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Intriguing differences from the Southern slave culture in OTL, in particular keeping slave families together (huge sociological consequences to that) and Black childcarers influencing the accent of the Confederation as a whole.

I had forgotten about the Moronites entirely.

I would definitely be interested in reading the continuance of this. And, of course, I wish you the best of luck in dealing with your illness, sorry to hear about it.

Gurkani Alam situation where the Indian powers colonize parts of Australia, and they have that sort of patronizing belief where the Aborigines are holy men, and the Aborigines are mostly left alone. Things come to a head with Russia, earlier than in that timeline, and the sparsely...

That is seriously cool! Fantastic work, and have you thought about doing the rest of the world?

Oh, the latter half of the 19th century looks like it's going to be fun (for the readers, of course).

This is actually very important stuff to develop from an aesthetic worldbuilding standpoint, because a lot of modern men's (and some women's) clothing is evolved from nineteenth century (and earlier) sporting wear, and this could help you if you ever want to describe what people are actually...

Such an alliance is...unlikely. Especially when you consider that the Civilized Tribes, as they were called, did keep black slaves.

Perhaps they tried (or more likely, the domestication of the Aurochs was an accident that hinged on factors that just were not present in the Americas). For that matter, cattle were domesticated by Mesopotamians, not Europeans.

What are you implying? Because I'll have you know China and the Amerindian civilizations were simply not at the same level of development and indeed China was an integral piece of the huge Eurasian civilization that Europe benefited so much from being a part of.

Hospitable has nothing to do with it. It's about how the geography conducts the flow of ideas and technologies.

Zonal Rej is interesting because Zonal is the opposite of Meridional...

The Baroque Cycle or Snow Crash? Both are good, but IMHO the Baroque Cycle (and its sequel/prequel the Cryptonomicon) is better.

"Zonal Rej" Zone King in this Novalatina? Ah, and linguistics enters the fore, glad to see it. Eurasian is a nice alternative to Indo- European. And Leibniz's attempt to create a universal "philosophical language" is an important part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. And the Near Eastern...

Catholic countries win the power struggles of the Early Modern Era, get a neo-Roman fixation, and then the Enlightenment equivalent takes the neo-Classical shtick a little too far?

That would be so awesome! Tony Jones even mentioned that that was a possible timeline. (And on a sidenote, I knew you were gonna get to Monarchy World eventually)

Conquistador, by S.M. Stirling. Though you never do see the Old World in that book, and the New World is discovered in 1946...by OTL Americans.

A very early use of pixels, by a Brunel no less. Sanchez's actual opinions on things, as usual, remain elusive.

Well, reminds me of Qwghlm from the Baroque Cycle. May have very well been the inspiration, being a tiny island NW of the Outer Hebrides with horrid weather and isolated inhabitants (though Qwghlmians speak a crazy language isolate that appears to not recognize vowels).

"Magic" in neopaganism is just prayer. Invoke unseen entities, wishing for desirable outcome. When neopagans say they can do magic, some of them are just winking-and-nudgingly referring to prayer. When the actual magic starts showing up, that's just a genre shift, and one that did not bother...