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You can also do the same thing in Photoshop or GIMP. In GIMP there is a set color tool by itself, in Photoshop you can go to the Images-->Adjustments tab. You can make beautiful maps like the one below in seconds.

Yeah but you wouldn't get the adaptability of the Romans, at least in the non-Massalian Hellenistic kingdoms.

I know this is not the ultimate goal of the TL, but it would be interesting if Rome still conquered the Mediterranean. In doing so, both the western and eastern empire would become Greek.

Byzantines win Myriokephalon, providing a better overland route to Jerusalem. Alternatively, the Battle of Hattin is still a Crusader defeat, but Frederick Barbarossa and his massive army don't drown in the Saleph river.

The main modern areas in the Mediterranean region that produce rice are the Nile Delta, Mazandaran, and the Po Valley. To increase rice production in the Nile Delta, the Romans will need to settle rice farmers from Persia into Egypt. So it looks like the much despised solution to all of Rome's...

Large deposits of rice were found in 1st century Roman camps in Germany and small amounts of rice were probably grown in Egypt and Greece, though much was probably imported. Almonds had been grown in the Levant since long before the Romans, while citrons (etrogim) were spread by Jewish...

They already had half of that stuff. Rice, citrus, and almonds were grown locally and sugar was imported as a medicine.

There have been several liberal empires: the First and Second French Empires, the British Empire*, the short-lived Second Mexican Empire, as well as many states that while not empires, were liberal kingdoms. *The British Empire was of course on the side of the conservative empires against...

Well, they probably would feel attacked. As a liberal empire, or especially if they're a liberal republic, all the conservative empires in Europe would want to dismantle them. This tension would result in war if there's a major economic sanction, reactionary violence, or other reasonable threat...

Pretty much all the countries bordering them had good farmland, so it depends on who they go to war with. They would probably invade Russia or the remnants of the Habsburg empire first, which would prompt a Franco-British intervention a la the Crimean war. Seeing as Germany lost WWI and WWII...

Until battlefield photography, war was almost universally romanticized. After battlefield photography, it was only mostly romanticized, until WWI. Germany would also try to conquer farmland to ensure consistent food stocks after the late 1840s famines. There may be a second round of...

It would be good for Germany, but terrible for the rest of Europe, and probably for Africa and Southeast Asia. The new German great power would seek major conquests and have the largest military and industry in Europe after Britain.

Corn, rice, and potatoes are grown throughout much of Europe, while Colombia + Venezuela have a ton of land viable for those crops, or for cattle.

1860s-1880s immigrants were reasonably willing to immigrate to the US for open farmland. Could Gran Colombia have a Homestead Act?

How plausible would it be for them to spread propaganda in Europe showing Gran Colombia as the land of opportunity?

If the Mali Empire remained rich and powerful for a couple of centuries longer, could they have developed indigenous gunpowder manufacture and had arquebusiers?

Genoa and Venice had a huge presence in the Mediterranean--how many traders and settlers would there have been outside of Genoa and Venice itself, and how does this compare to the populations of Genoa and Venice at the time?

Did Greeks 200-400 AD refer to Latins as barbarians?

Matt Groening has nothing on Ashurbanipal.

Assyria did it first.