Take a country that historically had no colonies and find a plausible location for it to colonize
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I'm pretty sure Ahmad al-mansur at one time considered establishing a colony in the new world but he died too soon and Morocco descended into civil war. If Ahmad were to live slightly longer enough to secure a favoured son's succession I could see the morroccans establishing a colony in South America (with English Support).
Country: Iran.
Target for colonisation: the area to the north of the Caspian Sea.
Target for colonisation: the area to the north of the Caspian Sea.
I have definitely heard and seen articles of the colonies the Tiwanaku Empire, a very important polity before the rice of the Inca, and their trade with other cultures in the immediate area. Their colonies were loosely based off of mining, but their sphere of influence and presence were undoubtly very big.
I wonder if the presence of the Inca never exist and the Tiwanaku survived their large drought and continued to establish colonies throughout the west South American Coast and may could even reach Chile and Patagonia, until of course the Age of Exploration and Spain.
As a very different side note, I have heard St. Brandenburg have a tiny colony in the Caribbean. Perhaps some other HRE state settlements in the New World? That would be interesting.
I wonder if the presence of the Inca never exist and the Tiwanaku survived their large drought and continued to establish colonies throughout the west South American Coast and may could even reach Chile and Patagonia, until of course the Age of Exploration and Spain.
As a very different side note, I have heard St. Brandenburg have a tiny colony in the Caribbean. Perhaps some other HRE state settlements in the New World? That would be interesting.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debora-ekspedisjonen
What if the Debora expedition had succeded and a band of Norwegians had claimed Aldabra a island of the coast of Madegascar for Norway.
What if the Debora expedition had succeded and a band of Norwegians had claimed Aldabra a island of the coast of Madegascar for Norway.
Kaze
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Ireland.
Colony possibility 1.
Wales, Brittany, Scotland, and Cornwall - it is only across the Irish Sea. All you need is a good navy and the right circumstances - such as the Fall of the Roman Empire or the Anarchy (1135 and 1153). There you go Irish colonies.
Colony possibility 2.
Follow the viking model - where in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland could be Irish.
Colony possibility 1.
Wales, Brittany, Scotland, and Cornwall - it is only across the Irish Sea. All you need is a good navy and the right circumstances - such as the Fall of the Roman Empire or the Anarchy (1135 and 1153). There you go Irish colonies.
Colony possibility 2.
Follow the viking model - where in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland could be Irish.
Zachariah
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You forgot Madeira, the Azores, Canary Islands and Cape Verde; there's archaeological evidence that they were visited by the Vikings first too, by way of Ireland.
Colony Possibility,
Navarra get some piece of America,Newfoundland or some minor Caribian islands.
The Papal State get some islands in the Pacific or some caribian Islands.
The Hanze create factories just as the VOC in Africa and Asia.
The Fuggers in Venezuela.
Navarra get some piece of America,Newfoundland or some minor Caribian islands.
The Papal State get some islands in the Pacific or some caribian Islands.
The Hanze create factories just as the VOC in Africa and Asia.
The Fuggers in Venezuela.
An Occitan-speaking kingdom who would substitute either OTL Portugal or France in building a colonial empire.
Poland-Lithuania centralises under an Absolute monarch in the 16th century and establishes colonies in Canada (New Foundland, Acadia, Quebec, Ontario), Caribbean (Tobago, Virgin Islands), A fortress in West Africa and some posts in the East Indies.
Ottoman/Persian colonisation of Australia, New Zealand and the West Coast USA.
Why send colonist halfway around the world, when you crapload of empty land in your backyard (Ukraine and if you are strong enough, lands further east)
Neither you can in Canada. A couple caribbean islands or royal/state maritime trading company are one thing (and doable if PLC reforms its taxes and other incomes into something sensible), oversea settler colonies another.
Though it is easy to see such a Korea quickly establishing itself as Empire earlier like OTL Japan and fighting off the latter's attempt to take over, would it have been possible for both post-Meiji Japan and post-Munjo Korea to become the closest thing to a far eastern version of Austria-Hungary (albeit with two region-specific co-Emperors) instead of one dominating the other?