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HRE Borders
Hello everybody!
I've been a lurker here for a little bit, and alternate history has enamored me for quite a while now. As well as that, I have always found enjoyment in drawing maps with QBAM. As is such, I decided that it'd be a good idea to create my own alternate history scenario!
The premise behind this scenario is that many things are changed, and it's not simply changes branching off from one singular PoD. It's meant to be a very different world to what we have today, and hopefully I will make more maps of this scenario for future dates as time goes on. This is my first alternate history scenario, so I greatly appreciate any and all feedback
The map is based on the signing of the treaty that ended the Final Crusade against the Ottoman Empire, which had dominated European politics in the east and south until now. The Polish are in a very precarious position, there is great competition between Spain and England for trade in Eastern Asia, an invading dynasty in China, revolts in South America, and there is a precarious balance of power in Europe, with everybody competing for dominance in different ways.
A list of the changes are here, and it's all in point form because there are a lot of changes and things to explain in the map. If anybody has any questions, then please ask and I will explain something! Most changes on the map were made for a reason, and there are a lot of little details. I likely missed a lot in my explanation in point form. Also, it's not in chronological order, so I can clear anything up if anybody is confused.
-Charles the Bold survives, and unites a Burgundian state
-Portugal unites with Castille instead of Aragon
-Columbus sails for France, and France leads the colonization of the new world
-France exerts its influence through puppets in the Aztec empire and former Inca empire, keeping the natives and their empires kinda alive
-The rest of Europe colonizes parts of North America
-The Ottomans win the first siege of Vienna, allowing for ottoman dominance in this part of Europe
-the Hugenots become far more powerful, and dominate France
-The great Christian civil war is basically the thirty years war, with Bohemia, France, Denmark, Sweden, Milan, Venice, some German states and Asturian rebels fighting Bavaria, Burgundy, Spain, Aragon, the Pope, and other catholic states in Europe, with the Protestants ending up winning, and an Austrian rebellion in the Ottoman Empire that was crushed, which weakened their influence in the area
-Following this, the Christian states of Europe go in a coalition led by Poland against the Ottomans, who had been the most powerful nation in Europe for a long time, defeating them in 1650 which basically sets the stage for world politics in Europe with Poland being super powerful but unstable and overextended now, and Bohemia dominating the HRE, with a salty Burgundy and a powerful France, as well as Aragon being forced to give up Navarre to France, and Naples to become independent
-the English basically become the dutch in this timeline, after the English Civil War, in which the king is ousted and a complicated republican system in which the Parliament elects five councilmen to run the country as one head of state, and then decide to invest in colonialism and naval dominance in Asia and India and Africa
-the Spanish (castille+portugal) dominate trade (especially of spices) across the world, however, the Spanish see a rising threat in the English Republic
-the Swedes neuter the Russians after the Russians lose to the sibir khanate initially, giving Sweden Arkhangelsk and delaying Russian expansion into Siberia
-the weakened Ottoman empire loses the second Safavid-Ottoman war, ceding Mesopotamia to Persia permanently
-the Scots win a war against the English, annexing Northumbria and being the first showcase of incompetence under the monarchy
-the Scottish invest in plantations in Ulster and colonize the Maritimes
-the Ming collapse in the late 1500s in this timeline, leading to a warlord period, with a southern dynasty currently dominating, and with the Dzungar Empire currently invading the Ming remnants
-the Manchus invade Korea and establish themselves as the ruling dynasty, basically doing what happened with the Qing in our timeline
-the Savafids beat the Mughals way harder in the first Safavid-Mughal war, annexing land up to the Indus and destabilizing the Mughals, leading to multiple sultanates declaring independence
-the Vijayanagara Empire doesn't have two of its generals defect to the Deccan Sultanates, leading to them beating and conquering them and dominating southern India
-the Champa basically collaborate with the Ming to repeatedly win against the Vietnamese, conquering Vietnam and turning Dai Viet into a Chinese tributary state
-the Ming settle the northern Philippines with merchants, and eventually make deals with the local tribes and annex the land, followed by some Sinicization efforts, creating a significant chinese minority in the area and influence in the northern philippines being dominated by the Chinese and their merchants
-the Bruneians go sicko mode and reconquer most of Borneo and parts of other islands with help from the English, with a deal that the English will be the only Europeans allowed to go in their waters
-Mataram goes sicko mode after the dutch don't end up destroying them like with what happened in our timeline, basically dominating parts of the Malay archipelago and settling the fertile areas of northern Australia
-the Incas are revolting against the english and the french incan puppet empire
-Prussia unites with Pomerania, due to Pomerania being much more powerful and owning most of the northern coast of the HRE, and a marriage between the Pomeranian and Prussian royal families
-Songhai wins the war they had against Morocco, which helps to preserve the empire and allows it to expand a bit further, still existing to this day and dominating the Sahel and West Africa
Please don't be afraid to give any constructive criticism or ask any questions about the scenario you have
