Oh I followed the style they are colored in hadaril's WorldA series. Per my understanding, this indicates their lesser positions compared to bigger members like Bavaria or Saxony.
I'm trying to start making WorldA maps with pixel art, so I thought it's best to start small with this map to get used to it. This took me some hours to do which was longer than I expected. Questions and comments are appreciated!
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The POD is that Alexander's close companion Hephaistion avoids his early death. Alexander thus avoids his Achilles-style actions in mourning Hephaistion and lives for many more years.
He abandons India as in OTL (where Chandragupta soon builds an empire there, forging friendly relations with Macedonia in the process) and builds a massive fleet for an Arabian campaign subjugating the coasts and installing pro-Macedonian tributaries there. After some time here, he campaigns in Magna Graecia. The various cities there proclaim him hegemon. He then goes to war with the Samnites, allying with Rome to take revenge on the people who killed his uncle. After some later action in Sicily doing the same, his large fleet sails to Carthage. After some skirmishes, the Carthaginians are intimidated so much they agree to accept Alexander as hegemon. The other Greek and Punic cities in the western Mediterranean eventually follow.
Finally, Alexander sails for the Pillars of Hercules, where he and his army weep, for now, there are no more worlds to conquer.
He spends the rest of his reign with administration and building various cities like the dual capitals of Babylon and Alexandria. By 288 B.C., Alexander dies, having achieved legendary success and is set to be deified during the reign of his adult son and successor. Alexander's long reign begins a melding of Greek and Persian and other cultures. A different Hellenistic era is on the horizon.
"Greece itself" is a bit of a nebulous concept to be applying here lmao.
See, this is what I mean. It's absurd to exclude Ionia from any conception of "within Greece itself" in this period, but if then we're not defining "Greece itself" as the borders of the modern Greek state, then it all goes out the window! What is Greece????? What are Greeks????
Thanks!
I'm planning on making a sequel to this map, so I hope that will answer your question.
Still traces of Greek culture in Transoxiana and the Hindu Kush in OTL so that would be my suggestion for this one.
I didn't know Cricket was that old, or that colonial America played against teams from Great Britain. Very interesting.In the immediate aftermath of the 7 years war, it was nearly indisputable as fact that Cricket was the most popular sport in the 13 colonies, with New York Club defeating Cardiff Club being cheered on as a sort of colonial civil pride. By the 1860s however, Cricket had died as a popular sport in the 13 colonies and its successor - the USA. But what if it didn't? What if Cricket remained the most popular sport in the 13 colonies, and the USA? This is a small map graphic exploring that scenario.
Thoughts and comments?
Some form of cricket is attested to at least the late 16th century.
The Dakotas must be a very different place in this timeline. Pierre SD in our our timeline has a total population of about 12k.
Just wondering what it will look like when rome splits.The Crisis of the Third Century ended badly for the Romans. The Gauls and Palmyrenes split off from the Empire, and the Sassanids - who had made deals with the Palmyrenes - invaded Northern Anatolia in support of the Palmyrenes. Colchisians and Bosporans shook off Roman mastery declaring their independence in the chaos. A Carthaginian Punic General by the name of Hamilcar rebelled in Carthage as well with the aid of the Berber and Numidian tribes, ending Roman rule over the region as well. Peace was signed but by the end of the 3rd century as per the Christian calendar, peace seems to be falling apart. A native Brythonic rebellion threw out the Gauls in the 280s, and tensions between Rome and Carthage are mounting again. The future is anything but bright in the 3rd century.
This is my map that came to me after seeing one to many 'Big Rome Forever!' maps. Thoughts and comments?
The Crisis of the Third Century ended badly for the Romans. The Gauls and Palmyrenes split off from the Empire, and the Sassanids - who had made deals with the Palmyrenes - invaded Northern Anatolia in support of the Palmyrenes. Colchisians and Bosporans shook off Roman mastery declaring their independence in the chaos. A Carthaginian Punic General by the name of Hamilcar rebelled in Carthage as well with the aid of the Berber and Numidian tribes, ending Roman rule over the region as well. Peace was signed but by the end of the 3rd century as per the Christian calendar, peace seems to be falling apart. A native Brythonic rebellion threw out the Gauls in the 280s, and tensions between Rome and Carthage are mounting again. The future is anything but bright in the 3rd century.
This is my map that came to me after seeing one to many 'Big Rome Forever!' maps. Thoughts and comments?
