This is awesome. You should give it a thread.snip
This is awesome. You should give it a thread.snip
This is awesome. You should give it a thread.
Not to rain on the parade, but I did this basemap for Worlda in aRCS. Glad to see it was re-used, of course, but I'm unsure which borders are supposed to be innacurate (some definitely are, and at some point I should make a worlda out of this one)Just finished the write-up, so allow me to give you: the world of my previous map (posted last Saturday), filled in with some actual people. The base-map for Eurasia is @hadaril's NextGen OTL Worlda map, version 3.0, for the year 814 AD.
The French syndicalist movement
Karl Marx, in his important pamphlet The Civil War in France, considered the 1871 Paris Commune as the prototype for a future revolutionary insurrection, the form at last discovered for the emancipation of the proletariat. In fact, triggered by the Parisians' resentment against the defeatist French government and after months of siege by the Prussian Army, the Paris Commune was something more of a Utopian and enthusiastic socialist experiment, having short-lived and anecdotal followings in French provinces, and later smashed in a bloodbath by the Legalist French Army.
The repression that followed decapitated for years the nascent French socialism, while the SPD developed in Germany and the Trade Unions flourished in Britain. Those left in the wake of the debacle were torn apart, divided between the Marxist-inspired Parti Ouvrier Français of Jules Guesde and the French trade unions, encouraged by the successes of Fernand Peloutier's Fédération des Bourses du Travail. The French syndicalist movement was quickly overtaken by anarchist activists, after the repressive "lois scélérates" of 1894.
In 1895, the Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour), vowing to be independant from all political formations, was founded at Limoges, an engagement that was renewed by the 1906 Charte d'Amiens, affirming the anarcho-syndicalist tendency within the CGT, embodied by its vice-secretary Emile Pouget.
Helped by the union of Guesde's revolutionary followers and Jean Jaurès' social-democrats into the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (French Section of the Workers' International), the French left was coming into prominence, helped by its role in the Dreyfus affair, when the Weltkrieg broke out.
First an outspoken pacifist, Jaurès was shot down by a nationalist activist four days before the French entry in the war. His successor, Léon Jouhaux, agreed to participate to the Union Sacrée government, followed by most of the SFIO leadership.
Fall of the Third Republic
The revolution was initially sparked by the CGT, who declared a General Strike in the spring of 1919, hot on the heels of a second outbreak of mutiny in the French Army. the mutineers were protesting the Conservative call for a last-ditch counter-offensive following a string of severe French defeats during the German offensives of 1918.
The CGT wanted to paralyse the nation, force the ruling Conservatives to step down and hand over power to the CGT's executive arm; the Comité de Salut Public, or CSP - led by the zealous anarchist Emile Pouget.
They were charged with the task of leading first the General Strike and then the establishment of a new government and constitution which would allow for a complete reconstruction of the French nation. They also had as their immediate aim to end "the abominable war" as soon as possible. In achieving these aims the strike was initially unsuccessful, and the CGT was unable to seize power before the fall of Paris to German general Oskar von Hutier.
The French Civil War
With the fall of Paris however, the General Strike turned violent, as frustrated Unionists became desperate to end the war before the Germans were in a position to occupy the whole country. Skirmishes with police turned into riots across much of the country, and the government was forced to resign, marking the beginning of a transitory period between the Third Republic to the Fourth.
This period was characterised by a dualistic power structure much like that of Russian between the revolutions of 1917 - on the one hand a Provisional Government of Liberals and Socialists, and on the other the CGT, claimed a "legitimate right to power" via their Trade Union structure and a new system of local councils. (However, unlike in Russia - where the Revolutionary Left's gains proved ephemeral - in France this provided the revolutionaries with the chance for permanently taking power.)
This uncertain situation continued through the summer of 1919 until things came to a head in the early autumn when the Provisional Government attempted to disarm and demobilise the French Army following the conclusion of a truce with the Germans. Fearing the Government was attempting to stifle the revolution (the Army was largely supportive of the Left) the Socialist Party began a boycott of the Parliament, and declared itself an ally of the CGT, followed thereafter by a number of the more radical Liberals.
Following this decision the Bolshevik Jacobins declared the Provisional Government an enemy of the Proletariat, encouraging Party members to begin a policy of agitation in favour of a "great purge of France, to forever destroy her class enemies". Inspired by Lenin and his revolutionaries and the outbreak of the Russian Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, gangs of working men and army units sympathetic to the Jacobin cause began to attack and loot the property of the aristocracy and upper middle classes - seizing land by force and holding the Establishment to account in revolutionary "courts".
Although they wanted to put a stop to this policy (they had hoped to negotiate with the Provisional Government), the CGT was unable to prevent the Jacobins from carrying out their attacks, or prevent an escalation of the crisis, as the Provisional Government gathered together the "forces of reaction" to respond with force and attempt a counter-revolution.
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This is awesome. You should give it a thread.
Seconded. I'm fascinated by this world. It needs its own thread.
I third this idea.
Not to rain on the parade, but I did this basemap for Worlda in aRCS. Glad to see it was re-used, of course, but I'm unsure which borders are supposed to be innacurate (some definitely are, and at some point I should make a worlda out of this one)
it was a mistake that was later corrected :for some reason, the later basemap wasn't used.-- The Duchy of Vasconia was strangely not shown as distinct, even though it was still a distinct entity within the empire.
It's hard to really adress the borders of Iberia, but at this scale it was hard to represent the relative blurry region between Christian and Islamic dominance (rather than control). I then took an average border to roughly delimit it.-- Borders in Iberia are kind of weird? It seems Asturias was bigger than shown at the time, and the border zone between the Carolingians and Cordoba was a bit further north than shown.
True, altough not to be exagerated, and IIRC it was partly corrected on the latest basemap, which is reflected on the Q-BAM map I linked.-- Serbia is a bit bigger on most maps, and I showed that. Same for the Byzantines on the Western Balkans. They both seem to have at least claimed everything West of the Bulgars. I doubt that their control was effective there, but that doesn't generally stop us fom showing it in the claiming country's colour. (After all, we know how often control is mostly theoretical.)
Agreed, would it be only because the first basemap I did was particularily wrong on this regard : I rather prefer how I put it in the second basemap or Q-BAM-- The Khazars are shown as having a considerably greater sphere of influence on most maps, so I edited to accomodate that.
It's essentially because of the scale, and I shown these at this point from outdated maps (I took several months to consider how to put them on the Q-BAM, something that @Alex Richards probably remembers from the mountain of PM he recieved). Note that they're still shown as one entity because they're nothing we can really say about how they were actually differenciated.-- The Mordvins, Volga Bulgars and Bashkirs are, inexplicably, shown as one group (or only one is shown). I show them distinctly.
Fair enough, I did a far better job with the Atlas of Central Asia eventually, and I relied on more poor sources back then.-- The Turkic tribes are typically shown with their extent a bit different, so I altered that a bit.
-- The Yamato had moved further north at this point, so I changed that a bit, too.[/QUOTE]-- As far as I'm aware, Balhae was still undivided at the time, so I removed the division there.
As an aside, some maps still show the Avars, although I left that to be. I'm not sure if they'd been overrun at that point, or were about to be.
Essentially overrun. AFAIK You still had Avars in the region for a while, but not really organized as a distinct polity we can spot (altough there were Avars still organised enough to be subjected to Franks, and to attack them in the mid IXth), and essentially remembered trough the "Avar solitude" in Pannonian plain for the IXth century, which was settled by distinct Slavic people as well as Avars.(see Q-BAM)There might still have been a remnant, squeezed between the Carolingians' Eastern fringe and the Bulgars' Westernmost reaches.
It wasn't at all what I intended , don't worry: just that I took months to do some maps (and more than a year for the Q-BAM) and while I saw them diversely re-used inside and outside AH.com community without much acknowledgement including to correct some mistakes (while, weirdly enough, older ones are more used than recent ones).t's just what seemed best to me.
@Fred Guo who hurt you?
And a map of the predominant religions in the states of Africa..
What religions do the colors correspond to? I curious as to what faith Togo, Ethiopia, and Eritrea share.
What religions do the colors correspond to? I curious as to what faith Togo, Ethiopia, and Eritrea share.
If I were to guess, Coptic Christianity. Although, why Togo would be Coptic is beyond me."No single majority religion?"
Plagiarism is unacceptable here. This includes taking work from other sites and presenting it here as your own.
Cease and desist.
I have a Turkish friend, so like, maybe they could translate something? I'm sure they'd have a better idea of what we're saying if it were in Turkish, not EnglishI think a worse issue is that he has a really poor command of English, so unless we can explain to him in Azeri, he's just going to keep posting text copied off other sources.
Of course, this being an English-language forum, you really need to know the language.
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I have a Turkish friend, so like, maybe they could translate something? I'm sure they'd have a better idea of what we're saying if it were in Turkish, not English
Islam:greenWhat religions do the colors correspond to? I curious as to what faith Togo, Ethiopia, and Eritrea share.