1450-1550

Consolidation of Gunpowder Empires
Second western migration
Renaissance in western Europe and North Africa
The Karamans use their Falcon Corps to conquer the Mediterranean Successors, the Presbyterate of Egypt, and the Khanate of Persia and Eastern Europe, giving them the Middle East and the entire Mediterranean coast except for Italy.
Gliders used in exploration and mapping, city defense
Pomorian fishing boats slowly discover New World.

Map (north to south, west to east)
Kingdom of New Danemark: London, (English)
Kingdom of Pomoria: Tamma (near OTL Amsterdam) (North-Slavic, Swedish, Finnish, Norse, Scots, Lithuanian, Cuman)
Carolingia: Paris (French, German, Hungarian)

Kingdom of Alpine Francia: Geneva (French, Hungarian, Slovene)

The Karaman Empire: Istanbul (Arabic, Turkish, Tatar, Greek, Kurdish, Persian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Berber, Kurdish, Mozarabic, Albania

Kingdom of New Hungary: Lubeck (Hungarian, Central-Slavic, Cuman)
Shadow of Shishman: Krakow (Tatar, Cuman, North-Slavic)
Kingdom of Danubia: Prague (Tatar, Cuman, East-Slavic)
Kingdom of Lombardy: Milan (German, Italian)

Papal States: Rome (Italian)
Emirate of Sicily: Palermo (Arabic, Sicilian)

Dalai Shadow: Aika (near OTL Moscow)(Komi, Kipchak, North-Slavic)
Crimean Shadow: Kiev (Tatar, Chuvash, Evenk)

Yi Dynasty: Beijing (Chinese, Mongol)

Heavenly Shogunate (Hie Bakufu or Souhei Bakufu): Tenkyou (North of Kyoto) (Japanese)
 
And I finished the short story! It's a nice, hefty 8,300 words long, and will probably end up a little longer.

In the story, Andalusian adventurer and political activist Tariq Fortun al-Muley runs afoul of terrorists as he attempts to re-enact the last thousand years of historic glider voyages.

If anybody wants to beta-read it, please PM me :)
 
Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been working hard to meet the submission deadline for the Goose's Wing (September 1st). Now that it looks like I'll meet the deadline, I can express my gratitude to you guys in the form of more timelines :)
Also, Cerebus, AmericaninBeijing, Saphroneth, Michele, and metalinvader665, can I list you in the "thanks to" section of the short story? If so, what name would you like me to use? Feel free to PM me.
 
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1650-1750
Exploration of the New World and consolidation.
Design: armchair glider (the last major development before plastics and aluminum)
Use: transportation and colonization

The big news in this era is the fabulous wealth pouring into the Federation of Mediterranean Successors from the New World, and their war with just about all of their neighbors (except the Italian states).

Some important countries from west-to-east, north to south

The Pomorian Empire: Amsterdam (Pomorian Slavic, Finnish, Scandinavian languages, Tatar, and Cuman, Eskimo, Algic, Iriquoian, Souian, and Muscogeean languages) (Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and northern Germany, with colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America)

Kingdom of England: London (English)

The Federation of Mediterranean Successors: Cordoba (Arabic, Berber, Turkish, and Mozarabic, Macro-Carib, Nahua, Maya, Chibcha, Tupi, Macro-Je, Arawak, Chon, and Andean languages) (Iberia and northwestern Africa, with colonies in the Caribbean and Central America and trading outposts along the coasts of South America)

Carolingia: Paris (German)
Francia: Geneva (French)
Kingdom of New Hungary: Lubeck (Hungarian)
Duchy of Lombardy: Milan (Italian)
Emirate of Sicily: Palermo (Arabic, Sicilian)
Emirate of Egypt: Shamsa (OTL Cairo) (Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish)


The Dalai Shadow: Aika (near OTL Saint Petersburg) (Komi, Tatar, Khakass, Mansi, Kalmy, Evenk)
Crimean Shadow: Kiev (Tatar, Chuvash)
The Karaman Caliphate: Istanbul (Tatar, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Persian, South and central Slavic languages, Kurdish, Albanian)

Chaok Khanate: Chaokhan (OTL Astrakhan) (Tatar, Evenk)
 
Yes I do!! I've actually been looking for someone to tell me where I made mistakes in the society and culture of "The United Mediterranean Successors" (think the EU if it was two notches more federal and most of its population was Arabic-speaking Muslims). If you would like to beta-read the whole story, please PM me. :)

And if you don't have time, I do have some specific questions. The first question is: what are some good (funny, interesting, wise, strange) Moroccan idioms or aphorisms? Jokes?
 
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And here's the last one! After the famines and wars of the 1700s and early 1800s (blame a late Little Ice Age brought on by depopulating plagues in the New World in the 1600s and the expansions of American forests) the world went through a very fast, relatively painless industrial revolution. Now (1927), the dust from all that has mostly settled, and the world enjoys living standards not so different from the OTL 2010s. Slave galleys have gasoline engines (the slaves are just LARPing tourists), camera drones can be operated for weeks from the other side of the world without major malfunctions, and throat mics can survive being abandoned in the Caucasian scrub for up to a week!

The Union of Mediterranean Successors, covering the entire Mediterranean coast except the Italian peninsula, as well as Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, much of northeastern Africa, and all but the most northern hinterlands of central and eastern Europe. They speak Arabic and practice Islam the way the EU speaks English and the US practices Christianity. They maintain close diplomatic and economic ties with the Christian Kingdom of Italy (northern Italy down to Rome) and the Muslim Republic of Sicily (the rest of the peninsula). Also there are all their former colonies in South America and the Pacific.

United Pomoria, a petulant shadow of its former glory, skulking along the chilly northern fringe of Europe. A self-consciously Christian country trying to prove to everyone that they can be civilized too. They speak Pomorian, a Western Slavic language related to Polish with heavy influence from Finnish and Swedish. Pomoria also tries to boss around a small cluster of allies and former colonies, including
Iceland, the Kingdom of England, Carolingia (a German-speaking republic centered on Paris), and Francia (a French-speaking republic in the Alps). They still directly administer the island of Labrador and some of the Virgin Islands. Their other former colonies keep them at arm's length.

The United North American Nations, extending further north-and-south and not as far east-and-west as the OTL United States. Also less federal. They speak Pomorian (and increasingly Arabic) in much the same way as citizens of India speak English. A center of global commerce, the UNAN have also positioned themselves as intermediaries between the UMS and Pomoria.

The UNAN share the continent with Dene in the northwest, the Sea States along the West Coast, and the Union of the Nahua in the south. The Maya Republic is further south still).

The Union of South American States is the United Nations of North America's wealthier and better-organized southern counterpart. They're making the Mediterranean Successors jealous. And they speak funny Arabic (as well as fifty other native languages, of which USAS citizen knows at least three).

The Republic of Balochistan is a buffer between the UMAS and India, which thinks it ought to run the world (southeast Asia disagrees).

There's also the Republic of Armenia (occupying the northeastern Black Sea Coast) and the Republic of Trebizond (occupying the western central Caucasus and speaking a terrible combination of Byzantine Greek, Armenian, Balkar, and Georgian), two odd little Christian orphans sandwiched between Islam and Tengriism.*

The United Dalai Nations,
a non-Mongol Tengriist country, now much less scary now than they used to be. Occupying more or less the territory of the OTL Russian Federation and speaking Komi as much as Russia speaks Russian.

The Federation of East Caucasian Nations: Dalai's answer to Armenia and Trebizond. They're Tengriist and the language they speak is a hotly-contested issue. Is it Kyrgiz? Evenk? Kazah? What about Georgian, Lek, Alan, and all the other native languages? Well, it's certainly not Komi or Mongolian. No sir.

China...I haven't thought that far. But they're important. More Buddhist than in OTL, I think.

Mongolia: No such thing! Pay no attention to the separatists on both sides of the Dalai/China border.

Japan was a Buddhist Theocracy for a while, but it got better.

Sub-Saharan Africa is a mosaic of squabbling nation-states like Europe without the EU. If a pan-African federation ever develops, it will probably be around Nubia, a large, culturally influential country in the northeast.



*More standardized and centralized than OTL Tengrism, with a lot of syncritism from Christianity and Islam. Makes a big deal about shadows.
 
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Oh my gosh, I thought this TL was dead! I'm so happy you were able to get it published!

And what's this about a free copy?...
 
Oh my gosh, I thought this TL was dead! I'm so happy you were able to get it published!

And what's this about a free copy?...
Thank you!
Yes, there are free copies available to reviewers. Send me a message and promise you'll review the book and I'll send you a copy :)
 
Dan, I'd love to read and review your book. But I don't really have a working kindle, so unfortunately I can't really read it unless it can be on my computer, sorry.

(and what is this "minaret-tree" the Yanomami use? I'm dying to know.)
 
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