1492: The year a star fell on Earth

Glen

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Condottiero said:
At the moment I'll post a map with possible powers and lines of expansion. I did not expect such a slow sea level increase so I suppose Spain, the Ottoman Empire would rule big extensions. The English and Scottish would have to migrate to North America and I have included some other interesting candidates...

Japanese would go to the whole of OTL Russian Far East, perhaps?
 

Glen

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Wendell said:
Could I try a map for this?

I'd say go for it! At worst, Condi outright rejects it, but you have your own version of a drowned world.

I want at the end of that Mississippi Sea where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers enter in to have an English colony and major trading city!
 
I don't see the spainish in Eygpt more likely the South Caribean, the Isthumus, and Atlas Moutians,

Nor do I see any reason for the Indians to head for Austrilia, [was it even known in the 1500's] they have the whole Himalayia foothills to their north , Nepal to Afganistan, thro they would have some competition from the Persians, as they absorb the Mesopotanians.

Whe also have to decide if the japanese win the Korea war, If so they move in there, If not probally a major push toward Amur, I can see either, except they did lose OTL but close. ?heads Korea, tails Amur????
 
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I only wonder if any of the central and eastern Euro nations (basically everyone besides the Spanish, French, and British) will bother trying to relocate to the New World.

Maybe this can go like Peshawar Lancers. France relocates en masse to Algeria, and-

okay, that's the only part that's like Peshawar Lancers.
 
Well, it is plausible that the Ottomans would control the Inland Sea Route (Caspian-Aral) to Central Asia. However, I would be interested to see which power would control Egypt, the Straights of the Nile, and the Island of Libya..
 
PoorBoy said:
Well, it is plausible that the Ottomans would control the Inland Sea Route (Caspian-Aral) to Central Asia. However, I would be interested to see which power would control Egypt, the Straights of the Nile, and the Island of Libya..
We could still have an independent Egyptian Sultanate. If the Ottomans are more interested in the new Central-Asian sea they could leave alone the Egyptians. Although it is possible to have the Ethiopians moving north (how would the climate in the ethiopian plateaus be with an increase in temperatures?), and to have a coptic Egypt.

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Some of the lines I have marked are migrations (the english and irish to North America) and some are expansion ones (like the ottomans and the central sea and the Spanish in North Africa and America).

As for the Indians it was a possibility given by someone, maybe it is not very plausible but it gives some different flavour...
 

Glen

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http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

Been playing with the impact calculator and some very rough calculations, including the idea that it would take approximately 2 million megatons TNT to melt Antarctica.

It seems like a direct strike on the South Pole could have enough energy to melt the ice but not destroy outright the Northern Hemisphere.

Of course, that would change this deluge scenario quite a bit. I think this would mean it would rain...and rain...and rain. The waters would rise over months, not years. Crops would wither, chaos would ensure.

The world wouldn't be destroyed, but it would be a bad, bad time.
 

Keenir

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Galbatorix said:
the turks will be weakened by the loss of lots of territories in africa and constantinople. in

given that, at the time, the Ottomans hadn't had Istanbul for very long, the loss of it wouldn't be weakening to the nation -- provided the Ottomans got out of the city before it sank.
 
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Condottiero said:
At the moment I'll post a map with possible powers and lines of expansion. I did not expect such a slow sea level increase so I suppose Spain, the Ottoman Empire would rule big extensions. The English and Scottish would have to migrate to North America and I have included some other interesting candidates...
<looks over map>

Sorry, can't see a lot of the migrations indicated.

Iberia, Anatolia, and the Uzbek lands are if anything more fertile. There is a likelihood if internal migrations as the coastal cities are flooded, but overflow elsewhere would be minimal.

England OTOH, is dead on. North America could well be the new home of the Tudors.

Refugees from the Hungarian plain will disrupt a lot of Central Europe politically, but not much moreso than the problems in north France and the Low Countries (not to mention the Baltic).

Again, the flooding of the Ganges is the trigger for more internal than external wanderings, of those directly affected, although some of the Tamils may be pressed enough from the north to take to the seas. The Padishah's capital in Dheli is in decent shape.

Some conquest and colonisation from Japan is inevitable given the density of the coastal plains, and I suspect *Siberia will end up ruled by the Mikado.

China... dissolves into chaos. as likely as not, and mass migrations into the Tibetan interior are not likely to work.

HTG
 
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