Map Thread XIX
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I think there's untold potential for Papua. Start with a minor Tu'i Tonga wank, involving greater expansion and sailing west that leads to discovery and subsequent maritime and trade dominance of New Guinea, alongside greater interaction with China leading to the adoption and adaptation of Chinese script. Use that to establish codification of Tu'i Tonga laws that persist in New Guinea after a break-up of the empire, first only for the Polynesian merchant class but then developed to apply to disputes inland. A Polynesian lingua franca and common writing system allows for not only the codification of a consistent legal system but also for the sharing of agricultural techniques developed by the thousands of distinct ethnic and cultural groups living on the island, leading to a revolution in agricultural science and a subsequent scholar class that refines these techniques further, leading to a population boom, leading to a desire to expand outward by a multi-ethnic empire with a knack for integration of local customs and practices ready to swallow large parts of Indonesia and Australia and perhaps even more, possibly as early as 1300.
Well, the USA is back in the game. As costly was the Southern Reclamation seemed to be, (A prequel to World War One? ) it is still a major victory for the Union with the retaking of the Upper South. Won't get involved in affairs overseas anytime soon.
A shame about Tennessee losing Memphis, but we got Northen Alabama and so Huntsville was fair trade?
A shame about Libertalia too. If only the mordents had held out, it wound't be a sad parody of Haiti.
The Gullah Republic I'm happy about, more so given it controls both Charleston, and Savanna, doing wonders for their economy.
Alas, poor Florida. Her outcome may have been foreseeable, but the fates wasn't kind to her. Unless they pull a fast one, or the British really want to invest into Florida, it is doom.
It sucks to be Texas. They lost about half, maybe little over half, of their terrority.
Sequoyah...do you want the USA to come marching over the border to finish the job?
How does Dixie conduct its foreign policy? Are there any states with which it's tried to establish normal relations? Its location at the mouth of the Mississippi is clearly important and, I imagine, would make it a natural trading partner for the US, even if they're not particularly fond of the behemoth to their north.
That is reflected on the map, but the colors used for the Latin and Armenian alphabets are the dubious choice of #9E2125 and #9E2200.
Are there spare/alternate colours in the key that could be used?
I like this attitude!
However, that poor lil Siam looks like doing worse than otl (at least in terms of size)
I like this attitude!
However, that poor lil Siam looks like doing worse than otl (at least in terms of size)
1: I mean the reason Sweden is in the great powers list isn't Sabaton. The reason why I decided to wank them and therefore made them a great power was however Sabaton (Carolus Rex, most importantly).
2: With Ethiopia and Thailand I just wanted to say why they were independent and not colonized, wanting to voice (well, type) my opinion about the two countries during the colonial era. I didn't mean to say they were amongst the greatest powers in the world. It just happened to look like I included them in the list because I didn't clearly stop the list.
indeed. unfortunately the Armenian red looks too similar to the Latin red
I would change that. Don't let official AH.com color schemes get in the way of map readability (I would also change Georgian so it doesn't look like a close relative of Cyrillic).
Really cool map though; I'd love to see it extended to the whole world.
ALWAYS like a good new way to divvy up the world. Never thought of this one.
I’m a bit late, (I haven’t been on the website that often lately), but thank you for expanding on that map I made! It looks great so far
I'm doing North Korea under N and South Korea as just Korea under K, because I don't think there's enough of a historical break between South Korea and previous Koreas for it to get a separate wank (and then I'd have to do _three_ Korea maps.
If you do want to wank Korea, I have a few potential starting points to suggest (just to get your mind working if you didn't have any plans):
Goguryeo could be a good place to start considering how much land both inside and outside of OTL Korea it controlled or if you want Korean culture to be more widespread and lead to later unification of a larger Korean sphere along the lines of Germany or Italy, you could change some things about Balhae/Bohai or Buyeo and the Koreanic kingdoms, albeit these may be to early to get any kind of recognizable Korea .
Here's a low-ish quality map of Buyeo and the other "Proto Korean" kingdoms, so you get an idea of the extend of Early Korean settlement outside of Korea:
You can see the three kingdoms beginning to form here.
[edit: also, not my map, found here just shows the extend of Proto Korean settlement in a simple map]
Yun Gwans northern expedition is also a possibility. I used it as the POD for my, admittedly not to great, first TL. Depending on which sources you believe, he may have expanded only into NKs modern panhandle (long before Sejong the great would incorporate the region) or he may have seized large tracts of land in Manchuria (which makes for a bigger wank), but he was forced to withdraw because of a new king being crowned and his enemies in court saw to it that all of his work was undone.
You might also be interested in altering King Sejong's Invasion of the Tsushima islands. You could have him take further advantage of Japan's weakened and divided state in the Sengoku period, though I would be careful not to make Korea overstretch itself initially or become so scary that it stimulates unification.
The later you go, the harder it is to wank Korea, as their position as vassals gets more and more entrenched and they rely more and more on their protectors, which stifles development. The , for lack of a better name "Korean Meiji" is a common POD for Koreawanks, though it tends to ignore the fact that Japan was largely able to develop outside of China's political influence because it is so separated which allowed it to get to the point of the Meiji resotration and something similar would be harder, albeit not impossible to pull off in Korea.
Are you not counting Kazakhstan because the transition isn’t complete yet?
Are you sure that the the Latin alphabet is being used in large tracts of China? That seems wrong.
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