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The map is self is base on this map
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This map is base upon the Atlantist series by harry turtledove.
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By my rules, only the latest capital counts, not just ever having a capital outside in foreign territory. And since both Germany and France's states are direct descendants of Francia, it is foreign to neither, since the modern capital of Francia is both Paris and Berlin.
The French-German division only takes hold after the division of East/West Francia into the Kingdom of France and the HRE
Also, thanks for the pointer
*whispers*
they never got ethiopia
Not all forms of political and military control signify true sovereignty.
No they actually took control of the country and incorporated it into Italian East Africa along with Eritrea and Somalia. It was treated like a colonial territory.
Local resistance continued and international recognition never came, and it was quickly reversed just a couple years later. Not enough to count in my book :/
Of course, politics is complicated, rules are subjective and always a matter of perspective, I'm just trying to be internally consistent with the rest of the rules I'd laid down, instead of having to treat every single event as its own exception.
Correct.
My timeline is base on Fallout, which is one of my favourite franchise
Another OTL map
Trying a new styleShire boundaries from…
Wikishire, 2020. Index of /lookup/individual/shp. [Online] Available from wikishire.co.uk/lookup/individ…. [Accessed May 2020]
…which is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licence.
List of shires extant by 1305 from…
Wallace, James (1890). The Sheriffdom of Clackmannan. A sketch of its history with a list of its sheriffs and excerpts from the records of court compiled from public documents and other authorities with preparatory notes on the office of Sheriff in Scotland, his power and duties. Edinburgh: James Thin. pp. 7-19.
… which describes Edward I’s Ordinance for the Government of Scotland, a document which lists the 23 shires of Scotland, not including Roxburgh, which was not recorded as it was under jurisdiction of the sheriff of Selkirk at the time.
Burghs from…
McNeill, P. G. & MacQueen, H. L., 1998. An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707. Revised ed. Edinburgh: The Scottish Medievalists. pp. 218-20
Bathymetric data from…
The GEBCO Grid, GEBCO Compilation Group (2019) GEBCO 2019 Grid (doi:10.5285/836f016a-33be-6ddc-e053-6c86abc0788e), available from www.gebco.net/. [Accessed March 2020]
Coastlines from…
GADM v3.6 © 2018 GADM, available from gadm.org/data.html [Accessed February 2020]
Crossed swords battle symbol from…
Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, 2008, available from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… [Accessed May 2020]
7-class colour scheme from…
Brewer, Cynthia A., 2013. ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps. www.ColorBrewer2.org. [Accessed May 2020].
…which uses a colour scheme I have selected for its ability to distinguish between each colour as well as the ability to read text and symbology placed atop it.
Shire boundaries that differ in 1305 from their regular boundaries…
· Stirling and Dunbarton
o Stirlingshire includes Dunbartonshire’s Cumbernauld exclave as this was not transferred to Dunbartonshire until the reign of David II (1324-1371).
· Inverness, Argyll, Ross, Caithness, Bute
o The sheriff of Inverness was responsible for what would become Argyll, Ross, Caithness, and Bute.
§ Argyll would be appointed a sheriff c. 1326. Bute would be appointed a sheriff c. 1388.
§ Ross and Caithness were formed as separate shires by a 1503 Act of Parliament.
§ Sutherland was separated from Inverness in 1633 by Parliament.
· Kirkcudbright and Dumfries
o The sheriff of Dumfries was responsible for what would become Kirkcudbrightshire.
§ Kirkcudbrightshire was created in 1369.
· Cromarty
o Cromartyshire included only the area immediately surrounding the town, with no exclaves for itself, until 1682.
· Elgin and Forres and Nairn
o Elgin and Forres, the county encompassing Elginshire or Moray, also encompassed what would become Nairn.
§ Nairn is established at the close of the 14th century.
This map shows major events and battles of the Wars of Scottish Independence. Events shown…
· Capture of Berwick in 1296
o First event in the First War of Scottish Independence. Marked the English invasion of Scotland.
· Battle of Louden Hill in 1307
o First major victory by Robert Bruce against England.
· Battle of Bannockburn in 1314
o Landmark Scottish victory, forcing English retreat.
· Declaration of Arbroath 1320
o Letter addressed to Pope John XXII asserting the independence of Sctoland.
· Battle of Neville’s Cross
o Major battle of the Second War of Scottish Independence in which King David II was captured, leading to the ransoming of the Scottish King that resulted in a truce.
Process…
This was the first map I created Adobe Illustrator, so much of this process was very trial and error’
· To create coastlines, I exported GADM shapefiles from QGIS as a raster, loaded it into Illustrator, and used the programme’s ‘Image Trace’ function with a little fine tuning to get the desired outcome. I fine-tuned it manually with the ‘Pencil’ pool, removing small islands that were unnecessary clutter.
· To create other geographical features, I exported their respective shapefiles from QGIS as a raster, loaded them into Illustrator, and manually traced them with the ‘pencil’ tool.
· I created separate vector shapes of every shire through Illustrator’s ‘Live Paint’ function.
· I placed most labels to subtly flow parallel to the projection’s latitude lines. This was done by creating a grid atop the map in QGIS with lines every 0.05 degrees and exporting only the grid (with no other layers visible) and importing the image into Illustrator as a sort of guide to place labels atop.
· To create type knockouts, I followed a guide by Daniel Huffman available from somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.c…. [Accessed May 2020]. Basically…
o I created a master layer containing the labels layer and all vector layers I wanted to be knocked out by text, checking the “Knockout Group” box in the ‘Transparency Panel’.
o I selected all text in the labels layer and, in the ‘Appearance Panel’, added a stroke with a thickness of 1pt to sit underneath the “Character” layer of the ‘Appearance Panel’. I then reduced the opacity of this stroke to 0%, knocking out all vectors that sit underneath the labels layer.
Style…
· I believe much of my hithero maps suffer from a severe lack of clarity and focus. This map aimed to display clearly the state of the Kingdom of Scotland in the Medieval era. Readability was therefore my primary concern.
· I considered firstly what this map aimed to show. In order of importance, this map was to show…
1. Scottish shires extant by 1305, the date of the Ordinance for the Government of Scotland, which lists them. This is because the slow creation of shires in Scotland represents a crucial development in medieval Scotland’s history: the centralisation of Scotland and the expansion of royal authority.
§ The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned the most dominant visual element: colour.
2. Scottish burghs throughout the medieval era. This is because trade made up a vital part of Scotland’s economy. The growing number of burghs throughout the medieval era coincides with the growth of this trade and the beginnings of the urbanisation of Scotland.
§ The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned a dominant visual element: a high density of labels and symbology.
3. Events of the Scottish Wars of Independence.
§ I selected a small number of key events within the Wars by adding sub-labels to existing burgh’s labels to expand on the burgh’s role in the Wars or adding entirely new labels such as battle labels. The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned a minor visual element: a small density of sub-labels, labels, and symbology.
4. Major geographic elements, such as major rivers. These rivers would play a key role in the Wars of Independence and are crucial for understanding the military history of Scotland as well as how burghs were linked by water.
§ The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned a minor visual element: a low density of labels with no symbology.
· For the most part, I have used a serif font (Book Antiqua) for natural labels and a sans-serif font (Gill Sans MT) for cultural labels.
· Much of the style of this map was influenced by a historical atlas I picked up from the University Library before the Lockdown. With the library shut during the Coronavirus Emergency, I was stuck with the book, and spent a lot of time looking through it, aiming to mimic its clear, informative, and classic style. (Darby, H. C. & Fullard, H., 1970. The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume XIV Atlas. Cambridge University Press ed. Cambridge: Cambridge. p. 95)
Wikishire, 2020. Index of /lookup/individual/shp. [Online] Available from wikishire.co.uk/lookup/individ…. [Accessed May 2020]
…which is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licence.
List of shires extant by 1305 from…
Wallace, James (1890). The Sheriffdom of Clackmannan. A sketch of its history with a list of its sheriffs and excerpts from the records of court compiled from public documents and other authorities with preparatory notes on the office of Sheriff in Scotland, his power and duties. Edinburgh: James Thin. pp. 7-19.
… which describes Edward I’s Ordinance for the Government of Scotland, a document which lists the 23 shires of Scotland, not including Roxburgh, which was not recorded as it was under jurisdiction of the sheriff of Selkirk at the time.
Burghs from…
McNeill, P. G. & MacQueen, H. L., 1998. An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707. Revised ed. Edinburgh: The Scottish Medievalists. pp. 218-20
Bathymetric data from…
The GEBCO Grid, GEBCO Compilation Group (2019) GEBCO 2019 Grid (doi:10.5285/836f016a-33be-6ddc-e053-6c86abc0788e), available from www.gebco.net/. [Accessed March 2020]
Coastlines from…
GADM v3.6 © 2018 GADM, available from gadm.org/data.html [Accessed February 2020]
Crossed swords battle symbol from…
Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, 2008, available from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… [Accessed May 2020]
7-class colour scheme from…
Brewer, Cynthia A., 2013. ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps. www.ColorBrewer2.org. [Accessed May 2020].
…which uses a colour scheme I have selected for its ability to distinguish between each colour as well as the ability to read text and symbology placed atop it.
Shire boundaries that differ in 1305 from their regular boundaries…
· Stirling and Dunbarton
o Stirlingshire includes Dunbartonshire’s Cumbernauld exclave as this was not transferred to Dunbartonshire until the reign of David II (1324-1371).
· Inverness, Argyll, Ross, Caithness, Bute
o The sheriff of Inverness was responsible for what would become Argyll, Ross, Caithness, and Bute.
§ Argyll would be appointed a sheriff c. 1326. Bute would be appointed a sheriff c. 1388.
§ Ross and Caithness were formed as separate shires by a 1503 Act of Parliament.
§ Sutherland was separated from Inverness in 1633 by Parliament.
· Kirkcudbright and Dumfries
o The sheriff of Dumfries was responsible for what would become Kirkcudbrightshire.
§ Kirkcudbrightshire was created in 1369.
· Cromarty
o Cromartyshire included only the area immediately surrounding the town, with no exclaves for itself, until 1682.
· Elgin and Forres and Nairn
o Elgin and Forres, the county encompassing Elginshire or Moray, also encompassed what would become Nairn.
§ Nairn is established at the close of the 14th century.
This map shows major events and battles of the Wars of Scottish Independence. Events shown…
· Capture of Berwick in 1296
o First event in the First War of Scottish Independence. Marked the English invasion of Scotland.
· Battle of Louden Hill in 1307
o First major victory by Robert Bruce against England.
· Battle of Bannockburn in 1314
o Landmark Scottish victory, forcing English retreat.
· Declaration of Arbroath 1320
o Letter addressed to Pope John XXII asserting the independence of Sctoland.
· Battle of Neville’s Cross
o Major battle of the Second War of Scottish Independence in which King David II was captured, leading to the ransoming of the Scottish King that resulted in a truce.
Process…
This was the first map I created Adobe Illustrator, so much of this process was very trial and error’
· To create coastlines, I exported GADM shapefiles from QGIS as a raster, loaded it into Illustrator, and used the programme’s ‘Image Trace’ function with a little fine tuning to get the desired outcome. I fine-tuned it manually with the ‘Pencil’ pool, removing small islands that were unnecessary clutter.
· To create other geographical features, I exported their respective shapefiles from QGIS as a raster, loaded them into Illustrator, and manually traced them with the ‘pencil’ tool.
· I created separate vector shapes of every shire through Illustrator’s ‘Live Paint’ function.
· I placed most labels to subtly flow parallel to the projection’s latitude lines. This was done by creating a grid atop the map in QGIS with lines every 0.05 degrees and exporting only the grid (with no other layers visible) and importing the image into Illustrator as a sort of guide to place labels atop.
· To create type knockouts, I followed a guide by Daniel Huffman available from somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.c…. [Accessed May 2020]. Basically…
o I created a master layer containing the labels layer and all vector layers I wanted to be knocked out by text, checking the “Knockout Group” box in the ‘Transparency Panel’.
o I selected all text in the labels layer and, in the ‘Appearance Panel’, added a stroke with a thickness of 1pt to sit underneath the “Character” layer of the ‘Appearance Panel’. I then reduced the opacity of this stroke to 0%, knocking out all vectors that sit underneath the labels layer.
Style…
· I believe much of my hithero maps suffer from a severe lack of clarity and focus. This map aimed to display clearly the state of the Kingdom of Scotland in the Medieval era. Readability was therefore my primary concern.
· I considered firstly what this map aimed to show. In order of importance, this map was to show…
1. Scottish shires extant by 1305, the date of the Ordinance for the Government of Scotland, which lists them. This is because the slow creation of shires in Scotland represents a crucial development in medieval Scotland’s history: the centralisation of Scotland and the expansion of royal authority.
§ The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned the most dominant visual element: colour.
2. Scottish burghs throughout the medieval era. This is because trade made up a vital part of Scotland’s economy. The growing number of burghs throughout the medieval era coincides with the growth of this trade and the beginnings of the urbanisation of Scotland.
§ The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned a dominant visual element: a high density of labels and symbology.
3. Events of the Scottish Wars of Independence.
§ I selected a small number of key events within the Wars by adding sub-labels to existing burgh’s labels to expand on the burgh’s role in the Wars or adding entirely new labels such as battle labels. The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned a minor visual element: a small density of sub-labels, labels, and symbology.
4. Major geographic elements, such as major rivers. These rivers would play a key role in the Wars of Independence and are crucial for understanding the military history of Scotland as well as how burghs were linked by water.
§ The importance of this is indicated by it being assigned a minor visual element: a low density of labels with no symbology.
· For the most part, I have used a serif font (Book Antiqua) for natural labels and a sans-serif font (Gill Sans MT) for cultural labels.
· Much of the style of this map was influenced by a historical atlas I picked up from the University Library before the Lockdown. With the library shut during the Coronavirus Emergency, I was stuck with the book, and spent a lot of time looking through it, aiming to mimic its clear, informative, and classic style. (Darby, H. C. & Fullard, H., 1970. The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume XIV Atlas. Cambridge University Press ed. Cambridge: Cambridge. p. 95)
The Demon of Revolution
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, father of the October Revolution, died in 1924 from a brain hemorrhage. Lev Trotsky, at that time the first person of the Party and the head of the Red Army, entered the internal struggle for power. The tremendous authority of Trotsky and his oratorical qualities, as well as the inability of his opponents to unite, made him the leader of the young Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.Despite the expectations of his opponents, Leon Trotsky did not intend to turn the USSR into a rogue state and did not aggressively spread the revolution into post-war Europe. He limited himself to the creation of clandestine communist organizations in Europe and even in the USA (just in case, as one of his biographers claim). Trotsky concentrated all his foreign policy impulsiveness on China, supporting the local Communists in their struggle first with warlords, then with aggressive Japan. In domestic politics, Trotsky embodied all his perverted ideas from accelerated industrialization to the creation of the New Soviet Man. The persecution of religion and Russian culture has gained unprecedented proportions, the repression machine has become fully operational. Esperanto has become a compulsory language in the school curriculum; Lev hoped to make it the Soviet official language one day.
One of Trotsky's successes was the socialist revolution in Germany and the victory of the pro-Soviet communists in a short civil war (although Rhineland had to be abandoned). This completely dissuaded Europe in Trotsky’s peaceful intentions and provoked a Red Scary from London to Warsaw, which many fascist parties immediately took advantage of.
In the end, Trotsky's thirst for building an ideal communist society failed him. During one of the planned party purges to "eradicate bureaucracy" in 1931, the Red Army betrayed its father and sided with the ambitious Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Leon Trotsky was accused of betraying the revolution and executed. His last words will remain lost in history.
Red Napoleon
Mikhail Tukhachevsky had big plans for the USSR, but he could not abruptly turn off the rails laid by Trotsky. Tukhachevsky stopped the purges and placed his minions in leading posts. He completed the industrialization begun by Trotsky and began the modernization of the Red Army with the help of German specialists. Also, he mitigated the persecution of the church and the destruction of Russian culture as much as possible.Tukhachevsky was unable to normalize relations with Europe again, but established a strong friendship with red Germany. The exchange of specialists and technologies has begun. Tukhachevsky dreamed of Napoleon's glory, not only in words but in deeds. He used anti-Soviet fascist sentiment in Europe as a pretext for mass anti-European agitation and promoting his personality cult as the First Citizen and defender of Lenin's ideas. Together with the Germans, joint preparations for war with Europe were made.
In the spring of 1939, taking advantage of the fake border conflict on the Polish-German border, the USSR and Germany began the Second World War. Having quickly destroyed the Polish state from two sides and created a landlocked puppet, the USSR and Germany switched to Western Europe and the Balkans. Tukhachevsky constantly followed his army and personally commanded troops, although he often trusted key decisions to his marshals. By 1941, France had fallen and the French government had fled to Algeria; all of Europe except Great Britain fell under the heel of communism.
Having held a parade in Paris, Tukhachevsky quickly lost interest in the war with the partisans and, leaving one of the marshals for preparing the invasion of England, went to the Middle East, and later, having lost interest here too, in China to fight with Japan. He was in Manchuria when he received the sad news from the European Front...
American Caesar
The financial crisis of 1929 hit the US hard, plunging them into the Great Depression. The US government tried to pull the country out of the crisis in various ways, but to no avail. In the end, in 1938, a large-scale uprising of workers broke out on the east coast, which, thanks to the communist cells, developed into an uprising and then into a civil war. Modern historians have long understood that the USSR had nothing to do with this. Tukhachevsky stopped supporting the red underground in Europe and America immediately after the overthrow of Trotsky; the initiators of the uprising were only the remnants of such agents. But in the minds of the opponents of communism, and especially their leader Douglas MacArthur, it was the USSR conspiracy.The communists were defeated, MacArthur declared himself a temporary Tyrant (in the manner of ancient Greece) and immediately after that, without removing the country from the military rails, he declared war on the USSR and its allies. The American-English landing in Calais occurred in early 1943. Tukhachevsky was at the other end of Eurasia and didn't have time to react in time. By the time he returned to Europe and stopped the Red Army retreat, the US Army liberated northern France. Churchill and MacArthur signed the Atlantic Pact, which actually united the United States and Britain (and later other liberated states) into a confederate state to fight communism.
Later, the front stabilized on the Rhine and it was obvious that only a miracle could end this war. A miracle happened. In 1945, an American nuclear bomb fell on Berlin. After 2 weeks, the American army advancing on Germany was blown up by a Soviet atomic mine. The war ended with the Rome Peace Treaty, dividing Europe on the Rhine between two hateful superpowers.
MacArthur ruled the United States and the newly formed Atlantic Confederation until the 60s, and only in 1961 returned free elections. Three years before the Third World War.
Steel Patriarch
Patriarch Ioseph, secular name Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was born in 1878 in the old Russian Empire. His mother wanted young Joseph to devote his life to the Orthodox Church, so he enrolled at the religious school in 1888. Religious teachings quickly captured the mind of youngJoseph, and he graduated with honors from school in 1894 and began to quickly climb the Church stairs. He spent the First World War with a front-line priest and even received a couple of war awards, but unfortunately the well-known sad event of 1917 stopped his career growth. Dzhugashvili was hiding from persecution of churchmen and later disappeared from the pages of history for a while.
He returned only in 1932, when Tukhachevsky softened anti-church sentiment. In 1933 Dzhugashvili was elected Patriarch of All Russia; in the same year the famous meeting of Tukhachevsky and Patriarch Ioseph takes place in Moscow. Patriarch Ioseph knew perfectly well that Tukhachevsky was using him to improve the reputation of the USSR in the international arena and to raise the morale of the army in an inevitable war, so he used the USSR for his own purposes in response. By the beginning of the Second World War, the number of churches in the USSR had grown significantly, Ioseph's close associates occupied the highest posts of the church hierarchy, and the influence of the church grew steadily. The tandem of Tukhachevsky and Ioseph, the Кed Napoleon and the Steel Patriarch, held the USSR in a fist until 1939. While Tukhachevsky fought in Europe and the Middle East, the Patriarch became almost the sole ruler of the city of Moscow. After the overthrow of Tukhachevsky in 1946, Ioseph had a chance to become a shadow ruler and pull the strings of his successors at the head of the USSR. Unfortunately he failed.
Patriarch Ioseph died in 1947; some Western experts believe that he was poisoned by the party elite, who did not want to turn the socialist state into a pseudo-theocracy. The successors of Tukhachevsky failed to break down the harmonious system of church authority built by Patriarch Ioseph, neither before the WWIII, nor after it...
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The Third World War or the Foolish War or the Nuclear Mistake officially lasted two days. Before governments (or their remnants) had time to realize what they had done, dozens of the largest cities of both blocs lay in nuclear ruins. Peace treaties were signed, and the largest participants in the war left the world politics.
It is the year of 1984, 20 years after the Nuclear Mistake. China and its Fourth International is a world leader and, fortunately, unlike its Russian predecessor, does not seek to spread the revolution to the whole world, preferring to trade peacefully between itself and with the rest of the world. Despite such a peaceful policy of China, it has an enemy - the remnants of the Atlantic Confederation led by France. Until recent events, this could hardly be called a real confrontation, since China did not see a serious opponent in the destroyed Europe, and European politicians only used the communist threat as a way to keep the Confederation from collapse. But current world problems are forcing countries to reconsider their attitude to the conflict. The protracted civil war in Saudi Arabia caused a serious crisis in the oil market, which forced
Europe to seek help from the neutral and closed on itself RSFSR, a strange hybrid of communism and theocracy (but essentially the same bureaucratic tyranny). The rapprochement between Europe and Russia frightened China, which had previously seen RSFSR as its hat on the map, and forced it to join the race for influence on the RSFSR (which they are not destined to win). Another hot spot on the map of the confrontation between the AC and the International is India, which has been a hell of a meat grinder for decades. This is the location, for the first time since the post-WWII Cold War, where a real proxy conflict between the powers takes place.
Meanwhile, politicians of decentralized US are scared by Texas military intervention in Mexico. They see this as a call to the US return first to the Monroe Doctrine, and then to the paths of MacArthur. Only time will tell are their concerns true or not.
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Post-nuclear syndrome is borrowed from @Serafim from here. Unfortunately, his description is not translated into English, soooo:
Britain
The classic state with post-nuclear syndrome. It happens in developed countries with a demographic transition, which, as a result of the war, lost more than half of the population. Symptoms: “breaking the nation”, reluctance to restore something, passive (or completely absent) foreign policy, self-isolation, mass emigration and decentralization.
I changed the part with the loss of half of the population
Indian mess is borrowed from Spiritswriter123 from here. Although, I moved away from the original concept.
Just skimming through last few hundred pages of maps, haven’t looked in a while. Truly in the global age of ah maps, some of these are actually just beautiful. God, some of you have that early 20th/19th century historical map spot on, don’t know how yall do it
Not a mapmaker myself, but I fully agree with this, we've been blessed with this hobby ever-evolving in visual skill and research alike.
I made this a while ago. It's basically Europe undergoing an Arab Spring type string of uprisings and civil wars. The POD is a lack of a Marshall plan and NATO, leading to a number of dictatorships and oligarchs taking power in Europe to hold off the Soviets.
Germany=Syria, France=Yemen, UK=Saudi Arabia, Poland=Iraq, Italy=Somalia, and Spain=Libya
Germany=Syria, France=Yemen, UK=Saudi Arabia, Poland=Iraq, Italy=Somalia, and Spain=Libya
Interesting. How come there doesn't seem to be any communist presence in Europe? (I assume this takes place during the Cold War.)
A "continuation" of the Doggerland map I posted last page, I could claim it's a "realistic Doggerland in modern times", but in reality is just me messing with the shorelines (Doggerlands northern coast is like it would have been 8.000 years ago, but the Channel is a rough version of how it would have been 7000 years ago, Norway I didn't even touch and the rest is just the modern coastlines)so I can have a smaller Doggerland connecting britain to continental Europe (while letting the rest of the british isles unchanged)
(added two versions with non-existent islands to make the shores similar to the OTL northern continental europe)
(added two versions with non-existent islands to make the shores similar to the OTL northern continental europe)
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I figured that the USSR collapsed similar to OTL, but the dictators didn't give up power. After economic downturns and increased oppression, a series of popular uprisings sparked this whole complicated mess
How did Poland not become a USSR puppet, Germany not loose a good chunk of its eastern territories and the UK lose Northern Ireland?
It's admittedly not that plausible a scenario, so basically the borders are done to maximize the conflict.
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