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deviantArt page here. One of the first maps I ever completed was a tribute to George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four. At the time, I felt so proud of it and felt it was the best map I had made up to that point (which it probably was), but as the years have passed I've gradually made it over from...

But what was Imperial Rome if not monarchical? Sure, the Republican government still existed on paper. The Romans considered their government a republic all the way up to the very end. But in practice, the Emperors acted as monarchs, especially after the end of the Principate. Honestly, if Rome...

As opposed to any other colonies?

You might be interested in the development of Hinduism. While it's known for having many gods, many Hindus will tell you that they're actually monotheistic. Vishnu, Kali, Hanuman, etc. can be understood as aspects of a single, greater divine nature. Since Hinduism is derived from the same PIE...

Even if the region is a bit more prosperous and stable it'll be a huge source of immigration into the mainland states, legal or otherwise. What about Liberia's own civil strife? Native Liberians wouldn't be happy being a colony to a foreign power under a strict racial hierarchy, and the black...

We NEED more fantastical history maps like this! I love the little in-universe explanations for OTL terms like big foot. And is that also a reference to the so-bad-it's-good movie Lycan Colony?

Well I didn't realize "Cursed Euroblob" would be the theme of the new map thread, but here's my late contribution. dA page here.

Regional focus: Grand Testuda Grand Testuda is the northernmost continent of the New World and the largest target for Imperial colonization in the region. It was originally known as Jarnaland by the Vinlandic settlers, but when a new wave of settlers arrived centuries later they redubbed it...

There are lots of map templates on the AH wiki you can use to start off with, and a few modified basemaps I've made myself if you're looking for something more that style. There isn't really so much a right and wrong choice, it falls down to your personal tastes, though I would recommend more...

Thanks! Yeah, I feel like fantastical Earth is a really underused setting that should get more love than it does. There's something about mixing the fictional with the familiar that just feels satisfying.

Excerpts from the Treatise on the Southern World, compiled by Scamander of Gallia in the 7th year of the reign of Emperor Orion IV, 2416. "Oceania lies due west of the Imperial antipode, that point of the Earthen sphere that lies opposite our own lands. It is said its southern reaches remain...

Link to the DA page here. This is a fantastical Earth that I've been working on and off for a while now. The main focus has been on Europe, mostly unified and organized into 8 Imperial Circles. There's a bit of lore in the link, but I left quite a bit out once I realized I was going to post a...

Why would it be re-settled by Germanic peoples? As you said, most of the population was still Christian by this point, so you'd probably see a revival and survival of African Romance instead.

You should look into the kongsi to see how a European equivalent might develop. You could see a scattering of small independent European-derived states that act independently of the home country, but are never able to grow strong enough relative to native states and each other in order to...

I don't normally post WIPs but I've been working on... something on and off for the last few months and recently hit a roadblock. I can't decide on which version of the New World I like better and keep going back and forth between the two, so maybe some outside opinions could help me decide on...

I have to say, I don't quite buy the geographical or ethnic arguments that are usually given. Geographically Europe is quite diverse, but then so is China. While China has a large flat plain to form it's 'core', it also has no shortage of mountains, rivers, deserts, forests, peninsulas, etc. In...

This is an extremely blursed image.

That would be OTL, more or less. Neanderthal populations went down in numbers, but in the end they didn't go extinct so much as get absorbed into the much larger sapiens population. It would still be a very slow process, though, since most neanderthal-sapiens hybrids were either stillborn or...

They decide holding Hong Kong is good enough to hold the title Empress/Emperor of China, just like holding the Channel islands was good enough to be called King/Queen of France.

African people were not enslaved just because they were unlucky enough to have their name picked out of a hat. There were a lot of reasons why the trans-Atlantic slave trade developed, and it'd be hard for another region to take its place. South and East Asia are too far away. Sailing from...