Qara Koyunlu -> Persia. This is about half a year prior to completing westernization (including the final military modernization step) at which point the nation descended into a morass of rebellions. I'm still cleaning that mess up...
Tech-wise I've almost caught up to most of my more western neighbors. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to be able to deal with Bohemia, though... I'm hoping I can just avoid getting into any fights with them. They basically devoured all of the northern Hordes as I dealt with the more southerly ones.
I've been nibbling over in Southeast Asia as little nations there have broken free from larger ones (just conquered Aceh which had broken back free from Portugal, for instance, though that happened after taking these mapshots); one of them gave me a core thanks to an event. I started a colony in Manilla that's just about finished (it's at 925, +25/year). The Brits keep dropping a colonist there only to have it get wiped out by natives.
