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It has diverged significantly in many places, especially the South, the Appalachians and Northeast.

Set in the "Greater Middle East" i.e. Maghreb. France rebuilds this fort here on Mount Murdjadjo shortly after their occupation of Oran. The rebuilding process costs them a fortune but it once again becomes quite defensible; overlooking the city below. Time proceeds as OTL and the coup of...

What do you mean "British control moved East"?

Eh, it'd be an interesting practice in confederalism. I think the question is: are you talking about whether the Articles of Confederation survive in the United States, or that they're simply retained? The former leads to a number of different relationships between the states while the latter is...

A priestly caste might use it, and if that kind of silver was widely available for consumption it's possible it might replace (or augment) tattooing in some cultures.

What kind of emigration do you mean. There are more people in East Bengal than the British Isles and France combined, and more people in West Bengal than all of that and Germany. Except with complete ASBs, they'd just be another small indistinct minority in the region that probably flees en...

Not really. Japan's a pretty undesirable place to conquer; overseas, hostile population, decent but not great agriculture, before the 1400s a mostly maritime culture, after the 1400s a very warlike insular culture, etc.That doesn't mean it can't happen- in the TL I'm writing a Koreo-Japanese...

It doesn't work like that. Ireland has a certain # that we don't know and can only guess at, where enough food can be produced to sustain population n. Even though there are 80 million people of claimed Irish descent today, that doesn't mean the island could (a) support that # and (b) had...

"Invest" India? How is India anything close to being "invented"? This would probably fail horribly in the long run. Eventually European powers will bog themselves down in some stupid, costly war and the Chinese will rebel. They might end up with a bit more or a bit less land than OTL, but...

It's been said before even by me, but I'll bring it up again. Inevitable European colonialism is pretty frustrating. It's like for some people here China, India, Arabia, Persia and Africa were destined to end up the play-things of far-off European powers, while no matter what Britain, France...

Pangea's interior would not be all desert. I can answer some of this, but it depends on if you're assuming humans develop in the Permian Age conditions (the last major Pangea; a very hot time with different Earth tilt) or modern Earth with a pangeaic continent.

It's plausible, but it depends on a lot more then what you've put up.

Ottomans don't fall apart. No Wahabism (or it's there but is just sort of a joke fringe), pan-Islamism is more of a reaity, Medina-Baghdad-Istanbul railway and a united Empire that no longer sees itself as such just during the Hajj, massive oil revenues ensure that plenty of development happens...

Well, it's hard. On the one hand, if it was navigatable we'd want people taking that route instead of other long routes. But you can't simply hand waive it away for AH's sake (at least not on the forum), so... unfortunately, you're either going to have to explain a very significant PoD that...

I've said it before, but: (1) No Manzikert; all of Asia Minor is held. The East will be less populated but very heavily garrisoned, meaning a fair bit of urbanization and a bit more ethnic diversity. The central and west coast areas should be quite large however and would retain their very...

I disagree vehemently. 1 AD does not a European supremacy world make. I think by around the 1400s we're talking "very likely", at least in terms of a maritime hegemony, and by the time the British are conquering in India almost certainly. But 1 AD is far, far too early. Gaul and Iberia? They're...

The Red River was given to Canada ages ago in 1818. 54-40' was that west of the Rockies, not a border of 54 all the way to Ontario. I'm from Vancouver so I've a vested interest in this :P. Vancouver Island at the time had a very strong British claim and the region was important to fur traders...

Yes to both, but not the way people are saying it. First of all, the idea of "flooding" areas with lands is so fallacious and downright silly in the 1830s that urgh... a great way to start making my blood boil :D. America did not have this magical power to point and say "settle!" Not...

The map you've posted would need a complete Chinese collapse. By annexation do you mean full annexation, or a Raj-style occupation? It's possible for China to balkanize pre or post Qing, but you also have to respect the fact that there seems to be some sort of historical inertia pulling China...

America isn't destined to take over California, though with a PoD like this it is certainly more likely than any other time. Even iotl, California has a huge Latino minority; something like almost 40% in LA, 25% in San Francisco and around 30% in the state. I'm assuming this PoD means that...