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Still terrible as ever with my own deadlines. Sincere apologies all around. Next update comes with an all Europe map. Also, still considering New World continent names if anyone has anything good. 1518, Part One "When the weak squabble, the strong profit,"- Taken from the memoirs of King...

Wasn't the low population compared to Europe in part because of economic stagnation though? Also, not sure if it's enough, but aren't there a few significant rivers in Morocco and Tunisia?

Pretty self-explanatory, with a PoD after the rise of Islam, can the Mahgreb region industrialize successfully around the same time as the Europeans? As a follow up question, which regions are best suited to doing so? Would the region have a better chance united under one empire, or could one or...

Secretly, most of the preliminary colonizers are going to be pushed out of the way by great powers in the end, but there will be some exceptions and some definite marks left by these earlier colonizers.

You should really give the TL in my sig a try. I've got Irish in New York, Bretons in Brazil, and Aragonese in New Orleans so far:cool:

Not saying Russia wins or anything, but they're basically giving up more than half their lands in Europe and their access to every port that they had that won't freeze in winter (Baltic is gone with Poland most likely, Black sea coast given to Germany of all places, and the Pacific went to...

Why are France and AH such pushovers and the Ottomans so strong here? I understand that with Britain on the opposite side France will have a harder time of it, but Germany right outside Paris within the first couple months is overstating things IMO. As for AH, I see no reason for them to fall...

Oh god it's happening again:eek: Each time this question is asked it quickly becomes apparent that Malta hasn't the resources or population capacity to be at the head of a powerful nation, and for similar reasons makes a poor choice for a capital. At best you might see an empire with a...

EmperorSimeon & Tongera, Thanks, glad you like it:) Mixxer5 & cimon, Poland-Lithuania will be making its presence felt shortly. There'd be little point in having later incarnations of the Cold Alliance without a dangerous Poland-Lithuania;) sh3baproject, Thanks. There certainly have been a lot...

Actually, by the time Columbus sailed the Jewish bankers had mostly been replaced by Italians, who had been inventing creative workarounds for usury since the 1200s, and actual merchants (as opposed to bankers) never were a particularly Jew-heavy class, so Jewish wealth in Christian Europe was...

Unlikely to work any better than it did when monarchs tried doing it with religious minorities IOTL. They'd get scared the religious radicals would ruin their investment and pull the plug by sending settlers from their preferred religion, while the minorities just emigrated elsewhere in Europe...

This really isn't going to happen. Basically, Columbus being a converso is fine and good, or at least reasonably plausible, as is him being willing to forego Spanish aid for that reason, but everything thereafter is not happening. Firstly, Columbus was a madman, plain and simple. If he were...

Sorry this took so long. First I had (and to an extent am still having) my computer issues, and then I got so caught up in my new world adventures that I nearly doubled the length of the update. 1517, Part Two "For are we not the sons of Troy also, who stood strong against overwhelming...

DónalCam, My that is some high praise. Thank you kindly, and I'll be doing my best to keep this thing alive into the forseeable future. :oI really wasn't half as good at catching mistakes as I am not when I started this. Sometime soon I think I need to start a finished TLs version where I fix...

Sorry I forgot to answer this earlier, but the Assyrians are probably similar to OTL, perhaps a bit better off on account of the lack of the Safavids and their strict religious policies. I would say that a totally reformed Germany is unlikely. Most of the factors that led to an OTL Catholic...

The Venetians still essentially did dominate the market well into the Portuguese exploration period. Profits for Venice aren't the same as profits for Portugal, and they really didn't care about undercutting the prices of fellow Christians more than those of the Muslims.

Nah, the Ottomans had very little to do with Portuguese interest in going around Africa. In a world with friendlier Ottomans or lasting Byzantines the Portuguese are still making next to nothing off of the spice roads, and will still be interested in reversing that situation. People didn't just...

Herr Frage, I would definitely agree that the Germanic reformation is far from over. TTL's reformation didn't begin in Germany, and consequently isn't quite as strong there as OTL's was by its second decade (it's a little hard to tell, as the OTL reformation began in 1521, while this one was...

Sorry all, I got a little carried away with my Iberian and German stuff, so I decided to split the year up again. Next time will be heavily Roman focussed (and maybe a touch of Bohemia and the New World;)), I promise. 1517, Part One "Alles Erdreich ist Osterreich Untertan (All the world is...

On Anatolia: Romans and Syrians is definitely a possibility, but for the Romans it is rather like playing with fire. Unlike Trebizond and Smyrna, Ibrahim could actually wind up making the lion's share of the gains in a mutual war with the Ottomans. Just about the worst fear for the Romans at...