I made this particular map out of a map series detailing the rise of this Ottoman Hyperwank, and so the dots in Buryatia are just trans-Siberian outposts that I forgot to remove.
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I made this particular map out of a map series detailing the rise of this Ottoman Hyperwank, and so the dots in Buryatia are just trans-Siberian outposts that I forgot to remove.
Not quite yet.
Basically Rhodesia-Nyasaland implements universal suffrage in the 1950s, and is granted Dominion status in the Commonwealth. Nowadays it's reached a level of development equal to about Romania.
When the Portuguese Colonial Wars breaks out at some point along the line all of Mozambique north of the Limpopo river is occupied and later annexed by the CAF. I'm not sure how exactly this will go down, and whether or not it actually means war with Portugal Proper, but protection of the region's Shona population as well as CAF investments, in particular the port of Beira, would be grounds for an intervention.
Spanish speakers use negro for black, because black in Spanish is negro... What else do you expect Spanish speakers to use for the word black? Bad example. Negro and the n-word are different things, and negro in Spanish and negro in English themselves are different things.
But it's only different because Americans DECIDED it was different. Both words refer to black, it's we who give one of them a negative connotation.
Courts only have power because we DECIDED they have power.
But you aren't going to win a trial with that logic.
To me it looks very.... green. At first glance I thought the world had been taken over by Robin Hood.
Hello guys! I have created a new Era: Era of Barbarium. This is where the nations of the medieval age are still formed (more or less) with a functioning Justinian sized byzantine Empire. Islam spreads much slower due to the defeat of the Rashidun caliphate by a combined Byzantine and Sassanid coalition at the battle of Yarmouk. Haven't yet figured out the year, but I'm working on it.
So that's why.
When you said that electricity was harnessed early, I thought you meant really, really, really early.
Ah yes. Reuploaded.
The capital is Livingstone because in the 1950s it was right on the border of Northern and Southern Rhodesian, while being capital of neither. It's also right next to Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall on the planet. In this timeline it's a tourist/government city, sort of like Ottawa in Canada.
Of course, Northern and Southern Rhodesia no longer exist, as the CAF was reorganized along ethnic lines in the 1970s. Mashonaland being primarily Shona, Matabeleland being primarily Ndebele, Copperbelt being primarily Bemba, Maravi being primarily Chewa, Kariba being primarily Tonga, Nampula being Lowua, and Barotseland being largely Khosian rather than Bantu like the other provinces.
Of course English is understood by upwards of 90% of the population.
Kariba and Mashonaland are the nation's breadbasket. A series of reforms in the 1970s saw the monopoly on land owned by white farmers and worked by black labourers broken up and replaced by modern corporate farming. The Kariba dam provides the region with plentiful hydropower and powers the lights of the CAF's urban heartland.
Matabeleland is dry but the nation's industrial nexus, Bulawayo being the CAF's Detroit or Sheffield. It also serves as the hub for railroads running throughout the country as well as into Botswana and South Africa. Copperbelt is home to the most productive Copper mines and smelters on the planet. All of these are powered by hydro from the Kafue dam.
Maravi on the shores of lake Nyasa is densely populated but agrarian, revolving around traditional farming and fishing instead of corporate farming. It is also the most religious part of the country, the legacy of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in the colonial era.
Salisbury, Umtali and Blantyre are financial hubs, Salisbury being recognized as a Beta+ world city.
Beira is the county's principal port. It had been thoroughly anglicized even before annexation by the CAF, and it is the railhead for Mashonaland's extensive rail system. It's also known for beach resorts and Portuguese Colonial architecture, including the famous Grand Hotel Beria.
Nampula is the most underdeveloped part of the country, having been inherited from Portugal yet without the economic relevance of Beira and it's environs. It's also the most Lusophone area of the CAF. The Royal Central African Navy's main base is at Quelimane.
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Miranda Brawner
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Nice map! Green is a lovely color for painting the world. In this timeline, what are the main forces of opposition to Ottoman rule, if there are any left? Who controls the pale green region in Africa? Is there any chance of the world empire falling apart soon, or is it stable enough to endure for quite some time?
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I really wanna know what life is like in the Duchy of Republic of Massilia Mediolanum
10/10 mateI really wanna know what life is like in the Duchy of Republic of Massilia Mediolanum
, that area is so interesting and I had so many ideas for states they sorta all just collapsed into one with font sizes. Sorry ill edit it next chance I get.Any more questions would be great!
Your logic is flawed here as was pointed out above, but also in that the n-word is not the English word for black -- black is. Whereas in Spanish, negro IS black. Period. The color black in Spanish is negro. It's not like the n-word where the association with black people was decided. Anyway, again, your logic here is flawed.
My new scenario.
Inspired by the premise of a reverse Man in the High Castle- a world split between the United States and Soviet Union. The scenario has changed a bit, with a few homages to Fatherland. I have recently been reading A Political History of the Space Age, so that may be responsible for the strong emphasis on technology.
Inspired by the premise of a reverse Man in the High Castle- a world split between the United States and Soviet Union. The scenario has changed a bit, with a few homages to Fatherland. I have recently been reading A Political History of the Space Age, so that may be responsible for the strong emphasis on technology.
Riveterpunk
- Nazi Germany, militarist Japan, and fascist Italy were vanquished in the Second World War, and their lands were split up by the victorious Allies. However, the Axis bankrupted the British Empire and devastated so much of Europe that the Allies were able to set up their own puppets and annex much of the former Empires outright.
- The United States actually takes the role of Germany, though the Soviet Union is not a close analogue to Japan.
- The United States has been under the control of the Democratic Party since the election of President Roosevelt in 1932. He was succeeded by James Farley in 1947, who was followed by Joseph Kennedy. The government expansion of the New Deal and Second World War years kept on without stopping. By the present, the US government is massive and technocratic. Like The Man in the High Castles Hitler, Joe Kennedy Sr. is old and frail. Despite there being a Vice President and a written line of succession, various factions – the CCC, Army, Marine Corps, and a host of other departments, are preparing for a power struggle.
- Segregation has continued in the United States, though with the conquest of Africa, vast numbers of African-Americans have moved to the newly conquered territories. There, with few whites, they are able to have their freedom.
- The United States of Europe is ruled by TTLs Gaullists with a healthy dose of Moseley’s Union Movement. Its rocket programs and technological firms are in competition with American ones.
- After Stalin died in 1959 he was succeeded by Vyacheslav Molotov. He has discontinued some of the most extreme Stalinist programs, but there moderates that say “Destalinization” has not gone far enough. The Soviets gained much of Eurasia after the Second World War but have not shed the image of being Russian-dominated.
- The East Asian Federation was founded by Chinese Nationalists and handed British and French territories after the collapse of those empires. Strongly technocratic.
- Brazil, under the rule of technocrats, sided with the Allies and gained European territory. It has recently expanded in South America.
- Ethiopia managed to defeat Italy early on in the Second World War and was awarded with much of British East Africa. Haile Selassie is still Emperor and has modernized his empire.
- Technocracy is in the vogue worldwide. Pneumatic tube technologies are common, and government fueled R&D is nearly universal. Despite this, technology is still around the level of the late 1940s in many areas.
- The world never really demilitarized after the Second World War, so the United States and its allies have large militaries and have kept on producing weaponry.
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