“..Animation: Watching Empires Disappear..”
“.. An animation by Pedro Cruz, Visualizing empires’ decline, charts the rise and fall of four European colonial empires during the 19th and 20th centuries; ..
.. it’s not strictly cartographic, but it is fun to watch—
–colonies become independent by bursting from their mother countries’ bubbles.”
Watch this one in full screen mode.
Things start getting interesting around 1940.
So long as you don’t let the pretty colors and the bubbly animation obscure the bloodshed and suffering represented here..
.. it’s a great little snapshot of history..”
(recommended-read..)
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