin1473 6 месяцев назад

    Cartography was history's mud wrestling partner, 'this must be just like living in nerd paradise, and I...'

  • @Gkg__sfgh__-fghf
    @Gkg__sfgh__-fghf 6 месяцев назад

    Where is “Beragna”and the 5 tall trees before that (in the middle of the map) ? Is that supposed to be Central America? 😂 And what do the trees mean? 🤔

  • @Davidbirdman101
    @Davidbirdman101 4 месяца назад

    I drew my own map, I've renamed cities to reflect their current atmosphere and culture.
    For example, San Francisco is now San Streetturd, Los Angeles is now Los Skidrow ,New York city is
    New Criminalhaven, Memphis Tenn is Dead on Arrival, Baltimore is, Dontvisitevenifyourlifedependsonitbecauseitdoes.
    Washington D.C.is Felonyland, it's a work in progress.

  • @judexe90
    @judexe90 5 месяцев назад

    would love to see a 'fiction map review' series, maybe start with Elden Ring

  • @oceancowboy
    @oceancowboy 4 месяца назад

    2:06 Dude. That's Antarctica.

  • @FalconFire4488
    @FalconFire4488 6 месяцев назад +18

    Who else is awake at this ungodly hour?
    First

    • @dmacrolens
      @dmacrolens 6 месяцев назад +2

      The first comment is always the worst comment.

    • @Stephtones-75
      @Stephtones-75 6 месяцев назад

      🙋‍♂️

    • @giorgospapoutsakis5271
      @giorgospapoutsakis5271 6 месяцев назад

      Congratulations you ruined your already perfect comment 🤡

  • @aaronjaben7913
    @aaronjaben7913 5 месяцев назад

    Mon-oculi (one eye) not “monocooly”

  • @josephwilliams7507
    @josephwilliams7507 5 месяцев назад

    how does everyone pass over northern Africa having extensive city s and water ways on old maps where there's a desert now

  • @Anton_Chigurh_2007
    @Anton_Chigurh_2007 6 месяцев назад

    Where be Dragons?

  • @GeorgMartinBamberg
    @GeorgMartinBamberg 6 месяцев назад

    Der Name, der hier ja sogar prinzipiell richtig ausgesprochen wird, schreibt sich: Münster / Muenster.

  • @HunterKorenstein-h1r
    @HunterKorenstein-h1r 2 месяца назад

    Wow it’s remarkable to see such an incorrect and false maps back in the day😮

  • @raii_420
    @raii_420 4 месяца назад

    Bro is thanking us for watching, like he didnt educate a milion people by now😂

  • @talkinghead3169
    @talkinghead3169 5 месяцев назад

    I don't believe ANY human beings ever wanted to eat each other!

  • @bretfisher7286
    @bretfisher7286 6 месяцев назад +3

    A fine essay, but let's not forget that Munster also achieved this great cheese, okay?

  • @onemorechris
    @onemorechris 6 месяцев назад +1

    these people appear to have a strange mix of skill in navigation, rampant racism, incompetence, maybe? and out and out lying. i guess this far back one would have had to have been a little unhinged to even consider such a journey.

  • @greenamber9827
    @greenamber9827 6 месяцев назад

    I'm to pronounce his last name like Herman Munster.

  • @lesliewelch6551
    @lesliewelch6551 5 месяцев назад

    Why would they add fictional animals to a map??? They did not have any reason to.

    • @AdrianneJH
      @AdrianneJH 4 месяца назад

      According to Terry Pratchett it was so they could make the map seem more interesting

  • @rocktipus
    @rocktipus 6 месяцев назад

    That's a leg

  • @giffica
    @giffica 6 месяцев назад

    Dude looks pretty accurate???? Do you know geography bruh

  • @thomaseriksen6885
    @thomaseriksen6885 5 месяцев назад

    Let's say the giants were real, how did they go about capturing them? ;-)

  • @chewythehero
    @chewythehero 3 месяца назад

    🗺️🗺️🗺️

  • @the_nows
    @the_nows 6 месяцев назад

    psy-cloppees

  • @arnoackermann6584
    @arnoackermann6584 6 месяцев назад +1

    cyclopeeeeees - lol

    • @GeographyGeek
      @GeographyGeek  6 месяцев назад

      @@arnoackermann6584 I swear it’s how you say it lol

    • @NecromancyForKids
      @NecromancyForKids 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@GeographyGeekIt is

  • @Ziorac
    @Ziorac 6 месяцев назад +1

    And these are the kind of maps that the Tartarian empire and flat earth believers quote from. Excellent.

    • @graciegj63
      @graciegj63 6 месяцев назад +1

      Except when they found thousands of human bones longer than 9ft tall in the 1700's and 1800's. All of which the Smithsonian had destroyed and the government put high security around the origin sites.

    • @Ziorac
      @Ziorac 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@graciegj63 You mean the giant sloth bones? Or the ones that were proven to be hoaxes?
      Also I didn't mention giants.

    • @graciegj63
      @graciegj63 6 месяцев назад

      @@Ziorac These were definitely human-like. Who proves these things hoaxes? The very government(who hold information from us) you trust? C'mon, lots of different types of people have historical accounts of these things. Nephilim. Anakim(son's of Anak). Red haired giants.
      And then another thing is that the places these things were found are fenced off and government property.

    • @celsus7979
      @celsus7979 5 месяцев назад

      @graciegj63 do you ever ask yourself what evidence you have seen that proves the Smithsonian destroyed those bones?

    • @graciegj63
      @graciegj63 5 месяцев назад

      @@celsus7979 Old newspapers that date back to the time these things were dug up. Plus the maximum security that's surrounding the dig sites.
      "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Also we fight against things that aren't of the physical but the spiritual realm.
      Lots of weird organizations that are pushing the world in the wrong direction are situated in Switzerland.

  • @blablablablablabla4366
    @blablablablablabla4366 5 месяцев назад +1

    The old world maps are more real then todays maps that hide and lie about alot of stuff...

  • @theBlankScroll
    @theBlankScroll 6 месяцев назад +5

    The confident incompetence of the early explorers is incredible

    • @fffrrraannkk
      @fffrrraannkk 6 месяцев назад +1

      I got a good chuckle out of that.

    • @ItsAllSoJuicy74
      @ItsAllSoJuicy74 6 месяцев назад +7

      Were they incompetent or have you been misled by those who have rewritten history and maps and everything else??

    • @lukaszspychaj9210
      @lukaszspychaj9210 6 месяцев назад +2

      I'd like to see you do better

    • @burner555
      @burner555 6 месяцев назад

      Well, the weren't many people contesting them

    • @proto-geek248
      @proto-geek248 5 месяцев назад

      Misunderstanding & misinformation, not incompetence.

  • @bombfog1
    @bombfog1 6 месяцев назад +4

    Why not take a few hours to learn how to pronounce Latin, either Classical pronunciation or Church pronunciation?

  • @movingforward2570
    @movingforward2570 6 месяцев назад

    Thing is there were no continents and Africa was only a country west of the land mass.

  • @badbuhdavic7088
    @badbuhdavic7088 6 месяцев назад

    Are you kidding, these things are fake

  • @oliverbodnar
    @oliverbodnar 6 месяцев назад

    'Pah'-'tah' Pata