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Pirates or raiders could have gone south to capture slaves or the like, but then there were much better targets out there since northern Australia was so sparsely populated. Maybe some vessels travel a bit further along the coasts and discover a lot of coral, and start harvesting that for trade...

They would still eventually discover the Americas that way, since the winds would occasionally blow ships off course and lead them to eastern Brazil. That's how Portugal came across the area, supposedly.

There's been a few small statues/carvings discovered in northern Australia that look suspiciously similar to some Hindu gods and figures. My guess is there was some tangential contact between some Indonesian polities and the various tribes in Australia, it's just that no one bothered to write...

China itself probably has the advantage, since it has larger sources of coal than in North Africa, and better quality coal than in South Asia. Looking at a map of global coal deposits helps to see which regions have the advantage.

I'll have to look into this tomorrow and dig up some of the maps I used for reference for that region. It may have to do with the projection used, but if not I'll try to correct it.

Which part of it specifically?

I know I haven't been very active in a while now, but I've still been working on a few different projects whenever I have the free time. One of them has been adding as many rivers as I can to the modified Victoria II world map I made, which I've found really useful. I finally have enough filled...

How does the existence of peninsulas and islands spur on discovery and exploration? Yes, you can sail off and find a new island... but you could also walk off and find a new land. Under this logic, the cultures in Indonesia and the Caribbean should obviously have become the most advanced. A...

North Vietnam had outside support from the USSR and China right on its border, providing capital, training, equipment and arms, etc. Where could Mexico turn to for anything remotely similar in scope at that time? Not saying the country couldn't throw the American yoke off at all. Just saying...

I'm just curious, but why is this the consensus? How would Canada have administered Alaska differently that it would have attracted fewer settlers than in OTL?

A good start, but I think there should still be some more consolidation. Keewatin and Ungava would be practically empty, and Franklin nearly entirely empty.

Today, we consider the dynasties of places like China, Persia, and so on to be "empires", but that's just how we choose to translate them. They never called themselves an empire, but some local term that would have some similar meaning. In Europe, the concept came from Roman "Imperium". This was...

Wasn't the entire concept of Empire tied with Rome at that point? The only reason it could call itself an Empire is because it could claim legitimate succession to Rome itself. If it isn't Roman, then it isn't an Empire. So something like the Frankish Kingdom, German Kingdom, etc. could work.

I have to disagree with a few of those points. While disease resistance would be higher in black settlers than in whites, it wouldn't be by very much. The vast majority of former slaves in America at that point had been living there for many generations, and their ancestors had not even come...

Assuming it's more or less the same borders that Belgium had, there could be some settlement int he Katanga region, since it was one of the few places where white people didn't drop like flies. Other than that? Extremely few. There would be military bases with garrisons spread around the...

Small contention on this point, but PEI (called St John's Island at that point) had recently been spun off as its own colony just before the revolution. In any scenario where the Americans are wildly more successful and take all of OTL Canada from the start, I can't imagine the people on the...

What's the story behind Tongue?

It seems like it would be more like "civic nationalism", instead of the ethnic, linguistic, or religious-based nationalism that's become dominant OTL.

I think it might be too late by that point. To the OP, I think you'd need an early departure in order to pull it off. Having more colonies join the revolution is the standard way of starting an Ameriwank, and for good reason IMO. But in order for that to happen, you'd need a POD before 1776...

I've heard that the New Jersey Plan would have made it easier for new states to be formed from old ones. Is there any verification of this? If so, it's possible that that element of the plan could have been kept in the final Constitution, which would have lead to more states splitting apart...