Atlantis, the Land of Opportunity (1430-1650)
Once the natives were brought under boots of the Chinese, Japanese and Roman soldiers and early colonists settled in, Atlantis became quite the target for Immigrants from Rome, China and Japan. Each with there own image of a settler and/or explorer in this New World.
For the Romans (based primarily in the Caribbean, Florida and Argentina) there were three main faces of colonist. The first one was middle class tradesmen with their Families. The area was lacking in skilled craftsmen and there was much work to be done. Slaves were also cheaper in the New World than in Rome. The Second being poor people who came to Atlantis in search of greener pastures (most of which became farmers, either tenant or landowning).
For the Japanese it was a Veteran who received a land grant and his (sometimes her, the Japanese were not too finicky on that account) family. The amount of land was dependent on rank and scalps collected. A low ranking Ashigaru infantryman who brought in one enemy weapon would receive a land grant accounting to about 20-25 acres, a pig, a few hand farming tools, the ability to bring in one family member and basic dwelling (a shack). If he brought in two enemy weapons, he got 30-35 acres, one or two more pigs and a slightly better house. They could also get a small shop for blacksmiths, shoemakers and other such careers. A Samurai Cavalryman with thirty captured weapons could get a land plot of around 400 acres, twelve cows, twenty-five pigs, two horses, ten slaves, all the tools needed to maintain the farm, the ability to transport eight family members and a small but well stocked house (Slaves sleep in either tents, a barn or in shanties), or command of a mine and about 20 slaves. The natives in Peru proved to be excellent chattel for the Japanese. Thousands of support persons (blacksmiths, carpenters, brewers, architects, engineers and the like) followed afterwards.
For the Chinese, it was a prospector mounted on a pony armed with a sword and either a Crossbow, bow or pistol (Generally a matchlock but after 1470 it was normally a flintlock, a Chinese invention that the Romans did not take to due to there large number of wheellocks) pushing into the frontier and searching for mineral deposits in Northern Mexico/California/southwestern states region. The Emperor decreed that Atlantis was open to mining claims, and that prospect. To the south was quite a lot of development, the Chinese had converted many native cities to there own uses and had become a sight of rapid economic growth. Whenever a prospector struck paydirt, the area was flooded with settlers within a couple of years. Cities popped up across the landscape rapidly, although Apache raiders had become a problem (they are much like OTL Mongols, gathering there numbers in the desert and a few times every century rampaging across much of the continent on horseback).
By 1650, there were 7.2 Million Romans, 8.2 million Chinese and 9 million Japanese in Atlantis. On the sight of Buenos Aries stood Nova Alexandria with graceful marble villas and statues, a coliseum were once a week slaves did battle (sometimes to the death) in search of freedom alongside citizen volunteers and a 200 foot lighthouse watching over the immense harbor. This city of 140,000 people stood protected from the barbarians of the untamed Northern Forests by Legio Felix (LXXIV), Legio Atlantis (LXXV) and Legio Fulvius (LXXVII). In Peru, Wooden castles stood among the mist-covered mountains alongside Shinto temples as Samurai drill Peasant Levies and slaves labor in the mines and the fields. In California, men shift through the muddy sands in riverbeds in search of Gold nearby small villages made of mud-brick and local timber. In Mexico, the Massive Mandarin’s manor stood tall among the vast Capitol of the Chinese Atlantean Assets. To the West of this Magnificent Compound is the ocean, a port were jade is loaded for transport to the Middle Kingdom and the city walls lined with cannon and to the east is farmland and rainforest. A few local barbarians still stand up against the newcomers, but these are a dying breed as Chinese Patrols are always on there trail.