What if the Western European powers decide to control the land route to the Indies, setting up not just puppet-states, but settling them, and in effect, colonizing Central Asia. This raises their importance in "World," history, but how does this affect the *American nations and their development??
Central Asian Colonization
- Thread starter Aussey
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Their are 4 possible routes into Central Asia via Europe:
Across the black sea, from the Northern steppes, from the South-East(Afganistan) and from the South west(Turkmenistan).
The former 2 are easily closed off and domnated by a powerful united Russia, the later 2 by a powerful and united Iran. Nor the Afghan route effective as an independant route from the modern dar territories of Iran.
Thus, I see only a couple of ways to do it.
Have the the Latin Empire survive, thus a France-Venetian Alliance also survives. They eventually create a Volga canal, and set up French and Venetian colonies.
Russia remains fragmented, and Sweden vassalizes much of it, using it as a route to Central Asia(you can have a united or fragmented Russia do this, but that wouldn't be Western, would it?)
The crusader states conquer Northern Persia(stretching it).
Or just change the defintion of Western European power
.
Across the black sea, from the Northern steppes, from the South-East(Afganistan) and from the South west(Turkmenistan).
The former 2 are easily closed off and domnated by a powerful united Russia, the later 2 by a powerful and united Iran. Nor the Afghan route effective as an independant route from the modern dar territories of Iran.
Thus, I see only a couple of ways to do it.
Have the the Latin Empire survive, thus a France-Venetian Alliance also survives. They eventually create a Volga canal, and set up French and Venetian colonies.
Russia remains fragmented, and Sweden vassalizes much of it, using it as a route to Central Asia(you can have a united or fragmented Russia do this, but that wouldn't be Western, would it?)
The crusader states conquer Northern Persia(stretching it).
Or just change the defintion of Western European power
.