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Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by phreeza on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:03PM (#25027073)
I don't think it is really about straight lines, most borders are probably where they are due to some circumstances involving lots of violence. It's just that straight lines are a modern concept, so the related violence is more present in our minds.
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Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by dwaltrip on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:06PM (#25027083)
Geographical features, such as mountains and rivers, don't form straight lines on the map.
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Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by phreeza on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:40PM (#25027331)
Yea, but just as an example, determining that the Rhine forms the border between Germany and France probably goes back to Roman times, and probably also involved a lot of genocide.
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