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THE YEAR IS 650 AD. And Europe is Aflame. A New Empire is on the scene and conflict is brewing

The Britons of Britannia managed to band together in the early 500s and managed to fend the Germanic invader away from the shores of Prydain. However old allies turned into enemies and Prydain fell into a civil war called the 90 Years War lasting from 517 AD to 609 AD, resulting in the House of Brigantes coming to power in the Kingdom of Britannia. King Artor II of Britannia needed something to unite the wartorn peoples of Britannia with and sought to conquer the Britannic peoples living on the continent as well and he launched the Invasion of Brittany in 612 AD and conquered it by 616 AD. However this brought Britannia into conflict with the Franks who eyed the region.

War broke out in 621 AD between Britannia and Francia over Brittany and the Franks allied with the Picts. The Picts invaded northern Britannia, and the Britannians in turn counter attacked and conquered Pictland in 625 AD. However Brittany had fallen under Frankish rule. The Picts were subdued by the 630s and a relative time of peace and prosperity came by in which the Britannian settled down in the small islands surrounding the Britannian kingdom and found a large island to north which they named 'Tiria (otl iceland). Tiria was claimed by the Britannian King Vortigern III. Vortigern III managed to win the loyalty of the Hibernian kingdoms as well before dying in 646 AD. He was succeeded by the sole remaining member of the House of Brigante, Queen Helena I of Britannia had lofty goals, and married a matrylinear marriage with the Earl of Lothian and in 649 AD named herself Empress Helena I of the Empire of Pryddain. She sought to reconquer Brittany and launched an invasion of Francia in 649 AD reconquering Brittany and capturing Flanders by the end of 650 AD. The Pryddish-Frankian War of 649-669 AD had started.

 
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Roman Provinces during the reign of Claudius Tiberius, grandson of the grandson of Caligula, the best Roman Emperor after Augustus and before Constantine I "The Great".

The provinces are: Hispania Tarraconensis, Hispania Asturica et Lusitania, Mauretania Magna, Africa Proconsularis, Cirenaica, Egiptus et Palestina, Mesopotamia, Magna Siria, Armenia, Pontus, Gallacia Orientalis, Gallacia Occidentalis, Italia, Moesia, Grecia et Tracia, Epirus, Dalmatia, Norico, Panonia, Germania Inferior, Germania Albis, Germania Frisia, Gallia Belgica, Gallia Ludungunensis, Aquitania and Britannia.
 


Alexandre I Dumas VS Napoleon Bonapartov [1909]​

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There are billions of worlds in the multiverse in which the genius Napoleone Buonaparte was born and built his military career. However, there is only one world where the Russian MG Ivan Alexandrovich Zaborovsky decided to make the greatest exception for the young Corsican lieutenant and agreed not to demote him, as the Russian rules for the recruitment demanded. So, the world of Russian Napoleon was born.

  • Napoleón Bonapartov achieved incredible success in the Russian army. He was not the first or the last foreigner in the Russian service, but he will always be the first to be cited as an example. In the Russian-Turkish war, he served under the legendary Alexander Suvorov. Bonapartov managed to merit the attention with his non-standard ideas during the siege of Izmail, an impregnable Turkish fortress. After that young Napoleon became a Suvorov’s protégé.
  • Butterflies begin to flap their wings only in 1793, at the siege of Toulon. The French army nevertheless managed to break the loyalists’ resistance, but with much more blood. On the other hand, the crisis of the French Convention grew bigger until another strong personality took matters into his own hands. It was Alexandre Dumas, the son of a planter and slave from Haiti.
  • Dumas was not Napoleon, therefore, different decisions were made. He never went to Egypt, never declared himself emperor (just a king, in the end of his life). French European campaigns were completely different: Dumas subjugated only northern Italy and never went to northern Germany. He concentrated on the long war with the Habsburgs instead. Without such disasters as Aboukir and Trafalgar, the French navy remained a strong contender for the British navy. Combine that with the survival of a random ship member killed in OTL, and you have a strong counterbalance to Admiral Nelson. The Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic have become the battle arena for the two strongest fleets in the world.
  • Being an obvious opponent of slavery, Dumas ended the Haitian Revolution with peace - Haiti became a protectorate of the French Republic. Dumas was also interested in Louisiana, not in all like OTL Napoleon, but only in New Orleans (Treaty of San Ildefonso analogue still occurred). All of this helped France maintain its influence in the Caribbean.
  • Without OTL Napoleon's Italian campaigns, Russia was not involved in the European wars. Paul I was nevertheless overthrown, albeit a year later. His successor, Alexander I, although liberal, disliked the upstart former slave at the head of the great power. When Dumas' armies (with the support of Prussia) finally broke Austria and entered Vienna, Alexander began to gather troops. When Dumas declared the independence of Hungary, Alexander declared war. A hero of several Turkish wars, a favorite of Suvorov and a friend of the emperor, field marshal Napoleon Bonapartov led the Russian army to the west.
  • Bonapartov quickly defeated the stagnating Prussian army, and faced Dumas' army in 1808. He did not even realize he could be on his place. After a two-day bloody battle at Szeged, the French troops retreated. Battles followed in Bavaria and Northern Italy (known for Bonapartov 's epic crossing of the Alps), but in the battle of Dumez Bonapartov was defeated by the fresh French troops of Dumas (there are many reasons, from the tiredness of the Russian army, a long campaign, to the betrayal of the Austrians). Dumez peace was signed, the territorial integrity of Austria was restored, the whole Poland was passed under the Russian control, while France retained its sphere of influence in northern Italy and southern Germany. The sea war between Dumas and Britain, continued for many more years.
  • Bonapartov returned to his homeland as a hero in 1811, but not everyone was happy with the results of his campaign. Alexander laid all the blame on Bonapartov and seemed to have forgotten about their friendship. Many courtiers of the emperor saw Bonapartov only as a lucky upstart; they wove intrigues against him. Eventually, seeing that Alexander had changed, andSt. Petersburg was no longer a welcoming city, Napoleon Bonapartov left the capital city. He spent the rest of the decade in the wars with the Ottoman Empire and Persia, resting at his rich estate near Kazan between wars (despite Alexander was angry at Napoleon, he rewarded him for his merits).
  • Everything changed when Alexander I caught a cold and died on one of his travels around the country in 1820. Revolutionary Russian officers, many of whom served under Bonapartov in Europe and the Balkans, saw this as a chance for changes in the country. The revolutionaries immediately contacted Napoleon in Kazan with an invitation to Petersburg. During the coronation of Nicholas in January 1821 (Constantine abdicated the throne as in OTL), part of the soldiers raised an open uprising on Senate Square. Seeing Napoleon Bonapartov at the head of the uprising, the soldiers loyal to Nicholas quickly changed the side. A followed Senate Square massacre took life of about 1000 people, including Nicholas himself.
  • In absence of adult heirs to the throne (Mikhail Romanov was forced to abdicate for opposing the uprising), two-year-old Alexander, the son of Nicholas, was appointed the new emperor. Napoleon Bonapartov, the hero of the uprising, was appointed regent (read as dictator) for the child. This period will be remembered as Napoleonovshchina (Napoleonicism for my English dudes).
  • The young United States of America was doomed to expansionism. Seeking support in building his empire in the Caribbean, Dumas began rapprochement with Britain's main enemy in the region, the United States. In an all-out naval and trade war between France and Britain in the North Atlantic, when American ships began to attack British naval vessels, Britain declared war on the United States. The war that ended with the loss of all Upper Canada for Britain and the creation of the pro-French Republic of Quebec.
  • Despite the absence of a Napoleonic nightmare in Spain, the Spanish colonies still exploded with the revolutionary movement (although Spain was able to save La Plata). One of these new powers was Mexico, stretching from Panama in the south to Oregon in the north and the Mississippi in the east. To stop the uncontrolled crossing of the Mississippi and the illegal colonization of the Mexican Great Plains by Americans, Mexico declared war on the United States. This war ended with the complete defeat and cutting off the entire Mexican territory down to the Pacific Ocean in 1838.
  • The loss of Upper Canada was a disaster for British North America. Without a major pivot point, the remaining British possessions were only an empty frozen wasteland. In the end, the British Crown was forced to swallow the pride and sell the remnants of its holdings to the United States in 1870.
  • By the end of his reign, the dictator Alexandre Dumas had become a national hero and a living legend. With his hands the instability of the revolutionary era was stopped, the humiliation of the Seven Years War was avenged, the whole of Europe remembered the glorious French weapons. After all, when the French people offered him the crown in 1825, Dumas had no reason to refuse. Alexandre I Dumas died in 1838, leaving his kingdom to his son Alexandre II Dumas.
  • Despite being born in Corsica, Napoleon Bonapartov considered himself a real son of the Russian fatherland. Having suddenly found himself at the pinnacle of power in Russia, he immediately seized the opportunity to change Russia. Feeling the love of the people (and the support of the army) Bonapartov began to put his daring reforms into practice. His loyal supporters drew up a draft of the Russian constitution (which officially took effect only after his death), a plan to abolish the serfdom (very slow, it stretched until the 1850s), and various administrative and military reforms. The oldman Bonapartov himself took little part in the armchair discussions and only made final edits. He devoted the last years of his life to his favorite work - the war. It was in the Caucasus, in 1831, during the suppressing of mass mountain tribes unrest, a stray bullet overtook the great Russian marshal. Napoleonicism ended, Alexander II took the rightful throne of the new, changed Russia.
  • Alexandre II was not his father. He was idle, lazy, and dissolute and he had a creative personality. After his father's death, he (or rather his generals) had to suppress uprisings in southern Germany and Holland and even an attempted coup against him. In 1845, due to his disregard for a petty Italian popular uprising, Italy nearly slipped right under his nose. The short-lived Italian Republic was destroyed by Austrian forces. His disregard for international affairs eventually led his empire into disaster. The Austrian Empire reformed after years of humiliation. After the suppression of the Italian Revolution, its Minister-President, the ambitious Felix of Schwarzenberg saw the possibility of revenge. Austria eliminated the ancient medieval institution of the Holy Roman Empire and replaced it with the German Confederation (having previously defeated Prussia in the humiliating war of 1855). Aiming at driving out French influence from southern Germany and uniting Germany under the wing of Vienna, the Austrian Empire declared war on France. France fell into the classic historical trap of many OTL empires - to fight by the methods of Dumas without Dumas himself (at least the right Dumas). After a series of catastrophic defeats, France was forced to surrender and recognize the creation of a huge united Germany right in the center of Europe. Alexandre II was deposed and emigrated to the United States where he spent the rest of his life as a famous writer and stage director. The French kingdom was replaced by an unstable second French republic.
  • It didn't last long. In the end, the republic collapsed from a series of internal crises. Power came into the hands of radical there was no analog of Marx in this world, various communism-like ideas appeared independently throughout Europe, often in conflict with each other. French revanchism grew, as did its military power, until an accidental diplomatic crisis provoked a German-French war. The war, which would later be called the Atlantic War. The German colossus was quickly destroyed by the sudden invasion of the French war machine in 1898 (communist uprisings in Prussia and Hungary made matters much easier). For three years, France unconditionally dominated Europe. The war was turned only by the entry of the United States and Russia after the grandiose French invasion of Britain and the subsequent massacre of the civilian population. In February 1904, Anglo-American troops entered Paris while the Russians liberated Germany.
Five years after the French defeat, the world has not recovered from wars. American and Russian (and British) troops are still in France since they cannot solve its post-war organization. The United States proposes a republic, while Russia proposes the restoration of the monarchy (just need to find a suitable Bourbon), and Britain just wants to tear France into small pieces. Aside from France, tensions are brewing on the US-Russian border near Alaska due to the North Star oil crisis; in Mongolia, where the US-allied China intends to reclaim its rightful land. The world froze in anticipation of the Second Atlantic War, which may turn out to be much bloodier than the first one. Meanwhile, in the unoccupied colonies of defeated France, cells of a secret nationalist society, the Second Sun order, are growing. They want to take advantage of the contradictions between the United States and Russia and return humiliated France to its former greatness, even at the cost of millions of lives.

US borders by B_Munro link
Russian Africa by Bob Hope link

Also, please write if there are any historical and logical errors.
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See my previous two maps for more on this TL.
In the early 11th century the Red Death beset Europe. The Red Death was a disease endemic to Elysium and would be brought back by Norse traders and warriors returning to Europe. The disease was caused by Haemoplagus Incipidus. The presentation of disease was severe bruising of the skin and extreme malaise to begin with, followed by lungs filling with blood, bleeding from all orifices, and eventual death. Roughly 50% of the population of Europe would die from this disease, with nearly 90% of the population becoming infected by the year 1040.
 
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See my previous two maps for more on this TL.
In the early 11th century the Red Death beset Europe. The Red Death was a disease endemic to Elysium and would be brought back by Norse traders and warriors returning to Europe. The disease was caused by Haemoplagus Incipidus. The presentation of disease was severe bruising of the skin and extreme malaise to begin with, followed by lungs filling with blood, bleeding from all orifices, and eventual death. Roughly 50% of the population of Europe would die from this disease, with nearly 90% of the population becoming infected by the year 1040.
Turnabout is fair play. Very cool, I've never seen this scenario!
 
Here's a map I did a while back that shows the state of the the 22 kingdoms of the Odrysian Empire in 7 BCE. Although all 22 were called kingdoms when talked about together, there actually were only 21 kingdoms as Rome was a Republic. The king of Odyrsia Prime was the official heir of the Emperor, usually the son of the Emperor, but sometimes a brother, grandson or nephew, and in the very first case the father.

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The Third World War, circa Feburary 1969
At this point, war had been ongoing since 1965, and the Omsk Pack is slowly being pushed back on all fronts. NATO forces prepare to cross the Rhine, while Bulgaria and Greece are being liberated. The African front had closed, with Somalia, Algeria, and Egypt had capitulated, while rebel movements in South Africa, and Portuguese Africa had been crushed. Syrian and Joradian troops are being pushed back in Kurdistan and the Sinal respectavley. Premier Andropov's heath is failing, and with him, the USSR is slowly dying with him. Already, separatist movement are gaining ground, and the Soviet Union is on the edge of revolt. The war will go on.

AN: After finishing my ISOT TL, should I make a TL with this? This is tied into my shared worlds thread too.
POD: 10,000 BC (nuclear weapons make impossible by ASB's)
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Roman Provinces during the reign of Claudius Tiberius, grandson of the grandson of Caligula, the best Roman Emperor after Augustus and before Constantine I "The Great".

The provinces are: Hispania Tarraconensis, Hispania Asturica et Lusitania, Mauretania Magna, Africa Proconsularis, Cirenaica, Egiptus et Palestina, Mesopotamia, Magna Siria, Armenia, Pontus, Gallacia Orientalis, Gallacia Occidentalis, Italia, Moesia, Grecia et Tracia, Epirus, Dalmatia, Norico, Panonia, Germania Inferior, Germania Albis, Germania Frisia, Gallia Belgica, Gallia Ludungunensis, Aquitania and Britannia.
Any corrections you want to do?
 
A Greater, or an Alternate France where the borders in Flanders remained at those of 1700, and where French-speaking Belgium was annexed, and where the rest of the borders (in Germany, Switzerland) remained like those of 1814...

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The Third World War, circa Feburary 1969
At this point, war had been ongoing since 1965, and the Omsk Pack is slowly being pushed back on all fronts. NATO forces prepare to cross the Rhine, whole Bulgaria and Greece are being liberated. Somalia, Algeria, and Egypt had capitulated, and Syrian and Joradian troopas were being pushed back in Kurdistan and the Sinal respectavley. Premier Andropov's heath is failing, and with him, the USSR is losing the war. The war will go on.

AN: After finishing my ISOT TL, should I make a TL with this? This is tied into my shared worlds thread too.
POD: 10,000 BC (nuclear weapons make impossible by ASB's)
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I would certainly be interested to see a continuation. Is this a world without nukes?
 
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While disease ravages Europe, a golden age spreads throughout Elysium. By the year 1000 AD horses had drastically changed life for nearly all tribes, But it would be the spread of advanced agriculture and metal working that allowed powerful central authority and sedentary lifestyle to begin to take shape. Norse and Remean tradesmen and adventurers explore the Ohnawiokan River, the Magna Archipelagus (OOC: Caribbean), and Mexica. Rumors of a land of gold pique the interest of many as many hundreds set out to find what they called the golden city of Dīs Pater.

The Tulan empire becomes the first outside of Reme to begin working with steel after seeing the might of steel weapons. They were particularly ready, as copper had been used for several hundred years. The Ohnawiokans would be next to develop steel in 1095, and rapidly to others soon after.

By 1125 metal working and latin Irrigation and farming techniques are limited to North Elysium, but in the south several empires stand poised to make the leap to becoming powerful and modern empires in their own right.

The Remean empire remains by far the dominant force on the continent, but right at their borders powerful civilizations begin to develop, poised to threaten their hegemony.
 
Beautiful map, but one question: were the Navajo or Apache moved to OTL Utah/Nevada? Because the Dinetah depicted here was the traditional lands of the Paiute, Ute, and Utah.
The Apaches and Navajo stay put. I must’ve misremembered the extent of Dinetah. I’ll find a new name for it.
 
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