colonial

Let's Imagine the French simply can't get Vietnam. Either because its Chinese, British, stronger idk. The point is there is never a "French Indochina". What could be their next colony instead? I've heard the French REALLY wanted a colony there, so I suppose that even if they never acquire...

Hello everyone, I've been thinking about the possibility of more microstates, born from trading posts, dotting the landscapes of Africa and Asia. maybe a more nuanced 'Scramble for Africa', characterised not by sweeping territorial grabs, but by strategic alliances with local kingdoms. In this...

On the Shoulder of Giants -Federation of Mali TL Chapter 1.0 Selected Passages From: My Life, My Honor, My Duty - Autobiography by Léopold Sédar Senghor This is my story, the world I tried to build. My successes, and my failures. I hope through me the future generation of leaders, and...

How would this affect West Africa and how would this impact the British and French presence later on?

How would you picture alternate colonial empires in the Americas, from the 16th and 17th centuries onward? Either Italian, German, etc. Cristopher Columbus, for example, asked for financing from Genoa and Venice for his trip before going to Castile. Klein-Venedig (Welserland) was a German...

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Malian Fleet The Year is 1300. Mansa Sakura of Mali, Former Slave, Usurper and Great Conqueror, is dead. Sakura was an imperial slave who had usurped the throne from the weak and feeble Mansa Abu Bakr, who himself inherited a weakened throne from the tyrant...

What if the French failed to conquer Morocco and establish a protectorate there? What would be the consequences on the Maghreb and the Islamic world in general? Morocco was slowly modernizing from 1873, and was experiencing a succession crisis in the beginning of the 1900s. Map of Morocco in...

Chapter I - A Saint for every Soul ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— An old man looks to the sea, its majestical blue waters alongside the bright sky fill his eyes with joy and happiness, he stops for a bit and contemplates on how his life has changed...

What would happen to their colonies and to the countries themselves? I know the Soviet Union doesn't have the capacity to influence Africa or Asia yet after World War II, I'm trying to think of a scenario where the colonies of this countries get an earlier Independence than our timeline. As I...

I always found the lack of colonizer nations in real history kinda boring. Only 5 nations colonized America, and only three dominated 99 percent of the continent. What are the possibilities of a more diverse America? Probably the Danes and Swedes are good bets, BC they kinda had a colonial...

So it's 1563 and the efforts of Coligny are not in vain, the colony has survived and will continue to do so. So let's just say that Spain either ignores them for now, or the colonists fend them with with superior leadership and skill. Now the challenge is growth and expansion for Charlestown...

Churchill wins the election in 1945 over Clement Attlee. He was a man who was very fond of the Empire, and not so fond of giving colonies their independence. What goes down with Indian independence? Can he successfully resist their demands? If a war of independence breaks out due to British...

Make Canada have a higher percentage of Scottish people with a POD of no earlier than 1500

Now, as we all know, the seeds of the Pax Francia were sewn in the 1763 Treaty of London, where British overdevotion to their navy saw their army neglected and ripe for france to tear apart. Britain lost Newfoundland and the Ohio river valley as well as India and the Carolinas, with English...

The republic of Lanfang was a state established by Chinese miners on the island of Borneo. It was one of, if not the first republic in East Asia and possibly the first modern democratic republic in the world. OTL Lanfang was conquered by the Dutch in 1884. Can you keep them independent for...

I wanted to branch off in a new thread similar to the one previously made but from a topic that was not exactly covered: slavery, specifically the development of a plantation economy or a mecantilist economy. Would England send in families or single men ? Would there even be a plantation economy...

How would this change history? The three biggest changes that I can see are: Native American depopulation from European diseases happens circ. 1000 CE, centuries before OTL European colonization of the Americas happens, which enables the native Americans to rebound and better resist those...

What if the Americas were peacefully divided up between the European powers? Which countries would participate in this conference and how would the borders of the New World look?

After a failed first attempt to start a settlement of Parris Island, SC in 1562 French Huguenots returned in 1564 to try again, this time building their settlement on the bank of the St Johns River in Jacksonville, FL. However after problems with supplies some colonists turned to piracy and...

Following up on the Meiji Inca thread, I wonder how the XIXth century colonial endeavours would unfold if the colonial powers do not have access to the Cinchona Tree and more specifically the Quinine extracted from it. It would mean that medication against Malaria would be far more limited than...