An Alternate History of the Netherlands - 2nd Edtion

I'm thinking up a more realistic world for An Alternate History of the Netherlands.
Not sure which way I'm going to go in regards to North America.

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I'm guessing Tejas secedes from the Confederacy/never joins the US, California isn't taken (lacking an Mexican-American War analogue), and Florida is never taken? And what are the other two Southwest blobs?

I think North America's a little too balakanized; an independent Texas would've fallen under some Euro powers influence if not America's, and California would probably loose some of their major ports to the US (ala Hong Kong and China).

An independent Bolivia keeps some of its best agricultural lands? I'd have thought that Germany would have tried to seize it the first chance they got; what with the settler colony they have next door.

I have a hard time seeing AH having any land in Africa outside of Northern Africa, unless the Igbo colony is something being propped up by Germany.

France never lost the Alsace eh? Makes sense.

Ah, Afghanistan. Or as I like to call it: Europeans going on a map and saying "Welp, no body wants this land, so we'll name it after some rugs and just let it be :p."

Any plans to show internal colonial divisions in Africa and South America?
 
I'm guessing Tejas secedes from the Confederacy/never joins the US, California isn't taken (lacking an Mexican-American War analogue), and Florida is never taken? And what are the other two Southwest blobs?

I think North America's a little too balakanized; an independent Texas would've fallen under some Euro powers influence if not America's, and California would probably loose some of their major ports to the US (ala Hong Kong and China).

An independent Bolivia keeps some of its best agricultural lands? I'd have thought that Germany would have tried to seize it the first chance they got; what with the settler colony they have next door.

I have a hard time seeing AH having any land in Africa outside of Northern Africa, unless the Igbo colony is something being propped up by Germany.

France never lost the Alsace eh? Makes sense.

Ah, Afghanistan. Or as I like to call it: Europeans going on a map and saying "Welp, no body wants this land, so we'll name it after some rugs and just let it be :p."

Any plans to show internal colonial divisions in Africa and South America?


I watched John Adams a couple of weeks ago and got to thinking: if there was no physical connection between New England and the slave colonies and Pennsylvania, how would that really work? It wouldn't. I don't think that sense of union would exist with New Amsterdam sitting there. Plus, the Seven Years War was started in America, which resulted in the French getting kicked out. Since I'm going for more realism, I'm thinking there wouldn't be a USA :(.

No USA means no Monroe Doctrine, which mean free-for-all in Spain's former empire. New Spain has fallen apart into several states, with Mexico eventually ending up under French rule/protectorate. I guess there would be lots of that when the loans defaulted. I had the idea of rebellion in the southern colonies when Britain tried to outlaw slavery too. Somebody (can't remember the name) gave me the idea of a more theocratic New England too. I'll use that for the irony if nothing else.
 
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