A couple months ago, I read Stephen Barnes'
Lion's Blood, an AH where black Africans colonize the Americas and use captured Irish as slave labor. I always did like "opposite" history, so I got to thinking about how something like that could actually happen. I then got so carried away that this monstrosity came to be:
The major spheres of power in this world are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, East/Southeast Asia(not China or India) and Mesoamerica. Africa is mostly dominated by uber-Abyssinia(sky blue), epic Songhai(light blue), a more stable Kongo(red), a massive Bantu confederacy in the south(purple), and a republic in Mozambique(pink) that controls parts of Madagascar, Mexico, South America, and half of the Spice Islands. Abyssinia has colonies in France, New York, Madagascar, and Sindh. Songhai owns half of Britain, half of Ireland, and the Chesapeake Bay, while Kongo has territories in Brazil, Hispaniola, northern Spain, and the southern US. The Bantus are in control of parts of Honduras, Jamaica, South America, and parts of Australia.
Asia is primarily controlled by a "Chola" empire centered at Sri Lanka(Dark blue-it keeps the name for posterity), along with a wanked Korea(Beige), less wanked Japan(hot pink), and some weird Taiwanese empire that controls most of the Chinese coast. The Cholas control most of the Spice Islands and have colonies in Baja, and have most of South India under protectorate status. Korea rules parts of Kamchatka, Alaska, and the Canadian Northwest, while Japan owns California and has an enclave in Mexico. China has been absolutely gutted and reduced to a bunch of puppet states; its coasts are under foreign occupation and the people are desperately poor. A giant Manchu state controls the north and the south is preyed upon by a Khmer-analogue in Thailand.
Mesoamerica is dominated by the Mayans(varying shades of gray) and an Aztec-analogue(bright orange). The Mayans, having somehow come into contact with Old World earlier than OTL, have managed to spread their culture throughout the Caribbean, and central Mayapan has colonies in Louisiana and Texas. An Otomi-analogue also exists in the north.
Europe is essentially in the same state as western Africa was in the 1700's; poor, largely uncivilized, and subject to constant slave raids. North Africa is controlled by a bunch of merchant nations, and the Middle East is fragmented into a bunch of warring kingdoms(I really had no idea what I was doing when I drew up that part). Egypt is controlled by a dynasty from Cyprus, while the Nile is dominated by a Nubian line. North of the Chola line, India is divided up into several smaller states, with an Assamese empire dominating the east.
So the challenge is to basically make this map happen. Yes, I know it's borderline ASB, but I do want to see what you guys do with this.