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  1. Clandango

    British Empire takes California from Mexico instead of US

    The Americans settled the border with the British in the Oregon Dispute before the war with Mexico to avoid troubles up there. Even if the British seize part of California, the Americans would have land north of it, and if not, they simply would not recognize the British taking that land.
  2. Clandango

    Can Switzerland be even bigger?

    I suppose that is the source of the Neutral District, from which France was not supposed to conscript anyone, but did anyways. I had been trying to look it up on Wikipedia a week or two ago, but it gave very few details. Really, having that area, Voralberg, and the areas the Italians seized...
  3. Clandango

    How Isolated Would Vinland be in the Little Ice Age?

    Especially the Norwegian (or Danes, depending if this will be after the Black Death) as salted or dried fish was a major source of income for the kings, being popular for people in other parts of Europe who still had heavy winters or were Catholic, limiting their other sources of protein. One of...
  4. Clandango

    How Isolated Would Vinland be in the Little Ice Age?

    Yes, the Norwegian and Danish kings had it where only one ship would sail to Greenland, per year I believe, and they brought with it iron, glass, and some luxurious stuff, allowing themselves a monopoly on the walrus and narwhal ivory that were harvested by the local Norse, the first people to...
  5. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    The maritime boundaries would likely remain fairly similar, though during the World Wars shipping was preyed on heavily. Plus, come to think of it, the US got lots of British and Danish Bases before entering WWIIand kept moving their claims of what ocean they were protecting ever eastward.
  6. Clandango

    AHC/WI: Biafra Successfully Establishes its Independence from Nigeria

    I imagine this may have some effects in Ambazonia down the line, though I don’t imagine Biafra would go too much out of the way to support them, though they might find having a second neighbor of similar size around as convenient.
  7. Clandango

    Non-Communist Czechoslovakia: bad in the short term, good in the long term?

    Might depend partially on how Czechoslovakia behaves. If their is no communist group the Western Europeans and French might not put as much focus on working to avoid the Italians Communists winning a general election, and I also expect there would be some hostility between the Czechoslovaks and...
  8. Clandango

    What if Nikita Khrushchev never became the leader of the Soviet Union?

    Though this implies that the Soviet system would be efficient. We need to keep in mind how the Soviets mostly traded with goods nternatoinally, as Soviets were not allowed foreign currency, and I believe foreigner firms were not allowed rubles. The official exchange rate the Soviets set was also...
  9. Clandango

    What if Nikita Khrushchev never became the leader of the Soviet Union?

    As people have said, it depends who. I recall one of the shows I had been watching a lot on YouTube in the past month mentioned Malenkov might have been going the same route as Khrushchev did after him, though Malenkov was not EXACTLY the leader anyways. Still, whoever is in charge rather than...
  10. Clandango

    Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Yes, the border is rather odd between Panama and Costa Rica. EDIT: Also, everyone check the labeling they gave for for island of Hispaniola. “Haiti or Santo Domingo”. For extra confusion, they named the Dominican Republic to Santo Domingo here.mthigh given some of the Virgin Islands are still...
  11. Clandango

    Did the Protestant Reformation happen in a Europe with an Islamic majority?

    You might get something with with Mozarabic. Local versions (Visigothic) of Christianity that got cut off from outside contact and were not allowed public displays of faith. Also a possibility that there will be some economic issues for the Islamic states, if they no longer have many places to...
  12. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    Undestandable. Things were a rather confused mess when it came to Ottoman claims and overlordship after people started breaking free or seizing land. The Turks also claimed islands further to the north that the Greeks actually did manage to claim. Basically, if anything was directly off the...
  13. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    Rhodes was officially Turkish land that had remained under Italian occupation in order to avoid a Greek invasion when the Turkish navy was weak in the past. It would be seen as quite a slap in the face for the Austrians to try to give the land to the Greeks. It would also tempt fate, considering...
  14. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    I know, I meant it was amusing that back then, before the country was renamed to Zaire, they had the Congo name, whereas now the former French colony is referred to as Congo, without the ‘Republic of’ added to it, whereas former Zaire is now always referred to as the Democratic Republic of the...
  15. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    Not going to lie, the bizarrest thing of the original map was why the Democratic Republic of Congo still had the name Congo back then, with the former French colony being the one who had to tack on ‘Republic of’ before it’s name, surprised Bechuanland keeps its border (and the othe provinces...
  16. Clandango

    Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    Not sure if this really counts, but can anyone recall the name of the German site that would have loads of maps? All done in the same stile. I believe that the background was a greenish-teal. Used to be one of the top websites showing up on google when looking for stuff like Gueldern or...
  17. Clandango

    PC: Austrian Belgium

    I couldn’t say, though I suppose Austria losing Galicia would require a large amount of land. Come to think of it, having both all of Galicia and Saxony swallowed up by neighboring countries would mean Silesia would be, without a doubt, now forever lost. Something the Hapsburgs still clung to...
  18. Clandango

    WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    You can turn wheat and barley into bread. Not sure what you can do with rice besides making porridge. Or what the calories are like when you compare the two. Perhaps you should look into the terrain and agriculture of southern and eastern Anatolia.
  19. Clandango

    WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    possibly you would have pools of water to grow it in, but it may not exactly be fresh water. I think up until even the time of Mussolini there were marshlands around Rome that were being drained due to risk of malaria from mosquitos. Rice would need to be some sort of luxury good, otherwise more...
  20. Clandango

    PC: Austrian Belgium

    Might be you want to do a larger swap. Prussia had apparently been keen on giving up more of their (and I thing also Austrian) portions of the Parition of Poland to Russia, in exchange for being allowed to annex all of Saxony. If Austria reaaaaaally wanted Belgium, then they might need to...
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