Recent content by blueczar

China wouldn't have had to go very far north to get a hold of Siberia. The inhabitable part is a thin strip along the trans-Siberian railway which is right next to the border. Maybe the Chinese could take an interest in controlling the fur trade and reselling them to the Russians? It does say...

Yeah but it's interesting that its only a frozen wasteland thats changing hands which is having that big an effect on history.

Suppose that China colonised Siberia before Russia did, 17th century or so, and managed to hold on to this territory, how does this affect the events of the 19th,20th,21st centuries? Would there be a Chinese colony in Alaska which was also purchased by USA? How different would world war I...

What about the border with Mozambique? Or is it still a portuguese colony?

Okay, this time its fixed. Added Sullivan, but there already was one for Collins, so I changed it to Eagle (thought that was a cool name for one on the moon!) . By the way because the key is cut off I should have mentioned that the green triangles are OTL Apollo missions, the yellow the...

The Russians could claim the part of the moon around their unmanned landing sites which were to the north and sort of around the American ones. See the red triangles on this map

Husband is near the top right along with the rest of the Columbia crew. I got caught up in the fun of naming them that I made that mistake with Apollo. Fixed it now.

because it was already settled unlike new zealand which was uninhabited. The polynesians would have had alot more trouble as they werent that much more advanced than the aborigines.

Perhaps it would be divided amongst the EU then? Every country gets an equal share, or it proportioned by the amount invested in the project? Yep, that would be another US territory they could claim when they get to Pluto.

the best thing about this is you can actually have countries owning territory on the moon, mars etc. rather than the stupid space is the 'common territory of everyone' treaty that is now in place. Imagine if the European powers met together in 1450 and decided that all territory outside of...

How about a confederate civil war?

(S*** got the date wrong - not concentrating) Yes I think there could at least be kingdoms of about the Great Zimbabwe-Songhai level of sophistication along the east coast.

Another possibility could be a failed colony from Java/China/India/Rome say 100AD or so on Australia - the colony fails but the animals survive. I agree with what I can see after a quick search on Guns, Germs and Steel. If Europe's animals were only emus and kangaroos & no horses or cattle, how...

What if the Aborigines brought horses, cattle, sheep, pigs etc. across with them when they crossed into Australia c.20,000 years ago. What type of civilisation could develop by the time Captain Cook arrived on the east coast in 1788?

What would happen to the Americas in this scenario? Would they have been colonised and by whom? Perhaps a Japanese empire in the present day US.