Map Thread XIX
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There is no real wrong answer here, but GIMP, Paint.NET, and Inkscape are all fine options. In my experience, the more impressive maps are made with Inkscape, but I don't know how to use it.
Hell, I personally (and some more impressive mappers) use MS Paint. Really any sort of software is good. There is a certain nostalgic charm in paint maps imo but GIMP/Inkspace can be a lot more impressive/professional looking. Of course MS Paint has the problem of being more basic with lack of layers and some other useful tools (or so I hear) but there really isn't a wrong answer as Tsochar said.
Look at pinned in the maps and graphics thread. There's a massive resource of maps you can use, as well as tutorials for the use of the maps iirc. Personally I use paint.net, but there are different programs for different people and maps.
Edit: Here's the link: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/base-map-resource-index.437816/
It's a very nice map, but I'm a bit doubtful re Armenia being allied with Kurdistan[1]: OTL those two groups did not get along at all well around the WWI era, being in conflict as to whether large stretches of eastern Anatolia were Kurdish or Armenian territory. (My memory is telling me the Kurds participated energetically in the violence of the Armenian expulsions, but I can't vouch for it's accuracy)
[1] I know it isn't your map: this is a criticism of the map, not you.
War makes strange bedfellows. I notice they've got a Pontus and Greek Smyrna in there too. So all of the population movements during and following WWI went differently. If Armenians and Kurds end up in the same forced marches, they'd have more common ground to build this anti-Turkish alliance.
I'm imaging a scenario where the Entente convinces the Kurds to fight for independence whilst supporting the Armenians (and Assyrians at the same time). The US is also very active in this theater. Armenians + Assyrians and Kurds work in a shaky alliance against the Ottomans as a result.
Aurantiacis
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From Japanese Caribbean to Muslim Mesoamerica to Manichean Somalia, a great series of maps! I'm happy I participated in this, it was a true team effort.
Not sure the Kurds were really that interested in breaking away outright (rather than, say, greater autonomy) from the Ottoman Empire at the time, before decades of Turkish nationalist jerkassery..but I'll allow it!
Not sure the Kurds were really that interested in breaking away outright (rather than, say, greater autonomy) from the Ottoman Empire at the time, before decades of Turkish nationalist jerkassery..but I'll allow it!
Sounds like a good idea for a TL.
What if we combined the idea of Ephraim Ben Raphael's Tzedek, Tzedek, Tridof and jcw3's Israel + Nazi Germany ISOTed to a virgin earth scenario into one?
I present to you; Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans, Oh My!(God help us all)
I present to you; Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans, Oh My!
SpudNutimus
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Something I made for a small mini-timeline I'm making called "Second World Problems", with several PODs that result in the USSR having slightly more SSRs than OTL, eventually leading to 12 new independent nations.
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The religions of the Eastern Roman Empire, AM 4871/1953 AUC:
The POD here is that Constantine I converted to Judaism, not Christianity. He legalized Judaism (and Christianity, because Constantine didn't want the Christians to start rioting) moved the capital to Jerusalem and began construction of the Third Temple, as well as hiring a group of rabbis and Roman poets to trace his genealogy - said group then released their proof that Constantine was a direct descendant of King Solomon through his father, and a member of the tribe of Judah due to the same lineage. Meanwhile, the Synod of Alexandria declared Constantine to be the Antichrist and warned Christians not to be swayed by him, which led to a series of failed rebellions by Christians and antisemitic pagans.
Constantine, and his son Israhel I, also conducted the Arabian Campaigns, where they slowly brought Arabian peninsula under Roman rule. Since then, the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire have ebbed and flowed - currently, they've been flowing for a while and are about to ebb.
[Some of the religions are very different from their OTL counterparts.]
Third Temple Judaism is the official religion of the Eastern Roman Empire, and part of its doctrine is that Constantine I was the Messiah. Rabbinic Judaism rejects the Third Temple's orthodoxy, especially the belief that Constantine is the Messiah. Another reason for the divide is that Third Temple Judaism has a problem with elitism, while Rabbinic Judaism focuses on local communities.
A religion called Islam still exists, and was started by a poet called Muhammad around the same time as OTL Islam (give or take 50 years), but the two religions are very different - most notable is that this version of Islam is more strongly influenced by both Judaism and Zoroastrianism. Orthodox and Reformist Islam disagree on many issues, but they both see Jihadic Islam - which focuses entirely on the constant struggle to improve and to live righteously and disregards correct belief - as especially strange.
Roman Polytheism is the natural conclusion of the pagan Romans' syncretism. In modern Roman Polytheism, there are a little more than two dozen major gods, each of which has many attributes. For example, the attributes of Jupiter are Amun-Ra, Taranis, Thor, Indra, and many others. Hellenism (not to be confused with Hellenicism, which will develop in a few centuries, after the Industrial Revolution and the rise of nationalism) and Olympianism have much in common, but Olympianism focuses on the worship of the Court of Olympus and the occasional due reverence to local spirits, while Hellenism has many minor deities as well, as well as major non-Olympian gods. Hellenism claims that the Hellenic people are favoured by the gods and writes all scriptures in Hellenic, while Olympianism believes that all peoples are equal under Olympus and translates scriptures into local languages. The Oracle of Delphi has developed into the head of the Olympianist faith, while Hellenism is a very decentralized religion.
There are many varieties of Tengrism - Táltos Tengrism and Turkic Tengrism being the two most common varieties in the Eastern Roman Empire.
The Isiac Mysteries still exist, but outsiders tend to view them as a sect of Neterians or Roman Polytheists, rather than a separate religion.
The POD here is that Constantine I converted to Judaism, not Christianity. He legalized Judaism (and Christianity, because Constantine didn't want the Christians to start rioting) moved the capital to Jerusalem and began construction of the Third Temple, as well as hiring a group of rabbis and Roman poets to trace his genealogy - said group then released their proof that Constantine was a direct descendant of King Solomon through his father, and a member of the tribe of Judah due to the same lineage. Meanwhile, the Synod of Alexandria declared Constantine to be the Antichrist and warned Christians not to be swayed by him, which led to a series of failed rebellions by Christians and antisemitic pagans.
Constantine, and his son Israhel I, also conducted the Arabian Campaigns, where they slowly brought Arabian peninsula under Roman rule. Since then, the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire have ebbed and flowed - currently, they've been flowing for a while and are about to ebb.
[Some of the religions are very different from their OTL counterparts.]
Third Temple Judaism is the official religion of the Eastern Roman Empire, and part of its doctrine is that Constantine I was the Messiah. Rabbinic Judaism rejects the Third Temple's orthodoxy, especially the belief that Constantine is the Messiah. Another reason for the divide is that Third Temple Judaism has a problem with elitism, while Rabbinic Judaism focuses on local communities.
A religion called Islam still exists, and was started by a poet called Muhammad around the same time as OTL Islam (give or take 50 years), but the two religions are very different - most notable is that this version of Islam is more strongly influenced by both Judaism and Zoroastrianism. Orthodox and Reformist Islam disagree on many issues, but they both see Jihadic Islam - which focuses entirely on the constant struggle to improve and to live righteously and disregards correct belief - as especially strange.
Roman Polytheism is the natural conclusion of the pagan Romans' syncretism. In modern Roman Polytheism, there are a little more than two dozen major gods, each of which has many attributes. For example, the attributes of Jupiter are Amun-Ra, Taranis, Thor, Indra, and many others. Hellenism (not to be confused with Hellenicism, which will develop in a few centuries, after the Industrial Revolution and the rise of nationalism) and Olympianism have much in common, but Olympianism focuses on the worship of the Court of Olympus and the occasional due reverence to local spirits, while Hellenism has many minor deities as well, as well as major non-Olympian gods. Hellenism claims that the Hellenic people are favoured by the gods and writes all scriptures in Hellenic, while Olympianism believes that all peoples are equal under Olympus and translates scriptures into local languages. The Oracle of Delphi has developed into the head of the Olympianist faith, while Hellenism is a very decentralized religion.
There are many varieties of Tengrism - Táltos Tengrism and Turkic Tengrism being the two most common varieties in the Eastern Roman Empire.
The Isiac Mysteries still exist, but outsiders tend to view them as a sect of Neterians or Roman Polytheists, rather than a separate religion.
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Large nuclear first strike coming up...
Beyond that, this will be challenging, as Israeli power projection is too limited to do much more than help the French and Soviets try to throw off the German yoke.
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