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theSmartPenguin23 said:
This is a map mainly based on the "Superpowers" timeline found on Alternate History Wikia by user Red vs Blue. The timeline is his, I appreciate his work and expanded to include what I think is the full world map in the year 1000 AD. The two main POD's are that Commodus is replaced by Marcus Aurelius' adopted son, who becomes one of the greatest emperors ever and through his work combined with successful emperors in the future, manages to extend Pax Romana for another few centuries, resulting in the survival of the Roman Empire and it remaining the most prosperous and dominant state on Earth.

The other one is that in the late 300s, a Mayan genius is born in Calakmul who invents many things common place in the old world such as the wheel and cement, among various other things. He becomes the leader of his city state, and unites the other Maya city states under one federal kingdom. The Maya Kingdom then conquers Teotihuacan and makes it it's new capital. This new, united Maya state dominates eventually comes to dominate of Central America.

This is one of my first maps I've made, but anyways please discuss ;)

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Superpowers is a timeline which examines the effect of three PODs in producing a world devoid of minor states and ruled by a dozen great powers. Each divergence from reality pushed a nation (Rome, Maya & Mongolia) into a stable political equilibrium over a large geopolitical region. Once these...
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Nice, even if a wee bit butterfly massacre...
Oh, I see its your first map, than it is great!
Btw may I try took some inspiration or do a cover of it?
 
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Ukraine in Yiddish. Source: Geographic Atlas of Icchok Kaduszyn, 1922
 
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Analytical Engine said:
Whatever east Tennessee is called doesn't seem to be labelled.
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I could have sworn I'd labeled it. Must have forgotten to save that part. That's the state of Franklin, which was formed during the Civil War as a compromise between Andrew Johnson and William Brownlow.
EDIT: I added the missing label
 
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Minchandre said:
That's so awesome. I especially like the little hand-written annotations. Well, and או.ס.ס.ר. and וו.ס.ס.ר, showing the use of double Hebrew letters to represent a single Cyrillic letter (U.S.S.R - for Ukraine - and W.S.S.R - for Belarus, and no, I don't understand why Belarus is W.S.S.R.)
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In German, Belarus was called the "Weißrussische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik".
 
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Minchandre said:
That's so awesome. I especially like the little hand-written annotations. Well, and או.ס.ס.ר. and וו.ס.ס.ר, showing the use of double Hebrew letters to represent a single Cyrillic letter (U.S.S.R - for Ukraine - and W.S.S.R - for Belarus, and no, I don't understand why Belarus is W.S.S.R.)
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Analytical Engine said:
In German, Belarus was called the "Weißrussische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik".
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I think in older Yiddish it was Veyse Rus?
 
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MAP OF CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA
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Map of Central North America a.k.a. former Confederation of Greater Columbian States, a region that is sandwiched between the gigantic multilingual and technological advanced United States and the near-developed Mexican Empire, ruled by exiled House of Bourbon since the Spanish branch has been banished from the mainland upon establishing a modern-day constitutional liberal republic in the homeland. The region comprised of nations such as Texas, Carolina-Muscogee, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida, Sonora, and Rio Grande, which this region is in the middle but not same as Western Europe, Upper North America (United States, Canada, Vinland, Alaska), parts of East Asia (notably Japan), Southern Cone, Southern Africa, and Australasia in terms of average human development or liberal democracy index.

A region that was once part of former Confederation of Greater Columbian States, a failed experiment when colonies of Georgia, Albermarle, and Virginia as well as South Carolina was declared independence during the Independence War against Britain in 1817 when the motherland has imposed restrictions on planters that prevented enslaving them into the colony that led to cries for independence in which it was inspired by Northern neighbor, United States. The country, indeed had annexed Republican Louisiana and then participated the Mexican Civil War with Republican support against monarchy that awarded Texas, Oklahoma, Rio Grande, and Walker-led Sonora and the country was lasted for over 94 years until the Gulfstream War over failed to address slavery by Anti-Slavery Coalition (United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, and Mexico) after they rejected ultimatum which also led to growing unemployment and unrest that fueled to be the death kneel for middle-aged nation at the hands of defiant slaveholding government.

Sonoran Republic proclamation is echoed by formation of Rio Grande and secession of Texas and the subsequent civil war with the Louisianan restoration of monarchy with independence is supported by Florida, the final straw was the formation of Virginia which led to collapse of Columbian States, the country is no more.

The countries that carved out as of 2021:

Republic of Texas - Highly developed with good infrastructure including its own high speed rail project to Louisiana and the United States and regarded as members of North American Union and Northern Hemispherical Defence Union and also the country is regarded as 'melting pot' due to mixture of Anglo-Texan including those from the British Commonwealth Union and the United States, Tejanos, German-Texan, Amerikaaner Texan (especially in the Eindhoven [OTL Dallas] and around urban and rural areas), and French Techans (especially those from neighboring Louisiana and subsequent settler descendants in the past centuries). The country is the center of high education, technology (Silicon Nation) due to headquarters of regional companies, computers, energy which includes both fossil and renewables, aerospace (including its own Boca Chica due to spaceport as well as both Mitsubishi and AeroCosmos), and others. The country is regarded as the most democratic with constitutional amendments that prevented the president using veto power despite overall constitutional implications and close economic partners of Soviet Union, Zapadoslavia, Western European, Northern American, and Australasian countries, Capeland, Azania, Japan, and South China.

Commonwealth of Virginia - Only nation that is a true successor to the Columbian States but the reality in this year was due to overall cycles of struggles of attempting to develop into full liberal democracy or social libertarian democracy like what neighbors did but unfortunately, rising protests as well as dictatorial regimes plus the fear of Florida-like communist revolutions through protests, peaceful elections, and huge support has led to not only suspending the constitution but can stunt the overall economic development where decades and decades later, the post-dictatorial regime that was ended in the mid-2000s has slowly shown its signs of economic improvement, albeit the country was ineffective or rather hybrid regime with restrictions on free press and judiciary.

Kingdom of Louisiana - A developed but trapped in the middle where inequality gap between rich and poor has widened but potentially albeit improving and booming with service, technology, consumer, and sustainable energy but the country was run by Bourbons and a Keynesian digital communardist (democratic and economic socialism), racial equality, and strong participation in Northern American integration but the real problem is the corruption and gossip scandals among the politicians as well which in turn, could slow down the projects or cause media exposure and calls for renewed changes to eradicate systemic corruption. A diverse culture which is mixed with Cajun, French, Spanish (even with late 1790s-1810s), German, Irish, Japanese and Midorinokunian, Scandinavian, Mexican, Amerikaaner, Anglos, Afro-Louisianan, and others in turn that led to huge cultural influences such as Voudun and Creoles.

Florida - A democratic, economically stabilized, and prospering society which forms out of the ashes of Popularista Period and the Bucharest Pact in which the Soviet Russian forces had been present on every abandoned or former military bases during these old days but now, a growing tech, manufacturing, and aerospace sector due to International Spaceport of Canaveral as well as media, entertainment, and tourism industry where they are the explosive big bang of the post-1988 Great Revolution that led to downfall of Eastern Bloc. Notable for sending healthcare workers, agricultural and mechanic technicians, computer engineers, and others but the country has been most democratic after peaceful transition to democracy with Soviet Russian approval and it is unlikely to join military organizations on the behalf of pursuing non-aligned and pseudo-neutrality policy, although they have closer relations with democratic and developed countries as well as participation in sending experts to Moon and Martian colonies. Allied with the United States.

Rio Grande Republic - A sibling to New Spain's colonial successor state but they are under part of Greater Mississippi until growing international pressure against slavery and subsequent Gulfstream War with echoes on Sonoran unilateral declaration of independence has allowed the states of Tamaulipas, New Leon, and Wilkson to form the pre-Peachtree republic. Now, a developed fully-fledged democracy as the country has been joined the North American Union in which eases economic barriers that pumped up skyrocketing economic growth as they began to look for Texas and Sonora for competition as large elderly (mostly retirees) has been flocking to buy property and burgeoning tourism industry as well as partnership with Mexico and Central America has also led to immense huge gains from tourism and hospitality sector before the start of 2020 decade.

Sonoran Republic - A sister child founded by filibuster William Walker whom the supporters of slavery and Manifest Destiny has been flocked in which he could attempt to govern the Morisco-majority republic until he had petitioned to be annexed into Greater Columbia in 1850, which the state was divided into two, Chihuahua Territory and Sonora itself, until the Gulfstream War that the two states had fired its first shots of collapse amid growing unemployment and rising radicalized abolitionists which led to delegates voting the state out from the control has led to echoing calls by the early 1910s but the experts had said that it was prelude to Great European War where tensions between European great powers had been always reaching a boiling point. Now, the country was nearly-functional as problems such as poverty, unemployment, recent corruption scandals and investigations, and fallouts including the recent pandemic and rising crime had still haunted the nation.

Carolina-Muscogean Confederation - A backwater and shadowy corrupt successor to the former Confederacy of Columbia which the old slaveholder country was dissolved in apparent chaotic fighting and bitter internal struggles within the political ruling party. Today, the country is still under authoritarian government (in reality, it was constitutionally democratic but although, every elections where the country had still lacked democratic constitution has been rigged in favor of ruling party) and the crackdowns on media, independent judiciary, and opposition as well as those who deemed 'unworthy' based on Bible through both direct and indirect means like for example, the independent media received threats from Internal Revenue over 'distorting facts' in which the independent media is accusing the government of suppression or in direct, the centralized guards and police had swarmed into the crowds of protesters last October using harsh tactics like tear gas, flamethrowers, or rubber bullets over the contested election results in which the candidate Abrams has fled to Louisiana while other supporters caught up and detained.
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I decided to retcon my previous map posted to be in the year 600 AD.


In the late 500s Regnum Thule began to increase trade with native tribes along the coast. Eventually permanent trading posts and settlements were set up along the coast. For a while this trading many consisted of fish and horses to the tribes in exchange for squash and other vegetables. In order to keep hold of the incredibly lucrative horse trade in 607 Caesar Opetirius decreed that only castrated horses would be sold outside Newfoundland. However this did not fully prevent the natives from breeding horses and horse remains have been found as far as the Ohnawioke River (OOC: Mississippi river) dated to the year 675. However, the Remeans would gain a major advantage in 640 when iron deposits were found in Newfoundland renewing the age old art of metal working. Surviving documents to the Remeans were scarce and it took decades before they were able to make much more than small tools. Eventually by 720 they were able to make quality swords. The metal working trade become the most guarded secret of the growing Empire and it gave Reme and her allies a massive advantage. The native peoples more inland began to utilize the Reme plow, metal tools and weapons. The first cities began to pop up, with brick building slowly replacing the wooden long houses of the tribes. The city of Kitchiskan along the Kaniatarowanenneh river allegedly had a population of over 100,000 around the year 800, making it one of the largest cities in the world, though modern estimates say it could have been much lower. By the year 850 imperial aspirations of the Remeans led to them expanding inland. This was helped by the discovery of crop rotation. the Remeans had been working poor soil for centuries and as a result it was discovered that by switching crops periodically fields would produce much more and fallow land became more rare. This agricultural revolution led to a drastic increase in population.

Fishing remained a massive part of the Remean economy and in the year 930 Remean fisherman make contact with Norsemen off the coast of Greenland. They give the norsemen berrywine, and rumors of a land of wine in plenty spread to Denmark, England and Sweden by the year 950. In 951 Thangbrand the one-eyed reaches the city of Reme with 35 longboats. Emperor Spurius welcomes the vikings and asks them to stay hoping to boast his military power. However Thangbrand returns to Europe two years later promising to return with warriors as well as with several copies of the bible as Spurius requested. In 961 Thangbrand returns to Vinland bringing a single Latin bible with him for Spurius, however upon returning he learns that Spurius has died and his son Paulo had ascended the thrown. It is said that Paulo was so horrified with the Bible that he wept for 3 days, upon finding that it contained no respect for Rome or reverence for any of the other Gods. Paulo ordered his own bible constructed using the Remean oral traditions as well as certain stories from the 'Barbarian bible' as he called it. By the year 1000 AD several thousand Norsemen are in the Remean service. Finding a home far from the frigid north of Greenland as well as the growing religious oppression in Europe against their beliefs.

It is not until 990 until proof of the 'Land of Wine' reaches a non-Scandinavian court in Europe. A wealthy tradesmen gives the King of France a gift that he says came from across the sea. It was a cross with an eagle perched on the top with the letters S P Q R engraved across the horizontal bar. The king presented the unique artifact to his bishop who allegedly cursed it as a heretical symbol and cast it into the fire.
 
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