Mercenarius
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What PODs would have more nations join, or remain (in the case of Denmark and Sweden), in the colonial race by 1840s?
While people only think of the big ones in reality almost all of Europe was in the colonial game at one point or another, I mean the only ones (excluding long-term landlocked countries) that could've that did'nt were Austria-Hungary (which actually did try once, but abandoned the effort for various reasons) and Russia.
Russia did though; its conquests just happened to span Central Asia rather than Africa.
Have America annex Liberia as a Slave Colony. Then annex some Central American States. Maybe William Walker? These will be colonies. Some say the US might have annexed Central America OTL had ww1 not distracted them.
Hell, the US did send troops to fight the Boxer Rebellion in China. Maybe the great powers agree to divide up China, with the US getting a piece.
Then have France go communist after ww1. The US takes French-Indo China.
I just made the US a major colonial power.
Brazil is harder. Maybe Portugal goes communist. The Government flees to Brazil, and Brazil takes the African Portugese territory.
What to ya'll think?
Have America annex Liberia as a Slave Colony. Then annex some Central American States. Maybe William Walker? These will be colonies. Some say the US might have annexed Central America OTL had ww1 not distracted them.
Hell, the US did send troops to fight the Boxer Rebbelion in China. Maybe the great powers agree to divide up China, with the US getting a picece.
Then have France go communist after ww1. The US takes French-Indo China.
I just made the US a major colonial power.
Brazil is harder. Maybe Portugal goes communist. The Goverment flees to Brazil, and Brazil takes the African Portugese terrtoirty.
What to ya'll think?
But Badshah talked about Russian expansion into Central Asia (& although not mentioned by him/her, the expansion into Caucasus, present-day Ukraine & Finland and Baltic can be chalked in there too) and not Siberia.I don't really consider Russia's expansion into Siberia, the U.S.'s expansion West or Argentina's expansion into Patagonia as colonialism since the point of all of those was to directly incorporate contiguous territories into the Metropole; colonialism in the sense of what Western Europe did was a different thi8ng altogether.
I don't really consider Russia's expansion into Siberia, the U.S.'s expansion West or Argentina's expansion into Patagonia as colonialism since the point of all of those was to directly incorporate contiguous territories into the Metropole; colonialism in the sense of what Western Europe did was a different thi8ng altogether.
I don't really consider Russia's expansion into Siberia, the U.S.'s expansion West or Argentina's expansion into Patagonia as colonialism since the point of all of those was to directly incorporate contiguous territories into the Metropole; colonialism in the sense of what Western Europe did was a different thi8ng altogether.
well if England had been more helpful, Scotland's colonies in South America might not have fallen to the Spanish.
Scotland did'nt have any colonies in South America, the closest one, the failed Darien Scheme, was in Panama,).
Not quite. The only real difference is that Western European expansion was mainly maritime (France to this day considers it's overseas territories to be part of the Metropole).
The results were exactly the same. Conquest and/or annexation of foreign lands in order to gain control of said lands resources. Makes no difference if you sail or march in order to do so, just ask the people who were already living there.
Europeans did nothing in their colonial expansion that had not been done by others. Persia expanded, China expanded, as did Mongolia, Egypt, Assyria, Burma, Thailand, the Aztecs, the Incas and the United States. Calling them Territories, rather than Colonies, doesn't alter the fact that they are/were colonies.
That's the one I was referring to.
What PODs would have more nations join, or remain (in the case of Denmark and Sweden), in the colonial race by 1840s?