Recent content by VigilantSycamore

Thanks! I haven't decided on a name for the eastern light green territory, but it would probably be called something like "the Turkic Autonomous Region". It's one of four states that were created out of those Border Territories I mentioned, with the other three having significant Turkic...

Partial map, probably around the late 19th/early 20th Century. The POD here is that Genghis Khan genghis khouldn't The Federal Republic of Ruthenia (FRR) is one of four successor states to the Kiyvan Rus', the other three being the Republic of Novgorod, the Knyazdom of Vladimir-Suzdal, and...

Good catch, thanks. I guess one of the maps I used for reference must have put that label in the wrong place. Looking Gilgit Baltistan up now, it looks like at this point in time that area would be controlled by the Trakhan/Kayānis dynasty, so I'll be changing the label there to that

There's a HTTYD fanfic called A Thing Of Vikings, where the premise is "dragons exist, somehow history stays mostly the same until the end of the first movie, in 1040 CE." I've made some maps for it. - this is part of the map showing things at the end of Book III, in April 1043 CE. The full map...

The Peoples of the North Map showing the approximate location of the Devdones, Icheddeghath, Eiohhthacho, and Saami, c. 44 BCE. The territories of the Saami and Eiohhthacho may be inaccurate. The Devdones were first written about as a distinct group by Julius Caesar, who described them as...

That was actually something from the basemap I used, which I kept when I changed the colours to match the colour scheme I was using. I also did some research when making this map, and apparently the Finnish provinces really were autonomous, as a Grand Duchy. Interestingly, IOTL, the Russian...

Europe during the Saxony Crisis, in 1861 The roots of the Saxony Crisis go back to the German Revolutionary War (1848-1851), one of several European wars that started with the Revolutions of 1848. The German Revolutionary War ended with the German Empire gaining independence, while losing their...

On a different vein from alternate Great Migrations scenarios, here's a Divided States of America scenario (the POD is that George Washington dies shortly after the Battle of Yorktown, with a secondary kinda-sorta-POD in that the states are just generally less willing to compromise with each...

Thanks! The base map I used was one of the historical QBAMS linked in this google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14LEJv7zYhiuviBklCwkqw7f8ugOy3eH-PXZ-7rN0jRo/edit I used a combination of the 272 one and one of the 117 ones, since those were the two that were closest to the POD

Thanks! I’m still going to make some revisions to this map – for instance, without a Sassanid Empire, the Kushan Empire would probably remain powerful and might try to expand into other areas, so that’s one of the changes I’m working on. The border for Roman Dacia is mostly a result of the...

The Roman and Parthian Empires, c. 300 CE In 224 CE, the Arsacid Empire successfully put down the Sassanid Revolt. Artabanus IV, and his successor, Sura I, spent most of their reigns attempting to restore stability to their empire. It was during the reign of Sura that Manicheanism, a new faith...

Another language map WIP, this one is c. 2900 BCE, just before the Bell Beaker phenomenon started This map is of the actual languages, and there are too many to actually name, although I will say that the languages spoken in Sicily at this point are early forms of Sicanian (north) and Elymian...

So, I have a specific colour scheme I like to use when I'm making maps (this one here) and it's a very useful one, but it does have its limitations, and one I've come up against often is only having one colour for Poland (considering the amount of maps I've made that have prominently featured...

The Great Lakes Sprachbund, c. 1,473,000 BCE (Made using a topography QBAM made by Bob Hope as a template.) Short explanation: A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about the different theories about how language evolved, and while I doubt we'll ever actually know the answer, my personal...

Does anyone have a map of either Europe or the world, as it looked c. 4000 BCE? I'm specifically after accurate coastlines to the time period, and I'd prefer it to be in a worlda, QBAM, or MBAM format, since those are relatively easy to edit and I want to use this map as a template for some...