Some more progress on my "Viking Age of Piracy" map. I originally had Sweden extending all the way to the Pacific, basically as Russia did OTL by this point, but I figured they might be less inclined to spread east with their noses more firmly in European affairs. Unclear borders are denoted with a darker outline of the country's colour, or the "generic" colour, which amounts to a lot of the world really. Africa is mostly blank not because I consider it personally unimportant, but because none of the great African empires of OTL have much signficance to the timeline (I'll be 'blanking' a lot of Europe's small states too).
I was tempted to fuse Korea and Mongolia, but I couldn't think of a compelling reason as to why it would happen. The southern border is at the Great Wall (approximately). Japan will be a vassal of Korea, and maybe a handful of smaller areas too.
Crimea/Ukraine is firmly Turkic ethnically and linguistically but is steadily being "Europeanised" in terms of culture, whatever that means in this world (without a strong unified Church "European" has a less unifying function; Moravia, for example, is still firmly "Slavic" in culture with all that entails, adhering to Slavic holidays and traditions).
I've also added some Anglish "trekker" states in the Appalachians. The eastern seaboard of North America was Anglish, but when the Franks conquered Angland it was briefly a collection of independent earldoms before the Franks got to them. A bunch fled to the Danish colonies (as explained in my last post) and turned to piracy, a bunch fled into the mountains. Expect some kind of American version of the Boer Wars at some point in the future.
