![]() ![]() Traditionally sparsely inhabited, it has now become the primary military frontier, although the conflict naturally bleeds into the polities of northern Occidentia. This doesn’t mean it’s all Kumbaya though ethnic tensions and cultural chauvinism still exist and the idea of a “civilising mission” remained popular well into the modern day both Latinisation and Sinicization were conducted by hook and by crook.ĭividing the Roman and Tianxian Occidental spheres is a large swathe of no-man’s land. Racism, as a scientific ideology, never properly developed either, remaining a fringe notion. Initial contact (and thus disease) wasn’t followed up by colonisation for several centuries, giving them a chance to rebound and form their own civilisations (aided by the trade in draft animals from the Old World). Native Americans (alternatively, indigenous Occidentians) did somewhat better in this timeline. Persia joined up with Rome after several wars with Tianxia and her Hindustani client states caused a reassessment of her foreign policy, while Siam managed to manoeuvre herself into the position of Tianxia’s junior partner (unlike the Nihonese, who rather foolishly tried to keeping going toe-to-toe and suffered for it) after a few hundred years of fighting over influence in Southeast Asia. Tianxia is a comparatively unitary state compared to Rome, with even her Occidental territories being theoretically under Nanjing’s control.īoth Rome and Tianxia have traditional rivals turned allies in the form of Persia and Siam, respectively. Modern Tianxia is still ruled by an emperor, although political and economic power is dominated by a dozen or so great clans that control the most powerful corporate bodies, vying for influence. After a famine leads to a civil war which results in a division between northern and southern dynasties for half a century, Tianxia is finally reunited as one entity in the first truly industrial war. Rome’s traditional territories are incorporated into the federal structure, while her distant colonies become self-governing dominions instead (because it’s hard to organise an overseas federation in the age of sail).Ĭhina, or rather Tianxia, is comparatively less isolationist than OTL, focusing on expansion into Asia, with her own ups and downs over the centuries with changing dynasties. “People’s Federation” is a naming convention in the style of SPQR, to which the revolutionaries harked back to, rather than reference to any kind of socialist government. The replacement is a federal system with a selective franchise similar to Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, earned through service (usually military but also civil). ![]() Rome then has a sort of French Revolution equivalent, seeing the overthrow of the corrupt government and the establishment of the Third Republic. After a few centuries the empire gets replaced by another republican government, the Second Republic, which then lasts a few more centuries (and begins the discovery and colonisation of Occidentia a.k.a America) before falling to the inequality and corruption that doomed the First Republic by the time of TTL’s equivalent of the early industrial era. Rome never splits and instead gradually expands, although going through periods of stability and crisis, eventually encompassing all of Europe and North Africa, along with most of the Middle East. So I decided to run with that idea and see what I could come up with. As a given example, TI suggested a “People’s Federation of Rome fighting imperial China over the fate of the New World”. ![]() A map inspired by Templin Institute’s suggestion for a future Battlefield game concept, an alternate history scenario with a PoD in the distant past. ![]()
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