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I'm from Baja California. We were taught that the spanish believed this land was ruled by a tribe of female warriors, like the Amazonians. Calafia was the name of their queen
De hecho creo que el nombre fue acuñado por un enemigo de cortes después del fracaso de poner una colonia aquí (la paz), y el señor se refirió a esta tierra como California haciendo alusión a lo fantaseoso de poner una colonia aquí
But they even made a map where Japan was part of North America and not on Asian side and that's really weird. And could you imagine if Japan is actually a North American country rather than an Asian country? 🤔
There actually was once a lake or sea inhabiting the centre of Australia. Geology shows this. But this was several million years before european colonisation.
There was once thought to be a mountain chain across the middle of Africa from west to east. This mountain chain doesn’t exist. Also, the Niger River, which begins in Guinea and flows northeast for half its length before suddenly turning southeast and coming to the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria, was once thought by Europeans to be two different rivers. The northeast flowing river was thought to be the source of the Nile, since it was flowing more or less toward Egypt. Once an expedition was launched to find the mouth of that river, and it was begun at the mouth of what was thought to be a different river in Nigeria. Strangely enough, the expedition was begun at the place it was trying to find. That is like if people thought that the Mississippi River in Minnesota and the Mississippi in Louisiana were different rivers, so they mounted an expedition to find where the Mississippi went after Minnesota, and they started this expedition in New Orleans.
Fun fact about the California Thing! Cortés, although the conqueror and destroyer of the Mexicah (aztec) empire, he was never appointed as governor of any continental territories in México. When the Spanish Crown declared the territory as the vice royalty of New Spain, they installed Antonio de Mendoza as viceroy. The curious thing is that to define the territory that Mendoza would rule over, they simple established it as all regions connected by land to the mainland. For this reason, and because Cortés hated Mendoza's guts, he set out to find any possible landmasses that were _disconnected_ from the mainland, and thus when news of a new land arrived, he quickly claimed it and founded a port (modern day La Paz). Afterwards of course it was found out to be a peninsula and explored by Ulloa, Rodríguez Cabrillo and Sebastián de Vizcaíno.
Ah that might explain the rather porn-esque fantasy of an island filled with only women and gold. The gold fantasy was probably Cortez's and the women only Island was possibly the creation of sex starved conquistadors.
@@gazpachopolice7211 That was based on the novel "Las Sergas de Esplandián" which talked about the mythical island of your description, named California in the book and with queen Calafia as its ruler. The explorers and sailors expected to find something akin to it, and were later disappointed, but the name stuck.
While in this case yes the California they visited is a peninsula, it is known that the western side of the SanAndreas fault is part of a Island the tectonically was pushed into the a sub-ducted land mass that created the Rocky Mountains. So the concept of California being an island is not incorrect. The pacific plate has also pushed the Juan DeFuco plate and is causing it to subduct under the cascading subduction zone.
Actually the myth of Kumari Kandam is based on Lemuria, not the other way round . Of course there is a more ancient legend of a lost Island(maybe the same origin as Atlantis?) but the details of Kumari Kandam were retrofitted later
I saw a globe in the Rjiksmuseum in Amsterdam from the 16th Century showing California as an Island and also saw a Chinese map from around the same time showing the same thing. I presume that was because the Chinese were trading with the Dutch at the time and got the info from the Dutch. I always wondered where the idea of California as an island so thanks for answering that question.
@@wazzup233 lol its like a 1700s map, you sure we are talking about the same 1? Its like it showed Baja california as an island instead of it being connected by where Mexicali is now
@Psychonaut00 Well that's really confusing though. But those Spanish explorers had a wet dream before that if Japan was on North American side instead in Asia then they'll colonize that island nation in a breeze. But nah, it's just a pipedream. 🤪
Also, in a class of Latin American History an spanish empire especialist told us that spanish explorerz also tought that Rio de la Plata and Paraná River lead straight to Malacca Islands. But I never saw any sources about it in Brazil.
I recently got a really good book called the "Phantom Atlas" that discusses many cartographical mistakes. I highly recommend it. Edit: So I watched the rest of the video and Khanubis also recommended it, he's right, it's a great book!
@@waynemarvin5661 well, I was in the middle of an online lesson and I saw it recommended. I clicked on it as this sort of topic interests me greatly, I knew I was going to watch it later but just leave it open on another tab for now, but I wanted to make this comment to recommend the Phantom Atlas because I think it is a wonderfully written book with extraordinarily interesting subjects and discussions. Sometimes I forget to leave comments so I ddi it early before I forgot so that anyone else who found the video interesting could learn about this book if they wanted to learn further. Be careful about calling people dumb before you know the context fully, that could backfire on you seriously some day.
Okay so about the 3 Californias. Back before Mexico gained their independence from Spain, one of the Provinces of New Spain was Las Californias. Mexico then revolted, won, and Las Californias became an Intendancy of the Mexican Empire. When the Empire was restructured into a Federal Republic in 1824, Las Californias was split into Alta California and Baja California which is still basically the border we have today. Alta California was ceded from the United Mexican States to the United States of America, where it was split up into multiple territories, one of which became the State of California. The territory of Baja California was kept by Mexico, and later the southern half got split off giving us Baja California (which became a state soon after the split) and Baja California Sur (which became a state later).
Re: Australia's Inland Sea. Technically, we do actually have an inland sea. It's called Lake Eyre (pronounced air, not eerie as a lot of Americans mispronounce it). Lake Eyre is a massive salt lake system that sits below sea level, it fills every so often after massive rain events and can remain filled or partially for many years, some times as long as a decade.
I always noticed I like video games and RUclips videos of people playing games with friends but I struggle to keep watching, stuff like this keeps my attention these videos could be 10 hours and I would spend the whole day watching this vidoe
Those 4 tiny islands in between California and the USA were definitely the inspiration behind the 4 islands found in the map of The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the wild 2
For some years, portuguese navigators thought Brazil was a very thin island, the territory was named Vera Cruz Island in early colonization documents, like Pero Vaz de Camina's Letter, first written document in Brazil.
Because of this video, I bought the “Phantom Atlas” book. It wasn’t nearly as interesting as you made it sound. Lots and lots of Islands that explorers saw like once. Bizarrely twisted continents. But not much of the interesting stuff like you mentioned.
Cortes thought it was an island of Amazons and it was named after the Queen of the Amazons: Calafia. I idea is based on a work of fiction by Garda Ordonez de Montalvos: *Las Sergas de Esplandian* (1510)
Atlantis was based on a city on an island, it may have been charted wrong but everybody around the world said they went to it at some point in that time, so the likelihood that it doesn’t exist is slim, although it might be a different spot altogether it still existed never the less
I think that's similar to El Dorado, as it was originally an indigenous South American legend, and then the European people tried to find the place the legend described.
Australia wasn’t colonised by the British, only New South Wales was. The southern states were Dutch. It wasn’t until 1901 that all the states were joined. Before that there was a tax for Victorian traders to pass through NSW, hence why the Stuart Highway was made. To be able to go around NSW. Also, Australia has a Great Lake named Kati Thunda (aka lake Eyre) which is 9,500km2 (3,668 square miles). Only problem, it’s usually only full of salt instead of water.
I don’t even know why we still use the term Continents as it’s all connected land and just about how high or low the water is and islands are still connected to the mainland but the water rose up and buried the land in between.
Technically the British explorers of Australia were wrong about a lake. It only shows up after massive floods in Queensland and western NSW as unlike most continents the Inland is below the waterline so all our flood water flows inland
No puede volverse un continente la península de Baja California, simplemente se volvera una isla y será parte del continente, como Cuba, aparte tiene poco territorio y está en su mayoría deshabitado en la parte de (México).
honestly, for as long as the Baja Peninsula is, anyone coming at it from the south could easily expect it to be an Island... especially if you have the Equivalent of Tabloids pushing a whole Mythology about it... and as noted there 'are' "Three Californias"... two with Modifiers and one without... citing an Un-modified "California" creates a different mental image than if one cited a Generic Island off the west Coast of North America
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I don't know if you planned the easter egg at 4:16, but "surrounded by the sea" and the little Spain cartoon saying "sí" lined up perfectly
Oh yes, that was very much intentional
Surrounded by the yes!
@@KhAnubis lol
Este es una isla = this (masc) is an island (fem)
@@KhAnubis *was it*
I'm from Baja California. We were taught that the spanish believed this land was ruled by a tribe of female warriors, like the Amazonians. Calafia was the name of their queen
Yeah, it's a fictionalized story created by the Spaniard poet Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.
De hecho creo que el nombre fue acuñado por un enemigo de cortes después del fracaso de poner una colonia aquí (la paz), y el señor se refirió a esta tierra como California haciendo alusión a lo fantaseoso de poner una colonia aquí
@@axelaguirre5014 quedara como un misterio mas del tercer milenio
The Amazons are from greece
actually it’s Roman mythology
I read the title as history’s largest milkshake
Mmmmmmmm
@@orans_ Ara ara, *RAWR*
Who wrote this comment for you?
Mmmm... Largest milkshake... *Drooling Homer Simpson noises*
Lool
Honestly, the “California is an Island” timeline would be the best timeline.
Loki Side Effects?
@@krishnagreat5 ?
@@krishnagreat5 what? What does loki has anything to do with it?
@@balashibuyeeter2704 ig the world may never know😔
But they even made a map where Japan was part of North America and not on Asian side and that's really weird. And could you imagine if Japan is actually a North American country rather than an Asian country? 🤔
I was doing homework but this is more important
I was chatting with my gf but i saw this and muted her on fb messenger bcoz thiz iz important
Go do your work bro
@@nathan-iz2bq hai done
@@mysterious7215 well done
Do your homework instead
-me, someone that isnt doing their homework and watching this instead
There actually was once a lake or sea inhabiting the centre of Australia. Geology shows this. But this was several million years before european colonisation.
same for california technically ;)
The island of california is the base of the futuristic map in railroad tycoon 3. One of the best maps in my opinion
There was once thought to be a mountain chain across the middle of Africa from west to east. This mountain chain doesn’t exist.
Also, the Niger River, which begins in Guinea and flows northeast for half its length before suddenly turning southeast and coming to the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria, was once thought by Europeans to be two different rivers. The northeast flowing river was thought to be the source of the Nile, since it was flowing more or less toward Egypt. Once an expedition was launched to find the mouth of that river, and it was begun at the mouth of what was thought to be a different river in Nigeria. Strangely enough, the expedition was begun at the place it was trying to find. That is like if people thought that the Mississippi River in Minnesota and the Mississippi in Louisiana were different rivers, so they mounted an expedition to find where the Mississippi went after Minnesota, and they started this expedition in New Orleans.
I thought California was just only a state until I watched this vid.
Mind.... Blown!
California is a state tho...
@@mariotheundying it is, i thought california is just only a state
Honorable mentions to Agartha, the magical continent inside our "hollow" planet with its own smoky sun.
I was performing surgery but this is more important
your name is strangely both cringy and funny at the same time
Head transplant surgery?
I was flying a plane through new york city, but this is more important
Fun fact about the California Thing! Cortés, although the conqueror and destroyer of the Mexicah (aztec) empire, he was never appointed as governor of any continental territories in México. When the Spanish Crown declared the territory as the vice royalty of New Spain, they installed Antonio de Mendoza as viceroy. The curious thing is that to define the territory that Mendoza would rule over, they simple established it as all regions connected by land to the mainland.
For this reason, and because Cortés hated Mendoza's guts, he set out to find any possible landmasses that were _disconnected_ from the mainland, and thus when news of a new land arrived, he quickly claimed it and founded a port (modern day La Paz).
Afterwards of course it was found out to be a peninsula and explored by Ulloa, Rodríguez Cabrillo and Sebastián de Vizcaíno.
Ah that might explain the rather porn-esque fantasy of an island filled with only women and gold. The gold fantasy was probably Cortez's and the women only Island was possibly the creation of sex starved conquistadors.
@@gazpachopolice7211 That was based on the novel "Las Sergas de Esplandián" which talked about the mythical island of your description, named California in the book and with queen Calafia as its ruler. The explorers and sailors expected to find something akin to it, and were later disappointed, but the name stuck.
You collabed with the atlaspro?
*unbelievable amounts of happiness*
Great cameo
When pointing out Australia what about early maps showing the Island state of Tasmania as a peninsular.
The Phantom Atlas is a great book. There's some places related to Ireland in it which I've never heard about.
Pronunciation of Alfred Wegener on point!
I mean its not hard to pronounce and also Im pretty sure they live in germany or something
While in this case yes the California they visited is a peninsula, it is known that the western side of the SanAndreas fault is part of a Island the tectonically was pushed into the a sub-ducted land mass that created the Rocky Mountains. So the concept of California being an island is not incorrect. The pacific plate has also pushed the Juan DeFuco plate and is causing it to subduct under the cascading subduction zone.
Actually the myth of Kumari Kandam is based on Lemuria, not the other way round . Of course there is a more ancient legend of a lost Island(maybe the same origin as Atlantis?) but the details of Kumari Kandam were retrofitted later
I saw a globe in the Rjiksmuseum in Amsterdam from the 16th Century showing California as an Island and also saw a Chinese map from around the same time showing the same thing. I presume that was because the Chinese were trading with the Dutch at the time and got the info from the Dutch. I always wondered where the idea of California as an island so thanks for answering that question.
Before modern flood control, central valley in California would regularly flood. Could explain the "island" of the coastal region.
5:17 I used to have this old french map that showed California as an island
Actually that's not the island of California, it is actually Japan and it's just a few miles away from North America. 🤣
@@wazzup233 lol its like a 1700s map, you sure we are talking about the same 1? Its like it showed Baja california as an island instead of it being connected by where Mexicali is now
@Psychonaut00 Well that's really confusing though. But those Spanish explorers had a wet dream before that if Japan was on North American side instead in Asia then they'll colonize that island nation in a breeze. But nah, it's just a pipedream. 🤪
NordVPN just seems to have a talent to find those people that will make really cool ads.
Also, in a class of Latin American History an spanish empire especialist told us that spanish explorerz also tought that Rio de la Plata and Paraná River lead straight to Malacca Islands. But I never saw any sources about it in Brazil.
5:53 *c u r s e d c a r r i b e a n*
Came here to say this. Like, WTF is going on North of Cuba?
*B e e g B a h a m a s*
The Keys are also messed up
I mean, I started to watch your videos just a few days ago and now you're my favourite youtuber, how did that happen
I recently got a really good book called the "Phantom Atlas" that discusses many cartographical mistakes. I highly recommend it.
Edit: So I watched the rest of the video and Khanubis also recommended it, he's right, it's a great book!
Why do you comment before even watching the video? Makes you seem dumb.
@@waynemarvin5661 well, I was in the middle of an online lesson and I saw it recommended. I clicked on it as this sort of topic interests me greatly, I knew I was going to watch it later but just leave it open on another tab for now, but I wanted to make this comment to recommend the Phantom Atlas because I think it is a wonderfully written book with extraordinarily interesting subjects and discussions. Sometimes I forget to leave comments so I ddi it early before I forgot so that anyone else who found the video interesting could learn about this book if they wanted to learn further. Be careful about calling people dumb before you know the context fully, that could backfire on you seriously some day.
Okay so about the 3 Californias. Back before Mexico gained their independence from Spain, one of the Provinces of New Spain was Las Californias. Mexico then revolted, won, and Las Californias became an Intendancy of the Mexican Empire. When the Empire was restructured into a Federal Republic in 1824, Las Californias was split into Alta California and Baja California which is still basically the border we have today. Alta California was ceded from the United Mexican States to the United States of America, where it was split up into multiple territories, one of which became the State of California. The territory of Baja California was kept by Mexico, and later the southern half got split off giving us Baja California (which became a state soon after the split) and Baja California Sur (which became a state later).
there was a video in my “up next” that said “what if California was an island?”
same
And Tasmania is a peninsula from Australia and Japan is on the North American side.
Re: Australia's Inland Sea. Technically, we do actually have an inland sea. It's called Lake Eyre (pronounced air, not eerie as a lot of Americans mispronounce it). Lake Eyre is a massive salt lake system that sits below sea level, it fills every so often after massive rain events and can remain filled or partially for many years, some times as long as a decade.
7:13 Aligator :D
Rather then Countryballs, you used flag maps of the countries with white dots as eyes. XD
Polandball is cringe
8:01 Lemuria also included a connection to australia, im not sure though
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2:40 when you are looking for a sea but all you find is actually a desert
I always noticed I like video games and RUclips videos of people playing games with friends but I struggle to keep watching, stuff like this keeps my attention these videos could be 10 hours and I would spend the whole day watching this vidoe
This is the perfect bathroom break during work
3:23 I just did a "wait a minute, that voice sounds familiar" moment
7:37 I thought that was my remote for a second
That’s where Lake Disappointment comes from?
Those 4 tiny islands in between California and the USA were definitely the inspiration behind the 4 islands found in the map of The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the wild 2
You mean the islands inside the sea of Cortés?
so maps back then we're basically guesswork sometimes lol
Fortress at the end of the video (where you advertise Nord VPN) is fortress of Belgrade in capital of Serbia .😁
that map was not wrong, it was just ahead of its time xP
I really liked the modern map of the world being labeled *2 weeks ago* for some reason lol
I’ve always said that California should just float away
4:15 I didn't expected that grammar mistake * laughs in Spanish *
Etymological trivia: Ordóñez might have had the word caliph in mind when he came up with the name California.
In the map you see in Civ 6 promo art, it's one where California is an island
For some years, portuguese navigators thought Brazil was a very thin island, the territory was named Vera Cruz Island in early colonization documents, like Pero Vaz de Camina's Letter, first written document in Brazil.
Maybe this is actually the case with the state of San Andreas in GTA
How is this not a Map Men video yet
Loved the video and happy to see their are 0 dislikes 😁😁
I love the Phantom Atlas - written by a QI Elf. So very british. Check out QI!
Absolutely love your videos!! Keep it up!
(It's "est*a* es una isla" though)
Because of this video, I bought the “Phantom Atlas” book. It wasn’t nearly as interesting as you made it sound. Lots and lots of Islands that explorers saw like once. Bizarrely twisted continents. But not much of the interesting stuff like you mentioned.
Give the San Andreas fault some time. The map may just be prophetic.
Haven't you watched that movie from Dwane "the Rock" Johnson? Well yeah its a disaster movie.
The western tip or California is a former island that will become an island again once it moves Northwestward along the San Andreas.
The thumbnail was ideal
my lecture:
why youre laughing?
me:
nothing
my mind:
lemuria
It’s amazing how school is able to make fun topics extremely brain numbing
…until California actually becomes an island.
And Japan moves to the western part of North America thanks to the "Big Ones". 😭
Lower Baja California South and Souther Under -1
Very good video, as always.
Cortes thought it was an island of Amazons and it was named after the Queen of the Amazons: Calafia. I idea is based on a work of fiction by Garda Ordonez de Montalvos: *Las Sergas de Esplandian* (1510)
If California were an island I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be a mistake it would be a dream.
More tourism!
60 million years ago:
30 million years ago:
2 weeks ago: 🌍
I spit my drink out laughing when I read that 😂
4:14 Esto* es una isla
Lol. This was on my ACT😂
Baja California Sur implies the US State of California would be Alta California Norte.. or maybe Yukon or the Columbia/Cascade areas.
3:30 is that atlas pro i hear?!
9:29 Greetings from Belgrade 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
Serbia is gay
0:42 wise choice
Atlantis was based on a city on an island, it may have been charted wrong but everybody around the world said they went to it at some point in that time, so the likelihood that it doesn’t exist is slim, although it might be a different spot altogether it still existed never the less
yes
Atlantis was in no way started from a nap mistake, I mean it probably was on a few maps but it was originally just a story written purely as fiction
I think that's similar to El Dorado, as it was originally an indigenous South American legend, and then the European people tried to find the place the legend described.
Catalina Island, or Channel Island.
There should be an Alta California, and an Alta California Norte.
Plz do another video it sounds really interesting
Australia wasn’t colonised by the British, only New South Wales was. The southern states were Dutch. It wasn’t until 1901 that all the states were joined. Before that there was a tax for Victorian traders to pass through NSW, hence why the Stuart Highway was made. To be able to go around NSW. Also, Australia has a Great Lake named Kati Thunda (aka lake Eyre) which is 9,500km2 (3,668 square miles). Only problem, it’s usually only full of salt instead of water.
Don’t blame the map,blame the person who made it.
Oversimplified quote
I don’t even know why we still use the term Continents as it’s all connected land and just about how high or low the water is and islands are still connected to the mainland but the water rose up and buried the land in between.
because it makes it easy to seperate countries by geographic location (and usually culture as well)
Looking good today bro
We can only wish
well produced!
Technically the British explorers of Australia were wrong about a lake. It only shows up after massive floods in Queensland and western NSW as unlike most continents the Inland is below the waterline so all our flood water flows inland
Why does the narrator at 3:45 sound like atlas pro?
Viceroyalty of new spain "Las Californias"
I got baited, thinking there's finally someone who made an analysis on the Project Wingman cascadia map
Dude, can someone PLEASE tell me what that sound at 7:36 is? It's from a game or something, i know it but I just don't remember what exactly.
No puede volverse un continente la península de Baja California, simplemente se volvera una isla y será parte del continente, como Cuba, aparte tiene poco territorio y está en su mayoría deshabitado en la parte de (México).
7:37 how is he negitive 16 years old
i expected this to be a map men episode
I thought 6:51 was about to be an advertisement 🤣
honestly, for as long as the Baja Peninsula is, anyone coming at it from the south could easily expect it to be an Island... especially if you have the Equivalent of Tabloids pushing a whole Mythology about it...
and as noted there 'are' "Three Californias"... two with Modifiers and one without... citing an Un-modified "California" creates a different mental image than if one cited a Generic Island off the west Coast of North America
holy shit, atlas pro as a narrator?!
I mean he already does narrate all his own videos, but I get what you mean
“Southern lower California”
When you try to sound smart but fail miserably... Do you research, California was an island at one point.
There's nothing stopping us from making California an island