It's been months since I've last been here, but I've come back eventually with a new timeline on my hands. It'll start a little earlier, though, and on the complete opposite side of Earth. Hopefully it'll be better (and turn out better) than this one. I'll wrap this work up by addressing the few questions left.
Do you think you could give a general indication of where this was headed(or allow someone to pick up from notes).
I didn't really keep notes beside a very general framework, and the rest was in my head undergoing constant revision. I filled in the details whenever I got to that point. Off the top of my head, I believe Baureksa eventually won the civil war and reunited Java, founding a powerful government that ruled in the stead of Mataram monarchs possessing ceremonial power. The civil war was to result in an unprecedentedly centralized system of governance throughout most of Javanese-speaking Java according to what Pangeran Pekik envisioned. The capital, IIRC, was eventually moved to Majapahit. This new Islamic Majapahit would reach its apogee in around 1700, conquering Melaka and attaining unquestioned hegemony in Archipelagic Southeast Asia. The eighteenth century was largely an era of decline, culminating in a nationalistic revolutionary movement in the late eighteenth century that would lead to dynastic change.
Worldwide, Southeast Asia was to play a more central role in the intellectual currents of eighteenth-century Islam, possibly including Bugis notions of liberty spreading to the Middle Eastern heartland. Mughal decline and collapse were also significantly different. I was considering a personal invasion of Burma by Aurangzeb (Ardestani of Golkonda joined the Mughals IOTL, and would have ITTL too; this time, equipped with a novel fleet, he was supposed to have conquered the Burmese kingdom of Arakan) and possibly a Burmese counterinvasion in the early eighteenth century, just cause of how cool it would be to have a Buddhist army marching on Bodh Gaya for the first time in, what, seven hundred years?
I'm not sure if you thought this far ahead, but I'm interested to hear on how you would have handled the Qing conquest and people like Koxinga. Or how the PoD would have eventually impacted the sea cucumber trade in Australia.
I don't believe I had much in store for Koxinga's story itself. And yes, the Javanese state was to have established trading outposts in Australia to monopolize the trepang trade, but nothing even remotely resembling European colonialism in the continent.
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