I guess they needed boats to control these coastal areas. Many boats
Why did you call them westphalian borders in the graphic? What's the connection between Westphalia and Oman here?
Westphalian borders in the sense of the Westphalian states. Aka, each of the countries ends at a defined and demarcated line instead of areas of influences. You could think of it as “modern borders”. I don't know if the term is also used in English, but last time I posted it (on Reddit) nobody questioned it, asked about that part, I learnt it at the university in my geography course.
I genuinely didn't know that is a general term. Thanks for clarifying!
"The sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now"
That's just where he lives.
I wonder what the Swahili on the Swahili coast think of that, after becoming the Swahili on the Swahili coast.
I used to makes a lot of maps like this or using a GIS of variable quality, interest and end result. Also, I didn't check if I made some spelling / grammatical mistakes back then on this one, but since the word count is low it should be fine, even if I messed up with fewer.
For the map enthused!
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