Mzungu mchagga
aimless wanderer
Especially when I look at older maps (pre WWII), I notice that some countries are repeatedly drawn in the same colours. For instance Great Britain and it's possessions in pink, Prussia or Germany in blue, Russia in green, Italy in orange etc...
Does anyone know if there is a reason behind this or if these colours have any special meaning? I've been searching for an answer for some while now, but even the internet doesn't give much information on that.
One lousy explanation I gave myself to the colour of Great Britain is some synthesis of the Houses of York and Lancaster. And for some reason Prussia has always been associated with the colour blue, although I couldn't find any blue in the Hohenzollern emblem. Netherlands and orange makes sense.
Does anyone know if there is a reason behind this or if these colours have any special meaning? I've been searching for an answer for some while now, but even the internet doesn't give much information on that.
One lousy explanation I gave myself to the colour of Great Britain is some synthesis of the Houses of York and Lancaster. And for some reason Prussia has always been associated with the colour blue, although I couldn't find any blue in the Hohenzollern emblem. Netherlands and orange makes sense.