Alternate Development of Europe

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Thanks for the help with my other posts on this timeline.

So far we've got a timeline where there the Mongol conquests only last for 10 years after which they have no influence on the world outside Central Asia again. The invasions of Europe are roughly similar to the OTL invasions between 1236 and 1241. At that point things turn out differently in Europe. The Mongols are expelled by an European offensive. There's no Black Death in this timeline.

A globalized trade network around some time in the 1300's and potatoes have spread around the world, resulting in much larger populations. Technology is spread around the world by the trade network so expect nearly all potential colonization candidates to have guns and roughly comparable tech. North and South America have being exposed to diseases from Asia prior to contact with Europeans and have had time to recover their populations. The world's nations are still as divided as ever so playing them off against each other like in OTL South America is an option.

Now that everybody has guns and the populations of the Americas are immune to European diseases, how does Europe as a whole develop afterwards? In this situation does Europe even begin to colonize and start building their empires? There wouldn't need to scout a route through to China, the folks in the other regions have already created multiple trade routes that can do that. Do they even have the strength or motivation to conquer any significant amount of land? I would imagine it could be similar to a snowball effect. Start with piracy on the trade routes, then go after weak targets first, the more land is conquered, the faster these empires could expand and the more powerful opponents they could engage.

If they find that individually they cannot build a empire of any significant size, would we start to see the nations of Europe forming an alliance in order to help take land? They may initially form alliances to fight each other and use these alliances to expand. Eventually when they come across the stronger and richer world powers we could see the separate alliances merge into a single alliance containing most of the European nations. This would be an 8 nation alliance style pact, where the involved nations actually are actually enemies working together temporarily to increase their own power and take out threats external to Europe.

Perhaps even through the nations of Europe a have potatoes, due to poor planning parts of their infrastructure begin overburdened and further destabilize the nation. Perhaps expansion would be in part a way to alleviate these problems.
 
When is the earliest we can unify the Italian Peninsula? I was thinking about having a situation in Europe called the "Two Romes" by the year 1600. There are two nations bearing the name "Roman Empire". The first is the Holy Roman Empire and the second would be a reunified Italian Peninsula (Imperii Romani A Solis V). The name Imperii Romani A Solis V (Roman Empire of the 5 suns) refers to the founding cities of that empire: Florence, Milan, Venice, Naples and Rome. In my current draft they joined together in order to resist conquest by this timeline's Sultanate of Rum or the HRE. They have a red flag with a constellation of 5 gold stars on it. The constellation is the relative positions of the 5 founding cities relative to each other with Rome the largest.

Later in the timeline the Imperii Romani A Solis V is replaced by a state calling itself Sol Invictus.

Which of the Romes would likely be the most powerful and would any of them have any significant power in the European region? How far could we get the Imperii Romani A Solis V to expand?
 
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This forum's title sounds right and there's no responses so i'm just going to go ahead a post something on another timeline. If Hannibal wins the Second Punic War how does the rest of Europe develop?
 
This forum's title sounds right and there's no responses so i'm just going to go ahead a post something on another timeline. If Hannibal wins the Second Punic War how does the rest of Europe develop?

If you want to start a discussion, start a thread, don't make a post in a completely unrelated thread from six months ago.
 
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