A Different World?

Ummm. I'm not really sure where this should go, but I'm putting it here as I only pick up the main story in 1900AD. The actual PoD, however is back around 1200ADish. So tell me if I should put this somewhere else.
The usual disclaimer: I'm still not very good at timelines, so there may be some blatant mistakes or silly cliches here, just point them out and I'll try and rectify them.
Anyway, here goes.

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This is a continuation of my previous TL, which was overlooked by most people, so, in an attempt to create a more popular one, I have picked it up again in the year 1987,
just after the Great War.
My PoD was that Genghis Khan's wife was not kidnapped by the Merkit tribe, leading to his survival. He finally died at the seige of Guang, the last refuge of the Song
Emperor.
This indirectly lead to the Mongol conquest of Europe, and I will give a breif outline of the following centuries here.

1200s
1240 - Death of Genghis Khan. Division of his empire and succession of Jochi Khan.
1250 - Mongol conquest of Europe initiated.
1257 - Mongol Empire conquers mainland Europe up to the Pyrenees.
1262 - Indian invasion of Mongol Empire by Jalal ud Din at the head of a 200,000 strong Indian army.
1263 - Jalal ud Din brought to battle by Subutei, a mongol general. Complete destruction of Indian army. Jalal ud Din flees with 200 horsemen.
1278 - Death of Jochi Khan. His second son, Altai Khan succeeds him.
1279 - European rebellion.
1280 - Europe reconquered. France depopulated. Munich, Antwerp, Warsaw razed. Byzantium becomes a Mongol ally.

1300s
1303 - Europe invaded by Iberian Alliance (Catalonia, Aragon, Castilla, Leon, Galicia, Navarre).
1305 - Mongols invade Europe. Iberian Alliance dreiven back through the Pyrenees and destroyed in detail. Mogols withdraw back to France. Slaughter of populations of
Italy, Germany and Poland.
1307 - Almohads conquer the whole Iberian Peninsula.
1312 - Mogols under Altai Khan invade India. Subutei is left to protect the Empire.
1313 - Mongol army destoryed. Altai Khan killed. Dissolution of the Mogol Empire. The eastern empire is Known as Mongolia, covering most of East Asia. Subutei saves a
remnant around the Russian cities, known as the Rus Khanate.
1325 - Britain and Sweden invade mainland Europe. Britain occupies Northern France, the Low Countries, and Western Germany. Sweden occupies the Baltic coast and much of Poland.
1330 - Almohads invade Southern France and Italy.
1337 - Byzantines conquer Balkans.
1339 - Collapse of Mongolia. China becomes a group of warring states. Temuge Khan holds the Mongol heartlands. Tibet becomes independent.
1350 - Beginning of European Wars between the Rus Khanate, Byzantium, Sweden, and Britain.
1379 - Black death strikes Europe much more contagious than OTL, reducing the mainland population to less than two million directly and indirectly.
1389 - Khwarezm reunited by Shah Ala ud Din II.

1400s
1415 - Sweden conquers Iceland.
1448 - Treaty of Copenahgen signed, restoring prewar borders in Europe.
1453 - Recolonisation of Europe begins.
1457 - Swedish fishermen discover Greenland.
1463 - Firs Swedish settlements established in Greenland.
1493 - Abyssinian War between Mamluk Egypt and Oman.

1500s
1502 - Oman defeats Mamluks and conquers Abyssinia.
1507 - British and Swedish fishermen sight lands to the west of Greenland.
1515 - Western Wars between Britain and Sweden over the ownership of West Greenland (OTL Newfoundland).
1517 - West coast of North America explored by John Drake. Continent named Drakia.
1528 - First British and Swedish colonies on Drakia.
1537 - Contact made with the Iroquois League. Technology traded. Iroquois begin westward invasions.
1559 - Nipponese Empire unites the Nipponese Archipelago.
1598 - Nipponese Empire discovers Western Drakia, and names it Taiyana Tocha.

1600s
1609 - Tibet conquers Burma.
1615 - Iroquois complete their conquest of the Mississipi valley.
1616 - First Nipponese colonies in Taiyana Tocha.
1625 - Irouquois conquest of Florida.
1653 - Britain claims western Drakia but does not back up the claim.
1657 - Sweden claims Christiana (the area around OTL Husdon Bay).
1683 - Iroquois Empire becomes the Federation of Native Drakian Tribes (FNDT).
1697 - Nippon colonises Ni'ihau (OTL Hawaii).

1700s
1702 - Ch'ang dynasty unites China.
1705 - Aztec Federation declared (an Aztec federal empire which survived and overthrew its monarch in the late 1600).
1718 - European nationalism begins to re-emerge.
1727 - Mumbai Pact signed by all of the Indian nations, binding them together. The Pact is led by the Delhi Sultanate.
1739 - Khwarezm pacifies the east coast of the Caspian Sea.
1745 - Byzantium begins its policy of setting up small, nominally independent states to protect it from the strengthening, warlike, European states beginning to rise out of the
darkness.
1748 - Sweden makes Livonia a Dominion of the Empire.
1757 - The Treaty of London splits Sub-Saharan Africa between Britan, Swede, the Almohad Empire, and the Sultanate of Oman.
1783 - Nippon conquers Kamchatka and OTL Alaska.
1795 - Nippon invades Indochina.
1799 - Mumbai Pact begins expanding into the Eastern Indian Ocean.

1800s
1803 - Nippon and the Mumbai Pact split Indonesia between them.
1805 - Nipponese sailors discover Sainantanoriku (OTL Australia and surrounding islands).
1808 - Mumbia Pact ships discover Sainantanoriku.
1817 - Sweden, Britain and the Mali Empire divide Sothern Drakia between them. Sweden and Britain get the lion's share,as the already had colonies there.
1818 - Inka Empire claims Patagonia.
1825 - Midwestern Tribes join the FNDT as they are under pressure from Nipponese settlements to the west.
1827 - Nipponese-Drakian war. FNDT wins a quick victory over Nippon at To-Kyo.
1833 - Anglo-Swedish war begins over North Drakian posessions.
1834 - Iroquois confederacy joins the Anglo-Swedish war, with two Iroquois nations on each side.
1835 - FNDT mediates a peace settlement between Britain and Sweden.
1857 - Five Nations of Sainantanoriku join the Mumbai Pact.
1883 - Baden-Württemberg begins to unite Germany as the Grossdeutschland Reich.
1887 - Anglo-German war. Germany takes the Low countries. France rebels against the Almohads and the British.
1892 - Independence of France recognised.
1893 - League of Italian States (LEI) formed, comprising most of Northern Italy. LEI claims Genoa and Central Italy from the Almohads, but in unable to enforce this.
1895 - Rus Khanate forcibly removes Byzantine influence in Rumania, seeing it as a threat.
1897 - Chin League formed, comprising most of ancestral China along with Koryo and Manchuria.

Now, in 1900, the world is no longer a war-torn hellhole, but is beginning to pull together in groups of nations, and it is finally beaing recognised that all people are equal. However, technology is moving on, and as newer, better weapons are being developed, and Europe wants to be free of it's external overlords once more, this peaceful world is marred by the war clouds gathering on the horizon...

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The Great War

Since it has not yet been moved, I will post an update.

1900
January
12 - Representatives of France and the Groβdeutschland Kaiserreich meet in Bruges to negotiate an alliance.
15 - France and Germany sign the Treaty of Bruges, allying them to each other, and pledging them to aid the oter in the event of an attack.
18 - Italy joins the Treaty of Bruges.
23 - British inventor George Douglas acheives the worlds first ever heavier than air powered flight. His homemade vehicle flew 147 yards and landed safely. This sparks off a rash of plane development by enthusiasts.

February
8 - Britain and Sweden form the Imperial Pact to counter the Treaty of Bruges.
12 - France and Italy demand that the Almohad Empire surrencer the land that they claim. The Almohad Empire refuses outright.
15 - France and Italy begin mobilising. Almohad Empire demands assurance that it will not be attacked.
16 - Almohad Emprie begins mobilisation.
17 - Britain pledges to help Almohads in the event of a French invasion.
23 - Germany invades the Byzantine puppet of Austria. Byzxantium demands the removal of German troops.
25 - Germany fully occupies Austria.
27 - Rus Khanate joins the Treaty of Bruges.
28 - Almohad Empire and Byzantium join the Imperial Pact.

March
3 - German and Byzantie troops clash in eastern Austria. Byzantium dmenads reparations.
5 - France and Italy declare war on the Almohads and begin to invade.
6 - Germany and Russia declare war ins support of Fance and Germany.
7 - Britain, Sweden, and Byzantium attempt to mediate a peace. When this fails, they declare war in support of the Almohads.
8 - Italian advance is halted along defensive lines in Italy.
9 - Almohad forces in France retreat to defend passes through the Pyrenees.
10 - Swedish forces lay seige to Sankt Peterburg. Byzantine Expeditionary Force, made up of five infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions land on Crimea.
12 - German fordes conquer Byzantine border kingdoms and occupy most of Pannoia.
15 - France and Germany begin an invasion of British France.
18 - Fall of Sevastopol to the now Byzantine 5th Army, which begins advancing into Ukraine.
20 - Khwarezm declares war on the Rus Khanate and begins landings around the Caspian Sea.
23 - Fall of Sankt Peterburg. Swedish forces begin penetrating deep into Russia.
25 - Byzantine 4th Army meets up with Khwarezmian Empeditionary Force north of Caspian Sea.
29 - Imperialist forces are halted in Rus as resistance solidifies.
30 - Byzantine and German forces have divided the Balkans between them, giving a solid line all the way from Italy to the Rus.

April
2 - British forces pus Germans out of Northern france and meet up with Swedish forces in Amsterdam.
3 - Almohads invade Europe again.
8 - Almohads and Byzantines meet west of Venice. Almohad assault clears north coast of Mediterranean.
9 - First Swedish troops begin arriving from the Empire.
12 - Frecnh forces break through the western Pyrenees and take northern Iberia.
15 - Swedish Imperial Navy destroys French Navy off the coast of Bilbao.
18 - Iroquois tribes become completely independent of British and Sewdish Empires.
21 - FNDT declares War on British Empire and invades the Dominion of Drakia.
23 - Almohads begin oushing French out of Iberia.
29 - Sweden breaks through the northern Rus defences and razes Moscowitz. Rus forces everywhere lose morale and begin to withdraw.

May
3 - Swedish and Byzantine armies meet in Rus Khanate.
5 - Rus Khanate surrenders. German forces move in to hold the west.
8 - French adopt a scorched earth policy in the withdrawal from Iberia. Everything and everyone is either destroyed or killed.
10 - Almohads discover French atrocities. Newspapers begin demanding that they take revenge when they enter French territory.
12 - Sudden Italian attacks take everyone by surprise. Rome is taken, as is Western Hungary, Northern Dalmatia, and Marseille.
15 - Italians drive Almohads off Italian Peninsula.
17 - Governor of Hungary betrays Byzantium and welcomes Italians.
18 - Hungary overrun. Germans begin pushing south.
25 - Germans reach Black Sea.
29 - Imperialists begin a concerted push from all sides, beating the European back.
30 - FNDT conquers Southern British Drakia.

June
1 - Governor of Hungary captured and executed for treason.
3 - Surrender of France.
5 - Surrender of Germany
12 - Surrender of Italy.
15 - Sweden declares war on FNDT.
18 - Swedish and British forces invade FNDT.
23 - FNDT sues for peace. End of Great War.
28 - Treaty of Munich drawn up. Great War formally concluded.

Extract from the Encyclopediae Brittannica
"The Treaty of Munich
The treaty of Munich formally concluded the Great War ... France and the Rus made some territorial concessions ... Italy and Germany were occupied, ... broken up ... and the new states were themselves occupied by the victors. The ramifications of the Treaty ..."
 

Glen

Moderator
It's an interesting device, having the Mongols first defeat continental Europe, but then collapse and then the periphery reinvades (England, Sweden, etc.). Not certain on plausibility, but I like it.

The map in the first post has some odd state-type borders. How did those come about?

PS - If you want to draw people into the thread, you might want to think of a more specific title like 'Mongol Devastated World' or something that identifies what its about or is just cool. A different world is so vague that it could be anything.

If you think of a title you'd like, I can change it for you.
 
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