What, in your opinion, are the most glaring errors/omissions in this 'History of the World: Every Year' video?

by MisterJose

This video here: https://youtu.be/ymI5Uv5cGU4 basically shows a map of world civilizations and their boundaries year by year until present.

Obviously, not everyone lived inside the boundaries of the areas they've chosen to mention, but giving some leeway that we're only discussing major organizations of people, what are the errors or omissions that stick out for you?

ThucydidesWasAwesome

Hello! As this is a video that goes on for a quarter of an hour you may want to summarize its contents in your post next time. That way those who are informed on the subject may be more inclined to respond. Just a suggestion. Good luck!

Chamboz

I haven't looked at the video in-depth, but just looking at my area of expertise (17th century Ottoman Empire):

The map seems to overstate Ottoman control over the African coast of the Red Sea, which was largely limited to major port cities. It inaccurately depicts Iraq falling under Safavid control in 1622, when this actually happened in 1624. It depicts none of the border changes which happened during the subsequent Ottoman-Safavid war, simply handing Iraq back to the Ottomans in 1638. It doesn't depict the Cossack conquest of Azov between 1636-41. It doesn't depict the Ottoman conquest of Yanova in 1658 or Varad in 1660, or Uyvar in 1663. It vastly understates the size of the territory conquered from Poland-Lithuania in 1672 (Podolia). It doesn't depict the Ottoman vassalization of the Right-bank Cossack Hetmanate under Doroshenko. Its depiction of the territorial changes during the War of the Holy League (1683-99) is generally flawed, so much so that it seems to depict the war ending in 1691.

Some of these issues may be pretty minor, but you can see from this that the mapmakers were not really paying close attention to the details in every instance.

Probably the biggest error pertaining to the Ottomans that I could see was Hungary going suddenly from fully intact to partitioned between the Habsburgs, Ottomans, and Transylvanians in 1526, a process which took decades in real life. This would qualify as a glaring omission.