jessiecat
Divine Monarch
I have only 2 objections to the list of colonies as proposed.
1. The Hudson's Bay Company did not exist until almost 1800. The bulk of the North American fur trade was carried out by the French from Quebec and Montreal from the early 1600's. It was only the defeat of the French in Canada in 1759 which allowed the British to establish a monopoly on the fur trade. Better to rename it to the Quebec colony.
2. Capetown had little economic importance before the mid 1700s. Whereas the East African trade in slaves, ivory and spices had been well established by the Arabs based at Zanzibar for at least the last 800 years of our mod. Why not rename as the Swahili Coast as originally suggested?
1. The Hudson's Bay Company did not exist until almost 1800. The bulk of the North American fur trade was carried out by the French from Quebec and Montreal from the early 1600's. It was only the defeat of the French in Canada in 1759 which allowed the British to establish a monopoly on the fur trade. Better to rename it to the Quebec colony.
2. Capetown had little economic importance before the mid 1700s. Whereas the East African trade in slaves, ivory and spices had been well established by the Arabs based at Zanzibar for at least the last 800 years of our mod. Why not rename as the Swahili Coast as originally suggested?