This place has been inactive for a while. Let's crosspost, shall we?
An homage to the maps of the first map thread, which I have been trawling through for a few days in lieu of anything more productive.
Things which I have seen mostly in such maps (as opposed to just taken from general AH tropes)
- Kalmar Union survives
- Soviet Union, despite that being wildly out of pace with the POD(s)
- Napoleonic/Angevin empire
- Independent Ireland with colonies, especially despite the above
- Golden Horde
- Calling the Ottoman Empire the Sublime Porte despite that not making any sense
- Misspelling Iroquois
- X states of America
- Rupert's Land/Hudson Bay Company
- Deseret, especially "Inevitable X of Deseret" as a spoof!
- Mittelafrika, in any form.
- Timbuktu Transatlantic Tempire
- One or more entirely unlabeled powers despite them looking important/having space for it
- Golden Horde
- Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire surviving
- Inca Empire named "Empire Of The Four Quadrants" or something, even translated into English
- Independent Texas
- New Zealand being named Nouvelle Zeeland or something
- Giant Sykes-Picot Israel/Crusader States
- Large, oddly-placed Bulgaria
- American bit of Siberia
Here's a bonus trope:
I hope you all like it! AH CHALLENGE: Figure out how this could've happened, because I can't be assed to have a backstory.