With a PoD of 1000 BC, how likely is each continent to be united?

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia.

With a PoD of 1000 BC, rank the likely hoods of each of these continents being united as one country.
 
North America-incredibly unlikely(maybe if a lost colony of horses survived and are discovered)-maaybe say a plague strikes the Europeans and Ottomans and wipes them out horses still enter the Americas and you have empires from there

South America- Wanked Inca Empire unites with Amazonian civilization-very very difficult

Europe-OTL has shown more than a few attempts at this and it hasn't worked so far-a few possibilities, wanked out Roman Empire, Alexander conquers everything from the Atlantic to Peking, united Hapsburg Empire(they stomp all their rivals and get everything but Britain), maybe muslim Europe(double blow if Arabs win at Tours and take Constantinople), Mongol Europe, Russia in the 19th century, France in the 19th century

Asia-maybe mega Mongol empire(same for Europe) but very implausible, wanked out Chinese empire, uber caliphate, uber Alexandrian empire

Africa-the british keep the other Europeans out, wanked Islam, wanked(beyond the stretch of imagination) roman or Alexandrian empire

Australia-maybe an aborigine tribe develops agriculture and conquers or vassalizes the rest of the continent.
 
Mos plasusible to most implausible:

Australia (happened in OTL)
Oceania (considering very small population it is possible)
South America (Possible, when in OTL Spain and Portugal took almost whole continent)
North America (possible but might be bit more difficult)
Africa (Somehow possible but very difficult)
Europe (Somehow possible but very difficult and even more difficult is keep that as unified)
Asia (Impossible. Too many different cultures and languages that such thing could be achieved.
 
From easiest to harder:

1. Oceania
2. North America(close runner)

3. South America
4. Europe
5. Africa

6. Asia

Having a space means that there is quite a difference in difficulty.
 
Asia doesn't really make sense as a "continent" in a geopolitical sense. Would make more sense to talk of the Indian subcontinent, East Asia etc.
 
Easiest to hardest:

Antarctica - His Majesty's Icebox, anyone? Or just OTL, since no one legally owns the continent and thus it's united to begin with.
Australia - As in OTL, plus get the federation between Australia and New Zealand working. Have a British colonial wank in the Pacific that leads to the islands being transferred to Australia.
South America - Iberian Union or some equivalent, then kick out the British/Dutch/French in the Guyanas. It can get independence as one country.
North America - See Ameriwank #5183573. Or something with British North America.
Europe - An EU wank might work, but it's significantly more difficult than the above.
Africa - Needs some sort of African Union wank mixed with pan-Africanism or something.
Asia - Not happening except under a world government

You can do all these with a POD much later than 1000 BC, maybe as late as 17th century.

Why North America at 2 given its size? Because of the Eastern US?

Why wouldn't it be that way? Either British North America or the US could unite North America if there had been a major push for it.
 
North America would be possible if farming, metallurgy, engineering and construction took off. Imagine Roman-like roads across North America. But we need a massive POD to make the foundations happen.
 
I would argue Africa is huge and diverse enough that conquering the entirety of it would be an extremely difficult achievement like Asia.

On the other hand, Europe was fairly sparsely populated up until medieval times; could an Ancient Greek or Roman tech wank see them take over all of Europe? (Early industrialization, etc)
 
North America is halfway there IOTL- I don't get why anyone is saying it's impossible. The U.S certainly had the means to take over the whole continent if they wanted to.

Oceania is plausible if you get some sort of Majapahit-like entity that stays united as a Nation State with successors and eventually colonizes Australia. Plausible but very unlikely.

South America, have Spain colonize completely and then you have it, if only for a time.

Europe, Africa and Asia are practically speaking impossible.
 
Well, obviously, Australia is today, so that's easy.

Europe. Either *Charlemagne's Empire survives in one piece or someone like Napoleon or Hitler or Stalin conquers the whole place.
There are some who think that Europe NOT being unified is less likely than the reverse.
 
A bit more of an outside-the-box scenario, but how about a world with completely different ideas of state organisation - so each continent, or at least some continents, are theoretically united under one ruler but with a lot of local autonomy?
 
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