Planning in advance like this takes away all the fun and unpredictability of a Map Continuation. Like I said, whether or not the claims are "ASB or logical" or whatever, you go along with them. You bend the history to the will of the map. Somehow, you make it happen. History doesn't always make sense.
Map Continuation X - Map 4 - Africa
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But didn't the UK control about a quarter of the world's total land mass, including land from every continent? For an island of only 229,848 km2, they managed to control a vast Empire. Having swaths of land in Asia and Africa did not retroactively prevent them from grabbing land in the Americas.
Maybe I was exaggerating when I said they should have the most land, but their claims would not be small by any means.
This, definitely. A look at British, German, or Spanish territory c. 1900 does not make a terrible amount of sense. Neither do the borders of the USA. Let's just map it.
It looks like I had more time than I thought. Here's Africa with its borders refined - I traced lots of rivers and watersheds and the like. All that remains is to thin out some of those borders to 1 px. [EDIT] The whole thing is done. Let me be the first to say: nkosi sikeleli Africa!
Consensus was clearly agains the Turkish colonies, so they're gone. I also tweaked Ethiopia's borders in rather arbitrary ways - they were just too convergent to OTL.
Several islands are still without claimants. The Venetian claims on the "reboot" map aren't shown. They are currently up for grabs and, as far as I am concerned, should be claimed by editing this map in the usual way. The list includes (clockwise from the right): the Seychelles, Mauritius, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena, Ascension, Cape Verde, Madeira, the Azores, and Malta. That's nine lovely colonies (or microstates?) still available!
Consensus was clearly agains the Turkish colonies, so they're gone. I also tweaked Ethiopia's borders in rather arbitrary ways - they were just too convergent to OTL.
Several islands are still without claimants. The Venetian claims on the "reboot" map aren't shown. They are currently up for grabs and, as far as I am concerned, should be claimed by editing this map in the usual way. The list includes (clockwise from the right): the Seychelles, Mauritius, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena, Ascension, Cape Verde, Madeira, the Azores, and Malta. That's nine lovely colonies (or microstates?) still available!
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I approve
West Equatorial : Ixołe Speranze The Hope Islands
East Equatorial : Ixołe Trinità The Trinity Islands
IOTL Eastern Libya : Tripolitania As OTL
IOTL Eastern Nigeria : Isaveria From Isa Ber, the Songhai name for the Niger River
IOTL Gabon and Cameroon : Venezuoła Little Venice (i.e. IOTL Venezuela )
This.
We'll call South America Zenobia, shall we? Maybe we should have another name for North America. I agree that South America should be Castilan and French former colonies, with a Mauretanan, English and Danish presence in the north.
I agree, specially because France, now, has a proper african base to reach Zenobia. (... and Mauretana shall rule South Atlantic!)
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Behold, gentlemen, our creation: The Carta Magna Mundi Veteris*!
(*The great map of the Old World, if my latin is not that bad)
edit: oh, with Mauretanan St. Helena, Ascension and a large piece of African coast, I think it makes more sense to have their (ex-)colonies in South America.
And, well Zenobia Austral and Zenobia Boreal sound rather neat, as it's probable they would call all the lands they found in the west the same - maybe the italian guy was named Bartolomeo Morello, and one/some/many nations are named after him?
Or the French and Castillians called it Zenobia Boreal, however the Anglish , at first, thought they found a new land, and called it Morelia after, uhn, the explorer Francis Moore?
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Nice! One question, is Siberia part of Japan or just a puppet? the colours are the same...
If nobody minds, I'd like to claim Malta as an independent state. I feel like when Krall created the Sicilian Emirate he left Malta out for a reason, and I would like to play around with different hybrid Maltese cultures in such a different kind of Mediterranean.
I agree 100% with the way the other islands are distributed. They all make sense for various reasons and it's clear that thought went into it.
I agree 100% with the way the other islands are distributed. They all make sense for various reasons and it's clear that thought went into it.
In the map, it's Sicilian, but I support an independent Malta, just for the sake of variety.
And my first try on a religious map of the Old World:
(I think we agreed that there was some sort of protestant reformation in the New World... I thought it could have become mildly popular in Africa do Sul too.)
Do they? I'm happier to make it Ottoman rather than Sicilian. Map changed. And somewhat sneakily, I'm claiming the Chagos for the Luxemburg Empire... they're an age-of-steam kind of colony, and the Luxemburgs are I think became an active maritime power only recently.
If nothing else, it will give ships a place to stop on the way to Dadra.Meh, Ottoman is different, too.
Brilliant! Maybe in the East African Free State then, too.