Map Thread VIII

[stewacide]

North American boundaries with a still-born USA after a successful revolutionary war.

[deathgod]

WTF is the blue shade? They are perfectly rectangular.

[stewacide]

Originally Posted by deathgod

WTF is the blue shade? They are perfectly rectangular.

The rump USA (essentially greater Pennsylvania). From this thread here: http://www.alternatehistory.com/disc...d.php?t=211047

The trend at the time was for the all the colonies to extend their borders infinitely West (often with absurd results as Mass. and Connecticut having claims on modern Michigan and Wisconsin). In this case the Pennsylvanian claim gets extended to the continental divide, which would be hard for the Virginians and/or British to challenge short of war (which would be very risky in such a balkanized / multi-polar scenario)

[Giysqun Wilde]

Originally Posted by stewacide

North American boundaries with a still-born USA after a successful revolutionary war.

Why did New York even bother selling the Erie triangle to Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania didn't even have claims to the west! And let's not get into Washington

[Kaiphranos]

Originally Posted by Sapiento

A small excursion into the world of mythology.
Map of the Pacific, showing the continent of Mu with the Great Empire of Mu and its colonies.

I recognize the unearthly style of this cartography from the lost depths of Map Thread V: Can it be? Are the stars right? Has one of the Great Old Ones returned?

[Promethean]

Originally Posted by Kaiphranos

I recognize the unearthly style of this cartography from the lost depths of Map Thread V: Can it be? Are the stars right? Has one of the Great Old Ones returned?

We schould sacrifice maps in order to please the Old Ones right? Or rebuild their temples!

[Turquoise Blue]

Originally Posted by Promethean

We schould sacrifice maps in order to please the Old Ones right? Or rebuild their temples!

Yes we should rebuild the temples of the Old Ones.

[Shadow Knight]

Originally Posted by Sapiento

A small excursion into the world of mythology.
Map of the Pacific, showing the continent of Mu with the Great Empire of Mu and its colonies.

That is awesome! Probably the best map AH.com has ever had it grace its pages.

It is something you'd find in the cover of a book, more art than anything. Excellent job Sapiento.

[stewacide]

Originally Posted by Giysqun Wilde

Why did New York even bother selling the Erie triangle to Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania didn't even have claims to the west! And let's not get into Washington

That's just me being sloopy. I think 42'n would be a logical border to follow right to the Pacific, since its everywhere in OTL treaties and borders.

[Avrelianvm]

Originally Posted by Iori

This is an update (update inspired by the current thread relating to the idea) of a basic map I did and posted along while back.

The basic idea is that Britain restricts Jewish migration into the Mandate of Palestine, resulting in it having a smaller foreign Jewish population.
Fastforward to WWII, the Soviets, focusing more on the South and facing a more resilient German force in the North (where both sides fight
each other to exhaustion), fail to make any progress into East Prussia or OTL East Germany, though taking Poland.
After the war the allies decide that forming a Jewish state out of German territory is a fitting punishment.

Very interesting... good map...

[Avrelianvm]

Originally Posted by chelm

I was bored, so I present you the Confederation of the Danube:



POD between 1795 and 1815, established in 1848.

Republican form of government.

Maybe it's a bit too ASB, since abolishing the monarchy would likely have caused an intervention of Germany and/or Russia.

In this map, Trieste is a part of Slovenia... uhm... what happened to the italians?

[Giysqun Wilde]

Originally Posted by Avrelianvm

In this map, Trieste is a part of Slovenia... uhm... what happened to the italians?

They may have disappated with the Slovenes, Ladins, and Friulians.

[Timmy811]

Originally Posted by Sapiento

A small excursion into the world of mythology.
Map of the Pacific, showing the continent of Mu with the Great Empire of Mu and its colonies.

Woah, freaking awesome!

[chelm]

Originally Posted by Avrelianvm

In this map, Trieste is a part of Slovenia... uhm... what happened to the italians?

Well, back then Italians were living just in the city (~60% of the city's population), the surroundings were almost completely Slovenian. So I think it wouldn't make sense to leave the city as an enclave.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

Is it a breakaway European colony, or did the Marathas or someone (not the Mughals, clearly, given the anti-Muslim thing) manage to unify the place before the Europeans got too strong? We need more interesting Indias, darn it.

The Mughals actually kicked the Europeans out, but in trying to centralise afterwards they angered the Hindus and were overthrown. The Europeans were busy fighting each other at the time and so missed out on trying to take over.

Originally Posted by B_Munro

So who are these agriculturally talented people, ethnically/linguistically et al?

Bruce

The Native peoples of North America (okay, with a large amount of Portuguese blood in the ruling class). The Portuguese didn't see any reason to try to take it, so they propped up the locals to keep the Germans out.

[Rule Britannia]

Originally Posted by Thande

And the map:

EDIT: I know I forgot the labels for Delaware, DC and Maryland.

I like this map.

How about some alternate colonization; 1896, BTW.

[Avrelianvm]

Originally Posted by chelm

Well, back then Italians were living just in the city (~60% of the city's population), the surroundings were almost completely Slovenian. So I think it wouldn't make sense to leave the city as an enclave.

Yes, i agree. Any racist movements aganist italians minorities are predictable.

[Jokerang]

My latest map, based off another and currently trying to make an Endwar type idea for. It's not pretty.

[Mac Gregor]

A map of the British built Imperial African Railway circa the late 1920s. The railway's route is in neon.

[HeavyWeaponsGuy]

Do we have a decent map of the year 1932 around these parts?