AH Challenge: Make the world look like this

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This is a map of the world in 1900. All of the grey parts represent states that are either too small or too unimportant to be represented.

With a POD no later than 1600, make the world look like this.
 
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Dialga

Banned
Oh boy, where to start...

Less conquest-happy Russia?
Civil war in Ottoman Empire (or surviving Byzantine Empire)?
American Civil War results in balkanization?

And are those differently-colored regions in Africa colonies or independent states?

Hard to tell exactly what the POD might have been.
 

Hendryk

Banned
This is a map of the world in 1900. All of the grey parts represent states that are either too small or too unimportant to be represented.
Let me tell you of an AH trope we refer to as "Kazakh Border Syndrome". It's about taking present-day borders and projecting them into the past without taking into account how recently they were drawn. This map is a blatant example of it. Not only with the aforementioned Kazakh border, but also the Bangladeshi one (which dates from the Indian partition of 1948) and a host of others in Asian and Africa. Seriously, OTL post-colonial borders with a POD before 1600?
 
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