Map Thread XIX
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Crossposting from the first telephone map game.
“The message I received pointed out that the current year was 1994. From that and the "Terra Incognita" to the northwest I assumed the technological developement went slower than OTL. Due to the name "Turtle Island" being there I assumed European attitude towards colonialism was different, mostly letting the natives do their own work while taking and founding key trade routes and benefitting from them. Then I noticed the "French Republic in Exile", and that got me thinking about an analogue of the Revolutionary Wars in which the Republic lost and had to be exiled to America*. Hence I decieded to attempt to paint the outcome of such a war in my own map and switching the map center from America to Europe in an attempt to create a more diverse world. My only assumption was that the French Republic was reduced to a rump state consisting of the core Langue d'oïl area. The rest of the states were simply invented (well, that Lotharingian Empire came from the Floridian colour of the previous map which looks like the Burgundian colour and I thought "hey, let's make a big Burgundy but not call it Burgundy").”
Okay, thanks. I tried reading up on that once you told me... But,.. according to wikipedia Cubans and/or Cuban-Americans (or even Latinos? I'm not sure) aren't really a majority in that area. So why would their culture be?
Miami, Cuba and Puerto Rico are meant to be part of the "Hispanocarribean" culture - one that is supposed to be ethnically Spanish with a tint of Taino ancestry.
Had a lot of fun designing a map in a vintage, colonial style, complete with wildly unneccessary illustrations in every blank space.
From this timeline:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-house-of-lamps-a-moorish-america.428842/page-24
From this timeline:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-house-of-lamps-a-moorish-america.428842/page-24
My God, that's stunningly beautifulHad a lot of fun designing a map in a vintage, colonial style, complete with wildly unneccessary illustrations in every blank space.
From this timeline:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-house-of-lamps-a-moorish-america.428842/page-24
No, your stunningly beautiful. I just spent a terrifyingly long time stitching together a frankenstein monster of antique map images. I did draw the trees / mountains from scratch though.
A continuation of my earlier post. Anyways, the West (the map) is considered a big point of interest due to the bandits, war crimes, and insanity.
Colony of Kaskadiya
Royal Governor: Berdy Geyts (Reform)
A Russian colony in the northwest of the Wild West. One of the calmer countries in the west. While most of the people there are poor, the recently reformed Russian Empire has really tried to support the people.
Also, they are the rivals of Russian Alaska, always trying to get more attention from the motherland. Luckily for them, the hellhole that is Alaska has been losing much of its population due to bandits (who of course are secretly supported by the Canadians). Much of the population there has moved south. Many farmers have actually moved west just for the fertile land in the colony.
Dominion of Blackfoot
Prime Minister: Steve Daines (Republican)
Of course, a dominion of the Grand Ol' British Empire. Not much to say about it except the fact that there is even more poverty than Kaskadiya, and even more bandits and raids. They also had trouble with American Nationalist group known as the "Rough Riders". The Rebels had a long history in the dominion all the way to the late 1800s when (later UAS president) Theodore Roosevelt had started. Anyways they also had a war on drugs, but it did not go very well with an entire cartel gaining much power. Currently, they are being occupied by League of Nations troops.
California Republic
Chancellor: Dianne Feinstein (Liberal)
After the American-Texan War, the Californians also thought of revolting against the Mexican Empire, but this time they would not lose to an invasion from the UAS. Little had they known, that the US planned to invade them but thankfully, Mormon fanatics had formed Deseret which separated them from the Union of American States. Even though they despised Deseret, the Californians had to support them. American troops just could not take the guerilla warfare and eventually gave up. In modern-day, they are the richest nation in the west, but definitely not the most peaceful. Through trade with the Chinese and Russians, thay have made their fair share of riches, especially with great cars and technology. But unfortunately, rebels with Mexican support and rebels with Deseret support have torn the nation in half, resulting in many civilian casualties. Also, there has been proof of corruption and not only that, but Mexican troops are lining up on their border!
The states in the country are (from left to right): Jefferson, Fremont, Alexandria, Nevada, and Southland
Deseret
Grand Bishop: Francis Smith III
The lands of Deseret have always been which of legends and rumors. Propaganda has completely destroyed the original teachings and history. There are no rebellions. No bandits. No war. Or so thought, of course, inside the government, the real war is happening. Men who care none about the religion itself but power have been seeking to take the Grand Bishop's place. Assassinations, torturing, blackmail has been plaguing the government from the very first years of its independence. League of Nations troops has though about invading the lands to end the insanity. But they do not know... There is no war in the Holy land of Deseret.
Mexican Territory
Royal-Governor: Vacant
Do not need to say much about the land except that it is wild. Completly filled with bandits, rebels, and Deseret men, and even American troops as well. Not the best place to live. Most of its population has fled to more safer lands.
I think the highest compliment I can pay this map is that, apart from the accurate coastlineHad a lot of fun designing a map in a vintage, colonial style, complete with wildly unneccessary illustrations in every blank space.
From this timeline:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-house-of-lamps-a-moorish-america.428842/page-24
, it looks like it could be a genuine colonial era map. That is simply amazing!
Had a lot of fun designing a map in a vintage, colonial style, complete with wildly unneccessary illustrations in every blank space.
From this timeline:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-house-of-lamps-a-moorish-america.428842/page-24
This is very awesome, stitching bits of old maps together is very hard from experience, did you take the text directly from older map and stitched it or did you use a specific font, if so which one (or maybe you created a custom font from bits of text from an old map?).
I think the highest compliment I can pay this map is that, apart from the accurate coastline
I was tempted to draw a (shittier) coastline to use as the base for the map but I looked at some real maps and left genuinely impressed by how accurately they captured the topography. I do think for other maps in this style I will try just subtly garbling it up to add to the illusion.
The only parts of the map that are directly copy / paste from real maps are the decorative frame around the title, the compass rose sans text, royal seal, the water effect, and the boat. The vegetation, mountains and political boundaries, are hand-drawn and then stamped by me. All the text is using either the ILShakes Fest font (land labels) or Shakespeare First Folio font (title text).
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Here's a map of the latest (1920?) Election of the Federal Republic of Iowa (by Non-Iowans) and the United States of America (by the Iowans). The main 2 parties are the Democratic-Whigs (united during the Collapse of America), and the Republicans (in a coalition with the Desert Independence party). However, the (small) Majority of the votes went to the Grand Coalition (The Independents, Libertarian-Greens, and Socialists). However, since Iowa (due to a lot of emigration from the East Coast and the Free-Staters in the south mostly went to the safer states of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Superior (broke off from Michigan after the joint Indiana-Ohioan Invasion)) has the capital and has less than 1% of non 2 party voters, the Republic has basically became a Dictatorship and is about to break any minute. The current year is 1930, and the Grand Coalition is about to just give up the "final bastion of America" and is just going to demand the return of democracy.
1990 from the world whose 1959 and 1936 maps I already posted. France underwent a communist revolution in the late 1960s due to the collapse of its administration in Algeria boiling over into a series of coups. The French Sixth Republic oversees France's colonies from exile in Ottawa, Canada. In the early 1970s, Syria and Iraq fought Jordan and Palestine, resulting in the Syrian annexation of both countries. In 1979, the oil bubble burst, causing a global depression worse than the 1930s Great Depression due to mismanagement of the crisis. The USSR abandoned communism, China liberalized and gave full independence to its client states and admitted defeat in the Indonesian Emergency. Germany took over leadership of what remained of the communist bloc. The Baathists in Arabia, Iraq, and Syria are still under Russian protection, as Russia wants to corner the global oil market in light of the depression. China is bogged down in an anti-insurgency campaign in occupied Kashmir against Pakistani proxy forces, and in Afghanistan against Russian-backed Pashtun ultranationalists.
Okay, I have made some changes to this now:
Now, claims are shown by an outline in the country's colour outside of its borders, influence is shown by a country having a darker or lighter version of another country's colour, and a combination of the two indicates an autonomous region.
Ephraim Ben Raphael
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As much as I love balkanized Americas, it's hard to see New England hanging onto that chunk of land on the other side of Pennsylvania when it has zero ability to access that land without someone else's permission. Ditto for Virginia with upper Michigan, unless Virginia has de facto control over the Western Reserve already, in which case new England would probably just sell it to Virginia.
Also, while I'm at it:
Africa in the late 19th Century is dominated by expansionist powers - and in the regions of the Guinea, Nubia, and the Congo, this is very clear.
With the division of French colonies between Britain and Portugal, the British Republic found itself the dominant power in the Guinea. All the British colonies in the region were therefore united as the Presidency of the Guinea, and the official policy there for the past twenty years has been one of expansion: the British Guinea must join together all of its territories; once that is done, expansion must continue - in the early 1800s, the British Republic had rapidly industrialized over the course of 15 years, which among other things caused British agriculture to collapse, so the colonies were forced to pick up the slack. And that requires land. So far, the British Guinea's main strategy for expansion has been to turn indigenous nations against each other: Waalo is an obstacle to uniting the British coastline? Give guns to Jolof and Futa Toro and let them distract Waalo. This policy has destabilized most of the Guinea, although some states, like the Sokoto Caliphate, were able to use the chaos as an opportunity to expand. To the east, the Bornu Empire has experienced a resurgence - not against the Sokoto Caliphate, but as British guns were traded by African powers, they proved useful in securing certain states' borders.
Crossing over into the region of Nubia, Wadai has also done well for itself in recent years, and has formed an alliance with Rumbek that is making Darfur nervous. However, the bigger worry for the Sultanate of Rumbek is Ethiopia - the Christian empire has focused on capturing formerly Ottoman territories in the Horn of Africa for now, but they're still building up their armies and their Muslim neighbours are nervous. The Sultanate of Rumbek is one such neighbour - the United Somalian Emirates are another, having joined together and expanded west to combat Ethiopian expansion. In southern Nubia, the dominant power is the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which has now decided to bring all of the African Great Lakes under its control - so far, the only states which have managed to hold back Zanzibar's advance are Buganda, Lualaba, and Maasai Turkana.
To the west again, in the Congo Region, the Kingdom of Kongo has centralized power over the years while Portugal expanded along their borders. Now the concern is that Portugal will want to join together Gabon and Andongo by annexing Kongo - a very well-founded concern, since that is exactly what Portugal intends to do. Portugal also has eyes on the Kingdom of Lunda, since conquering them would make it that much easier to join Andongo and Mozambique together - but for now, Portuguese armies gather on the Kongolese borders while Mozambique and Zanzibar both inch westward.
There are still gaps in the map - blank areas, where there's no state large enough to warrant putting on the map - but those gaps are going to be filled in sooner or later.
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I'm at university now, and I had enough time to get this done, but updates are still probably going to be sporadic so I can spend more time on my studies. That's also why this was shorter than previous posts might have been. That said, thoughts?
Africa in the late 19th Century is dominated by expansionist powers - and in the regions of the Guinea, Nubia, and the Congo, this is very clear.
With the division of French colonies between Britain and Portugal, the British Republic found itself the dominant power in the Guinea. All the British colonies in the region were therefore united as the Presidency of the Guinea, and the official policy there for the past twenty years has been one of expansion: the British Guinea must join together all of its territories; once that is done, expansion must continue - in the early 1800s, the British Republic had rapidly industrialized over the course of 15 years, which among other things caused British agriculture to collapse, so the colonies were forced to pick up the slack. And that requires land. So far, the British Guinea's main strategy for expansion has been to turn indigenous nations against each other: Waalo is an obstacle to uniting the British coastline? Give guns to Jolof and Futa Toro and let them distract Waalo. This policy has destabilized most of the Guinea, although some states, like the Sokoto Caliphate, were able to use the chaos as an opportunity to expand. To the east, the Bornu Empire has experienced a resurgence - not against the Sokoto Caliphate, but as British guns were traded by African powers, they proved useful in securing certain states' borders.
Crossing over into the region of Nubia, Wadai has also done well for itself in recent years, and has formed an alliance with Rumbek that is making Darfur nervous. However, the bigger worry for the Sultanate of Rumbek is Ethiopia - the Christian empire has focused on capturing formerly Ottoman territories in the Horn of Africa for now, but they're still building up their armies and their Muslim neighbours are nervous. The Sultanate of Rumbek is one such neighbour - the United Somalian Emirates are another, having joined together and expanded west to combat Ethiopian expansion. In southern Nubia, the dominant power is the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which has now decided to bring all of the African Great Lakes under its control - so far, the only states which have managed to hold back Zanzibar's advance are Buganda, Lualaba, and Maasai Turkana.
To the west again, in the Congo Region, the Kingdom of Kongo has centralized power over the years while Portugal expanded along their borders. Now the concern is that Portugal will want to join together Gabon and Andongo by annexing Kongo - a very well-founded concern, since that is exactly what Portugal intends to do. Portugal also has eyes on the Kingdom of Lunda, since conquering them would make it that much easier to join Andongo and Mozambique together - but for now, Portuguese armies gather on the Kongolese borders while Mozambique and Zanzibar both inch westward.
There are still gaps in the map - blank areas, where there's no state large enough to warrant putting on the map - but those gaps are going to be filled in sooner or later.
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I'm at university now, and I had enough time to get this done, but updates are still probably going to be sporadic so I can spend more time on my studies. That's also why this was shorter than previous posts might have been. That said, thoughts?
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The Prodigal Sun
In 1754, a British fleet invades and occupies Rio de la Plata. As a result of losing the Seven Years War, Spain is forced to grant independence to all territories from Peru to Tierra del Fuego, as an independent absolute monarchy under an ethnically English king. The nation rapidly modernizes and is second to industrialize after Great Britain. The Confederacy wins the American Civil War as a consequence of Argentine support. Butterflies continue to impact the flow of time: The Dutch are forced out of Indonesia, the British are forced out of Australia, Japan and Korea fall to civil war, Russia and China become democratic republics, and a giant Slavic-speaking state is carved out of the ruins of the former United States. In 1915, Argentina, Brazil, and the Confederate States of America spread fear worldwide as they glorify slavery, intimidating Europe and threatening the mere downfall of human sanity itself...
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