Fun fact: rooks are elephant, bishops are camels, and queen is vizier in most Indian languages.
It’s so easy to tell this map was made by a Brit. Wales gets its own color (despite largely not speaking Welsh) but Belgium and Switzerland are monochrome (despite having multiple federally recognized and geographically partitioned monolinguistic regions and their own flavors of historical-but-rarely-spoken language)?
Only the Bri’ish would be haughty enough to assume their flavour of federal governance is so unique.
(I don’t actually care, it’s just very interesting how even such an innocent map actually shows a strong political/cultural bias)
I’d never questioned it before now, but … How come the towers move? Who had that idea?
The jesters moving diagonally because they’re whimsical I guess but the towers are quite odd.
The rook was initially a chariot.
