new world

As well all know Columbus spent years trying to get sponsorship from various European rulers. What if instead of getting said sponsorship from the Catholic Monarchs, he got it from France? Let's say after getting rejected by the Spanish he goes to France who agrees to sponsor him, what happens...

Based on a recent conversation, Say for what ever reason it takes decades to discover the Americas compared to the OTL, so that both the Aztec and Inca empire are given some 50 plus years, how big do you think both empires would have gotten For the Aztec I see them conquering Tlaxcala and try...

Dutch and French colonization model in North America differed from English one-number of settlers in their colonies was much smaller, making it more difficutl to overwhelm Natives with sheer numbers. What if simillar model is followed by England (less settlement, more trade with Natives)? If...

So I was doing some reading into the fascinating politics of the Digger movement. And for anybody who doesn't know they were agrarian proto-socialists who repeatedly tried to form egalitarian communes on common land during the mid 17th century. So to get to the point say after the settlement on...

IOTL, Christopher Columbus nearly didn’t sail for Spain–when Isabella finally relented on approving the expedition in January 1492, he was actually on his way out of Spain and planning to join his brother Bartholomew in France and appeal to King Charles VIII to find his expedition. However...

In the early 1600s, England and France were considering an alliance against the Habsburgs. However, this ultimately failed, and by 1624, when Cardinal Richelieu came to power, French politics proceeded away from the English, and tensions between the two countries rose until the Anglo-French War...

Could it be possible that only one European country takes part in the colonization of the New World (Americas), Africa, Asia, and Oceania? This is going to be tough as said country will need to make sure no one else gets a permanent foothold outside Europe. Now it can be possible for other...

Alfonso IV of Portugal encouraged trade and exploration from 1325 to 1357. This led to the discovery of the Canary Islands (which Genoa already knew of), but Castile claim the islands as their’s. Assuming Alfonso IV was more passionate and aggressive in seafare exploration could this mean the...

Say that France Antartique is successfully established, and dominates the southeast and south regions as defined here; PoD can be whatever. Now, otl, Louisiana was basically established to feed the french Caribbean (chiefly haiti). Except ttl, not only do they have a region large enough to feed...

Your challenge is to have at least one Muslim country establish at least one colony in the New World. It doesn't have to be very successful or last very long, it just has to exist for a time.

So an interesting idea that came to my head was that the Taino not only get into regular contact with the Mesoamericans, but end up frequently raiding and plundering them, almost like a Viking analogue for the New World. Although some evidence of contact between Mesoamerica and the Caribbean has...

I will ask a simple question: What if Christopher Columbus landed somewhere else? Maybe he gets blown north and lands near DC, or south to Surinam.

What were the different colonization and administration practices that the European powers used in the new world(England; France;Spain; Portugal )?

Longboats and Norsemen: A Vinland TL *** Chapter 1 *** Bjarni Herjolfsson was holding onto the sides of the longboat for dear life as the storm hurled waves after waves of water at him and his longboat. The storm whipped up the winds and they came crashing down upon them. His crew members...

what it says on the tin, how could the New World be, after independence, be mostly made of monarchies? (Bonus if most of them are not in personal union with their old metropolises)

This timeline follows on from https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/new-tl-the-sons-in-splendor-the-golden-age-of-the-house-of-york.481920/page-5#post-20606312 The original POD was the survival of Edward IV in 1483, and his eventual death in 1487. This delay allowed his son to ascend...

Your challenge is to have the Ottoman Empire somehow establish at least one colony in the New World.

I'm thinking of doing a TL which, due to a POD in the Castilian War of Succession, creates very different colonies. I have a few ideas but want to know what you guys think?

Okay, so if you're an American with a slightly-more-than-passing knowledge of American History, you'll know that New York used to be a Dutch-owned city known as New Amsterdam. What you might not know is that it was part of an at least somewhat larger colony known as New Nederland. Of course...

As colonialism in the New World faded, most of the newly independent nations became monarchies, as in the Old World. There were notable exceptions, of course, but monarchism by and large carried the day. But what if most of the New World's states were republics?