Map Thread VI
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I've decided to give a shot at a B_Munroe style narration before the map. I'd add a key like his too, but I'm in a hurry.
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This map is inspired by the current Explorers 1942 game in Shared worlds, but is by no means the same thing.
The POD is alternate, vastly more agressive colonization. More nations are interested in gaining overseas territories, and therefore competition is greater. Over fifteen nations colonize in the first few decades following the discovery of the new world.
The first conflict arising from this happens in the 1510s, over conflicting claims on OTL Brazil and surrounding areas. Spain had claimed the area, but one year later an Austrian expedition landed in the area by mistake and claimed it too. While the world generaly ruled in Spain's favor, Austria refused to budge, so a coalition was formed to force them out. The vast majority of nations were biased, because Spain had worked hard on building up trade with many nations, while Austria was focused more internally and on the HRE.
However, a new threat quickly arose. While the Europeans were busy colonizing the new world, the Ottoman Empire was rolling up the invasion route of the Mongols from the 13th century. This would have been fine, except that they started invading Muscovy and neighbors. This prompted a renewed crusade from Europe, forcing the Ottomans out of Europe. However, the Europeans could not take on the Ottomans without a local ally, and thus Oman was elevated in power during this campaign, and later left in place as a check against Ottoman influence. Oman incorperated friendly local tribes in Arabia and the near African coast and gave them equal status to help support itself.
Unfortunately, the Europeans had also been exploring near Asia, and had made China grow wary. A Kalmar (later Scandinavian) attempt to colonize Japan and interbreed with the natives prompted a Chinese response. Over the three centuries sense regular contact was established, China has fought and won several wars against Europeans, at first due to poor logistics on the part of the Europeans, but later on more advanced technology as the wars progressed science. The Chinese are also on good terms with the Muslim world, forming an alliance of convienience at times, though there is still alot of tension.
Another unfortunate side effect of the upswing of religious ferver was that several religious figures exposed the hypocracy of the church in some areas, similer to OTL's Protestant Reformation. However, it was not as widespread. France and large portions of the former HRE adopted the first break away religion, while Poland tried to reform Catholism from the inside, but was rejected by the Pope. This later lead to a civil war in Poland-Lithuania, which the Catholics won. The overseas empire was lost, as was much European territory, but the core and little extra was held onto, and the remianing state was dominated by Lithuania. Scandinavia and Prussia took most of the former colonies for "safekeeping".
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This map is inspired by the current Explorers 1942 game in Shared worlds, but is by no means the same thing.
The POD is alternate, vastly more agressive colonization. More nations are interested in gaining overseas territories, and therefore competition is greater. Over fifteen nations colonize in the first few decades following the discovery of the new world.
The first conflict arising from this happens in the 1510s, over conflicting claims on OTL Brazil and surrounding areas. Spain had claimed the area, but one year later an Austrian expedition landed in the area by mistake and claimed it too. While the world generaly ruled in Spain's favor, Austria refused to budge, so a coalition was formed to force them out. The vast majority of nations were biased, because Spain had worked hard on building up trade with many nations, while Austria was focused more internally and on the HRE.
However, a new threat quickly arose. While the Europeans were busy colonizing the new world, the Ottoman Empire was rolling up the invasion route of the Mongols from the 13th century. This would have been fine, except that they started invading Muscovy and neighbors. This prompted a renewed crusade from Europe, forcing the Ottomans out of Europe. However, the Europeans could not take on the Ottomans without a local ally, and thus Oman was elevated in power during this campaign, and later left in place as a check against Ottoman influence. Oman incorperated friendly local tribes in Arabia and the near African coast and gave them equal status to help support itself.
Unfortunately, the Europeans had also been exploring near Asia, and had made China grow wary. A Kalmar (later Scandinavian) attempt to colonize Japan and interbreed with the natives prompted a Chinese response. Over the three centuries sense regular contact was established, China has fought and won several wars against Europeans, at first due to poor logistics on the part of the Europeans, but later on more advanced technology as the wars progressed science. The Chinese are also on good terms with the Muslim world, forming an alliance of convienience at times, though there is still alot of tension.
Another unfortunate side effect of the upswing of religious ferver was that several religious figures exposed the hypocracy of the church in some areas, similer to OTL's Protestant Reformation. However, it was not as widespread. France and large portions of the former HRE adopted the first break away religion, while Poland tried to reform Catholism from the inside, but was rejected by the Pope. This later lead to a civil war in Poland-Lithuania, which the Catholics won. The overseas empire was lost, as was much European territory, but the core and little extra was held onto, and the remianing state was dominated by Lithuania. Scandinavia and Prussia took most of the former colonies for "safekeeping".
Not a traditional map, but here is baseball followings in the US and Canada:
Credit for the map goes here: http://www.unitedcountriesofbaseball.com
Credit for the map goes here: http://www.unitedcountriesofbaseball.com
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Sorry for not answering sooner, yes I will do requests if you PM me but unfortunately not ATM because of uni work.
Yes and no. While it doesn't survive itself, many of the relationships it built last. For instance, France, despite breaking from the Catholic church, has very little conflict with the rest of Europe because it was so prominent in the Coalition, Oman escapes European wrath because it has a history of helping them out when they're in a pinch, etc. However, a grand alliance has never resurfaces past the first few wars of the Colonization Age.
I'd rather see a FOOTBALL map! After all, football is the real All-American Sport.
Sorry, I had a long night last night. I'll edit it.
I found a football one, not as fancy but:
Credit for it goes here: http://blog.cartophilia.com/2008/01/united-countries-of-football.html
Looks like the only type of map missing from this sports craze is one based on college ball 
Curse those Broncos! I say it's time to go to war with Denver and take Montana for ourselves!! Mwa ha ha ha.
Looks like the only type of map missing from this sports craze is one based on college ball
Or Arena Football, or Association Football, or LaCrosse...
Curse those Broncos! I say it's time to go to war with Denver and take Montana for ourselves!! Mwa ha ha ha.
Montana shall always be Seahawk territory! (Not entirely sure who you are claiming it for.)
wormyguy
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Except for Rome, none of them contain (or are within 1000 miles of) their namesake cities.
Alex Richards
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Nice to see the basemap being put to good use. I've still got too clean up Southern Scotland and Eastern England on the 05 basemap, but it's over half done. Only problem is, it's a different file size. No matter, I'll just have to enlarge this one. Oh, and boundaries have been changed in a lot of places.
And narration right back atcha, OAM47!
Based on Mules in Horses' Harness, in volume 2 of the "What Might Have Been" collection.
Lincoln's assassination in 1863 by a Copperhead with Confederate ties led to a rather nasty reaction, an earlier fall of the Confederacy and a much harsher and extended Occupation. The Confederates reacted rebelliously, which led to further Federal Putting In the Boot, which led to further terrorism, etc., for nearly forty years, until the US finally threw up its hands and did a plebescite. A rump Confederacy, shorn of west Texas, Tennessee and much of Virginia, hobbled onto the world stage.
Although this world is in some ways more conservative than ours, the Confederacy is extra conservative. It shares with Japan and Liechenstein the dishonor of being one of the few modern nations that still does not give women the vote, (although a suffrage movement has finally got some traction in the last decade) homosexuality is illegal (and socially unmentionable) and cultivates an aristocratic ethos among its priveleged classes. It is currently only about 1/7 black, the majority having left while the going was good: much of the black population (and quite a bit of the poorer whites) are essentially enserfed by long-term "labor contracts."
The world's strongest power block is currently the US-UK alliance: the US, more centralized than OTL and with a strong technocratic streak is allied to a British Empire which nowadays is held together by an alliance of interests between the Brits and the ruling classes of Hindu India. (Among those shared interests are a concern re keeping Muslims in their place, and Gulf oil flowing. Islamicist terrorism is an increasing problem).
Commonly referred to by the distinctly non-PC North Americans as the "Yellow Empire", the Japanese Empire (unmolested by a US which never took the Philippines and whose expansion of interests abroad were delayed by the long Confederate quagmire) dominates East Asia, although their increasingly totalitarian regime is under substantial stress. (The Warlord of Yunnan is theoretically a Japanese vassal, but geographic isolation and massive bribery to Japanese officials allows the Warlord to pretty much run his fief - and his drug industries - as he sees fit).
Germany has been divided since the bloody World Wide War of '39-'46, and will stay that way if the France, Italy and Russia have anything to say about it. They lead an alliance of left-wing nations which forms the third major power block, and are not friendly with Japan or the Anglo-Indian-American block (much rhetoric about Anglo-Saxon "predatory capitalism" and imperialism (no, no, those are not colonies of France on the map: they're integral parts of post-racial French civilization, and those riots are just being stirred up by the British, you see )
The states of the World Socialist Association are not, as a whole, totalitarian: some are one-party and some only Socialist Parties Allowed and the French have (government-harrassed) oldstyle Liberals, but none of the developed nations are Stalinist or even Brezhnevite. Turkestan's Shariaist Marxism is pretty despotic, but the Association generally claims that they have nothing to do with them.
As independence for the Confederacy became imminent, black emigration to the North became a flood, and nervous northerners put some real money into “back to Africa” schemes. This failed to shift the majority, but the increase in Liberian immigration was such that nearly 1/3 of the population consider themselves of American descent, and they have managed to maintain an iron grip on the country’s politics and military forces. France’s efforts to establish turn its Empire into a grand pan-socialist federation under its leadership did not work out too well, especially not in North Africa, where the Algerians wanted nothing to do with it, but the Socialists are still the most important influence in independent Africa. Egypt was never British-ruled, and the Ethiopian monarchy still toddles along.
The Ottomans did not join the World Wide War or the earlier Russian War, and have survived: however, their attempts to create a strong pan-Muslim alliance have largely been an exercise in herding cats, and the loss of much of their potential oil wealth to the British has hurt. (On the other hand, the relative shortage of oil has led to a much more balanced economic development than OTLs Gulf states).
The Dutch, their Indonesian tail increasingly wagging them, have split off Indonesia as an allied state under a branch of the House of Orange, trying to use the rituals and ceremony of Indonesian royalty to create a loyalty to the crown, and autonomy to defuse local resistance and also to increase localism, to break up Indonesia as much as possible.
Technology and science differ from OTL in several ways: aerospace and electronics are behind, by thirty years or more, but chemistry and biology are as developed or more so. Indeed, the Confederacy, where agricultural science and animal breeding have always been part of a gentleman’s education, has achieved something of a lead in the field of biological computers, their massively parallel systems allowing for remarkably advanced social and historical analysis. Attempts to predict the future have suffered a setback, since efforts to prognosticate have proven unequal to predicting new technologies (such as the Japanese development of rockets able to loft multi-ton satellites to orbit) or one-off Acts of Loony (such as the recent terrorist action involving passenger airplanes and the Indian Parliament).
Bruce
Based on Mules in Horses' Harness, in volume 2 of the "What Might Have Been" collection.
Lincoln's assassination in 1863 by a Copperhead with Confederate ties led to a rather nasty reaction, an earlier fall of the Confederacy and a much harsher and extended Occupation. The Confederates reacted rebelliously, which led to further Federal Putting In the Boot, which led to further terrorism, etc., for nearly forty years, until the US finally threw up its hands and did a plebescite. A rump Confederacy, shorn of west Texas, Tennessee and much of Virginia, hobbled onto the world stage.
Although this world is in some ways more conservative than ours, the Confederacy is extra conservative. It shares with Japan and Liechenstein the dishonor of being one of the few modern nations that still does not give women the vote, (although a suffrage movement has finally got some traction in the last decade) homosexuality is illegal (and socially unmentionable) and cultivates an aristocratic ethos among its priveleged classes. It is currently only about 1/7 black, the majority having left while the going was good: much of the black population (and quite a bit of the poorer whites) are essentially enserfed by long-term "labor contracts."
The world's strongest power block is currently the US-UK alliance: the US, more centralized than OTL and with a strong technocratic streak is allied to a British Empire which nowadays is held together by an alliance of interests between the Brits and the ruling classes of Hindu India. (Among those shared interests are a concern re keeping Muslims in their place, and Gulf oil flowing. Islamicist terrorism is an increasing problem).
Commonly referred to by the distinctly non-PC North Americans as the "Yellow Empire", the Japanese Empire (unmolested by a US which never took the Philippines and whose expansion of interests abroad were delayed by the long Confederate quagmire) dominates East Asia, although their increasingly totalitarian regime is under substantial stress. (The Warlord of Yunnan is theoretically a Japanese vassal, but geographic isolation and massive bribery to Japanese officials allows the Warlord to pretty much run his fief - and his drug industries - as he sees fit).
Germany has been divided since the bloody World Wide War of '39-'46, and will stay that way if the France, Italy and Russia have anything to say about it. They lead an alliance of left-wing nations which forms the third major power block, and are not friendly with Japan or the Anglo-Indian-American block (much rhetoric about Anglo-Saxon "predatory capitalism" and imperialism (no, no, those are not colonies of France on the map: they're integral parts of post-racial French civilization, and those riots are just being stirred up by the British, you see
)The states of the World Socialist Association are not, as a whole, totalitarian: some are one-party and some only Socialist Parties Allowed and the French have (government-harrassed) oldstyle Liberals, but none of the developed nations are Stalinist or even Brezhnevite. Turkestan's Shariaist Marxism is pretty despotic, but the Association generally claims that they have nothing to do with them.
As independence for the Confederacy became imminent, black emigration to the North became a flood, and nervous northerners put some real money into “back to Africa” schemes. This failed to shift the majority, but the increase in Liberian immigration was such that nearly 1/3 of the population consider themselves of American descent, and they have managed to maintain an iron grip on the country’s politics and military forces. France’s efforts to establish turn its Empire into a grand pan-socialist federation under its leadership did not work out too well, especially not in North Africa, where the Algerians wanted nothing to do with it, but the Socialists are still the most important influence in independent Africa. Egypt was never British-ruled, and the Ethiopian monarchy still toddles along.
The Ottomans did not join the World Wide War or the earlier Russian War, and have survived: however, their attempts to create a strong pan-Muslim alliance have largely been an exercise in herding cats, and the loss of much of their potential oil wealth to the British has hurt. (On the other hand, the relative shortage of oil has led to a much more balanced economic development than OTLs Gulf states).
The Dutch, their Indonesian tail increasingly wagging them, have split off Indonesia as an allied state under a branch of the House of Orange, trying to use the rituals and ceremony of Indonesian royalty to create a loyalty to the crown, and autonomy to defuse local resistance and also to increase localism, to break up Indonesia as much as possible.
Technology and science differ from OTL in several ways: aerospace and electronics are behind, by thirty years or more, but chemistry and biology are as developed or more so. Indeed, the Confederacy, where agricultural science and animal breeding have always been part of a gentleman’s education, has achieved something of a lead in the field of biological computers, their massively parallel systems allowing for remarkably advanced social and historical analysis. Attempts to predict the future have suffered a setback, since efforts to prognosticate have proven unequal to predicting new technologies (such as the Japanese development of rockets able to loft multi-ton satellites to orbit) or one-off Acts of Loony (such as the recent terrorist action involving passenger airplanes and the Indian Parliament).
Bruce
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