Hendryk
Banned
Posted in the pre-1900 forum, but post-1900 PODs are acceptable as well.
Thinking back on how France turned Algeria into a settler colony, and how nasty that situation made it for all concerned when the inevitable eventually happened and the place became independent, I thought of a challenge: have a Western power (defined as Western European or American) claim Mesopotamia as a colony anytime between 1800 and 1950, and have Westerners come to said colony as permanent settlers until they amount to a plurality of the population.
All of these settlers may not necessarily be from the colonizing power, just as a fair percentage of settlers in Algeria came from Spain and Italy rather than France itself. But their loyalty should definitely go to the colonizing power.
Thinking back on how France turned Algeria into a settler colony, and how nasty that situation made it for all concerned when the inevitable eventually happened and the place became independent, I thought of a challenge: have a Western power (defined as Western European or American) claim Mesopotamia as a colony anytime between 1800 and 1950, and have Westerners come to said colony as permanent settlers until they amount to a plurality of the population.
All of these settlers may not necessarily be from the colonizing power, just as a fair percentage of settlers in Algeria came from Spain and Italy rather than France itself. But their loyalty should definitely go to the colonizing power.