Easier than I expected. No small countries outside of Europe I've never heard about or trying to guess which Oceanian countries were already independent etc.
No. The only uninhabited place is in the southeastern corner of the grey area on the map and known as the Empty Quarter still to this day. Most of the unfilled area on the map in 1914 was controlled by the Rashid clan of the oasis and trading city of Ha'il in northern Arabia. Their state is also known as the Emirate of Ha'il, the Rashid (or Rashidi) Emirate, the Rashidi Dynasty, or the Emirate of Jabal Shammar. Their absence from the quiz and map is odd, except insofar as since living in Saudi Arabia I've noticed that Westerners knowledge of the history of this region seems to be something like a black hole.
The Emirate was eventually overrun by King Abdulaziz of the House of Saud, who returned from exile in Kuwait to conquer first Riyadh, and then most of the peninsula, in the 1920s. The Rashid clan is still sore about this.
It seems as though Ha'il (Jabar) and the 2nd Saudi state (Emirate of Nejd) were added to the map with the last update ... though... I'm a little confused about Nejd being on here because I thought they had been overrun by the Rashidis (Ha'il/Jabar) by 1914. Was there an interim Nejdi state between the 2nd and 3rd Saudi kingdoms?
I was really out of place. I din't even remember the european microstates until like the very end. And also I learnt that Newfoundland was independent. Overall, nice quiz. :)
Before this quiz, I just took a quiz that was of the countries of the world in 1400. Imagine the immense satisfaction that I had that I didn't even zoom in. The map was just so CLEAN.
There's not a lot of information on Anaza, unfortunately. It was a sheikhdom that existed from around the mid-19th century until its annexation by the Sauds in the 1920s (likely 1922).
The Atlantic slave trade was actually over before the real Scramble for Africa began. European nations formally controlled about 10% of Africa when the last slave ships sailed in 1870. By 1914 it was 90%. Horrors of colonialism/imperialism.
Portuguese- and French-controlled territories on the Indian subcontinent are missing. Also, Tibet is looking rather different. The country of Tibet roughly corresponded to the current "autonomous region" of Tibet.
Out of curiosity, why did Britain control most of coastal Oman while the state known as "Oman" only controlled some inner areas? As far as I know, Muscat is a coastal city
I did get Andorra though, I knew because they donated a grand total of 0 troops for WWI yet still declared war.
The Emirate was eventually overrun by King Abdulaziz of the House of Saud, who returned from exile in Kuwait to conquer first Riyadh, and then most of the peninsula, in the 1920s. The Rashid clan is still sore about this.
Otherwise a great quiz with a great map.
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Jabal - 11%
Wow... that's a giant gap!
(Also, the percentages are now 56% and 6%.)
The UK looked after its foreign affairs but it remained independent and was at least as independent as NZ Australia Canada etc
- The knowledge panel on that one wiki article
-I was so close, yet so far to that all important 5th point.