Sure did, all because they had already unlocked electricity as an achievement so that by the time they decided to make steel rails steam and diesel would have already been passed over
Elysium..., a Roman America TL
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Can’t wait to see the Hoover Dam equivalent all done up with columns and majestic grasslands around it.
Columbus: Ahh, new lands and natives to conquer. I could really go for a drink.
Elysium/America: Here you go.
Columbus: Thanks....W A I T.........
Personally, I think the provinces should go more along rivers and mountains, too many straight lines for my taste. Straight lines in America where the result of english kings granting lands from the other side of the ocean without knowing what's there, and then the Congress did the same thing.
Other than that, I am enjoying this timeline very much, I have been reading It for few days when I have a moment and today I could finally read all. I like how the Elysians keep this balance of "brutality and sophistication" that was so characteristic of the romans.
Ju, now electric trains, industrial machinery and war games. Eurasia has no chance.
Columbus: I claim this land in the name of God and Spain! -nailing the flag-
Elysium Police: This is for you. -gives him a piece of paper-
Columbus: What is it?
Police: A fine for littering -gesturing towards the flag-
Columbus: W H A T
Columbus: I claim this land in the name of God and Spain! -nailing the flag-
Elysium Police: This is for you. -gives him a piece of paper-
Columbus: What is it?
Police: A fine for littering -gesturing towards the flag-
Columbus: W H A T
I would not attach much importance in the province , historically they changed overtime
It's not like they are states , the senate play a role based in population , economic impact and political impact of the various provincial populations , so the areas are of importance only to the various governors .
We will have the heartland east coast/ great lakes areas massively urbanized and maybe even the south considering that in this TL the Romans did not expose the area to African disease, after that we have the west that is not really urbanized at all considering the lack of rivers for semi industry or the electric industrialization (plus the west coast that we don't know really much) and the recently conquered Mexico basin that is restive maybe or in the direction of integration considering that the Romans deposed the hated atzec plus by the tolmec era the area is Roman imspired.
Chapter 40 Caesar Titus Claudius Corvus 2241 AUC / 1488 AD - 2260 AUC / 1507 AD
HERE WE COME
HERE COME THE BOOM
HERE COME THE BOOM
Caesar Corvus, seeing the prosperity of the Empire decided to build a monument to the prosperity of the Empire. The monument was a colossal sculpture of Venus Genetrix, a sculptural type showing the Roman goddess Venus in her aspect as a robed Genetrix ("foundress of the family"). She performing the Roman salute over her head with her right hand, and in her left hand she carries a tabula ansata inscribed with the date of the beginning of the Elysian Empire. A Gladius and a broken crown lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating military victories and the rejection of the monarchy.
The monument's design contained elements of classical architecture, including Doric portals, as well as some elements influenced by Aztec architecture.
In form, the structure was a truncated pyramid, 70 square feet at the base and 40 feet at the top. All four sides are identical in appearance. On top of that, a balcony was placed on each side, framed by pillars. A separate viewing platform was placed near the top of the plinth, on which the statue stands.
But in October 1492, a flotilla of three ships that waved flags of golden castles with three battlements, masonry of sable and clear of azure together on a silver field, a rampant lion of purple, tongued and armed with gules, and crowned of gold. The design of the three medium-sized ships was reminiscent of an Ampluvis although the design was cruder. Even so, the Classis (Navy) stopped the overseas fleet and the Navis Legatus (Admiral) Quintus Fabius Maximus moved to start conversations with the newcomers since they obeyed the orders of the Marinus (Marine) although the Latin they spoke was a broken and corrupted version although they could understand each other in their own way.
In the city of Portus Guainabo, the Navis Legatus Maximus and the Admiral, Christophorus Columbus conversed at length. The reappearance of Europeans on Elysium was met with disbelief and alarm from both the authorities and the population. The memories of the Viking invasion returned and a possible invasion by this kingdom called Castillae was feared. As a gesture of goodwill, the crew members were allowed to tour the city although they were forbidden to leave it and had to go unarmed under search and each accompanied by a slave who would serve as their guide and watchman.
After a month of talks in which Columbus witnessed various weapons and ships in simulated combat that included the use of firearms, naval artillery and military training. This made Columbus return to Europe after that, carrying the news to the Catholic Monarchs. But with the discovery of Elysium, Castile who longed to find India and compete with Portugal in their commercial
A year later, Christopher Columbus began a journey to officially discover and take possession of the new lands for the Crown, later a month later, Christopher Columbus would reach what we know as Brazil, landing in what OTL would be known as Recife. After officiating the first mass, Columbus took possession of the land in the name of the Kings of Castile and began the construction of the first colonial settlement of Castile in America while a ship traveled the coast and began to name the main geographical features.
In the middle of the reconnaissance, he found only the pernambuco wood as an exploitable resource, made of reddish wood that could be used in the dry cleaners that would later exploit the pernambuco wood, the first economic activity of the colony together with the subsequent sugar imported from the Canary Islands. By 1500 A.D he had managed to establish a large-scale sugar economy, thanks to a series of favorable conditions. In addition, he had access to a necessary workforce in the form of enslaved Indians. Finally, Castilla achieved a rapid penetration of sugar in European markets.
I expected much more focus in the Columbian exchange than this but ok
Plus in regards of the Monroe doctrine they don't have explored Brasil and don't really know about the colony there.
And they will care only when the Christians will bother them(missionaries), and now they have problems of their own with the population collapse so I don't think they will care.
It's gonna hit like the old black death for impact so the east coast will be devastating .
Rethinking it's gonna be the black death .
Yea they have better ships but they trade in the Mexican gulf and within eyesight of the east coast , if I remember correctly they don't have the compass (a little strange considering they have industrial-esque magnets) but really they are primarily a land power and politically they don't think of themselves as the masters of the Atlantic or the Pacific .
Plus in regards of the Monroe doctrine they don't have explored Brasil and don't really know about the colony there.
And they will care only when the Christians will bother them(missionaries), and now they have problems of their own with the population collapse so I don't think they will care.
It's gonna hit like the old black death for impact so the east coast will be devastating .
Rethinking it's gonna be the black death .
True, there will be plague, but it will not be OTL America Apocalyptic-levels of death. That's because Elysium has experienced death and plagues before, especially during the Old World period.
Yea in the long run not a problem , but in the short one? It can create crisis after crisis , economic one, famine , it created enormous problems for medieval Europe now imagine large scale infections in little industrial towns or mines, soo yea I don't think they will expand or care about south America .
I think we were all expecting more from the Columbus but expedition but he was only 3 ships and spoke Latin to the patrol ship. No real reason to rush the drama. Plus Columbus was Italian despite sailing for Spain and spoke Latin (not well but enough to communicate) so they treated him respectfully. They let him tour the city, shared knowledge, conducted trade, and stay there for a month before sending him and his crew back with a clear message to the Europeans that this continent is Roman and far more advanced so stay away. Which is all well and good because Castile went to Brazil and not the Caribbean. So no real reason to rush the fight when they can allow the Castilian colony and trade for wood so as not to incur the cost for colonizing Brazil/SA. Could represent early diplomatic relations with Europe. Maybe Elysium only allows for trade with Spain and Italy
I mean is that it will not be a plague that killed and wiped out millions of native Americans and almost reduce their civilization to just a mere speck on the map.
All is good for now until the Missionaries start spreading the world of Christian god in Elysium and the Pope and Church starts screaming "DEUS VULT" and HERESY.
Can't wait to see the epic meltdown of the Pope and his church, making him so salty and jealous that you can harvest it for profit 🤣🤣😂😂
See, this is why I want to see the Napoleon type emperor start proclaiming himself or be proclaimed as a god because it could set up an offshoot of Elysium that gets accepted as the new Roman Catholicism where the Catholics accept the emperor as descended from Jesus.
Agreed. It would be no contest but there would still be a considerable cost to sending the troops overseas. I don’t see that as necessary just yet. Maybe when the missionaries become a problem but I can’t see too many natives Christianizing when other native tribes have already joined Elysium and adapted its culture. I see the Castillians as doing a job for Elysium tho I would like to see them playing favorites with Southern Europe