Hello everyone!
So I saw a post for a "TL ideas" thread that read "alternate scramble for Africa". It got me thinking about that. What about a different european colonization? I mean everyone knows OTL European colonization, and its exciting stuff but what about some new players to the original mix? Maybe some more internal struggle in the OTL big players (France, Britain, Spain, Portugal) causing them to be less prevalent? What about some new players like the Netherlands more early on, a unified Italy (I know its "impossible, but this is an alternate universe, anyone can have Italy unified if desired, or, another state fragmented, maybe Spain?) or Italian state? Genoa or Venice getting Columbus?
Basically something different as opposed to OTL colonization. I'm not sure if I'm asking this totally correctly but I know you all get the gist of it. also, bonus points if one shakes of stereotypes and changes countries economic/ political status (ex. Italy can be rich and stable country whereas Spain can be a poor fragmented nation).
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So I saw a post for a "TL ideas" thread that read "alternate scramble for Africa". It got me thinking about that. What about a different european colonization? I mean everyone knows OTL European colonization, and its exciting stuff but what about some new players to the original mix? Maybe some more internal struggle in the OTL big players (France, Britain, Spain, Portugal) causing them to be less prevalent? What about some new players like the Netherlands more early on, a unified Italy (I know its "impossible, but this is an alternate universe, anyone can have Italy unified if desired, or, another state fragmented, maybe Spain?) or Italian state? Genoa or Venice getting Columbus?
Basically something different as opposed to OTL colonization. I'm not sure if I'm asking this totally correctly but I know you all get the gist of it. also, bonus points if one shakes of stereotypes and changes countries economic/ political status (ex. Italy can be rich and stable country whereas Spain can be a poor fragmented nation).
Post away!