Challenge: Conquer the World!

Is there any PoD after the ARW that would result in one nation conquering the world?

Here are some rules:

-Nothing ridiculous/ASB

-No alliances; I want the whole planet under one flag

-It may be any nation


GO! :D
 
Canada joins the American Revolution along with the Carribean colonies. Now with all the English colonies under the US it goes hyper-imperialist under Hamilton. The Louisiana Purchase happens and Mexico is conquered by the US. The US expands into Latin America conquering it all bit by bit. It launches a colonial drive in Africa and Asia. The United States of Oceania is proclaimed. It economically and territorially dominates the world and one by one the world's nations begins joining it as commonwealths and so on. By 2009 all of the world is under the United States of Oceania renamed United States of Earth.
 
Lets have the Empire of Brazil slowly expand. They conquered Southern South America then head North up the Pacific coast of South America until the control the continent. From there, Central America and the Caribbean. Then Northern North America. They would intergrate everyone into the Empire. Everyone will feel part of the Empire.

They then head East to Europe. Once Europe is conquered and absorbed they would head South to Africa.

Once Africa is controlled then West from the Americas to Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japans and Indonesia. Once all those Pacific and Asian islands the Brazilian Empires troops would advance into Asia from the East and West.

This would be the flag of the Empire of Brazil:
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Someone already wrote an alternative History story on the Empire of Brazil. Brazil was a major power but Brazil did not take over the whole world. But it seems the story was taken off since have not been able to find it.
 
Canada joins the American Revolution along with the Carribean colonies. Now with all the English colonies under the US it goes hyper-imperialist under Hamilton. The Louisiana Purchase happens and Mexico is conquered by the US. The US expands into Latin America conquering it all bit by bit. It launches a colonial drive in Africa and Asia. The United States of Oceania is proclaimed. It economically and territorially dominates the world and one by one the world's nations begins joining it as commonwealths and so on. By 2009 all of the world is under the United States of Oceania renamed United States of Earth.

America decides that they were in the wrong and don't revolt. Britain slowly starts turning itself into a federal empire.

While the American colonists are busy taking over the Americas up to the 1850s, the British unite Germany through Hannover, which is also in federal union. The British support Polish, Hungarian, and Italian revolts and absorb them as well. In the war with Austria and Russia over these revolts, Austria gets annexed into British Germany and most of the Russia far east gets annexed along with the baltic coast.

India gets conquered per OTL, same with Australia. Indoniesia and South Africa get picked up in the Napoleonic wars.

China gets conquered in the opium wars and then the taiping rebellion and then later when rump china falls into warlordism.

British Empire in late 1870's dictates to rest of world that Africa is theirs. Portugual, Englands oldest ally, decides to join as an autonomous member state along with Brazil and Angola/Mozambique (part of deal with Britain so they keep their bits of Africa, but since they're part of british empire, it doesn't matter).

1930's: New Ideology decides that the rest of the world which is a rump must be brought under benevolent British rule, and do so in the war to end all wars.

The end:D:cool:
 
First, we need every country on Earth to be a monarchy recognized by the Europeans, or controlled by one. Then, we need a lot of Hapsburg intermarriages- let the right people die off or inherit and bam, Austrian World Empire. :D
 
First, we need every country on Earth to be a monarchy recognized by the Europeans, or controlled by one. Then, we need a lot of Hapsburg intermarriages- let the right people die off or inherit and bam, Austrian World Empire. :D

And Thus the Dual Monarchy^20 was formed...
 
Well, if we start with a *Napoleon with a better sense of the arts of the possible, avoid the sale of Lousiana, add an early adoption of steamship technology by the Empire to allow Brit-PWNing, and get United Europe in a fight with the US around 1850...

It might be a fairly loose empire, but there's definitely a chance of the whole world being at least theoretically under one flag by 1900 - after all, look how much of it came under the control of a divided Europe. Doubt it would last till 2000, though.

Bruce
 
If feudal Christian monarchies took over the whole world, every king would answer to God as the king of creation, and so all wars would be civil wars within his kingdom. In a way. :)

But that isn't really post ARW, oopsie
 
You've already done the plausible ones...

....so here's mine....

:D:rolleyes:

The Constitutional Conventions fail so the US breaks up. Europe dissolves in revolutionary wars, several British heirs to the throne are dead/ill/too young/whatever. The butterfly effect kicks in and whoever becomes king isn't capable of keeping the Empire together.

Spain's South American colonies become independent, and somebody similar to Bolivar comes along. He's familiar with the American ideas of democracy, and British government (and other ideas as well). He wants to try something similar. He starts out by unifying Argentina, and making it a successful, working democracy,

He and his descendants make Argentina more powerful, dominating South America. North America is so disunited that there's no effective resistance. Argentine scientists are also exploring Antarctica, and Argentine explorers have discovered gold in California, Alaska and Australia.

By 1900 Argentina controls all of North and South America. Oceania was taken over in this period as well.

The Scramble for Africa never happened, and Argentina's medical researchers are able to enable Argentine explorers and traders to deal effectively with local African conditions. Argentine corporations soon control mining and development in West and Southern Africa, and by 1925 Africa is entirely under Argentina's rule.

China and Japan see Argentina as a major rival, so Argentine agents arrange a civil war in China, and a Japanese invasion of China. Unfortunately the adage, "Never fight a land war in Asia" applies to the Japanese as well. By 1930, both sides are weak and weary enough for Argentine corporate do-gooders to come in and take over.

There was a Communist Revolution in Russia, but it went so badly, all the Argentine agents had to do was assassinate the leader and let the resulting civil war go on for a while. Argentina was able to take over by 1940. Controlling the media was a major help here. Television and radio were common by then.

Argentina bribed enough Ottoman officials to control the selection of the next Sultan, who promptly abdicated in favor of an Argentine governor, and the Ottoman empire blinked out of existence on January 1, 1950.

By this time, Europe was starting to unify against the Argentine threat, but it was too late. The European-Argentine War lasted from 1950-1954. It lasted that long because the Argentines wanted to test some new weapons systems, and they didn't want it to last longer because they wanted to minimize European hatred of the Argentines.

South Asia was the last region to join the Argentine empire. The last holdout, Ceylon, joined on July 11, 1970.
 
Germany, Japan, US, UK and USSR all devolop nukes at about the same time and blow everything up. World government collapses during a short nuclear winter, afterwards the world gives up war as a means of settling disputes and unites under one banner.

It'd take something shocking of that magnitude to dissolve the concept of nationality.
 
If the ARW ends in a negotiated settlement whereby Britain gets to keep an America with limited autonomy while a small number of American MPs are seated in Parliament, you could have the beginnings of a World Empire, albeit a fairly loose one.

Another possibility is China opening up to the world and industrializing in the late 18th century (ie "pulling a Meiji") and going on to conquer the Pacific and Indian Ocean Basins, effectively giving China the World.

Both of these, needless to say, are extremely far-fetched, but hey...
 
If some China could tie together the great Asian expansions of the 1400s and 1500s that would form a great basis in which to build a Global empire under one flag.

Perhaps China could back the Timurids, Ottomans and Babur and hold them together for longer. With Chinese support arriving from overland and sea with the treasure fleet perhaps the Ottomans could have captured Vienna in the 1520s. Certainly the treasure fleet could have supported the rise of the Aztecs and Incas in the decades before the Europeans even heard about America.

China could become a global colossus, string-puller of the Timurid, Mughal, Ottoman, Aztec and Incan empires as well as hegemon of the Indian and Pacific oceans. That just leaves Europe, not much on the face of it.

I also overlooked the ARW thing.
 
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