Recent content by M.R.L

Ancient Rome?

Beginning the Industrial Revolution actually might not require local coal reserves. From "Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869": "There is little sign of a technological revolution in coal mining. English coal reserves, known and exploited since medieval times, simply found a much...

Following the 1899 establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of Sudan, ASBs make Britain end up in successive wars with every country in Africa as defined by Wikipedia and then transfer the gains to new Anglo-Egyptian Condominiums.

It's an interesting question: "During the later decades of the fourteenth century English started to come back into official use. The Pleading in English Act 1362 sought to replace French with English for all pleas in courts. The Mercers' Petition to Parliament of 1386 is the oldest piece of...

The 1359 Treaty of London would've ceded the Angevin Empire lands to England and, unlike during the Angevin era, would have fully removed the area from French sovereignty. It was signed by then-captive King John II of France but repudiated by the Estates General. Truly an epic France-Screw.

As a Floridian, I wouldn't be opposed to Mosquito Coast. Peninsulas!: New Cornwall, Nieuw-Holland, Nouvelle Bretagne.

Maybe switch up the less specific OTL Spanish placenames and go with any of Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, among others.

I'm contemplating an England Hires Columbus timeline in which it is named "Flora", that being tastefully Latin and having a similar meaning. I've seen "Pascua" suggested, naming it for the discovery date on Easter.

I love the message for 1956 if you get 0 electoral votes as Stevenson.

(not sure if ASB...) "The Treaty of London (also known as the Second Treaty of London) was proposed by England, accepted by France, and signed in 1359. After Edward the Black Prince soundly defeated the French at Poitiers (during the Hundred Years' War), where they captured John II of France...

I think it's plausible for BNA to about as large as the USA could plausibly have been, which IMO is Canada plus Sam Houston's OTL proposal during the Mexican-American War, plus maybe the canal-able land in Panama or Nicaragua if people have began making noises about that. I think All-Mexico will...

To be fair, the Fertile Crescent region went through the same cycles of unity and splintering.

A Germanic tribe centered in the North European Plain breed very strong, fast, cold weather-suited horses that become commonplace in the region. Some generations later, a Genghis Khan analogue emerges. (Or maybe they already had horses like that, IDK)

I like that this managed to sort of overlap with the Mormans in them thar hills premise.

Edward III of England is luckier and enforces his original peace terms before the Treaty of Bretigny, regaining the entirety of the Angevin "Empire" lands. Then, like Richard I, he dies at some point before the kind-of-hopeless task of keeping it all together can really fall upon him.