Who said that it would have to be a war. Also, consider the Mosquito Coast example.
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The low-profit, low-investment native protectorate the US was pressuring the UK to leave as part of Monroe Doctrine muscle-flexing?
Factions as in political sides. Morccan faction for example is very conservative when it comes to most issues while Indian ocean axis nations are much more mercantile.These two factions compete with each other over African territories and have a long and complicated an usually hostile history.
Islamic world is shattered religionwise. Exluding much more heavier Shia presence, Moroccan axis are followers of Zahiri school of thought while Indian/Central Asian muslims are followers of Ashari school of thought. Indian ocean muslims dont care much about religion and have many adats(traditions) that are considered Kufr or Shirk by other muslims.
Seelie, unlike their cousins like to play around with giving humans 'civilisation', so lots of human sacrifice, orchestrated wars and cringing worship. Naturally this has become less popular as of late.
5% to 1% of the original population are spared: the global majority as Palaeolithic farmers, others as special hunting quarry (signified by red dots), like surviving Afghans and exclusively in the Summer Court you have 'vassal' states that are permitted civilisation.
I'll wait til page 499, don't want to jump the gun and start a tradition of threads being made too early.
Which parts of the world would you recommend for me for my Mosaic Earth, and when?
In the meantime, updated version of my QBAM province map (do you think it deserves its own thread?)
A lovely map. I was going to comment about the naming for New Granada and Colombia, but looking it up it seems the name of the area marked with 3 went back and forth a lot back then. I don’t see the expansion of Venezuela into Colombia to be practical (straight lines in the jungle or expansion on the coast around mountains) but I understand these are the sort of stuff needed to make a map interesting. I have to wonder if these changes came before or after the revolution. Was this revolt mentioned something that kept the whole thing from just being a Venezuelan empire? Did Ecuador breakaway here early on or simply never join? I also find it amusing to see Costa Rica has expanded territorially here, though I doubt it would be called a wank by even the slightest stretch of the imagination given it is going to be in the crosshairs of the Colombians and Americans- Wait. Mexico or just the Yucatán is American? Seems it has to be American, as the maps showing the revolts in Central America and Brazil means there would be no need to mention it otherwise. And... Ahhh, I just wonder what is happening with Peru. Is this map one in a series? I would like to give the others a look over, if so.
CalBear recommended 9960 posts, so within this same page. We are only 11 posts away from that mark
There are various schools of Islamic philosophy, sure, but I thought those were less important in Islam "how she is practiced" as the schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, etc.) and certainly don't involve mutual hostility on the level of Catholics and Protestants OTL (or, for that matter, different protestant sects in the first couple centuries after the Reformation). [1] A Zahiri scholar need not fear being burned at the stake if he travels into Ashari territory. (Do they even have "territory"? I know schools of jurisprudence have certain geographic areas where they prevail, and I'm seen maps, but I've never seen such a thing for schools of philosophy).
[1] Modern "purists" on the Salafi model being something of an exception.
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What is the situation with Lunigiana? The little area next to Genoa. I also see the Channel Islands are uncolored (why not split the difference so the one is pink and one is blue) and the borders around Moravia make it look as though they have Austrian Silesia as part of it. Also an issue where Silesia has the County of Kladsko, which is the white bump area on this map. I was going to just post a link, but it posted the picture as well. I would like to both say I did not make the map but found it on Wikipedia, and that I only recently realized what t meant when reading a related article. I used to judge some maps that had the Czechs getting this area in maps in here as ridiculous and dine by people wanting to cut off bumps from maps post WWII. Ahhh, and those Polish mining towns that often show up on maps in Slovakia. I see they are not here here. Going to have it that the Austrians bought them back after the Hungarians pawned them off so long ago, or will it have been part of some treaty of peace? Given the otherwise unchanged borders, looks like the two countries don’t have too many issues with each other. Also, would you say the Helvetic Republic is under the French sway, despite losing or never gaining some of the French majority areas, due to conquest, economics, their political systems, or because they do not want the Austrians to shorten the Habsburg borders drastically?
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You are right but that is in our timeline. Perspectives differ in this timeline because of competing ambitions.
Lucca? (In two bits: https://www.lisakaborycha.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Map-Italy-1500.jpg )
Sharp eyes.
This is known as "Bruce had only so many hours he was willing to put in to make the map exactly right, and couldn't find a good map, really any map, overlaying modern borders for Poland and Czechoslovakia with 1600s one and man it's hard to get the Zips looking quite right, screw it"
Lost French-speaking territory to France, somewhat bullied into an alliance, France doesn't want the Austrians " to shorten the Habsburg borders drastically", the Swiss really don't want to find themselves behind the Habsburg border.
i have a feeling austria is going to be in for a fun time when the socialism thing kicks in harder than you've ever seen it kick in before
I meant Lunigiana. Often maps don’t bother showing all the small things as, unlike with San Marino and Benedetto, there was so many other small states early that there wouldn’t be room for have of them to get a single pixel, if we went with most of the maps on here. Mapwise it is al,ost like Thuringia, though in this case I don’t think it is because of families dividing their territory among their kids. Lucca had no real land in the part of Lunigiana you gave them, but it might work to an extent if they are given overlordship in exchange for the Luccans giving up their own enclaves so the Habsburgs got unimpeded access to the coast for Modena. Though it doesn’t look like they have it there... Well, the satellites innthe area are all the same color anyways. Possible the revolutions sweep aside Lucca and Genoa anyways, though if they survived this long they might have strong enough local identity to not want to be swallowed up by the other Italians.
I haven't posted a map in a long, long time, but this is a snip from a current WIP I'm freetracing in GIMP. I've always enjoyed "no Germany" scenarios and wanted to just play one out.
There's not an actual TL to back any of this up, mostly me wanking Bohemia and the Dutch after an alt-30 Years' War. There should be more Bohemia maps! Maybe Ferdinand II is killed early. This map is perhaps around 1900 or so. Nationalism of a sort still comes about, but the consolidated "Pan-Germanic" ideas are more akin to "Pan-Slavism" IOTL - Saxons, Bavarians, and Prussians see themselves more so by those identities first. "Livonia" is a Grand Duchy of the Russian Crown and a similar arrangement with Swedish Prussia.
There's not an actual TL to back any of this up, mostly me wanking Bohemia and the Dutch after an alt-30 Years' War. There should be more Bohemia maps! Maybe Ferdinand II is killed early. This map is perhaps around 1900 or so. Nationalism of a sort still comes about, but the consolidated "Pan-Germanic" ideas are more akin to "Pan-Slavism" IOTL - Saxons, Bavarians, and Prussians see themselves more so by those identities first. "Livonia" is a Grand Duchy of the Russian Crown and a similar arrangement with Swedish Prussia.
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