papua new guinea

Warsaw - April 27, 1937 In a ceremony before a crowd of thousands in the National Army Stadium, influential Romani leader Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" by the Archbishop of Warsaw, taking the royal name of Janos I and announcing his intention to establish a homeland for the...

The idea is for a Shaka Zulu type figure to conquer all of Papua New Guinea in 1100s and unite it. What would it mean for Papua and the rest of the Indonesian archipelago.

As it says in the title, why didn't New Guinea develop an advanced civilisation like those in Eurasia and the Americas? It was among the first places on earth to develop agriculture, it's relatively large, it has an OK crop package and it's pretty fertile.

In this book from 1768 Hon. George Murray advocates that the island of New Britain should be settled by British. John Campbell had already suggested the same some 20 years earlier. However, I set my events after 1768, because in 1767 Sir Philip Carteret had discovered and claimed for Britain New...

Land Below the Sunset #1- Crucible of Civilization The island nation of Papua [1], the world's most populous island, the second largest island on Earth (after Greenland) and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere, has a long history. Archeological and genetic evidence...

With a POD after it's date of settlement (1788), what's the largest possible population for Australia? Bonus points if you can get it significantly increase it without annexation of other territories (New Guinea, New Zealand, etc). More bonus points if you don't drastically change OTL.

New Guinea is the big island above Australia which is split between Papua New Guinea in the east and Indonesia in the west. It's quite strange that native Papuans own one half of the island and "foreign" Indonesians own the other half, you'd think it would either be Indonesians owning all of it...