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The world's great powers are all countries based in either Europe or East Asia. There are timelines and books about countries based in the Americas gaining independence and becoming the most powerful in the world, but they seem written for entertainment value. Does anyone have any ideas for a really plausible timeline where this happens? By most powerful I mean largest economy and military by 2000 at the latest.