Naraht, 15:31, venerd́ 3 settembre 2010:
> 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
Israel on the Rio Grande; New Israel off East Africa?
Brazil would be a power more important than OTL.
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