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Received a 2012 map in which A lesser Roman Empire (with Territories in N.America) was at war with a number of surrounding nations trying to tear bits off of it. Seemed like it had seen better days and it seemed likely that some of Rome's antagonists had only recently been part of Rome. I wanted to show Rome at its height before its decline in the late 20th C without showing it directly. Here Rome is settling Antarctica in the 60's while reminiscing about old medieval glories. In my head Rome is kind of like a giant Switzerland with three core cultural Groups dominating the country though obviously, being Rome, having A number of other minority groups. Also In my head is the discovery of the new world, not due to a pressure to find profitable trade routs but accidental discovery by British/Iberian/Scandinavian fisherman operating off the coast of Newfoundland. Result of this is basically very limited settlement of the region by Europeans at initially, massivly higher numbers of non-euopeans still living on the continent, the limiting of European settlement to the north and the east of the continent and a long term survival / independence for N.American native civilizations in and around Mexico.

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Received a 2012 map in which A lesser Roman Empire (with Territories in N.America) was at war with a number of surrounding nations trying to tear bits off of it. Seemed like it had seen better days and it seemed likely that some of Rome's antagonists had only recently been part of Rome. I wanted to show Rome at its height before its decline in the late 20th C without showing it directly. Here Rome is settling Antarctica in the 60's while reminiscing about old medieval glories. In my head Rome is kind of like a giant Switzerland with three core cultural Groups dominating the country though obviously, being Rome, having A number of other minority groups. Also In my head is the discovery of the new world, not due to a pressure to find profitable trade routs but accidental discovery by British/Iberian/Scandinavian fisherman operating off the coast of Newfoundland. Result of this is basically very limited settlement of the region by Europeans at initially, massivly higher numbers of non-euopeans still living on the continent, the limiting of European settlement to the north and the east of the continent and a long term survival / independence for N.American native civilizations in and around Mexico.