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  1. TheKutKu

    Impacts on Asia of a Portuguese South Africa

    Yeah, the whole "point" of portuguese southern africa is that it's "just another fort" alongside the way to the indies, but one founded very early in the first couple decade of the 16th century. settled by relatively modest amount of settlers, degredados and clergymen, and that, with virtually...
  2. TheKutKu

    Impacts on Asia of a Portuguese South Africa

    South Africa will likely be subordinate to goa/Portuguese Indies, as far as the prestige is considered, it'll only increase it, so if we take an only binary point of view between the west (brazil) and the east (indies), I think the former will likely always be secondary to the later in such...
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    Impacts on Asia of a Portuguese South Africa

    Portuguese Southern Africa gives them access to, before even gold or silver, a lot more copper, either directly or through interior trade, this would definitely help the trade balance of portuguese merchants in Asia, make them less dependent on european copper sources and copper trade...
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    WI: The huguenot colony in Brazil - France Antarctique - survived, expanded and eventually colonize the Center-South of Brazil?

    The Huguenot part of the colony, if not the whole thing, cannot survive the french wars of religion.
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    AHC/WI: Biafra Successfully Establishes its Independence from Nigeria

    The French were already supporting them, they’d gladly recognise and become their first trading partner once their independence is secured. From there there wouldn’t be significant hurdles for wider international recognition.
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    Map of the Fortnight: Main Discussion Thread

    Does "powerful" have to be global or can it relative (poweful for a particular region...)?
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    These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    See structure of the British empire (2022), it is slightly outdated, in universe
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    AHC: A White Nationalist neopagan country.

    Collapse of authority in Volga Russia in the 90s, A pagan-plurality Mari republic managed to arise out of the ethnic mess of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and radicalises, eventually enforces a revitalisation and purification/unsyncretisation process for their traditional religion, hence the...
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    WarPac victory in standart WW3: aftermath for West Germany, Denmark and Benelux?

    De Gaulle never had a threatening nuclear deterrent in the context of this scenario - SLBM and IRBM were introduced after his retirement (early-72 and mid-71 respectively), and the Mirage IV force could largely be intercepted before hitting russia in the case the USSR had succesfuly invaded and...
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    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    In January 1759 (before the fall of quebec), Etienne de Silhouette (in the 1750s, at times, main royal comissioner of the French indies company, minister of finances, and main negociator (with De la Gallissonniere) of the pre-7YW North american boundary comission) Proposed to exchange Canada for...
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    Without Boer settlement, could the Bantu have reached the Cape?

    It's unlikely to be any different, new world crop dispersion in the old world, subsaharian africa included, generally vastly preceded european settlement and conquest. It seems like maize production in the western cape is definitely not optimal without elaborate irrigation, and marginal to this day.
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    Without Boer settlement, could the Bantu have reached the Cape?

    At their historical pace, for Cape Town, no But of course, the mfecane, environmental pressures, technological improvements and appeal of trade will means they will absolutely reach the cape in the 19th century
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    What do you think the world would be like today if the Central Powers won WWI?

    In the case of a long ww1, Direct colonialism would be weakened, because Germany (and the Ottoman, and AH) don't have the power projection, infrastructure, or even care to fully replace the British, Russian and French empires as they'd contract. In former Entente colonies where germany doesn't...
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    WI: Elon Musk remains in South Africa

    It could be interesting to have SpaceX as a Rocket Lab equivalent, homegrown South African rocket company eventually moving to the USA (but still keeping susbtantial involvement in SA). There would be a larger skill base coming from the defence industry to hire from in SA compared to New...
  15. TheKutKu

    USSR gets absolute victory in the Winter War, effects on WW2.

    Realistically, the USSR would deport (resettlement and labour camps) a hundred to a few hundred thousands finns, in line of the proportions that happened in the balitcs and poland. If the insurgency becomes truly formidable, and if there are too much cooperation between finns and nazi, then...
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    How long can Decolonization be delayed?

    Put simply, the American African foreign policy at the apex of decolonisation, under JFK, was entirely incompetent.
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    A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    For reference
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    What does modern day East Pakistan look like?

    And even more populous and densely populated than our Bangladesh, without the effort in familly planning, development, education of IRL, East Pakistan would continue on the trend of west Pakistan and have 100 million more people Such a colony kept in check only with nuclear weapons would be...
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    The Dream Survives

    I was thinking how it had become a "trend" to come up with more and more original ways to have shuttle failures in 80s/90s space AH and this timeline certainly takes the cake! And without any fatality! Wonderful timeline, definitely on the optimistic side (the least believable part is Hermes...
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    A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    I could see ESA being "torn" in the 90s between staying in LEO with their ongoing hardware and participating in the phase 2 american lunar program. With the more homegrown, independent capabilities and the worse precedents with cooperation with NASA compared to IRL I think the former would take...
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