Map Thread XVIII

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Drex

Drex

So here's a list of the best maps published in this thread during the first 100 pages (may or not do the rest). Only maps with more than 30 likes were taken into account. And of course, we'll begin with a top 10, then 50, 100 and so on. WIP Maps were NOT taken into account. My grammar ain't perfect and some links may not work or be bugged. Important Note: If someone wants to do the next 100 pages, the 200-300 segment or whatever, he/she's cordially invited to do so.


  1. United Kingdom of Brazil and Portugal. 102 Likes. By @TheKutKu
  2. 84: Rome has always been at war with Parthia. 96 Likes. By @Tert2567
  3. Kaiserreich China in 1936. 95 Likes. By @timmy_khagann
  4. A New Dawn and an Uneasy Truce. 85 Likes. By @KillEmAll1989
  5. Future Maps of Russia. 83 Likes. By kreiviskai (banned)
  6. Italy in 400 BC. 80 Likes. By @Ziuwari
  7. United Syndicalist States of Central America. 77 Likes. By @timmy_khagann
  8. Collapse of the Imperial Federation. 77 Likes. By @AP246
  9. The Policy of Containment. 76 Likes. By @AP246
  10. Maritime Trade in the Baltic. 73 Likes. By @Milites
11-50

  1. Rogue's Gallery: 2015. 72 Likes.
  2. Free City of Trieste. 69 Likes.
  3. HRE Florida. 68 Likes.
  4. The Taiyuan Pact. 66 Likes.
  5. European Cold War in 1944. 65 Likes.
  6. The Hesperides. 65 Likes.
  7. Bordergore. 65 Likes.
  8. 16 Germanies. 65 Likes.
  9. Serbian Empire in 1355. 65 Likes.
  10. The German Empire in 1871. 64 Likes.
  11. The Inner Sinosphere. 63 Likes.
  12. Map of the World in 2018. 62 Likes.
  13. Central America, South America and the Caribbean - Political Map. 62 Likes.
  14. Greek Resistance in 1951. 61 Likes.
  15. Europe in 120 AD. 61 Likes.
  16. A Brief History of the First Interregnum Period. 60 Likes.
  17. The Two Chinas in 1936. 60 Likes.
  18. Historical maps of Argentina. 60 Likes.
  19. Approximate Distribution of Factions in the Former US. 60 Likes.
  20. 6 Brazils. 59 Likes.
  21. Europe on 1650 AD. 58 Likes.
  22. Europe in 5 AD. 57 Likes.
  23. Greece in 437 BC. 57 Likes.
  24. Hilo: Hawaii. 56 Likes.
  25. White Kamuy: British Nipponese Islands. 55 Likes.
  26. These Three Realms United. 55 Likes.
  27. Europe, 60 BC. 54 Likes.
  28. The Franco-German Alliance in 1865. 54 Likes.
  29. Samenilia. 54 Likes.
  30. Alternate Colonisation and Map of Africa. 53 Likes.
  31. Empire of Brittania in 2183. 53 Likes.
  32. The Kingdom of Canada in 1951.
  33. The Commonwealth of Virginia. 52 Likes.
  34. Steampunk Fallout Map. 51 Likes.
  35. Various Chinese Warlord Maps (1). 51 Likes.
  36. State of Superior. 51 Likes.
  37. 11 Danubias. 51 Likes.
  38. Ordenstaat Gotenland. 51 Likes.
  39. Dominions of America: Europe in 1804. 49 Likes.
  40. A Kingdom Divided. 49 Likes.

51-100

  1. Union Invasion of Sweden in 1519. 48 Likes.
  2. Viva la Patria Grande! 48 Likes.
  3. Roman Rump State in Brittania. 48 Likes.
  4. Socialist Republic of North Britain. 47 Likes.
  5. Greek Napoleon: Southern England and the Channel States. 47 Likes.
  6. 1519 Invasion of Sweden and siege of Stockholm. 47 States.
  7. To ABsent Friends. 47 Likes.
  8. S Countries ISOT. 47 Likes.
  9. Republic of New Albion. 47 Likes.
  10. Europe in 1765. 47 Likes.
  11. Anglo-Spanish Cold War. 47 Likes.
  12. Leithanian Republics in 1944. 46 Likes.
  13. Syndicalist Internationale in 1943. 46 Likes.
  14. Achaemenid Empire on 390 BCE. 45 Likes.
  15. Duchy of Prussia. 45 Likes.
  16. Union of Celtic People's Republics. 45 Likes.
  17. Soldier's guide to the South African Dumpster Fire. 45 Likes.
  18. The More Things Change: The New Cold War, 2067. 45 Likes.
  19. The Waning of Five Empires. 45 Likes.
  20. Ridiculous Canadawank. 45 Likes.
  21. Territorial Evolution of the Victorian Empire. 45 Likes.
  22. Ilha Vermelha and Sjorvatney. 45 Likes.
  23. Dominions of America: Europe in 1849. 44 Likes.
  24. Tanto Monta, Monta Tanto. 44 Likes.
  25. La Unión de las Californias. 44 Likes.
  26. Careful Dominion. 44 Likes.
  27. Tomorrow Country Canada. 44 Likes.
  28. Revolution! World Map. 43 Likes.
  29. Constantine's Brittania. 43 Likes.
  30. Fresland. 43 Likes.
  31. 12 Queenslands. 42 Likes.
  32. Little ASB map. 42 Likes.
  33. Republic of California. 41 Likes.
  34. Propaganda during the American Revolution. 41 Likes.
  35. Cold War in Europe, 1960. 41 Likes.
  36. Spanish Independence Referendums. 41 Likes.
  37. 9 Argentines. 41 Likes.
  38. Another America. 41 Likes.
  39. 16 Hungaries. 41 Likes.
  40. Post-Apocalyptic World after a US-Russia nuclear war. 40 Likes.
  41. Rurik Dynasty Uninterrupted. 40 Likes.
  42. Europe in 1790. 40 Likes.
  43. The Charnel Reason Which is our Prison. 40 Likes.
  44. Map Thread XVII Retrospective (not a map, but worth placing). 39 Likes.
  45. Hyper Carolingia. 39 Likes.
  46. You've Got a Friend in Me. 39 Likes.
  47. Bengali Expansion in the 1000's. 38 Likes.
  48. Various Chinese Warlod Maps (2). 38 Likes.
  49. The German Confederation (1999-Today). 38 Likes.
  50. Inverted France and Germany circa 1500. 38 Likes.

101-167

  1. The Carolina War. 38 Likes.
  2. Canada-Mexico Wank. 38 Likes.
  3. Axis Cyberpunk-2045. 37 Likes.
  4. British Michigan and Wisconsin. 37 Likes.
  5. Ice Age Europe. 37 Likes.
  6. OTL France in 1453. 37 Likes.
  7. The Terror in the Trenches. 37 Likes.
  8. Lands of Duke Antonie II. 36 Likes.
  9. Kingdom of Burgundy. 36 Likes.
  10. Terra Nova. 36 Likes.
  11. HRE in 1648. 36 Likes.
  12. 6 New Jerseys. 36 Likes.
  13. The British Federation. 36 Likes.
  14. Red, White, Black and Gold. 36 Likes.
  15. 12 Indianas. 36 Likes.
  16. Long live the new Map Thread! (first post). 35 Likes.
  17. Reverse Colonisation. 35 Likes.
  18. People's Republic of Central America. 35 Likes.
  19. Administrative Divisions of the German Empire in 1981. 35 Likes.
  20. Treni Map of Corsica. 35 Likes.
  21. Central Powers in 1915. 35 Likes.
  22. No Americas Map. 35 Likes.
  23. A Rabble of a Reich. 35 Likes.
  24. Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1921). 34 Likes.
  25. Language WorlDA. 34 Likes.
  26. EFigy of Civilisation. 34 Likes.
  27. Greater Early US. 34 Likes.
  28. Mittelafrika. 34 Likes.
  29. British North America in 1837. 34 Likes.
  30. The Second Cold War. 34 Likes.
  31. Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1920). 33 Likes.
  32. Caliphate of Cordoba-Wank. 33 Likes.
  33. Europe in 1944. 33 Likes.
  34. The Latin Axis in 1935. 33 Likes.
  35. Specter and Spirit. 33 Likes.
  36. Irish Empire before WWII. 33 Likes.
  37. Alternate Map of Europe. 32 Likes.
  38. The Danish Communes. 32 Likes.
  39. Ain't No Grave Can Hold'em Down. 32 Likes.
  40. Generalplan Ost. 32 Likes.
  41. Realm of the Inkanyamnba. 32 Likes.
  42. Gran Colombia annexes Spanish Haiti. 32 Likes.
  43. South Japanese Overseas Prefecture of Hawaii. 32 Likes.
  44. Background on the Hyperwar. 32 Likes.
  45. French Canada Wank. 32 Likes.
  46. French North America. 32 Likes.
  47. Continent-spanning New France. 32 Likes.
  48. Messier Protestant Reformation. 31 Likes.
  49. For All Time: Mongolia. 31 Likes.
  50. Province of Skyrim. 31 Likes.
  51. Grand Duchy of Saabrücken. 31 Likes.
  52. The Paris Event. 31 Likes.
  53. Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1925). 31 Likes.
  54. Etruscan Empire and Seinebud. 30 Likes.
  55. Tellurus. 30 Likes.
  56. Orient: Kindom of Arabia. 30 Likes.
  57. Napoleon's Age of Empires. 30 Likes.
  58. Russian Civil War in Antarctica. 30 Likes.
  59. Forgotten No More: The New South. 30 Likes.
  60. Obanate of M'bidywivinzidiry. 30 Likes.
  61. North America transplanted into Russia. 30 Likes.
  62. Southern Europe. 30 Likes.
  63. Cuba Post-World War Z. 30 Likes.
  64. The Gaza Republic in 1932. 30 Likes.
  65. Gas-Lit Empire in 1815. 30 Likes.
  66. Valkyria Chronicles. 30 Likes.
  67. AESOP. 30 Likes.
 
XTrapnel

XTrapnel

The Syndicalist Internet: CYBERSYN and DigiTel

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CYBERSYN



The brainchild of Anthony Stafford Beer (a British cyberneticist who had defected to the CSA via New England in the early 1970s), “Cybernetic Synergy”, a proposed distributed decision-making network intended to link workers’ syndicates into an integrated whole, languished on the drawing-board for over a decade, until it caught the eye of incoming Chairman Robert S McNamara in 1985. Immediately embraced as a flagship element of McNamara’s programme for “technocratic syndicalism”, the project (renamed CYBERSYN) was implemented in the Grangeland Syndicalist Commune on 1 February 1987 (to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Combined Syndicates), with further rollouts to the rest of the CSA being planned over the next decade.


CYBERSYN initially consisted of a network of terminals distributed to individual factories and collective farms, into which data on production metrics was input: this data was then collated centrally, analysed and used to inform regional economic policy, with instructions on production, pricing and logistics being fed back to individual terminals: later iterations allowed direct terminal-to-terminal communication between end users.


While CYBERSYN saw some initial successes (most notably allowing the rapid rerouting of agricultural goods from Grangeland during a truckers’ strike in 1988), its model was ultimately too ambitious, flawed and dependent on human input to be genuinely effective, and the project was damaged by high-profile defections from the design team (Professor Theodore Kaczynski resigned in 1989, convinced that it was inherently impossible to accurately model and alter an entire economy in real time), by a lack of enthusiasm among end users and by increasingly limited resources available to the project (proposed implementation across the Steel Belt was delayed until 1996, while implementation in the New Afrika and Gullah Autonomous Communes was shelved entirely). By the early 90s, CYBERSYN was increasingly seen as an expensive failure.


Ironically, one of its most lasting legacies was to provide, via peer-to-peer use of terminals, an encryptable channel of communication between separatists and anti-government elements: it is estimated that by 1992 80% of CYBERSYN terminals in western Montana were being used primarily as a method of communication by Northwest Front sympathisers.


DigiTel

DigiTel was proposed as CYBERSYN’s personal equivalent: a planned closed network accessible via telephone lines, it was intended to allow individual users to, inter alia, check news services, weather reports, redeem credits for train tickets and chat with other citizens on local message boards (all, of course, monitored by the benevolent eye of the Interior Security Services).


Rolled out in 1991 in the Communes of Chicago and Philadelphia, DigiTel proved enormously popular: the sheer volume of information posted on the nework, however, simply overwhelmed any attempt at censorship, and the authorities were increasingly discomfited at the vast amount of grainy and pixelated pornography which ended up consuming bandwidth. DigiTel’s networks were permanently closed in 1993 amid fears that they were being used to coordinate the series of protests that ultimately led to the fall of the McNamara institution, the appointment of the radical reformer James Traficant as Chairman, and the collapse of the Combined Syndicates of America. Both CYBERSYN and DigiTel were defunded in 1994.
 

lou H

map of the most popular teams in major league lacrosse in my TL. lacrosse is much more popular ITL as a result of more indigenous culture influence. it's probably as popular as football is in brazil throughout the Arcadian continent, with many celebrities born and baptized on the lacrosse pitch.
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list of teams:
Stromkoping Outlaws
Vinland Nationals
St. Louis Barrage
Asmarka Machine
Septimania Pride
Port Royal Hounds
All-Cherokee Blaze
Lafayette Rattlers
Qingqiu Dragons
Mexica Lizards
Gran Colombia Cannons
Andes Avalanche
Amazonie Riptide
Charlemagne Blues
Camelot Blackhawks
 
water123

water123

I take my derailment of the thread and raise another high-effort map that hopefully doesn't suck.

Aqua817 said:
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The Rise of the Romani: Theoretical Migration Patterns of archaic Roma/Romani and the establishment of the Ancient Roman Empire

Presented by Dr. Prof. Darian Iathadan, Dean of History at the Araqon University in Araqon Province, Spain.

"The Origins of the Roman Empire and the Roma in general are one of the most controversial and studied aspects in European History. The historical record in many ways is contradictory and confusing, as much of history is. I'm sure all of you are familiar with the vivid debates over the personhood and historicity of Confucius. However, scouring the historical record, I have attempted to juxtapose the current theories on the Roma, and attempted to at least platter the current consensus to try to find a pattern in it. (OOC: None of this is explicit canon, feel free to plow over this, this is just a fun little work about potential theories)

The origin of the Roma are extremely, extremely hard to pin down. All we have really been able to pin down is that the Roma are originally from the Indian subcontinent. However, recent research has significantly narrowed this down to southern India, especially Sri Lanka. Doing my own research, I am preparing to publish a series of theories linking the Roma with the archaic Vedda peoples of Sri Lanka. The Vedda are an ancient remnant population, similar to the Negritos of the Philippines, and perhaps even predate Dravidian colonization of southern India. Very little is known about them, since in the modern day Vedda are subject to discrimination and repression in the Sri Lankan state, and their culture is giving way to the more universally accepted Tamil and Sinhala society. However, thanks to the reconstruction of the proto-Vedda language achieved by members of this very university, I have been able to find several word pairs and cognates between Roma and Vedda. I have attached a list in Document 2. [DOCUMENT LOST] Not to mention, the Vedda were just as discriminated against in these archaic times, and thus had plenty of reason to attempt to find a new home.

Therefore, I have tried to pin certain historical events in India to a theoretical migration of a group of Vedda out of Sri Lanka. Figure 1 illustrates potential leads in this regard. (Fig. 1) I must caveat that some of the data used has recently come into conflict. Greek historians in the area recorded a "Despotate of Bidu" near what is the modern-day Rajasthan and Gujarat regions in Northwestern India. However, the historicity of this region has come into question, as no evidence of a powerful unified state as recorded has been uncovered so far. Yet, this is the best reconstruction so far that has been presented, though I will quickly mention theories about an Assamese, central Indian, or even Burman origin of the Roma...

...What is known, however, is that the Roma had to go from India to Europe. This particular migration has been the bane of ethnographers, Romanologists, and historians since Aethelbert of Copenhagen wrote about these things in eons past. It is thought that, not long after emerging from India proper, the Romani went through a kind of bottleneck due to an attack by surrounding kings. Many here know of the story of Sellon the Cowardly, the bastard son of a bastard king who in the Roma's hour of greatest need sacrificed himself to allow a select few Roma to escape destruction. Indeed, in Rome proper, there is a shrine to Sellon near the old Temple of Jupiter where to this day the poor, destitute and lonely leave Yams on the perpetually burning altar in hopes that Sellon would bless them as he blessed the select few. (The survival of this ostensibly pagan shrine through the rule of otherwise rather iconoclast muslims and, later, skeptical Christians is a fascinating story to be told another day.) Regardless of the historicity of Sellon proper, there is significant evidence pointing towards there being a bottleneck, including the "cursed names," families who's lineages died out in a cataclysm long ago.

After this event, there are two prevailing theories as to the paths of migration to Europe by the Roma. One is that the Roma would eventually reach the Steppes and become a great horde, similar to the Absarook would in the Americas, before settling in eastern Europe before the more whole-scale conquest of the vast swathe of territory that would become the Roman empire. The other theory says that they took a southern route through Persia and the middle east. (Fig. 2) However, both of these have major problems. For one, it is assumed that the Roma whole-scale invaded Europe and conquered it. Recent archaeological digs have proven time and time again that there were vibrant and thriving civilizations throughout this area. Thus, all of this has lead me to have a new, groundbreaking theory: The Roma merely co-opted an existing empire, rather than form their own.

The most important aspect of this comes from the linguistic evidence. Even though the Roma were ostensibly the rulers of the whole area, Latin was the language that later spread across Europe. This has traditionally been explained by saying that the Latin soldiers were used as easy shock troops by Roma authorities and were given land grants in return for service, which lead to them settling in the new areas and spreading their language. However, I suggest that the Roma ended up conquering the upper heirarchy of a large Latin empire. From there, Roma quietly mingled but did not integrate with the local societies, with a timescale given in figure 3. (Fig. 3)

This is almost proven by the linguistics of the Roman Empire. Even though the Roman Empire extended from England all the way to Ethiopia, Romance languages are only found in Western Europe. This would be counter-intuitive if the Romani were trying to use Latins as loyal colonists, since the regions of Ethiopia, Persia, Mesopotamia, and the Levant were all far more rebellious for far longer and yet were still unsettled by Latins. Yea, even after the fall of the Northern Roman Empire, the Southern Roman Empire would last for millennia after, even though the Northern Roman Empire has more of these "loyal colonists." An illustration of this is given in figure 4. (Fig. 4)

Therefore, in my next selection of far more formal research papers, I will put forward my new thesis: that Rome was originally a Latin Empire that had it's upper hierarchy couped by what would become the Romani thousands of years ago. I will now take questions.

You, yes! No, this does not diminish the influence of Indian culture on Europe and especially Rome, and it certainly does not negate the good or bad things done by the Romani during their control of the Roman Empire.

You! No, the y-dna haplogroup testing is still in the mail. We will be releasing that paper later on, however.

You. No, I am not still looking for undergrad help. Next question... actually, we're out of time. I have my business card and email at the door, feel free to email me any further questions. Thank you for your time."
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GeneralInTheShell

The Late Intermediary period and the Invention of the Mesoeurasian world


Introduction


By the start of the 12th century, we really see the already stark differences between the urbanized Mesoeurasian world and that of manoralist Peripheral Occidental Eurasia become so pronounced that they were almost irreconcilable with the revival of the classics during the Anagénnisi Period. Since the collapse of Roman authority over the eastern reaches of the empire and the carving up of the region by Goths, Alans, Lombards, Persians, Arabs, Hephtalites, and Turkomen, the center of the Classical World had been battered. It had seemed that first the Sassanian Shahs and then the Hephthalite Shahs would dominate Mesoeurasia only being occasionally contested by half hearted attempts by the Roman Empire to reassert their dominion over the region while the barbarian kingdoms failed to maintain the level of sophistication the region had once been so famous for. The costly Hephthalite-Gupta Wars, followed shortly by the Arab Migration period, would however break the power of Hephtalite Shahs over the region.This coupled with the breaking of Lombard power over the southern Balkans by the arrival of the Magyars in Thrace (the Lombards having previously displaced the Goths as the regional hegemony) would see the region begin to recover from the devastation wrought by centuries of Roman yoke and the chaotic Migration Period that followed its abrupt end. Urbanization, which had taken a substantial hit as a result of the economically disastrous reforms of Diocletian that would set the Roman Empire down the path towards Manoralism and the Occidentalist autocracy that would go on to characterize the Dominate, would recover during this period and we would slowly begin to see the rise of cities that would take center stage during the Anagénnisi. Thessaloniki, which would rise to become the dominant thalassocracy of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, is classically defined as the birthplace of the Anagénnisi. This understanding is owing to the competition of wealthy merchants and competing political rivals in the city’s Megisymvoúli. These figures were commissioning the translation of ancient Hellenic text into Middle Hellenic and paying for elaborate works of art, influenced by the classical styling, that would provide the economic fuel for this great cultural revival From here, similar tasks would be undertaken in Magyaria, the Gothic League, Pontic Alania, Achaea, and even spread outside of the Christian ruled states. The Buddhist Shah of Archelaïs, Krumbates IV, would become an important patron of the arts during his personal rivalry with the Patriarch of Konstantinoupolis after a trip to the beating heart of the Orthodox Christian world.

The ethos of the Anagénnisi would radiate out across the Mesoeurasian world, eventually finding patrons in the Arab rulers of Syria, Egypt, and Asoristan creating a cultural climate that had not been seen since the Classical Hellenic era. The permeation of autarchic ideals and the revival of democratic traditions during this period would lay the foundation for the eventual rise of Mesoeurasia. In stark contrast, the Roman Empire and the other states of Peripheral Occidental Eurasia continued down the path towards Autocracy as the Germanic and Nordic rulers did their best to emulate the Dominus of the Romans. Indeed, this trend towards Autocracy in both Occidental and Oriental Peripheral Eurasia has contributed to the rise in the notion of Mesocentrism. This book, dear reader, does not set out to tackle that issue, nor will I spend much time on the Anagénnisi. No, instead I hope to cast more light upon the so often forgotten Late Intermediary Period and how important developments from this era made the Anagénnisi possible. We will see how Buddhist syncretism won the day in Kiev, examine Thessaloniki’s early rise, take a look at the conversion of the Magyars and much more as we dive into the period that invented Mesoeurasia.
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Minchandre

HeX said:
Why would anyone think that would be a good idea? Efficiency be damned, it looks horrible.
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"Rationalism".

Also, it would be very inefficient. Districts wouldn't respect local geography at all, which would make quick and efficient communications, tax collections, and public services hard.
 

B_Munro

Minchandre said:
"Rationalism".

Also, it would be very inefficient. Districts wouldn't respect local geography at all, which would make quick and efficient communications, tax collections, and public services hard.
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"I'm afraid your house is part of the district on the other side of the mountain." :)
 
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