Welcome to Terra Francia, I'm awful at maps so perhaps someone else will produce it but world in 19th century as followswhat would the world look like if England (and Scotland and Ireland whilst we're at it) had never created a colonial empire?
I'm mainly curious about India and Africa but ideas on the rest of the world are more than welcome.
bonus if you can provide maps!
Then there is the Jewel in the French Imperium India
But what stopped Britain from building an empire?
would French India be roughly the same size as OTL British empire?
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I would think so
I'm no expert, but from the sounds of it, the easiest way to prevent the English from creating an overseas empire would be to prevent Protestantism in England. When England went Protestant, that put it at odds with Spain, and they raided Spanish colonies and fleets. I assume that the wealth taken from these ships showed the potential profitability of overseas colonies. Also, apparently this was spurred by the West Country Men, who were largely responsible for early English colonisation of America, and they had learned the craft of colonisation from settling Protestants in Ireland. If you prevent Protestantism in England, you prevent that, since both England and Ireland were Catholic, you wouldn't have the English feel a need to establish control by displacing Catholics. If England stayed Catholic, you might even be able to get them to intervene in the Thirty Years War, creating a precedent for renewed English activity on the continent, further weakening the faction that would push for colonisation.
does anyone have any maps or ideas about maps? I'm curious as to what they'd look like.
Depends on the specifics.
I'm mainly interested in what India and Africa would likely look like without British colonialism.
The question is what would it mean for the rest of Europe. Would it butterfly away the rise of the Netherlands (possible with a catholic England)? How would Germany look like? Without the Dutch and English East India Company would India actualy be colonised?I'm mainly interested in what India and Africa would likely look like without British colonialism.
does anyone have any random maps with no British colonization? it'd be fun to see what people think would happen.