AHC: Persian American Colonies

With a POD at really any point after the Fall of Rome, have a Persian state (based in their homeland, not a successor state with Persian culture somewhere more favorable) acquire colonies in the Americas. Bonus points if actually sizable Persian settlement occurs.
 
Hate to be the one to say it... But this is asb. Persia is blocked off by two continents from America. They're based too far east to expand to a conveniant area for colonization of America. Persia also has a well established tendency to expand east, not west, primarily because that is where wealth was concentrated. The best I could see is a Persian cultured state in Morrocco maybe, but even that stretches disbelief, not to mention is against your op.
 
Hate to be the one to say it... But this is asb. Persia is blocked off by two continents from America. They're based too far east to expand to a conveniant area for colonization of America. Persia also has a well established tendency to expand east, not west, primarily because that is where wealth was concentrated. The best I could see is a Persian cultured state in Morrocco maybe, but even that stretches disbelief, not to mention is against your op.

Eh, I wouldn't say it was ASB per se. Maybe if Persia was dragged into a massive world war, and had something silly like "If you drag us into this stupid thing we're gonna demand something crazy, like *insert American place here,* and then they actually WIN the war. Albeit, the colony would be sold off as soon as it was acquired, but it technically is a success.
 
In reference to the idea of the earlier posters idea of a persianate Morocco, how about this. Absolute, absolute, Timur wank. Have him forget about the Delhi Sultanate, Russia and China and have him attempt to re-instate the Umayyad Caliphate, to the point he goes from Persia all the way to Morocco.

Also have him divide his empire amongst his generals and send a Persian to the Maghreb (maybe Timur or a successor also takes Granada/Andalusia). Maybe a few generations and successful management after this Persian ruled dynasty could established a few colonies.

Also to really tie it in to Persia let's have the actual Timurids dynasty be ruling in Persia, Transoxiana, Levant and Egypt so this Maghreb state could be seen as a client state of the former.

Would it, as a vassal state of the main Persian dynasty count? You could also have Persians filling the role that the Chinese did in South East Asia, as merchant settlers, in both the Maghreb and the new world.
 
In reference to the idea of the earlier posters idea of a persianate Morocco, how about this. Absolute, absolute, Timur wank. Have him forget about the Delhi Sultanate, Russia and China and have him attempt to re-instate the Umayyad Caliphate, to the point he goes from Persia all the way to Morocco.

Also have him divide his empire amongst his generals and send a Persian to the Maghreb (maybe Timur or a successor also takes Granada/Andalusia). Maybe a few generations and successful management after this Persian ruled dynasty could established a few colonies.

Also to really tie it in to Persia let's have the actual Timurids dynasty be ruling in Persia, Transoxiana, Levant and Egypt so this Maghreb state could be seen as a client state of the former.

Would it, as a vassal state of the main Persian dynasty count? You could also have Persians filling the role that the Chinese did in South East Asia, as merchant settlers, in both the Maghreb and the new world.

I guess it depends on if Persia is contigenous from Samarkand all the way into Europe, and then have colonies. My guess is to have the empire slowly expand west into Africa, assimilating culture after culture, while Europe stagnates and China and India go through several more leadership changes. Once they get stuck between hostile Europe, the Sahara, and powerful China and India, it is only a matter of sending out a ship.
 
Basically ASB (although Persia in Australia might not be 100% ASB), but here goes:

A crazy, basically insane ruler of Persia ascends the throne sometime in the 16th century. He delegates enough of the military matters to his generals to make sure rebels are beaten and Persia doesn't collapse. But he's 100% intent on getting a colony in the place where the Spanish are (because he's totally obsessed with the idea), so he has some ships go to California and see what's there. By luck, they get lost on their exploration in the interior, and then by more luck, they happen across the goldfields. They return to Persia, telling of a rich agricultural land and gold, and the crazy shah becomes even more obsessed and demands thousands of people go there and settle the land for him.

Centuries later, Persian-speaking California (and possibly the rest of the West Coast too).
 
With a POD at really any point after the Fall of Rome, have a Persian state (based in their homeland, not a successor state with Persian culture somewhere more favorable) acquire colonies in the Americas. Bonus points if actually sizable Persian settlement occurs.
What about having the Persian Shah somehow become fascinated by exploration during his visit to the court of French King Louis XIV and thus having him convince some European country to sell him a few tiny territories in the Americas for a large amount of cash?

There--would that work for this? :)
 
Insane Idea: Persia retains influence in the Southern Arabian peninsula (Yemen, Oman), and has strong relations with the alt-Swahili, staying an important hub for trade between east and west. Persian rulers on the coast (Muscat, Hormuz, Aden, etc.) look seaward for power and riches as an obtrusive power in the middle east blocks them off from European trade, so they push southwards, pulling a reverse Portugal, exploring the cape of good hope and soon the western coast of Africa, before establishing trade relations in Western Europe. Some ships get push off-course near the equator by the South Equatorial Current, and soon they discover Brazil. After discovering the riches of the Americas, the trade magnates of Persia then establish settlements in the Americas to further their wealth.
 
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