The Years of Rice and Salt, written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, portrays an alternate reality in which the Black Death epidemic of the 14th Century eradicates 99% of Europe rather than the historical 1/3rd. With Western civilization rendered extinguished by the plague, opportunistic Islamic forces shortly thereafter arrive to dominate and re-populate the largely depleted continent. Though the Caucasian Europeans have been wiped out, the Americas as well as Africa are nonetheless still colonized, only this time by Islamic powers and a jingoistic Chinese behemoth that has devoured most of Asia. In the Americas, both the Muslims and East Asians have established ethnically mixed and relatively cosmopolitan societies due to a much more friendly and mutually beneficial relationship existing between the colonizers and the natives. By the dawn of the 20th Century, Islam has completely monopolized the politics of the "Western world" while the Chinese Qing Dynasty maintains a vast imperial domain stretching from Mongolia to California. Meanwhile, the so-called Travancori League, a democratic "confederation" of sorts, has emerged upon the world stage as a staunch paladin of Hindustani culture in Southern India/Southern Africa while a Native American-dominated Hodenosaunee League operates as a large buffer state sandwiched between the competing Islamic and East Asian powers of North America. This hypothetical mod, if it is ever to come to fruition, would primarily focus on the so-called "Long War" between China and the Islamic world, which commences in the book around 1915 AD (or because Christianity has been demolished in this timeline, 1333 AH according to the Islamic lunar calendar). Help for this project is desperately needed.
Ideas for countries:
The Emirate of Castile
Islamic Republic of Lusitania (Portugal)
The Autonomous Kingdom of Riben (Chinese-occupied Japan)
The Ryukyu Principality (Chinese Okinawa)
The Sultanate of Wessex (Southwest England)
The Islamic Khanate of Rome
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The world prior to the Long War of 1333 AH.
Ideas for countries:
The Emirate of Castile
Islamic Republic of Lusitania (Portugal)
The Autonomous Kingdom of Riben (Chinese-occupied Japan)
The Ryukyu Principality (Chinese Okinawa)
The Sultanate of Wessex (Southwest England)
The Islamic Khanate of Rome
.png "The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt_(Pre-War_Map).png")
The world prior to the Long War of 1333 AH.
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