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And if Japan is an uberpower in too many TLs, in your TLs it seems to get conquered a bit too often!
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I kinda like the fact that Japan doesn’t rise to prominence in either of Tony’s TLs. With PODs in XVII or XVIII century Meiji Restoration is easily butterflied away. And without modern military and modern society it’s hard to resist colonization attempts by world powers. (Although I would agree that ITTL Japan went down a bit too fast.)
On the other hand in Tony’s TLs we have other examples of “exotic civilizations” modernizing, resisting colonization and becoming regional/world powers. (Like Zulus in Cliveless World or China in Monarchy World)
I stumbled upon another TL idea while reading Gurkani Alam. Notice that PODs for Mughal World (1644) and Puritan World (1639) are in the same time period. So what if we combine these two timelines? Or even better, what if we combine “Gurkani Alam”-lite with
Berwick? Imagine:
- European colonization is restricted in both Asia AND North America. That means even more focus on Africa and South America. Or maybe European powers would try reclaim North America from The Commonwealth? Would we end up with The Commonwealth based in OTL California, West Canada, Siberia, Japan with colonies/puppets/clients in Manchuria and parts of Australia?
- Technological development retarded at first, but then quickly catching up due to synergy between Europe and India.
- Industrialization occurring in Europe (France, maybe some German states as well) AND India (Mughals) AND America (Commonwealth) at relatively the same time. (A bit later than OTL)
- Weak, more authoritarian, Scot-less, Britain with negligible colonial empire (but still independent unlike Puritan World),
- Strong France (leading colonial power ITTL), strong Sweden (take a look at Berwick timeline).