Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[Tee Kay]

Is there a blank version of that map anywhere

 

[Dachs]

The person who makes these has to live in the UK.

 

[Zack]

How does Mongol conquest correlate to Incan survival? If no one is strong enough to defeat the Inca, how is Britain strong enough to rule half the world and hold on to the Americas?

 

[Ajidica]

How does Mongol conquest correlate to Incan survival?

Because the Mongols managed to escape the Spanish attempt to encircle them in the Po River Valley and could execute their own encirclement of the Spanish lines.....

I got nothing.

 

[warpus]

How does Mongol conquest correlate to Incan survival? If no one is strong enough to defeat the Inca, how is Britain strong enough to rule half the world and hold on to the Americas?

I suppose they ransacked Iberia and prevented a full-on colonization and conquest of South and Central America by the Spanish or Portugese.

 

[Dachs]

Ideally, since this is an alternate history that takes place over the course of centuries, you shouldn't be looking for a whole lot of causative links anyway because butterflies.

 

[History_Buff]

Doesn't a rise in sea level imply that there's more water to go around?

Well yes, but then why is the channel and red sea dry is my point? Also, those two areas are fairly high above sea level if I'm not mistaken.

Because the Mongols managed to escape the Spanish attempt to encircle them in the Po River Valley and could execute their own encirclement of the Spanish lines.....

I got nothing.

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[Winner]

Well yes, but then why is the channel and red sea dry is my point? Also, those two areas are fairly high above sea level if I'm not mistaken.

I assume more water leads to different rates of continental drift (more lubrication along the tectonic plates boundaries) and thus different geography than simple "raise sea levels/lower sea levels" would otherwise indicate. You can see Africa looks as if it was taken from our future (the great rift valley has expanded and split Africa into two continents).

It's nonsense anyway, but I give credit to the idea

 

[Save_Ferris]

The person who makes these has to live in the UK.

Half of all altered maps are made by angry, nostalgic Brits longing for the return of the Empire.

 

[Arakhor]

And the other half by Confederate sympathisers wishing they'd won the US Civil War, right?

 

[hoplitejoe]

I kinda think that a British empire that lasted is just quite an easy thing to work from.

 

[madviking]

You guys are going to just love this one

http://www.freewebs.com/jimweaver1972/Gloriana1.PNG

It's based on this fantasy novel

MegaVirginia... I like it!

 

[Save_Ferris]

And the other half by Confederate sympathisers wishing they'd won the US Civil War, right?

Yep. Stay tuned for Altered Maps XIII: Nationalism Fetishes!

 

[sophie]

And the other half by Confederate sympathisers wishing they'd won the US Civil War, right?

I was assigned an AH in my Mexican History class which posited a Mexico which declared independence in the late 18th century and an America which declared its in the early 19th. It was......strange.

 

[Borachio]

You guys are going to just love this one

It's based on this fantasy novel

Moorcock based a lot of it on the work of Edmund Spenser.

Who was an utter bastard.

In 1596 Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled, A View of the Present State of Ireland. This piece remained in manuscript until its publication and print in the mid-seventeenth century. It is probable that it was kept out of print during the author's lifetime because of its inflammatory content. The pamphlet argued that Ireland would never be totally 'pacified' by the English until its indigenous language and customs had been destroyed, if necessary by violence. Spenser recommended scorched earth tactics, such as he had seen used in the Desmond Rebellions, to create famine. Although it has been highly regarded as a polemical piece of prose and valued as a historical source on 16th century Ireland, the View is seen today as genocidal in intent. Spenser did express some praise for the Gaelic poetic tradition, but also used much tendentious and bogus analysis to demonstrate that the Irish were descended from barbarian Scythian stock

Just felt I needed to get that off my chest. Carry on.

 

[W|M]

The world if Hitler won at Stalingrad:

Spoiler :

 

[JohannaK]

Nice green circle, red triangle and blue odd shape in a file-shaped polygon.

 

[Zack]

Don't hotlink, silly.

Spoiler :

EDIT: Wait, what exactly is the difference? Or is that the joke?

 

[madviking]

Stalingrad was a failure in every way possible for Hitler. One does not simply allow Hitler 'win' Stalingrad. It was doomed once Hitler told Gen. Paulus to hold onto Stalingrad under all circumstances. Paulus and Hitler would've needed alien space bats to win.

 

[Arakhor]

EDIT: Wait, what exactly is the difference? Or is that the joke?

I believe that that is precisely the joke, yes.