Map of the Fortnight: Main Discussion Thread
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A POD set during the Age of Revolution might be a possibility, but a POD after the Age of Revolutions has already succeeded would likely be deemed ASB, given the prompt.
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Wouldn't arguably the age of revolutions start in 1755, since the Corsican Revolution was a significant inspiration to the American one ?
The consensus among historians I believe is to make the Atlantic Revolutions (notice the plural) begin in 1755 and end in 1838, while the Age of Revolution (notice the singular) begins in 1765 and ends around 1848-49, although some historians stretch that out to 1755 and 1871.
The main difference is that the Atlantic Revolutions are a wholly political movement in which the bourgeoisie and new nobles secured representative and parliamentary power at least for themselves, while the Age of Revolution is a political, social and technological revolution, including the main period of the Atlantic Revolutions, the spread of liberalism and radicalism with republicanism over enlightened despotism, absolute monarchism and the like in the Western World, the re-organisation of western society into a system of classes in which the bourgeoisie was much more powerful than before, and of course the First Industrial Revolution.
The Atlantic Revolutions precedes the Springtime of the Peoples and its aftermath, the biggest being the new player in the field of politics that is Marxism.
The Age of Revolution precedes essentially no unified historical concept, except perhaps that its greater form precedes the Second Industrial Revolution.
This would work.
For this prompt, don't worry so much about the start date, any POD up to or during that time period would be acceptable.
Here's an idea:
Lay All Your Love On Me
Make a map showing a nation that is heavily supported by an international organization.
Lay All Your Love On Me
Make a map showing a nation that is heavily supported by an international organization.
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It could be like Haiti or Ukraine, or even Britain or the Soviet Union during WW2. Basically a nation reliant on support from a benefactor.