Re: Workshops Review #4

--- andrew <hobbit@...> wrote:
> On 01/11 22:31  Isaac A. Penzev wrote:
> > - a new idea - Bahasa Vijaya - a language of
> > the Buddhist empire in Western
> > Pacific, with Singapore as its capital! and
> > other alternative realities like
> > Swedish Philippines (Hi, I'm Bjorn Riksberg
> > from Manilla!)
>
> This reminds me of a date that has been
> suggested as significant in the
> age of Pacific exploration: 1433, the year that
> the Chinese decided that
> they were going to stay home after all.
> Imagine what could have
> happened if the Chinese had expanded first...
Well, if you haven't followed the avalanche of
activity in Ill Bethisad recently, then you've
missed the discovery of Chinese East Africa.

Apparantly, the Chinese also have a reciprocal
arrangement of trading colonies in European
cities. I.e., they have a colony in say France,
and the French get a colony of similar importance
in China. As I understand it, these colonies
would be administered by the sponsoring country
(so China administers the European colonies,
European countries administer the Chinese
colonies); but the territory isn't actually a
part of the sponsoring country. John could
explain better.

The Filipinas are still Castillian; but that
Buddhist empire is located in the Indian Ocean
rather than the Pacific.

Padraic.


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