Ooh.... thats nice. I had a Danish Civil War TL and this looks like the future of it.
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Ooh.... thats nice. I had a Danish Civil War TL and this looks like the future of it.
When I made the map, I basically figured that the West British and East British Navy would have taken the islands, while the German army would have taken the stuff on mainland Europe. So I gave all the islands to East Denmark and chalked it up to British naval superiority.
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A map based on a "No Islam" POD, which butterflies into China, causing a more violent collapse of the Tang Dynasty. There is no specific time-frame but I imagine the map to occur somewhere between 870 AD (my earliest estimate for a Tang collapse) and 1150 AD (my latest estimate for the rise of either the Song or a Tang-Song division of China).
Larger-sized version, btw. Also, criticism is welcome, since this is my first map about China. The map is also still a WIP.
Larger-sized version, btw. Also, criticism is welcome, since this is my first map about China. The map is also still a WIP.
Very nice. Reminds me of a somewhat more realistic DoD than the original was, at least as far as the Americas are concerned(with the exception of Russian Alaska)....though some of the fun bits are gone too, like Mormon Vancouver & Greek Somalia, so that's a bit of a downer.
(seriously, folks, no offense meant at all. Just my own opinion, that's all.)
@Future 8: Nice job. Hopefully you can finish the story's background soon, sounds interesting.
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I spent most of the day making this map...
After an Umayyad victory at the Battle of Toulouse, Aquitaine is solidly in Islamic hands. Unfortunately for the Caliphate conquering the rest of France is pretty much out of the question and after Charles Martel defeats a raiding party at Tours it’s all but confirmed. With South Western Europe secured Sicily falls sooner than OTL and the Caliphate begins to try and conquer Italy in earnest. For decades Italy is a battlefield as Lombards, Franks, Rhomanians, and Arabs battle over the peninsula. The Caliphate captures the city of Rome in 749, with the Pope fleeing to Rhomanian controlled Naples. In 750, riding the wave of support after conquering much of Italy the Caliph is able to squash an insurrection by the Kaysanites Shia who are led by the Abbasid Family. Unfortunately the Caliphate is on shaky legs when a revolt was launched in 755 by the Khurramites thus beginning the Persian reconquista, throwing the Arabs out of most of Iran. The Pāpakid Dynasty founded by Pāpak Khorramdin would come to rule over Persia and officially promoted the Khurramites form of neo-Mazdakian Zoroastrianism and waged war against the crumbling Caliphate along with its allies Rhomania and the Khazar Khanate. Popular rebellion in Egypt is followed by a brief period of Egyptian independence before it is reconquered by Rhomania. The Pāpakid Empire reconquered most of Persia proper but did not conquer heavily Islamized Iraq. The Umayyad Caliphate had since splintered with a second rebellion by the Abbasids capturing Baghdad and proclaiming a new Caliphate. The Umayyad Caliphate would survive in Southern Europe and North Africa. The isolated Caliphates would develop a very unique attributes over the next quarter millennia. In Mesopotamia and Arabia Islam would develop a siege mentality and would become ever more radical in the pursuit of Jihad. Minor Arab states in Mesopotamia and Arabia pledge loyalty to the Caliph in Baghdad, but the power of the Abbasid Caliph doesn’t reach far beyond the Tigris and Euphrates. In the West the Umayyad Caliphate has adopted many European customs; there is no taboo on drinking, religious tolerance has become a necessity, but missionary work is a very important within the Caliphate. Just as the Middle East the direct rule of the Caliph has begun to wax and wane. Most of Northern Italy and Southern France is practically independent either as Christian tributaries of the Caliphate or Islamic Emirates that have pledged fealty to the Caliph. Islam outside of Arabia and South Western Europe and Northern Africa has become kind of a curiosity and has largely disappeared from Central Asia and India. Even in Arabia Islam has begun to slowly dissipate, with Oman officially adopting the same form of neo-Mazdakian Zoroastrianism practiced in Persia and the Axumite Empire having launched raids against the Islamic states that lay across the Red Sea.
After an Umayyad victory at the Battle of Toulouse, Aquitaine is solidly in Islamic hands. Unfortunately for the Caliphate conquering the rest of France is pretty much out of the question and after Charles Martel defeats a raiding party at Tours it’s all but confirmed. With South Western Europe secured Sicily falls sooner than OTL and the Caliphate begins to try and conquer Italy in earnest. For decades Italy is a battlefield as Lombards, Franks, Rhomanians, and Arabs battle over the peninsula. The Caliphate captures the city of Rome in 749, with the Pope fleeing to Rhomanian controlled Naples. In 750, riding the wave of support after conquering much of Italy the Caliph is able to squash an insurrection by the Kaysanites Shia who are led by the Abbasid Family. Unfortunately the Caliphate is on shaky legs when a revolt was launched in 755 by the Khurramites thus beginning the Persian reconquista, throwing the Arabs out of most of Iran. The Pāpakid Dynasty founded by Pāpak Khorramdin would come to rule over Persia and officially promoted the Khurramites form of neo-Mazdakian Zoroastrianism and waged war against the crumbling Caliphate along with its allies Rhomania and the Khazar Khanate. Popular rebellion in Egypt is followed by a brief period of Egyptian independence before it is reconquered by Rhomania. The Pāpakid Empire reconquered most of Persia proper but did not conquer heavily Islamized Iraq. The Umayyad Caliphate had since splintered with a second rebellion by the Abbasids capturing Baghdad and proclaiming a new Caliphate. The Umayyad Caliphate would survive in Southern Europe and North Africa. The isolated Caliphates would develop a very unique attributes over the next quarter millennia. In Mesopotamia and Arabia Islam would develop a siege mentality and would become ever more radical in the pursuit of Jihad. Minor Arab states in Mesopotamia and Arabia pledge loyalty to the Caliph in Baghdad, but the power of the Abbasid Caliph doesn’t reach far beyond the Tigris and Euphrates. In the West the Umayyad Caliphate has adopted many European customs; there is no taboo on drinking, religious tolerance has become a necessity, but missionary work is a very important within the Caliphate. Just as the Middle East the direct rule of the Caliph has begun to wax and wane. Most of Northern Italy and Southern France is practically independent either as Christian tributaries of the Caliphate or Islamic Emirates that have pledged fealty to the Caliph. Islam outside of Arabia and South Western Europe and Northern Africa has become kind of a curiosity and has largely disappeared from Central Asia and India. Even in Arabia Islam has begun to slowly dissipate, with Oman officially adopting the same form of neo-Mazdakian Zoroastrianism practiced in Persia and the Axumite Empire having launched raids against the Islamic states that lay across the Red Sea.
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No other interest in the Ottawa metro map?
It's good, but there's not much to say about it.
I was hoping with all our Ottawans on here someone actually from the city could give advice.
Pretty cool, but the Swahili state makes little sense, and I can't see the Nords going after Quebec before the Baltic and Finland...
The Swahili states develop because the Indian Ocean trade was already beginning to blossom. Even though the Caliphate collapses far earlier that OTL the Indian Ocean trade is still going to exist and grow in importance. Arab, Persian, Rhomanian, and Indian traders are still going to come into greater and greater contact with each other and East Africa. Though more religiously and linguistically diverse than the Swahili city-states of OTL, the East African city states still come into existence. I've edited the color to make it more apparent that it is not a unified state.
I can see your second point, but the Nords are more directed westwards because of their longer lasting and more permanent conquest of Britain (though they should probably also control Ireland). Plus the Native Americans have been decimated by disease where as the Balts have not.
I like it. Is that a Lakota state in North America? Also, why no normal Munroist snarkiness?
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This map was inspired by round C of ABC map contest.
I'm sorry about those atrocious borders.
Are those both the round C and D colors? I have to say, I will be quite impressed if, at the end, someone is able to combine all the colors and topics into a single map...
“I like Denmark so much that I prefer to have two of them”
Looks pretty reasonable for the most part, other than the blue island next to Schleswig. No amount of naval superiority is going to prevent the Germans from taking that.
Pretty unequal split of Denmark though, more so than OTL East and West Germany I think. Especially with the Germans grabbing all of Schleswig. Leaving Schleswig Danish would basically make Jutland Estonia though, with Germans instead of Russians.
Hohenzollern Poland
Union of Four Nations sorry for bad German because I just used Google Translate.
Union of Four Nations sorry for bad German because I just used Google Translate.
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