How's Australia doing ITTL? It could be a safe haven against the horde seeing as the plague can't go through deserts.
Map Thread XVIII
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And remember that Britannia, well, you rule the waves no more!
So keep your hands off Europe, she's 'Murican to the core.
Europe isn't American to the core. That's put them on the same level as Florida or Minnesota, which would insult the rather proud nations on the continent. Honestly, I agree.
I'm only replying to this comment since it's the latest one in this thread, but I want everyone to be reminded that their petty nations owe everything about their existence to the glorious I M P E R I V M R O M A N V M
I know Syldavia isn't a surviving Bohemian Empire, but whenever I run into that comic, I think of the scepter as his.
Very nice, Baconheimer! I like this a lot. A few comments:
Don't you mean have discarded the racial-based caste system?
And, I imagine, an unwillingness on the part of Madrid to take on yet further commitments.
Think you need to move some things around in the writeup, since this follows directly from something two paragraphs ago.
I think you can just toss the bolded part: the fact that the Ming were replaced by the Qing as OTL is somewhat intuitively obvious from the Qing, well, existing, and said change is not a pre-requisite for Chinese relative decline.
I am a bit puzzled by Brabant: the Netherlands were inherited by the Habsburgs in the 1480s, and seem unlikely to have been lost by a victorious, Protestant-smashing Habsburg empire. Backstory?
Don't you mean have discarded the racial-based caste system?
And, I imagine, an unwillingness on the part of Madrid to take on yet further commitments.
Think you need to move some things around in the writeup, since this follows directly from something two paragraphs ago.
I think you can just toss the bolded part: the fact that the Ming were replaced by the Qing as OTL is somewhat intuitively obvious from the Qing, well, existing, and said change is not a pre-requisite for Chinese relative decline.
I am a bit puzzled by Brabant: the Netherlands were inherited by the Habsburgs in the 1480s, and seem unlikely to have been lost by a victorious, Protestant-smashing Habsburg empire. Backstory?
I'm curious, are there different races of anthro animals? And if so, can they mate cross-species and make like mixed anthros?
By choice. They don't want a place with such terrible food. They learned their lesson from the union of England and Scotland.
Not at all a pretty map, just a concept I wanted to jot down.
The 2020's see a surge of nation-building projects in Africa and Asia* regarding linguistic nationalism. Most have an Anti-English-as-mother-tongue character, though more extreme movements oppose English as a Lingua Franca as well. China switches approaches from prioritizing Confucius Institute to funding third world countries redoing their infrastructure in local languages (not a bad idea, something perhaps worth dislodging Western influence over, see: CAR switching to to policy of an officially monolingual Sango-speaking state). Russia, though annoyed that some of the state most eager to drop the languages of former colonizers are the 'Stans, joins in, finding it rather easy way to play 'the good guy' against Western influence. Supporting Haiti's 'Haitianization' programs may, in Moscow's view, give Russia an Anti-U.S. base in the Caribbean. In some places like the Philippines or Tanzania, switching to one local language, like Tagalog or Swahili, is part of a larger process of nation-state formation, akin to what Europe went through in the 19th century (critics warn that this lead to historically poor consequences in Europe; local-unifiers-through-language retort that their states will avoid Europe's pitfalls). Another effect of this, is that Assad-type secular Arab leaders seeking Russian and/or Chinese support ditch Modern Standard Arabic in favor of local dialects of their own standardization (Egyptian as a language quickly becomes popular as a foreign language of study abroad). The U.S., though starting to ramp up tensions with China and Russia is rather unwilling to go to bat for Anglophone/Francophone elites in third world countries (Africa/South and Southeast Asia), though France is a little more interventionist on behalf of Francophone elites who ask for support.
The decade also sees India undergo extreme political changes. As a compromise in official language debates, English-Hindi at the national level is replaced with Hindi-Bengali-Tamil; a lot of other languages' speakers are unhappy, but it looks like the compromise which required the support of all major parties will hold, if only because drafting another one would be too hard. In 2030 a solidly leftist government wins power in Delhi, and to placate right-wing Hindu opposition it lends support to the long proposed idea of making Hindi an official language at the U.N., taking Arabic's spot. [Similarly language divided Nigeria looks on, wondering if a similar compromise would be worth it, but for now is stepping up English education, making a bet on the West.]
The only UN language not to lose any states and to grow in this time period, is Spanish, which becomes Belize's sole official language.
*Well, there are new stories of linguistic minorities getting mistreated in Europe, but that is not the focus of this map.
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A couple people have replied but I think I can add something to the discussion. Gonna have to blame this mixup on the inherent limitations of romaniztion (and in part, the practice of leaving out the accents in Pinyin).
Han here refers to the Kingdom of Hán (韩/韓), which was the smallest of the 7 great warring states, based in today's Western Henan. It has no relation to the Hàn Empire (汉/漢), which was named after the empires heartland in the region of Hànzhōng (汉中/漢中), roughly corresponding to the Guanzhong Plain in Southern Shaanxi, which was coincidentally the Qin Empire's heartland.
Marvellous work! Though I think there might be a mistake in the South along the border between the Han Vassals and Minyue Kingdom. IIRC the Nanyue Kingdom of Zhao Tuo held borders near the modern Guangdong-Fujian border, and had its capital in Panyu, or modern Guangzhou. In this map, not only does Minyue hold the Nanyue capital, it seems to have pushed deep into the Hakka Highlands.
I also thought the Nanyue had small holdouts on coastal Annam, but I might just be mistaken...
You do realize that it was the southern Indians who insisted on English being an official language, correct? And how the heck would Moldava become Russian instead of Romanian? I am pleased to see Arabic going in multiple directions, but I feel that it would still be an official language. After all, the UN uses the Oxford version of English. Doesn't meant no one else can read it, and twenty years is hardly enough time to make at least twenty countries change Arabic to be incomprehensible to each other. And did you give Azerbaijan that portion of southern Armenia, or was that just the basemap?
He probably meant they transitioned from written, literary Arabic to local dialects, which have been diverging already from centuries.
Like passing from an administration in Latin to an administration in French.
Especially France. fish'n'chips on Monmartre!
EDIT: and since ve are at it
INSUBRIA IS NOT ITALY!!!1!!!1!!!!!ONE!!!!!01010111000011010
That's the Greater Finnic Republic for you.
Fair enough, though except for Brazil they hold all of the profitable parts of the Americas.
That's a fair point. If I ever get around to changing things it might become Denmark-Norway-Prussia. My thinking is that Prussia becomes a kingdom early on but it made subservient to Denmark. I also should probably add in a color for the German state which I intended as a mid-level primarily mercantile power. The Croats are restless. And yeah, the Turanian Union expanded in all directions during the Revolutionary Wars.
Hmmm. Good point. I thought I had a reason for that. I'll try to get around to changing it, but I'm not sure I like the way 'Sarmatian Union' sounds.
No, it's still around.
That and the fact they don't want to upset the balance of power. Spain probably could handle occupying one state as it is in a better economic state than IOTL, but it is still not going great and only keeps on chugging through residual effects of its former glory.
Thanks! I'll try to get to that.
Alright.I think you can just toss the bolded part: the fact that the Ming were replaced by the Qing as OTL is somewhat intuitively obvious from the Qing, well, existing, and said change is not a pre-requisite for Chinese relative decline.
I was thinking it was spun off as an independent Habsburg realm, but eventually came under the control of a native dynasty. Spain never bothered to take it back as it simply wasn't that important with its world-wide empire.
Where's Arabic? It's spoken by 230 million people and it is recognized as its own official language in the UN.
It seems like it was replaced as an official U.N. language by Hindi.
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