Always carry a gun....

I wonder about the future of the Pirate Cities. With Europe so busy the pirate cities could turn into a pirate empire with a strong navy and be able to raid at will since that are so far away from retaliation.
 
Sorry boy, but this TL is going in the back of the closet for a while while I'm working on AND. But don't worry, there WILL be a pirate empire when I get back to it.;)
 
Chapter 2
Open Door to the World

....

Back in Iberia, more and more Jews were being sent out of Spain and Granada. They fled the Inquisition, a manufacture of King Alfonso's court. Most refugees ended up in Aragon, but fierce anti-Semitism caused most to go further.
Hunh?!? Jews expelled from Muslim Grenada!? Going to Aragon? Why?
 
Chapter 3
Adventures in Africa


As relations with Granada grew, so did relations with the North African countries and tribes. The enclave of Ceuta grew tremendously, and Granadan interests grew alongside it.

From Ceuta and Granadan Morocco caravans transported precious spices, salt, and gold from the African empire of Mali.
The map shows ?Ceuta? and Morocco as Spanish, not Granadan, no?
 
Chapter 4
Web of Alliances



In the Indian Ocean Spanish warships attacked Port Ferdinand del Sur. Because the Aragonese were still getting set up in the Red Sea, they were very vulnerable to attack. Most of the town was burned, and the ships sunk. Ottoman Galleys arrived from the south during the attack, creating a layered battle, with Spain squashed in the middle of two opposing sides.

In India, several Spanish-controlled ports and cities are attacked systematically by Turkish galleys. Kemal Reis[2] is in charge of a particularly daring attack on the fortress on Socotra. The attack succeeds in crippling the Spanish taskforce in the northwest Indian.

1) Spanish in the Indian Ocean? Ah.. Portuguese Goa, etc. Still, when were they founded? How big a presence would they have? Did they have "several" cities?

2) the Turks got GALLEYS all the way across the open sea of the Indian Ocean!?
 
Sorry, but I never really planned for this TL to go anywhere, and I didn't even research much for it! I just can't see how I could recontinue it. Don't worry, though. I promise that once my new project is ready, you won't be disappointed. ;)
 
Top