How far back am I allowed to start?
Cause if I can start with the Great Elector I've got this in the bag.
Ok, how big does a colony have to be to be considered "major"
A single port town + surrounding hinterlands?
Can you give me an example of what you would consider major?
Is Macau or Hong Kong or Pondicherry sufficient in Asia?
The challenge is to make Prussia a colonial power with at least one major colony in both America and Asia by the year 1860.
In 1842 the Prussian minister in the US (Friedrich Ludwig von Roenne) was in discussions with the Mexican minister (Juan Altamonte) to buy upper California. Bunsen, the Prussian minister in London, wrote to the Foreign Ministry on 10 January 1843 urging them to take up the scheme, but they never did. I'm not sure how you get one in Asia (participation in the Arrow War, perhaps), but this would seem to be a reasonable POD to try and get Upper California.even with an early POD Prussia is quite poorly geographically positioned and still fairly weak in the time it has to establish a "major colony" in America, let alone Asia.