Question

How does the map of modern Europe differ from the map of Europe in the 17th century?

Answer 1

Today, European nations are divided more along cultural and linguistic lines.
Today, Europe has more multi-ethnic kingdoms than in the 17th century.
Today, political boundaries strictly follow physical geographic features.
Today, both physical geography and religion define European nations

Answer 2

http://earlymodernnewsnetworks.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/how-should-early-modern-europe-look/

Maybe this will help?

Answer 3

A. - Today European nations are divided more along cultural and linguistic lines

Answer 4

Thnx, and I agree with @wmckinely

Answer 5

Also noticeable on this map – and the broader subject of this post – are the places the roads don’t go. Virtually the whole of Brittany, as well as what is now Lower Normandy, form a vast blank, with Nantes in Brittany’s southeast the only point of connection to the national network: probably a consequence of Brittany’s status as an independent Dukedom until 1532. In this instance, a change in the geopolitical map effaces a distinction which the infrastructural map still reflects a hundred years later. It’s also a reminder of the extent to which Europe’s Celtic periphery remained disconnected; the English postal network extended through Wales only to be able to receive news from Ireland (the Holyhead road was only permanently established from the time of the Irish rebellions of the late 16th century), connected to Scotland through a single route (the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh), and was reliably linked to Cornwall only by the 17th century, and then only by the slow and difficult business of crossing the Tamar estuary, a process which usually added a day or more to the post’s journey.

Answer 6

This is why I agree.

Answer 7

Thanks!!

Answer 8

No Problem. Anytime I'm online feel free to ask for help :D