After some time, I have finally caught up to the current end of this timeline and it was a great ride. While I do have some questions about the timeline, I will save those for the next volume. For now, I do have some observations that I want to give for this volume:
Miss Pérez: That was around the time that we did more treaties with the Chinese?
While California decided to work with China and reject russian influence, on the map after the pandora war said that California was close to becoming an official russian ally. So was there an error in the map since that end up not to be true?
Despite (or because of) this dysfunctional government, Greece in the second half of the nineteenth century enjoyed a new cultural flowering known as the Anagennisi (‘renaissance’), of which Katsouranis was one of the ringleaders. Greek literature, theatre and (to a lesser extent) painting became popular throughout Europe, spreading to the Novamund and (perhaps surprisingly) to the Ottoman Empire, which had many educated people who could read and write Greek (even many without Greek connections themselves). The Anagennisi helped mend Greece’s image in the western world, although it sparked an argument (both inside and outside Greece) over whether it should be regarded as a continuation of the glory of Ancient Greece, or something new altogether and worthy in its own right.
Now this is interesting, as in OTL, John Byron planted the seeds for the western world's modern romantic idea of Greece. But ITTL, John Byron gave Greece a not flattering image of the country. While this ruined Greece's image for some time, it lead to the interesting result of establishing their own world image on their own ground rules thanks to the Anagennisi and not by John Byron in OTL. At least in Europe and what's considered the developed world ITTL.
Something that I also notice is that Europe and this timeline developed world are more open to cultural renaissances that were not accepted in OTL. From Greece to Bengal to french Australia, places that were not in the purview of OTL, are ITTL. This ironically makes LTTW cultural purview more globalized then OTL.
[1] This reflects a situation quite different to OTL, with fewer British expeditions exploring the Pacific region in the late 18th century, in part due to the early death of James Cook whilst working as a surveyor for General Wolfe in the Third War of Supremacy.
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Paul’s break with the Church over women in factories was therefore a significant shift in power dynamics, though this was little noted at the time by foreign observers.
I am surprised that Paul did not point out to the Church that women in the factories can be seen as a natural evolution of Prince Theodore's " National Marriage".
It is worth noting that the idea that blacks were ever truly on top in Carolina is an exaggeration based on complaintive propaganda by white Carolinians.
Something that is interesting, is that while the Meridians did not use Black Carolinians as much, in the minds of the white Carolinians, the Meridians did. What this means is that both white and Black Carolinians now have strong grudges against each other, with the Black Carolinians being enslaved, and now the white Carolinians and the grudge against the Black Carolinians and their involvement with the Meridians, even if the Black Carolinians grudge being more true then the White Carolinians grudge. What this means is that it makes a tiny bit more sense why both Carolinians are separated from each other of their own will, as their grudges can be one of the factors for that situation. And with the Combine bringing in soldiers from the Kongo, the white Carolinian's grudge against Black Carolinians and Blacks in general, is most likely going to grow worse.
While the ENA was created with the same people that made the USA (And Anglo-Canada), I always thought that the ENA would be more different than the USA. Its Peace with the first generation of German immigrants and America thanks Fredric should have made an America more friendly to german immigrant culture, not be xenophobic aginst them like OTL USA. The ENA had the "National Gloom" which was said to make the American populace accept themselves as any other country in Europe. This combined with the fact the ENA has had more conflict on its borders than the USA ( the last time the USA was attacked on its borders was the war of 1812), means that the ENA should have been more down-to-earth than the USA. Even the ENA version of manifest destiny is more down-to-earth than the USA manifest destiny, as the ENA version was a party policy for the supremacist instead of a full-on movement like OTL. Yet the ENA feels too close to the USA than it needs to be. The ENA can still be nationalistic, but I always thought that it would be more like every other nation's nationalism, and should not have developed "American exceptionalism" like the USA given the information we were given.
The same can be said for other north American countries in ITTL, as California should have been called "the land of broken dreams", But instead is instead called the land of dreams like OTL. And Carolina Should not have a Deep south culture thanks to cotton not being as important enough ITTL south to create a deep south culture, and thus Carolina culture should be more upper south dominated. Yet in recent updates, Carolina was shown to have a deep south culture when it should not.
While I am ranting, I just think there are too many examples of cultural things that happened in OTL that should not happen in LTTW, yet still do, especially when it comes to the ENA and its differences from the USA.
Edit: Something that I am interested with the ENA is its English. Since the ENA stayed with the British longer than the USA, the ENA English should be different from OTL USA English. I think the ENA would speak a more developed version of Tidewater, as that was the dialect that was closely related to what colonial America spoke. So since the ENA stayed with britian, I can see tidewater still being the main English dialect of the ENA and have it developed from there.
