alternate colonization

A little known chapter of history is told by journalist Eduardo Bueno in his amazing book "Captains of Brazil", that talks about the history of Colonial Brazil from the 1530s to the 1550s. Among the many things told in the book a particular stands out: the attempted colonization of the Río de la...

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Heya folks! I'm completely new to this website, but I'm not new to Alternate History. I've been making small scenarios for some years now with some friends of mine. I made an account here because I wanted to post a little something I thought about a few weeks ago, so let's get to it. This first...

In 1620, Captain Andrew Shilling, on behalf of the English East India Company, claimed Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope for England. However, King James I rejected this claim (if I recall correctly) and thus indirectly allowed the Dutch to be the first European colonizers of South Africa in...

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Malian Fleet The Year is 1300. Mansa Sakura of Mali, Former Slave, Usurper and Great Conqueror, is dead. Sakura was an imperial slave who had usurped the throne from the weak and feeble Mansa Abu Bakr, who himself inherited a weakened throne from the tyrant...

Prologue: The French In a Whole New World From top to bottom, the colonization of the Americas impacted almost every single country in western Europe. France was no exception to this rule. Resources from the New World caused France to eventually become one of the richest and most powerful...

During the French Revolution Louis XVI and his family attempted to escape to the fairly young French colony of Australie, (barely 70 thousand people strong). But during his escape one of the shipwrights identified him and his family, and alerted the Authorities, eventually leading to his...

What if Brazil was ALSO colonized by the English as well? 1. How would that be possible? What parts would've been settled? 2. Would the country have its own war of independence? 3. Can this"United States of Colombia" get this pic's territory? Would it be different? 4. Can they get Pacific...

Out of curiosity, and because I'm doing an alternate colonization timeline, what if the colony created under Sir Walter Raleigh was established in a different location. What if, after leaving England and sailing to the West Indies before sailing north to mainland North America, Philip Amadas and...

Before I begin, I would like to give a shout-out to @Gabingston for partially inspiring this TL with English Canada/French Carolina: A Timeline. The premises, while similar, are not exactly the same. The Age of Exploration and Colonization is also one of my favorite periods in history to explore.

Hail and well met. I hear tell that you have been asking after the Lands Westward, across the great Atlantic. Perhaps you’ve heard legends of the Sugar-Kings and their wealth; or mayhap you sit enraptured as the deeds of great Asgardian sailors are related in taverns. So now, you come to me to...

Was it ever possible for European colonization of the world to be more like Ancient Greek colonization, with settlers migrating and establishing polities completely independent of the home country, instead of OTL's government sponsored colonization? If so, how would this effect the world? From...

A bit of a weird idea I had one day, but what if/how could the Spanish Empire, instead of simply conquering dozens if not hundreds of native kingdoms through the New World and the Philippines, had mantained most of those states (but not all) in a system of protectorates and vassals much like the...

Does anyone know of any good timelines involving alternative colonizations, particularly of the Americas? I already know of three, all involving the Americas, Portugese North America - The Unlikely Colony by Viriato and Bahia de Todos los Santos and Vive La Canada!, both by Malta. I have read...

I was just curious on what would've happened if the English were able to establish full control over the eastern seaboard. It should be possible too, considering that the English tended to generate large immigration waves back in the 17th century. I'm curious on how this would affect the coast...

consider the far eastern branches of the Indo European language family, and the lifestyle of the people who spoke said languages: Most of them were steppe people such as the Iranians and Tochars and thus had a wide berth to travel. Now consider the migrations of the Inuit and other Siberian...

Just a thought I had, but how would the settlement of North America look like if attempts to settle the Eastern Seaboard for one reason or another failed? The Native Confederacies were able to boot out the settlers, the settlers starved, other colonial powers massacred each other, etcetc. That...

To be more specific, in a mostly post-Columbian timeframe (i.e. ca between 1500 AD and 1900 AD. As it is much easier to have city states created by local native cultures, I am more interested in how plausible the creation and survival of a long-lived city state (or small country that is mostly...

Just a fun little idea I've been thinking about. There are tons of threads about alternate Israels and other ATL countries that post-diaspora Jews could call their home. But there's one other common Euroamerican nation that is similarly the result of a (relatively) recent diaspora from Asia and...