I like either Thande, though I agree with Alex Richards that more than two per area is impractical with diagonals.
Also make your diagonals consistent or my brain will explode ;).
Not much point in a comprehensive map? Its more sensible to treat West Africa and South & East Africa as separate units, like asking for a comprehensive Eurasia map, its not really the same theatres.
Hahaha you mean the tropical hellhole that makes other tropical hellholes look like the Italian riviera in comparison. They'd be dead within weeks.
Look at this population density map:
http://www.catsg.org/cheetah/07_map-centre/7_1_entire-range/thematic-maps/human_density_africa_2000.png...
Differences in transport and agriculture lead to different geographic distributions; back when you could only farm properly in a few scattered river valleys you saw states organised around a fluid network directed towards capturing those points, when forest clearance and ploughs to break any...
Oh right sorry thought that map was meant to be 'current'. Well the great thing about talking about mountain lines and watersheds is that its based on a descriptive fact, so you can update the maps as detailed knowledge of the area develops even if contemporary European maps look a bit silly...
My original point which I wrote poorly but was which you've managed to still skip when I explained it was that what those countries/the world as a whole in WW1 & 2 suffered was something that would impact demographics, what America suffered in the ACW (or in any war ever) was not.
Fun fact: WW1 also happened to countries outside the US.
To be clearer, the loss to war deaths France or Russia or others suffered in WW1 were significant demographic hits, whilst the American Civil War was not a significant hit to the country it occurred in.
Oh I can! Even assuming that the lost population is homogeneous with the main body politic (it wasn't being mostly young men), a simple extrapolation of 1860-2010 shows that that population would give rise to 5-7 million today. The real number being lower due to immigration between the two dates...
So the borders have been adjusted to something the Russians want eh?
Well I stand by my earlier point that the Russians would really not want the Nen watershed; it might look contiguous and neat but its encircled by mountains such that the Russians would have to practical go through Corean...
Hey you're getting the wrong end of the stick, I have zero problem with the glossing over the crunch in search of a good story. It's just fun to nitpick the external explanations you and others offer rather than the primary text ;).
Unless you get geography wrong of course: THAT WILL NOT STAND!
As much as economics is a dirty word round here (;)), quantity is a difference - being able to do x doesn't necessarily enable 2x.
@Shevek; one thing you're missing on why smaller communities didn't make gunpowder is that gunpowder production is in direct competition with both agriculture and...
If OTL Liberia was tough, Gabon is a hellscape. I'd expect most the transplanted African Americans to be dead within a year due to the harsher terrain, worse disease load, and greater divergence from the crops they're experienced with.
Sorry should have been clearer that was in reference to the people in the thread talking about the eastern areas of northern mexico, not Baja.
I think your being optimistic on the things going for a US Baja over it remaining with Mexico. Especially the Colorado especially is not an infinite...
Its extremely arid, and unlike Southern California is much further from trappable irrigation sources in the rockies.
Unlike Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, it is not between anywhere useful or possesses much in the way of exploitable resources. It has very few places suitable for port...
Woo, glad you started again! I still have several more print diagrammatic map stuff if you want.
For the record on the framing story I like it, but think it should be severely edited of all the AH.com in-joke wankery if LTTW is to be redone as single volume ;).
Who are the derps who keep saying Britain has lots of fertile land? I mean its alright in certain place of England, but even as Europe goes its no France/Low Countries/Northern European plains. There was a reason Britain had a quarter of the population of France in 1800 and was importing food...
None would be majority.
The problem with importing slaves is the tasks that labour is needed for in Spanish America, mining and tropical plantations, are extremely unhealthy and anti-family and would generate a constant population loss amongst the slaves.
The only part of the Americas that...
Western expansion was mostly driven by internal growth of the American rural population, except in some fringe cases in the Northernmost west. A lack of immigrants is going to reduce urban growth and industrialization, not the frontier.