HELLO, IT'S A ME ELIASKball from the 19th century!
this video took maybe more than a month to do, because I had to inform myself as much as possible about the countries that existed at that time.
Here's what I did:
1) I looked at what year the original song was set in and what the mistakes were thanks to this video [ Ссылка ];
2) I double-checked myself if they were all right and noticed that Parma was actually called Parma-Piacenza-Gustalla, so I replaced it with Lucca (another independent Italian city at the time) and moved it with the full name thereafter.
3) instead of "Next Queen Victoria" I put Grand Duchy of Tuscany, because it seemed nice to me to put Grand Duchy and Archduchy one after the other;
4) on Wikipedia / internet in general, I did not find any complete list of the countries of that period, I only found a map that gave the country of 1815 and so I made do with that.
5) on YouTube I found videos that showed you the map of the world with all the countries of each year, so as a reference year I used 1838 (more precisely my song is set after April 30, the day of independence of Nicaragua which I put in the song);
6) I started to continue the song by adding countries and trying to find the most appropriate rhymes;
7) every time I added a country, I subsequently discovered that that country actually became independent in a subsequent period or disappeared in a period prior to 1838 (in fact I only wanted to take totally independent countries);
8) after correcting myself millions of times and also finding new countries, I ended the song and had it sing to a text to speech voice with a very nineteenth-century accent and as a basis, since the instrumental version of the 19th century song does not exist but there is only one video where one tried to remove the voice (and in any case it was not good anyway because the final part would be missing), I used the instrumental version of the original song ([ Ссылка ]) making it a little more acute because it seemed more like that of the 19th century.
9) I created the accurate map for the thumbnail
10) I redesigned ELIASKball in 19th century style
P.S. many countries, especially the African ones, did not have a flag so I created them or I found them on Google and they are mainly inspired by the country's coat of arms when it was independent or when it was colonized, or is inspired by the oldest flag that the corresponding modern country had
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