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Someday I'll get tired of making silly analogue maps, but not today.
Finland as Moldova?
 
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A great map, and an interesting scenario.

The "Sapmi" area's population is untenably small, though. One could expect Petsamo/Liinahamari alone to have more people than 21K, as a port town with fishing and some industry, etc. In a Soviet Finland it would likely have been a somewhat significant centre on the Arctic Sea coast.
 
A great map, and an interesting scenario.

The "Sapmi" area's population is untenably small, though. One could expect Petsamo/Liinahamari alone to have more people than 21K, as a port town with fishing and some industry, etc. In a Soviet Finland it would likely have been a somewhat significant centre on the Arctic Sea coast.
The Sami population outside that area is tiny, IIRC.
 
The Sami population outside that area is tiny, IIRC.

I believe that it would be practically impossible to create a functional majority Sami autonomous unit of any significant size in Finland. It simply would not be economically, etc, viable due to its small population. Any realistic alternate entity known as "Sapmi" or somesuch and being made of a geographically major part of Finnish Lapland would IMO still have a non-Sami majority even while having a special position and rights for the Sami population.
 
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I believe that it would be practically impossible to create a functional majority Sami autonomous unit of any significant size in Finland. It simply would not be economically, etc, viable. Any realistic alternate entity known as "Sapmi" or somesuch would IMO still have a non-Sami majority even while having a special position and rights for the Sami population.
Let's assume that the modern Finnish Lapland is the Sami autonomous state. Less than 1% of people within that area speak a Sami language. Only one municipality within the Sami homeland area has a significant Sami-speaking population (Utsjoki), and that's still majority Finnish speaking.
 
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Map of an alternate Europe. Basically, the Moriscos are able to hold on to their religion and culture in spite of persecution. Once the Spanish Empire collapsed, the Moriscos declared independence as the Republic of Andalusia(Spanish: Republica de Andalucia, Arabic: جمهورية الأندلس Jumhuriat al-Andalus). There’s a series of butterflies from there that culminates in TTL’s World War I, fought between Britain and Germany on one side and France, Russia, and Austria-Hungary on the other, with the Anglo-German side winning.

In Iberia, Spain and Portugal are relatively stable, although there’s some tension due to the two being on opposite sides in TTL‘s Cold War. Portugal is a constitutional republic(albeit a rather corrupt one) while Spain is a Carlist absolute monarchy with socialist characteristics. Andalusia is the black sheep of the peninsula, having a mostly Arab Muslim culture and being significantly poorer and more unstable than the other two. Andalusia also hasn’t entirely forgiven Spain for centuries of oppression, but otherwise the two have fairly cordial relations.

Germany is the hegemonic power of Continental Europe. All of Eastern Europe(save Russia) have been German puppet states ever since the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Although Germany is definitely a great power, its not considered a superpower, as it has little influence outside Europe.

The Whites won the Russian Civil War, and established a military dictatorship. Following the end of the dictatorship period in 1961, Russia transformed into a constitutional monarchy under a restored branch of the Romanovs. Russia today is a rising power and one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

Britain managed to keep their empire longer then OTL, but lost a Cold War against the United States, after which most of Britain’s colonies(and Wales) declare independence. Said Cold War was mainly over the issue of colonialism. Britain today is still a great power, but they no longer have the global influence they once had.

Italy is divided between the Kingdom of Italy in the north and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the south, with the Papal States in between. There’s a united Scandinavia arising from an alternate Napoleonic Wars, but it has little influence on the greater world. France collapsed into civil war after TTL’ World War I, which resulted in it being taken over by a military junta that gradually democratized and Britanny becoming independent. The Balkans are a chaotic mess as OTL, with the fascist National Republic of Yugoslavia regularly threatening their neighbors with nuclear annihilation. Greece and Turkey also fight over Cyprus every so often. Switzerland and the Benelux countries are mostly the same as OTL. I know it’s not the most realistic scenario, but it’s an interesting one(in my opinion).
Here’s a map of North America in the same scenario.

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The United States is still the world power that it is IOTL. Although the War of 1812 never happened, their was a war against the British in the 1830s in which the US conquered most of Canada and established puppet states in Quebec and Newfoundland. The United States also purchased part of Greenland.

Internationally recognized as part of the United States but violently contested by the people who live there is the Territory of Utah/Republic of Deseret(depending on who you ask). The unincorporated territory had been independent for much of the 19th century, but was annexed by the United States in 1873, followed by several attempts by the US government to forcibly assimilate the locals. Today, Utah is a war zone fought between the US government and its local allies and various Mormon fundamentalist militias swearing loyalty to the unrecognized Republic of Deseret.

TTL’s United States wasn’t quite as interested in Manifest Destiny as OTL, mainly because it already had a large area to settle in OTL Canada, and because slavery was abolished earlier. Texas and California still managed to become independent from Mexico, with Texas being majority Hispanophone and having closer ties with Latin America, while California is an Anglophone republic with close ties to the United States.

Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean are slightly better off than OTL, but still have problems with drug cartels and being too close to the United States. Lastly, in the far northwestern corner of the continent is the Republi of Alaska, who’s culture is a mix of Russian, Indigenous and Anglo-American influences. They’re rather insignificant on a global stage, but have become quite wealthy selling oil to other countries, especially the United States.
 
I believe that it would be practically impossible to create a functional majority Sami autonomous unit of any significant size in Finland. It simply would not be economically, etc, viable due to its small population. Any realistic alternate entity known as "Sapmi" or somesuch and being made of a geographically major part of Finnish Lapland would IMO still have a non-Sami majority even while having a special position and rights for the Sami population.
Might work a liiiiitttle if we are going with the Soviet theme and how the Soviets propped up minorities here and there after they were done getting rid of their cultural leaders. Though, as you say, the numbers don’t work the best. I assume this is all based on Moldova so the Karelians or Swedes (who I just realized are not listed in the languages) might work better, but a gorgeous map is a gorgeous map.
 
Might work a liiiiitttle if we are going with the Soviet theme and how the Soviets propped up minorities here and there after they were done getting rid of their cultural leaders. Though, as you say, the numbers don’t work the best. I assume this is all based on Moldova so the Karelians or Swedes (who I just realized are not listed in the languages) might work better, but a gorgeous map is a gorgeous map.

I agree. The map is great, kudos to @Kruglyasheo for making it.

The designs I have had for a "Sami ASSR" myself in a scenario where Finland is a part of the USSR, making a part of Lapland a separate entity is basically a Soviet ploy to create an enclave up north for defence purposes, bringing in mainly Russian military personnel with their families to establish a trustworthy presence on the border with NATO Norway (and quite possibly NATO Sweden, too, in that timeline). The Sami get more rights and ostensible representation, but in practice when we get to the 1980s or so, the biggest ethnic group in the area would be Russians. Maybe not an outright majority, but perhaps 40% or so, with the rest of the population made of Finns and Sami.

If and when the USSR then breaks up, what happens to the ASSR would make for an interesting question.
 
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Kinda random but- the new continent is Equatoria from the Tellurus Project, merged with the Vale, the Iron Islands, and the Arbor (between it & North America).
I was wondering how the climate would be both on the new land and how western North America would be effected by it.
 
Swedes (who I just realized are not listed in the languages)
Well, I assumed that they would have been deported during the Stalinist purges.
The designs I have had for a "Sami ASSR" myself in a scenario where Finland is a part of the USSR, making a part of Lapland a separate entity is basically a Soviet ploy to create an enclave up north for defence purposes, bringing in mainly Russian military personnel with their families to establish a trustworthy presence on the border with NATO Norway (and quite possibly NATO Sweden, too, in that timeline). The Sami get more rights and ostensible representation, but in practice when we get to the 1980s or so, the biggest ethnic group in the area would be Russians. Maybe not an outright majority, but perhaps 40% or so, with the rest of the population made of Finns and Sami.
Yes, that's my mistake, I had about the same thing in my head, but somehow I miscalculated a lot with the population figures, maybe I'll try to fix it later.
 
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Yes, that's my mistake, I had about the same thing in my head, but somehow I miscalculated a lot with the population figures, maybe I'll fix it later.

It is a great map. It is rare to see maps of Finland here, so it drew my attention. And I love the scenario, it is along some lines I have thought about for a long time. So if there is a minor issue with it, don't worry about it.:)
 
I was wondering how the climate would be both on the new land and how western North America would be effected by it.
You could probably get an idea by studying this guy’s maps and worldbuilding.

Well hell, I can’t find it now. It was a series of physical maps of alt-geography and it was titled “Earth-##” or somesuch. The west had a huge tumor growing out of it in a way your map instantly reminded me of it. No idea who made them or what that number was, so going through ALL of them won’t work.

EDIT: And just as I say that, I find it again.
 
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Well, I assumed that they would have been deported during the Stalinist purges.

Yes, that's my mistake, I had about the same thing in my head, but somehow I miscalculated a lot with the population figures, maybe I'll try to fix it later.
Indeed, it was more of a comment than a critique. I imagine they went the way of the Kola Norwegians and got settled in Karelia or, due to their higher numbers, the way of the Greeks, Koreans, and others who got deported to Central Asia. I suppose the Swedes here could more easilly get on boats to flee. Your map actually makes me think of how many smaller Finnic groups like the Ingrians might have survived a bit better here, due to not being effectively liquidated as enemy nationals after WWI by the Soviets. Anyways, I look forward to seeing your new analogue maps, and hopefully finding some of the old ones as well.
 
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The Bubonic Death - Spread and mortality

Bubonic Death​

or the Second Plague Pandemic

The Bubonic Death (also known as the Genoan Plague, the Mongol Plague, the Second Plague Pandemic or the Persian Plague) was a series of major outbreaks of the bubonic plague across the Afro-Eurasian continent between 1345 and 1354. It was the most fatal pandemic in recorded human history, causing the death of 100-350 million people. Likely originating from the area between the Tian Shan mountains and the Tarim Basin, the plague quickly spread via the silk road to Crimea and from there to the rest of the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Spread​

The first likely mention of what would eventually evolve into becoming the Bubonic Death comes from Issyk-Kul, where Nestorian graves, dating from 1338-1339, describe plague-like symptoms. From there the plague was likely carried west via the vast trans-continental silk road, to cities in Central Asia and further into Crimea; towards Europe and across the Caucasus; towards the Levant. Another major vector of transmission was in the form of Central Asian mercenaries travelling towards India to serve in the retinue of the Delhi Sultan, leading to outbreaks in northern India as early as 1344.

The plague reached Crimea in 1345, via Italian merchants, it spread from there to Constantinople and onwards to Italy, Egypt, Al-Andalus and North Africa. Further yet into Syria and Mecca through the Hajj caravans and into Sudan, Yemen, Abyssinia Iraq, Oman, Persia, Zangistan and the Deccan through trade routes. By 1352 the spread of the plague stretched from Mali to Majapahit and from Kilwa to Kazan. The outbreak reached full circle when, in 1354, a strain of the plague, likely originating from Malacca, ravaged eastern China.

Outbreaks in Europe across the Alps, southern France and the Balkans are scarce and far between. A minor outbreak in Lubeck was recorded in June 1350 and another in Erfurt in September the same year, though mortality rates remain relatively low across all of these cases.


Consequences​

The total estimated death toll of the Bubonic Death lies between 100 and 350 million people.
Estimates for the death tolls vary significantly across geographical regions. Rural areas such as those in Central Asia and steppe regions were relatively lightly hit compared to large urban centres such as those in the Levant and the Ganges delta. These aforementioned regions lost approximately two-thirds of their population, all cities were reduced in size and some were even abandoned entirely. Ibn Battuta, the Moorish traveller and merchant, describes travelling through abandoned towns and cities throughout al-Andalusia and Sudan.


Socioeconomic effects​

The swift population decline brought on by the plague led to sweeping changes socioeconomic changes throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. After the plague swept through the levant the survivors found themselves returning to vacant fields, homes and estates. Along the Nile, labour-saving innovations in agriculture were developed and the conditions and wages of the remaining farmers increased across the board.

Though the urban populations throughout the affected areas wouldn’t recover in size until the 15th or 17th century, in some cases, the Bubonic Death would usher in the Second Islamic Golden Age. With Baghdad still reeling from the Mongol invasion a couple of years earlier coupled with the plague, Cairo and Isfahan became the new centres of the Islamic world.

Along the Zangistani coast, the Muslim power base in the urban centres of Kilwa and Zanzibar declined and raids from the interior became more and more frequent and effective. Abandonment of the East African trade ports led to a decline in trade around these parts of the Indian ocean throughout the late middle ages. The Omani and Persian reconquests of Zangistan in 1533, spurred by a bullion famine, were launched to rekindle the Zangistani gold trade.


Persecutions​

Jews and particularly Christians were taken as scapegoats and faced a new wave of persecution throughout the Muslim world during and immediately after the outbreaks. In Baghdad, it is said that after the plague had passed, the surviving Christians were driven to the river Tigris. In Cairo, it is said that Jews were thrown from tall towers and buildings, and in al-Andalus, a Rabbi muses the three fates for an Iberian Jew “the plague, the Moorish blade or France”.

Meanwhile, the Sultanate of Delhi, due to increased persecution and taxing towards the Dhimmi, faced several Hindu peasant revolts. These revolts culminated in the Princes’ and Peasants’ revolt in 1374, which toppled the Tughlaq dynasty of sultans.
 
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