Not sure if Srivijaya, Majapahit or Brunei would be intrested to colonise Americas and was that even possible? But some Pacific Islands and Australia are possible. Srivijaya or Majapahit could too colonise parts of India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and some islands nearby of East Africa. Perhaps even Madagascar too.
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Not sure if Srivijaya, Majapahit or Brunei would be intrested to colonise Americas and was that even possible? But some Pacific Islands and Australia are possible. Srivijaya or Majapahit could too colonise parts of India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and some islands nearby of East Africa. Perhaps even Madagascar too.
Maybe let King Munjo of Joseon live on and later reform the court? Now we have Munjo Reformation instead of Meiji Restoration lol.
The Persians / Iranians have always been good at building land-based empires, but I'd like to see them go overseas. Persian Zanzibar. Persian Sofala. Persian Socotra. Persian Pondicherry. Persian Bengal. Persian Maldives. Southeast Asia? The Mediterranean? Australia? What's stopping them? Faloodah for all!
The Maldives could colonise Diego Garcia and use it for fishing outposts. Historically they definitely knew of those islands. This is the most reasonable scenario regarding Maldivian colonisation.
I more fanciful/Maldivian wank scenario would have a Maldivian "great man" combine with some negative circumstances elsewhere in India/Indian Ocean region and make a mini-Chola Empire. Maldivian Laccadives for one, with the spoken language being replaced with Maldivian (though IOTL it's already spoken on Minicoy)--it's probably necessary to have those islands as part of the Maldives to help give it the population needed (along with some sort of population boost through better agriculture/fishing/imports). Maldivian Seychelles too, where they'd be settling the uninhabited islands. And maybe even go further into the uninhabited parts of the Mascarenes, and on the other side, the Cocos Islands and Christmas Island. All the while, the Maldivians could have some sort of dominance over the lesser states in the region, like some of the lesser states in coastal India, Indonesia, or Africa.
A Maldivian Empire would splinter the moment a weak king emerged, but it would be a pretty interesting chapter in history to see a small, insignificant group of islands be one of the more important powers in the Indian Ocean.
I more fanciful/Maldivian wank scenario would have a Maldivian "great man" combine with some negative circumstances elsewhere in India/Indian Ocean region and make a mini-Chola Empire. Maldivian Laccadives for one, with the spoken language being replaced with Maldivian (though IOTL it's already spoken on Minicoy)--it's probably necessary to have those islands as part of the Maldives to help give it the population needed (along with some sort of population boost through better agriculture/fishing/imports). Maldivian Seychelles too, where they'd be settling the uninhabited islands. And maybe even go further into the uninhabited parts of the Mascarenes, and on the other side, the Cocos Islands and Christmas Island. All the while, the Maldivians could have some sort of dominance over the lesser states in the region, like some of the lesser states in coastal India, Indonesia, or Africa.
A Maldivian Empire would splinter the moment a weak king emerged, but it would be a pretty interesting chapter in history to see a small, insignificant group of islands be one of the more important powers in the Indian Ocean.
Austria-Hungary is granted a part of the Congo basin during the Berlin Conference in 1884/5 and / or the Hungarian diet does not block the aquisition of the Rio de Oro colony from Spain in 1898.
Greece doing better could allow them to enact imperialist conquest on the Libyans where they’re treated a second-class minority and their cities are renamed fifteen hundred years after the fact*
It was kinda mentioned already, but I would like to see a Persian Swahili coast emerging from a Persian total conquest of Oman, and by extension, Zanzibar. It could then progress slowly towards control of more and more of the hinterland, giving us a nice Persian East Africa.
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Poland-Lithuania imposing "Direct Rule From Warsaw" on Courland during the time it had a colony?
The Chinese concessions and/or overseas colonies of the defeated Central Powers are auctioned off or sold to the highest bidder after World War One. This could reduce the amount of reparations that Germany and Austria would have to pay.
- WI Romania or Yugoslavia, close French allies, gain a League of Nations mandate or former Central Powers colony?
- Some Czechoslovakian nationalists wanted to obtain German Togoland as a Czech colony. WI Argentina or nationalist China/Taiwan purchased a colony for reasons of national prestige? Poland considered colonizing Liberia and Madagascar OTL
- Germany wins WW2 and and the former French, Belgian and Dutch colonial territories are divided up by German allies like Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Finland, or Thailand
- WI Romania or Yugoslavia, close French allies, gain a League of Nations mandate or former Central Powers colony?
- Some Czechoslovakian nationalists wanted to obtain German Togoland as a Czech colony. WI Argentina or nationalist China/Taiwan purchased a colony for reasons of national prestige? Poland considered colonizing Liberia and Madagascar OTL
- Germany wins WW2 and and the former French, Belgian and Dutch colonial territories are divided up by German allies like Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Finland, or Thailand
Romania and Czechoslovakia would had very difficult if not even impossible maintain their colonies due their location. And did Yugoslavia ever want any colony?