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  1. Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    Perhaps a land cover dataset like MODIS would be a helpful starting point. This particular one purports to distinguish blocks with at least 30% construction or 40% cropland from less developed ones, so it is going to miss some residences.

  2. Map Thread XXII

    Is Cayenne a German possession ITTL?

  3. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    This also applies to Russia: Moscow's a big deal not so much because of its location as because it was the seat of the Vladimirian principality that won out. There's no particular reason a Tsar couldn't have arisen from, for instance, Kostroma or Pereyaslavl-Zalesky and kept the capital there.

  4. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Enfeoffing a new lord with control of the city itself would abrogate the imperial immediacy of the burgher government. Installing him in the old burgraviate would mean supplanting Brandenburg-Ansbach and/or Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Unless there happens to be a power vacuum there, I think making...

  5. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    The Madagascar contingency: how to leave New Zealand out without looking like you're leaving New Zealand out.

  6. Why did Washington state and New Mexico take so long to earn statehood?

    Nevada came in with an unconventionally low population, and it's dubious that Virginia provided the necessary consent for partition considering that only Unionists voted on it. The bill for admitting Kansas benefited from the seceded states' withdrawal from Congress, but I don't think was...

  7. Continental border east of Tian Shan

    The closest thing, especially if you jog over from the Syr Darya to the Chüy, to a river valley extending further east would be a route across the Gobi to the Amur River. For China to end up north of the line you pretty much have to cut across Tibet somehow.

  8. Map Thread XXII

    When did Mars surpass Earth in population? Also, it's a little surprising seeing Kanaloa subject to the Solar Syndicate. I'd expect that if anywhere maintained independence on cultural grounds it'd be the one extrasolar colony established before the Dark Ages (especially since it doesn't seem...

  9. Miscellaneous >1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    I don't really consider this question answerable. We're speculating on what, three hundred years of divergent history? That's enough time to solve any social problem if things go right (and develop any one if things go wrong), and "everything from Iraq to Hungary to Algeria is under one...

  10. Any good Seleucid timelines?

    Have you seen @ClaustroPhoebic 's timeline?

  11. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    It would be a reach to posit a relationship with any extant language other than Basque.

  12. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Well, what it looks like is that there's a political spectrum from internationalism to nationalism, which is correlated with but more salient than the left-right economic axis.

  13. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    I wish we saw more of the key so I could tell what it's trying to say about Vancouver Island and eSwatini.

  14. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Is it safe to assume that Margaret, Maid of Norway, had descendants ITTL who delivered Scotland as well as Norway into union with Sweden and Denmark?

  15. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Did this inspire @DaniCBP 's recent coverage of the same topic, or was it a coincidence?

  16. Anime is sort of underrated for how much alternate history it contains

    paleofuture

  17. Roman representative democracy

    This makes me wonder if such a system would be a reasonable outcome of Roman defeat in (some analog to) the Social War. Perhaps a triumphant league of allied city-states would stop short of dissolving their ties to Rome but redefine "Rome"; that is, make responsibility for administering its...

  18. If the Salic Law never existed in France, would the Habsburgs be able to inherit France or not?

    When I wrote this I wasn't aware of a suitable marriage IOTL, but I have noticed one now. Frederick the Fair's older brother Rudolf was married to Philip IV's half-sister Blanche, but she died without any surviving issue. Let her live and bear a son ("Albert"), and he's a Habsburg proximate in...

  19. Would it be possible for the Roman Empire to build a bridge over the Bosphorus?

    That record-breaking bridge they're talking about would just span the Golden Horn, though. To cross the Bosphorus the design would need to be scaled up by a factor of three or four, to say nothing about the challenges of the building process. To get materials strong and cheap enough to make...

  20. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    I've said before that this is where a mass-market adaptation ought to focus. On the one hand there's the spectacular divergences (off-road steam engines, Utilitarian Paris) and on the other hand there's the familiar anchor points (Thomas Jefferson, a republican revolution), and on the gripping...
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