Map Thread XV
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JPEG Heresy, and tiny font.
Otherwise coolness.
Somehow I only managed to grab the slightly downsized preview from DeviantArt instead of the original image file... That's fixed now. And yeah, the font is a bit tiny, I have to admit that... But then again I typically enhance worldas anyway to see all the details, so I just don't notice it myself.
Finished the last three of the states de jure in the Celestial Empire of Chinapa but very much de facto separate. Those are... the Chanate of Cathay (Mongolia-analogue), The Monastic State of Dhibat, Harmonious Abode of Peace (Tibet-analogue) and the West Ayiaman Company (think European businessmen in the "game" for their own profits, propping up their own Emperor).
Now, I need some advice.
Should I make the left peninsula [the one just below the rust-red state] the India-analogue, or should that be the big one on the right [below Tyzanbium]? I ask because I've been thinking about South-East Asia for the left peninsula since I had a look at the reversed map, and before I did, I was planning on a Persia-analogue [Zoroastrian monarchy and all that jazz] for the right peninsula.
So...
1) Left peninsula India analogue, right-peninsula Persia-analogue
2) Right peninsula India analogue, left-peninsula South-East Asia analogue
3) No India analogue at all. Left-peninsula South-East Asia analogue, right-peninsula Persia-analogue.
4) India analogue on right-peninsula, but mountains are Persia-analogue.
What should I go with?
Now, I need some advice.
Should I make the left peninsula [the one just below the rust-red state] the India-analogue, or should that be the big one on the right [below Tyzanbium]? I ask because I've been thinking about South-East Asia for the left peninsula since I had a look at the reversed map, and before I did, I was planning on a Persia-analogue [Zoroastrian monarchy and all that jazz] for the right peninsula.
So...
1) Left peninsula India analogue, right-peninsula Persia-analogue
2) Right peninsula India analogue, left-peninsula South-East Asia analogue
3) No India analogue at all. Left-peninsula South-East Asia analogue, right-peninsula Persia-analogue.
4) India analogue on right-peninsula, but mountains are Persia-analogue.
What should I go with?
I vote option 4 - the right peninsula looks a lot like India geographically, and the mountainous area suits Persia well. What are you going to put on the coast between the two peninsulas?
Language group map of the "All Roads Lead to Akkad" map.
Note: All languages are used in OTL sayings unless they're new.
Italian Brown: Eutruscan
Western Mediterranean Light Brown: Western Semetic.
Hungarian Green: High Slavic
Imperial Russian Light Green: East Slavic
Gallic Green: Celtic
German Grey: Germanic
Scandinavian Blue: Baltic
Russian Pink: Finnish
Iberian Hot Pink: Basque
Ukranian Light Brown: Western Scythian
Central Asian Dark Brown: Eastern Scythian
Anatolian Green: Anatolian (Hittite)
Caucasus Red: Armenian
Greek Light Purple: Mycenean
Cretean Dark Purple: Minoan
Arabian/Palestinian Green: Eastern Semetic
Egyptian Brown: Kemetic
North African Brown: Tureg
South-west African Brown: North Niger-Congolese
Central African Green: South Niger-Congolese
East African Yellow: Puntic
Iraqi Pinkish-Purple: High Akkadian
South African, West Australian and Brazilian Purple: Low Akkadian
Indonesian and South Vietnamese Purple: Polynesian
Laodong Yellow: Han Chinese
Middle Chinese Brown: Chu Chinese
Amazonian Brown: Amazonian
Andean Pink: Quecha
Central American Blue: Highland Mayan
Mexican Pink: Nahuatal
American Light Brown: Native American
Californian Dark Blue: Amero-European
Patagonian Dark Green: Southern Celtic
Central South Chinese Pink: Qin Chinese
Mongolian Light Blue: Altaic
Malaccan Pink: Thai
New Zealand Brown: Maori
Papuan Brownish-Green: Papuan
Northern Siamese Ligh Pink: High Thai
South Chinese and Vietnamese Brown: Viet
Japanese Grey: Ainuan
Japanese Yellow: Nipponese
Korean Blue: Korean
Persian Orange: Western Kassite
Indian Dark Purple: Indic Kassite
Indian Dark Orange: Dravidian
Southeastern Italian Pink: Illyrian
North Scottish Brown: Pictish
South African Orange: Germano-African
Persia north of that big mountain range by Byzantium, and the the Indian states south, leaving the other peninsula open to a society with no real equivalent? (Se asia? Settled Orang people? Aboriginals?)
I would go with a mix of 3 and 4:
- Left peninsula South-East Asia analogue, right peninsula Persia-India analogue, with *Indian culture dominant along the coast and *Persian further inland
... btw, I would change that Tibet (?) analogue's colour, at first look I confused with the ocean colour.
It's been really interesting to see what you've been doing with my basemap so far. I shall watch this closely.
Got it, thank you all for your advice, I think I'll go with number 4.
Thanks.
And I've made a retroactive edit, Portusale is now an independent, small kingdom with some reach [but de facto under the Azalaian sway].
Quick map with all countries labelled and the general "cultural conception" of the division of continents added.
Kamret is the Egypt-analogue, by the way. The people there still worship their old Egyptian-esque pantheon because Rule of Cool, really. Basically expect undead mummies, pyramids, all that, but the people aren't living like Ancient Egyptians because that would be ridiculous. The equivalent to Disraeli giving Queen Victoria "Empress of India" in ATL is Zacharias Cochrane bestowing King Alexander the title "Pharaoh of Kamret".
Maybe you could combine them. Create some new cultures based on the ones in southern Asia.
Don't need to annouce what this is anymore, nonetheless it's a near final product. Feel free to ask questions, the lore's complete in my mind.
All right.
What is culture, and religion like in the Akkadian Empire?
What is the technology like?
What happen to Japan and China?
What are the Greco-Punic like?
How how Colonization gone so far?
Any one God Faith? Or still largely polytheism?
Somehow this reminds me of the Twilight of the Red Tsar TL where the USSR fell around the late 60's.
One of the things I liked about it once I saw XKCD's first draft. It's hard to smash OTL history onto it, all the routes are too different, at the same time a map-fans geopolitical intuitions can still apply.
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