03-10-2015, 05:45 PM | #901 | |
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No, wait ...
So all we have to do for this alternate is play up the first batch of links and downplay the second batch... (And this would have played out very differently: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=364 )
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03-10-2015, 09:46 PM | #902 | |
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Such aggressive European migration to may well trigger what the US calls the French and Indian War early as well, putting French claims in America in British hands. Both of the above may well have happened at once, which explains why France lost both wars and why the British Empire didn't fall apart. Note that west of the Appalachian Mountains instead of RL US States there would be one or more Anglo-Indian Nations, don't know how far west this would extend before the British Empire would develop into another political arrangement. |
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03-11-2015, 04:53 AM | #903 | ||
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Though if Britain managed to snag India on schedule despite the transformations, there's be a certain temptation to go there instead. Except for the heat, and the horrors of mass starvation and desperate migration in the Indian coastal regions. Quote:
Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin are gone. Hanover is a seaport. The rise of Prussia is aborted. Unless Saxony becomes a maritime-based superpower, there's probably nobody to stop an expansionist Russia east of the Alps. Oh, and it looks like the Pope will spend much of his time blessing the Tiber dyke-builders. Shame about the thin soils; you flooded the one good bit. (On the plus side, the Great Interior Sea actually exists on this timeline.) Plus, the Japanese have to get past the pirate-lords of what's left of the Philippines and Indonesia on the way.
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03-11-2015, 05:56 AM | #904 |
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http://flood.firetree.net/ can give you a 60m sea level rise these days, overlaid on Google Maps. Have fun. :-)
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03-11-2015, 01:49 PM | #906 |
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The loss of Florida makes the South a different place in the US Civil War. I can't imagine how it would change that war, but I suppose the South might have lost less industry than the North, balancing the war. Additionally, a warmer north could have focused more on agriculture and would have developed less industry in the first place.
Regardless, the discovery of gold in California would have changed. The Californian Sea would be hazardous (it's probably still clogged with snags and debris, let alone submerged structures), and the state's capital would be San Fransisco (probably regardless of who owns it). It was the last time Sacramento flooded... |
03-11-2015, 02:50 PM | #907 |
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Was it geographically linear? That is, it rose globally a common amount in all places?
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03-11-2015, 03:13 PM | #908 | ||
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There really is room for a pair of world's here --one with the accelerated flooding in the 1800's, and one with the more gradual, constant flood. Hey, time this at any point and you have a decent alternate.
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03-11-2015, 04:16 PM | #909 |
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Within the space of a century, you've wiped out Holland, most of Europe's ports, much of north Germany, and much of Britain's best farmland. The social disruption will be monstrous, and there'll be megadeaths from waves of starvation and plague. Anyone who expects anything like our history following that period of horror is insanely optimistic.
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03-11-2015, 04:32 PM | #910 | |
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