What other European powers could have (realistically) colonized? Colonizing America or Africa works, bonus points if you post a map!
Depends on the butterflies leading up to the Age of Colonization, but I've always been fond of the Dutch colonizing the New World.
Depends on the butterflies leading up to the Age of Colonization, but I've always been fond of the Dutch colonizing the New World.
Addendum: "The Dutch colonizing the New World on a significantly grander scale than OTL."You mean as they did with New York, Suriname, and still do in St Marteens? Dutch was still spoken in parts of New York and New Jersey up to the 1900s (and no, not talking about Pennsylvania Dutch, that is German (Deutsch), not related to Dutch)
You mean as they did with New York, Suriname, and still do in St Marteens? Dutch was still spoken in parts of New York and New Jersey up to the 1900s (and no, not talking about Pennsylvania Dutch, that is German (Deutsch), not related to Dutch)
Yes and no, not so much New Jersey - it was common in the Hudson Valley until the mid-19th century or so.
That said, he has a point. Unless you have a moderately early POD in mind, all the countries imaginable with a sizable population base and sea access started overseas colonies (and even some that didn't - the Knights at Malta and Curland - did too). I suppose if you want to go with some Matthias Corvinus scenario where Hungary eats the Balkans or something of that manner, they could eventually have some kind of overseas colonial venture theoretically. You could also have an early-ish Moor-screw where you have some kind of lasting independent Christian Kingdom in Morocco eventually take some colonial possessions.
Norway and Denmark if Sweden were weaker in the period.
A united Ireland with a POD that somehow imparts a large enough population and tax base to merit colonization and also independence from a British power could do it, too.
Yes in NJ. Google it.
Yes. I know. Im from Albany.I guess you learn something everyday - pretty interesting stuff. Not so much in New York though - the Dutch had been subsumed into the agricultural community in upstate New York, primarily Palatine and Yankee folks, but the Dutch language continued on until the 19th century, as did the Dutch patroon system until its later abolition.
You mean as they did with New York, Suriname, and still do in St Marteens? Dutch was still spoken in parts of New York and New Jersey up to the 1900s (and no, not talking about Pennsylvania Dutch, that is German (Deutsch), not related to Dutch)
Yes. I know. Im from Albany.
Dutch and Hindi are too, doesn't mean you call them both German.Dutch and German are related.
My condolences.
Since the Scandinavians have probably not forgotten everything the Vikings knew about this whole 'hygiene' thing by the time there's contact between Europe and the Native Americans, I can also see the epidemics being less ludicrously deadly and the more adaptable native nations surviving.