PC: North America Dominated by Different Great Powers

The attempt to reestablish contact with the Greenlanders will be a failure. But in that time, explorers often went whereever fancy struck them (just look at Henry Hudson), so I can easily imagine the expedition going on from Greenland to baffinland and into Hudson Bay just in order to find anything valuable - and they will probably think that it is the way to the Pacific and the riches of China and India. The hardest part will be convincing Copenhagen that they actually found areas of potential value.

One area in South America that is often overlooked in Ah is the greater Platine area - it isn't inherently valuable, but among others, the Dutch used the route called wagenspoor:
They didn't cling to the African coast, but crossed the Atlantic from Cape Verde to Cabo Branco, followed the Brazilian Coast to the South until near the Plate River and then went straight eastward using the Roaring Forties, stopping at the Cape Colony ant than going towards New Holland and only then swinging northward to the Indies.

A Dutch farming/ranching colony in the Platine or Patagonian area as place for reprovisioning would be rather useful. Perhaps it begins as a base for the search after the City of the Caesars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Caesars
 
The attempt to reestablish contact with the Greenlanders will be a failure. But in that time, explorers often went whereever fancy struck them (just look at Henry Hudson), so I can easily imagine the expedition going on from Greenland to baffinland and into Hudson Bay just in order to find anything valuable - and they will probably think that it is the way to the Pacific and the riches of China and India. The hardest part will be convincing Copenhagen that they actually found areas of potential value.

One area in South America that is often overlooked in Ah is the greater Platine area - it isn't inherently valuable, but among others, the Dutch used the route called wagenspoor:
They didn't cling to the African coast, but crossed the Atlantic from Cape Verde to Cabo Branco, followed the Brazilian Coast to the South until near the Plate River and then went straight eastward using the Roaring Forties, stopping at the Cape Colony ant than going towards New Holland and only then swinging northward to the Indies.

A Dutch farming/ranching colony in the Platine or Patagonian area as place for reprovisioning would be rather useful. Perhaps it begins as a base for the search after the City of the Caesars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Caesars


Could the Danes bring back some furs and seal blubber that they found in the New World and sell it back to Denmark though, just to convince the Danish king to fund the exploration missions? As for the Dutch having Patagonia, what would happen to their goals of colonizing Brazil? Would that go to Denmark as well, or would the Portuguese keep it?

For the colony in the OTL Maine area, would that also be suitable for a Danish colony or would that start off as a Swedish colony first?
 
Realistically, would North America be dominated by Denmark or Sweden? Alternatively, if Denmark does fail in North America, could Sweden step in to fill that role?
 
Could the Danes bring back some furs and seal blubber that they found in the New World and sell it back to Denmark though, just to convince the Danish king to fund the exploration missions?

Well, people would still hope for gold and the silk and spices of the orient, so seal blubber would probably be less convincing. But lots of high quality mink, otter and beaver pelts might do the trick.

As for the Dutch having Patagonia, what would happen to their goals of colonizing Brazil? Would that go to Denmark as well, or would the Portuguese keep it?

You would probably have to created the Dutch trading companies in a different way - since a Platine settlement would be useful for the VOC, the United Eastindian Company, they were the ones who also managed the Cape Colony and anything around the Indian Ocean. But the West African and American coasts were the domains of the WIC, the West Indian Comanpy - those with the Gold Coast, Caribbean, Brazilian and New Amsterdam colonies. Completely different corporations with different agendas and policies.
Basically, the WIC has to grant/loan/lease the Platine area to the VOC for their settlements, while keeping all claims to the more equatorial areas of Brazil. Completely possible, but still worth the mention.
Or you could simply state that the official grant sets the southern limits of the WIC territory at the tropic of capricorn - that would also work fine.

For the colony in the OTL Maine area, would that also be suitable for a Danish colony or would that start off as a Swedish colony first?

You do know the tale of Norumbega, that Quivira- or Anian-like mythical place ful of gold and riches. Norumbega was said to exist SW of Acadia, ie in OTL Maine. Among others, Champlain tried to find it. Some claim that the name is a bastardized form of Northvegr, Norway.
So a Danish-Norwegian attempt to colonise the Penobscot area would be fitting.
 
And overall, would the Danes be able to control the lands that compose of OTL Rupert's land and Maine overall, including present day Quebec? I suppose the Danes would need more resources to sustain the colony, plus they need settlers to work on the fields and hunt for fur. Then again, Sweden would be too busy in Europe to pay attention to colonies in particular. In another case, where in North America can Sweden establish its colony if Denmark-Norway would have most of the territories there?
 
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Brandenburg, maybe? Not so sure since the HRE is definitely not-so-Holy, not-so-Roman, and not-so-Imperial, Holy Roman Empire.
On the other hand, if we could somehow delay the Spanish conquest of Central America by a couple of years, could that have a big effect on the other colonization efforts?
 
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OK, so one of the PoDs that is established is a more successful Danish expedition to convince their King in Copenhagen to fund their exploration efforts to find new sources of fur, and in turn another PoD that needs to be established will be something to do with the Mangazeya closing. Of course, I have to make a PoD for a stronger Swedish Kingdom and possible Swedish colonization of North America. However, I personally believe that Denmark-Norway might end up playing a similar role to Spain in the New World (minus the Inquisition) and Sweden may end up playing a role to either the Netherlands or Portugal in the fact that they only have one sizeable colony.
 
One other question though: would it be possible to see most of North America populated by Germans? If possible at all, under which country would North America be controlled by?
 
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