Just Makes You Realise That Reading / Visual Media Is An Incredible Thing - Tumblr Posts

Often when I see maps like this, it takes me a while to orient myself because I decide that the wrong colour is the ocean and have to wait until I can force myself to swap the land and ocean in my head until they're where they're meant to be or I recognise a shape in one or the other that helps me do that faster.

For a good 3-5 seconds I was trying to figure out which country's east coast this was and why the coloured regions mostly stuck to the coast.

Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, 500 AD.