challenge; expanded post 1000 AD empires

what would the world look like if the warious empires ruling most of the planets surface that existed ower the last 1000 years each expanded to their maximum and maintained themselves, or at least statal entities covering those territories maintained temselves till 2000 AD

its a free for all basically, Holy Roman empire, Russian empire, British empire, Frankish empire, Ottoman, Chinese, Mughal empire, Persian, Mongol, Habsburg spanish or austrian, America, Brasil, France... pick any number of them... or all of them...

for instance a world in wich Europe and most North africa is devided betveen derivates of the Frankish empire, Asia betveen Russia, China and Mongolia, Africa betveen Ottomans, Britain and Mughal India.
America.. who knows?
 
What of the empires that were founded on the other empires' remains? For example, the Ottomans were founded on the remains of Byzantium... the Russian Empire was founded (as a true empire, which was not until Ivan IV) by taking over the remains of the Mongol one... and so on. Also, the fact that many of the empires' existence and strength are self-contradictory. You cannot have both Byzantine AND Ottoman Empires at their maximum extent, as one needs to be destroyed to make place for another; you cannot have Spanish and French Empires at their maximum extent coexisting, as there is quite a bit of disputed territory between the two (just think of the height of territorial ambitions of Habsburg Spain, and Napoleonic Empire - there are quite a few overlaps). Also, uber-British Empire and Mughal India require diminished British Empire, AND the breakdown of the Mongol Empire, which creates a whole other set of events.

I think in order to make this work, one needs to select WHICH empires make it, and run with the sequence of events that culminate in your end result.
 
Is "warious" even a word? :confused:

How the heck could the Holy Roman, Frankish, and Hapsburg empires all exist?
For that matter, how could the Frankish and French empires exist at the same time?

This is almost as bad as the "WI Germans won every war ever" thread. :rolleyes:
 
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