In OTL, by 1900, the entire populated world with a few minor
exceptions fell into one of a few categories
1) European empires
2) Small/Medium European States without empires (Romania the largest
example?)
3) Large Similar empires (Japan, USA going up, China and the Ottomans
down)
4) Former empire parts (Mostly in Latin America)
5) Medium sized other states (1 million population at least) such as
Persia, Ethiopia, Thailand
At what point does this become inevitable?
All the Berlin Conference did was formalize the race for Africa, I
think all that conference does is make European war directly over
African claims less likely.
The reason I asked is that I ran into a Timeline where one of Robert
Clive's suicide attempts succeeded, leading to French Domination in
India and France as the top colonial power. In this timeline, even at
a point in the timeline roughly equivalent to 1950's OTL, about of
Africa (all of the center and even a few coastal areas) as still
native peoples that hadn't been conquered by Europeans. In size, these
are more or less equivalent to Rwanda.
See http://clockworksky.net/cliveless_world/ah_cliveless_map.html |
