DBWI Question: I found this bizarre map

Ahh. Adding the blue makes all the difference in the world. This appears to be a map of Papal influence / mutual understanding for somewhere in the early 19th century.

Blue are the regions that recognize the total spiritual authority of His Holiness in Avignon.
Maroon are the Copts,Thomasian,Liturgians, and other Christian nations that are considered "In common communion if not common authority" by the Papacy.
Orange are former common communion areas deemed heretics by the Council of Tunis in 1803.
Yellow are the "Crusade Zones" where loyal Catholics are under oppression by heretic kings.
I'm a little surprised that the non-clerical Christian nations in the new world and Hispania are lumped together in grey with the Mohamadeans of Arabia/East Africa and the Zoastrian syncretism of the European Hun states.
-India
-Christian
Really?
 
I'll let the PHDs try to decipher the myriad of beliefs in India. Nobody really has a clear explanation for why the Thomosian church grew so quickly in the Middle Ages. They usually point to the Persian Khanate shutting down traditional trade routes and increased trade with the Aegytian empire.
Even though the "Christ alone" believers are a fraction of those that have Hindu shrines next to the Christian shrines in their homes, they still number in the tens of millions. My personal belief is that Clement VII realized that he had no real influence in the area, so his Decree in 1511 extending communion to all the Thomosian churches in India was mainly an act of realpolitik to keep their trade fleets coming to French ports and not just Lisbon or Cadiz
 
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I can't imagine any possible scenario where any of the maroon area has a center of power outside of India--unless the core territory broke off, and it was China. That being said, it's baffling that Ethiopia was able to hold out against being surrounded by the Indian Empire, most bizarrely on its west (which is pretty isolated).
 

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It's not just the colored nations that are the problem, there are various unusual states around the world, with odd borders. I think that red is *India, or even possibly *Australia in a weird, weird TL, *Britain is also a possibility in an *European dominated world. Blue is Algeria in an extreme *Euroscrew, but possibly also *France. However, judging by the Yellow and Orange countries, i think that this is an *Eurowank because all lands they own look very weird.

Those space-filling empires in *Euroasia, and the *Americas tho, even though geography does support the possibility of such states
 
On a second inspection, the map shows some Indian cities, mostly historically maritime ones, under the control of other powers, which would imply that the center of power is not on the western coast. Sri Lanka seems like a good bet. Perhaps Kerala, but the city under another nation just to the north makes that seem unlikely.

Aren't those cities roughly the locations of some of the Free Cities of the Indus Empire? I know like fifteen are missing but maybe this Timeline had some of the successfully gain indepdence in protest of the 1966 military coup.

I can't make much else of the map except maybe being a weird alliance. A united, independent Britain could make sense as the seat of power. Maybe the English Revolution failed or King Henry, House of Cromwell, was able to hold off the Puritan Massacres that King Oliver was able to.
 
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