Borders might change, I was messing around and NJ just stuck around. It was gunna be apart of Virginia but then I thought that was boring
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I'm gonna be honest, I don't know why you guys upvoted my map. It's not very good and the lore as I learn is unrealistic. It's a very low-quality map.
All Roads Lead to Muspuwte
The Muspuwte Ascendancy circa 62Kyr BP
Long before Ur or Göbekli Tepe, civilization rose on the Sundaland plain. Cities rose from the coastal deltas and inland plains, and trade networks bound together far distant peoples. Within the span of a few millennia of climatic calm, bronze-clad warriors marched the streets of cities of a scale that would not be seen for 50 millennia thereafter. 62,000 years before the present date, the greatest and most powerful of those cities was Muspuwte. Dense networks of trade all converged on this equatorial city of ritual kings. Copper flowed from Sde Kelb, and Tin from the mines of Fo’ro, and in Muspuwte alone they were made into bronze, and flowed out into the world hereafter. The work of these city was done by a great network of slaves, the half-human Hobbits, Bawlebs, and Ubags of the Sahulian fringe. The warriors of Muspuwte raided these distant lands for captives and sent them through the great slave ports of Gwleyr and Mistfitthirs, from wherein they journeyed upriver to Muspuwte. Primitive agriculture blossomed on the Sundaland plain, and to supplement it great fishing fleets sailed from Wampt, Lwawets, and Tilpsold, all to feed the increasingly specialized industries of Muspuwte. The great number of remains under the ceremonial pyramids of Muspuwte evince their commonplace practice of human (or half-human) sacrifice, all done so as to feed the inerrant Sun’s appetites. In religious matters, Muspuwte was only surpassed by Dy’aus, mountain of the Gods, whose foothills were wreathed by priests, whose steadfast belief kept the Ascendancy healthy.
It took one century, more or less, for Muspuwte to fall. A cold snap in the global climate, coupled with some local drying, caused seven years of bad harvests. The great fleets of Wampt, Lwawets and Tilpsold had grown too bold, and as they began to run out of fish, they ceased paying tribute to Muspuwte. Armies marched to the coasts to seize what they could, but the treasury grew empty, and the city began to starve. Muspuwte was wracked by fire, by riots, and by hunger, and as it died, so did the ascendancy. Bronze tools ceased to be made, agriculture fell out of practice. Ships broke, and the tools to repair them were not made. Two million humans had lived in Sundaland at its peak. Within a century, the number had been reduced tenfold, and the survivors reduced to a primitive existence. The push of mankind into the Sahulian fringe would continue gradually, but no civilization to rival Muspuwte would rise again on the Sundaland plain.
I'm reposting my MOTF here.
The Muspuwte Ascendancy circa 62Kyr BP
Long before Ur or Göbekli Tepe, civilization rose on the Sundaland plain. Cities rose from the coastal deltas and inland plains, and trade networks bound together far distant peoples. Within the span of a few millennia of climatic calm, bronze-clad warriors marched the streets of cities of a scale that would not be seen for 50 millennia thereafter. 62,000 years before the present date, the greatest and most powerful of those cities was Muspuwte. Dense networks of trade all converged on this equatorial city of ritual kings. Copper flowed from Sde Kelb, and Tin from the mines of Fo’ro, and in Muspuwte alone they were made into bronze, and flowed out into the world hereafter. The work of these city was done by a great network of slaves, the half-human Hobbits, Bawlebs, and Ubags of the Sahulian fringe. The warriors of Muspuwte raided these distant lands for captives and sent them through the great slave ports of Gwleyr and Mistfitthirs, from wherein they journeyed upriver to Muspuwte. Primitive agriculture blossomed on the Sundaland plain, and to supplement it great fishing fleets sailed from Wampt, Lwawets, and Tilpsold, all to feed the increasingly specialized industries of Muspuwte. The great number of remains under the ceremonial pyramids of Muspuwte evince their commonplace practice of human (or half-human) sacrifice, all done so as to feed the inerrant Sun’s appetites. In religious matters, Muspuwte was only surpassed by Dy’aus, mountain of the Gods, whose foothills were wreathed by priests, whose steadfast belief kept the Ascendancy healthy.
It took one century, more or less, for Muspuwte to fall. A cold snap in the global climate, coupled with some local drying, caused seven years of bad harvests. The great fleets of Wampt, Lwawets and Tilpsold had grown too bold, and as they began to run out of fish, they ceased paying tribute to Muspuwte. Armies marched to the coasts to seize what they could, but the treasury grew empty, and the city began to starve. Muspuwte was wracked by fire, by riots, and by hunger, and as it died, so did the ascendancy. Bronze tools ceased to be made, agriculture fell out of practice. Ships broke, and the tools to repair them were not made. Two million humans had lived in Sundaland at its peak. Within a century, the number had been reduced tenfold, and the survivors reduced to a primitive existence. The push of mankind into the Sahulian fringe would continue gradually, but no civilization to rival Muspuwte would rise again on the Sundaland plain.
I'm reposting my MOTF here.
Wait, vanilla Vicky doesn’t allow that?! NO WONDER. How did I never notice this? How does that make any sense? People migrated to colonies all the time. Forget this arbitrary new world/old world distinction they use; I’m fixing that…
Some maps of Rochester, NY in an alternate timeline.
The first is a timelapse of the city's alternate municipal expansion. IOTL there were fierce debates over the city limits in the 1920s and city planners proposed the wholesale annexation of the suburbs of Brighton and Irondequoit. These proposals were defeated by local opposition and a dispute that Rochester's Republican machine had with the state legislature through the decade. In 1926 the state passed a law by referendum that granted home rule to all towns, effectively freezing all city boundaries in place.
The second is an alternate transit map of the city. IOTL Rochester built a subway in the bed of the old Erie Canal and operated electrified light rail and freight lines from 1927 to 1956. Chronically low ridership and low freight fares made it difficult to turn a profit and many locals considered it a "white elephant" for the city. The city council considered a number of expansion proposals to improve the line but was reluctant to spend the money as it would primarily benefit suburban residents. State highway grants in the 1950s presented a much cheaper alternative to the city council, which opted to abandon the subway. ITTL, the city council expands the subway eastward in the 1940s, feeling no such reluctance since the extensions would now be within city limits. The "inner loop" of interstate 490 is never constructed, which has several other consequences, the most notable of which is that the Rochester Institute of Technology retains its campus in the city center instead of being bulldozed and relocating to the outer suburbs. After the oil crisis in the 1970s, the city secures federal funds to extend the subway to the University of Rochester along the now-abandoned tracks of the Erie Railroad, which were previously electrified for commuter rail.
The first is a timelapse of the city's alternate municipal expansion. IOTL there were fierce debates over the city limits in the 1920s and city planners proposed the wholesale annexation of the suburbs of Brighton and Irondequoit. These proposals were defeated by local opposition and a dispute that Rochester's Republican machine had with the state legislature through the decade. In 1926 the state passed a law by referendum that granted home rule to all towns, effectively freezing all city boundaries in place.
The second is an alternate transit map of the city. IOTL Rochester built a subway in the bed of the old Erie Canal and operated electrified light rail and freight lines from 1927 to 1956. Chronically low ridership and low freight fares made it difficult to turn a profit and many locals considered it a "white elephant" for the city. The city council considered a number of expansion proposals to improve the line but was reluctant to spend the money as it would primarily benefit suburban residents. State highway grants in the 1950s presented a much cheaper alternative to the city council, which opted to abandon the subway. ITTL, the city council expands the subway eastward in the 1940s, feeling no such reluctance since the extensions would now be within city limits. The "inner loop" of interstate 490 is never constructed, which has several other consequences, the most notable of which is that the Rochester Institute of Technology retains its campus in the city center instead of being bulldozed and relocating to the outer suburbs. After the oil crisis in the 1970s, the city secures federal funds to extend the subway to the University of Rochester along the now-abandoned tracks of the Erie Railroad, which were previously electrified for commuter rail.
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Actually they do, that's what the game calls "Colonial migration", it's just that some places aren't attractive so they don't go there just like OTL
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^ that. I just messed with the attraction factors. If you have a colony in the americas, and you're american, your pops will migrate there. But not if its in Asia/Europe/Africa. That's why I fiddled with the files.
But I did get Hokkaido to be like 90% Mexican legit in an older run.
Small Work in Progress, it's a map of that mess of a TL I'm working on. January 68 map. The pinks are part of the Commonwealth, India is its own alliance in order to have more power to negociate with the big Japanese player. Japan and the US didn't go to war, as Admiral Yamamoto "coup-ed" the Army with US backing (there are trade agreements accross the Pacific over oil among other things). Moscow, Abyssinia and Madagascar don't have governments anymore, each for their own reasons.
Feel free to ask anything.
Feel free to ask anything.
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Pre-Contact Linguistic Map: Africa
Using this colour scheme: Linguistic Colour Scheme, TEV (Version 2.4) by TomislavAddai on DeviantArt and this as base map: Q-BAM Province Map by Drex by TomislavAddai on DeviantArtWhat the map shows: distribution of language families throughout Africa prior to more recent waves of expansion, such as Semitic languages throughout North Africa, Indo-European languages in North and South Africa, expansion of Mandé languages in west Africa, Nilotic languages into East Africa and further waves of Bantu migration into Kenya, Tanzania and southern Africa.
The Pakistan/Bharat border was codified in a series of long agreements, it was just the final boundary they ended up agreeing on.
Bengal was pretty similar, they just ended up agreeing on the Western border (the relationships between the states of the Indian subcontinent are much less tense since they were given a lot of time to agree on every inch of soil, codifying the rights of minorities, you even have talks of unification, think of it like an early EU).
The Eastern border is a different story: the Queen of Burma is very keen on expansion, and she's been attempting to enlarge heir country, first by attacking Thailand when they were under pressure from the Japanese (the little Japanese area is a canal in the Kra isthmus). The weird area from Northeast India is a sort of mini-India, with a military government that is mostly focused on making sure the Burmese don't invade
(Please point it out if it sucks, I'm not knowledgeable in those areas)
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Oriental Catholics: Syro-Malankara by TomislavAddai on DeviantArt
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Why is the Duchy of Bukovina shown with its own subdivision and not the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria?
What's the grey blob between Venezuela and Brazil?I posted this on its correspondent thread a while ago, but I recently fixed some minor things, and here it is:
Mid-1885 QBAM (OTL):
Disclaimer: some borders are approximate (specially sub-saharan Africa), and I can't guarantee 100% their accuracy.
Information from Aguilar Menéndez, Roberto et al. Corpus of Spoken North American English Dialects, Iowa State University. 2022. E454 A121 X4.
There has seldom been a period in history where the world has not feared a power which resided in between the Aegean Sea and the Indus. The modern day is no exception, as the Sublime Republic of Iranshahr, with its population of 425 million, GDP of 17 trillion, and a sphere of influence stretching from Iberia to the far Eastern regions of Turkestan is certainly a nation more than capable of rivaling the other great powers of the United States and China.
Iran, officially known as Iranshahr, is one of the largest nations in the world by many metrics, occupying much of the middle east, from the Adriatic Sea to the eastern edge of Afghanistan. It controls everything from the vast deserts of Arabia and Persia, to the titanic mountains of the Karakoram and Caucasus, and the forests of Serbia to the steppe of Seyhun. Iran is certainly home to many natural wonders. The country is one of the world’s most diverse, with many people groups from all walks of life residing in its borders, speaking many different languages and following many different faiths.
So, let us visit this mighty and grand nation.
Dropbox link to the description: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z15kx802fp0xnrd/Iranshahr.pdf?dl=0
Google drive link in case that does not work (limited quality): https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KE8SLglUU_F31V2bqo0LCYacTGeZ8cJ/view
Google sheet link to the Confederates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZjJPCzXjatS-uhf9WJYu6uZUjqAvMsDF3K4Vu_D9BlY/edit#gid=0
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