Alternate History NESes; Spout some ideas!

[erez87]

what CE means anyway?

 

[North King]

Common Era, the PC and nonreligious form of the commonly accepted AD system. Which makes sense even to (Christian) religious people because Jesus was liable to be born somewhere around 4 BCE.

 

[das]

Islam won't appear with a PoD as far away as this.

P.S. NK, why do you have to steal my idea? In my timeline, that would be called year 830 AR, or, more precisely, year 836 AR. Did I guess, in case you guessed what I guessed?

 

[North King]

What idea?

 

[das]

AR=from Alexander's Reign. Alexander the Great lives somewhat longer and fortifies his empire so that it outlives him by a few centuries. In my current timeline, I also added in Rome being destroyed by barbarians, switching the focus of the "Western Civilization" firmly to the Middle East. Fun!

 

[North King]

That did happen to be my timeline, except for the bit about the Middle East. It's been mostly stagnant, but with the coming of Arabian expasion (and yes, that will come, Islam or no)...

 

[das]

Well, the monotheism appeared in Yemen much earlier then in Hejaz - it was called "Rahmanism" and appeared under influence of Jewish diaspora (IMHO).

So, I guessed it, right? Nations:
- Small Celtic states in Britannia.
- Blue state in Gaul is called Gaulic Confederation/Empire - formed, ofcourse, by a Gaelic warlord.
- Purple state - Basques.
- Yellowish state in Iberia - Tartessos.
- Red state in Italy - Rome.
- Dark blue state in Greece - Macedon.
- Yellowish blob east of Gauls - Hunnia.
- State in Crimea - Cimmerian Bosporus.
- Brown state in North Africa - Carthage.
- Yellow state in Egypt - Hellenic Aegyptos.
- State south of Egypt - Axum.
- Green state in Arabia - Hadramaut.
- Teal state in Persia - Sassanids or Parthians.
- State in Armenia - Armenia.
- East of that - Mauryan Empire.
- And then some minor Indian states.

Btw, my timeline is currently only at year 300 AR. Carthaginians already discovers Gdola, the mystirious island in the west, while the Gaulic Empire is trying to centralize itself but comes under Thuringian attacks at every moment. Kozars, former Yue Qi, are consolidating their empire in OTL Hungary. Alexandrine Empire is currently climbing out of stagnation under the Seleucid Dynasty, but it is unlikely to last too long. Saba'ans are colonizing north Madagascar. Koshalans in India are beginning to stagnate. Artemia, the Hellenized Sri Lankan state, is on its last feet - it was only miracilously saved from the Koshalans before. Qin China just collapsed into the Four Warring States. Oh, and the Indian Ocean trade is very intensive, including the Southern Silk Route over the ocean (sadly, it suffers from pirates and Koshalan tariffs). Cheerful, ain't it?

 

[Xen]

well, perhaps one of my few contributions to ideas in this thread, it'd be kick ass to have an NES with assorted "lost civlizations", and thier attendent landmasses, represented (I call Atlantis in advance )

 

[das]

Alternate Geography was discussed here before. How about this:
- South America and Subsaharan Africa are linked together, however Subsaharan Africa is separated from the rest of Africa while South America is moved to the east alittle.
- Atlantis-in-Atlantic still exists.
- Atlantis-in-Carribean (i.e. several Carribean islands merged into one) still exists.
- Sunda (Indonesia merged together) still exists.

 

[das]

For variety, this Guess-the-POD map is in 1960 AD. You can ask about nation names and governments if it helps you.

 

[blackheart]

For Das's: Mongolian Empire stays intact.

 

[das]

Ofcourse not. The hint is that the PoD is somewhere in 20th century.

 

[erez87]

No Barbarosa campaign.

 

[das]

That is very, very close. There was no Barbarossa campaign, but its not exactly the PoD.

 

[erez87]

USSR goes east and allies with natzi germany? (the unholy alliance?)

 

[North King]

Hitler reinforces Rommel's campaign instead of going after Russia.

 

[Warman17]

Germnay must have released the Jews in their concentration camps or soemthing cause I see Israel(or are you being sneaky by adding A Palastine which shouldn't exist and be part of the Iraqi/Syria/Jordan nation.)

 

[Xen]

the Italians actual have a half decent, half prepared army?

 

[blackheart]

Russians got of their asses and invade Japan, Finalnd, China, etc. They broke their NAP with the Germans and caught them offguard.

 

[Insane_Panda]

The A Bomb is not invented in time for the war?

Nationalist Spain actually helps the Axis?

US never enters the war against the Germans?