The Free Man's Vision

Intro
Game of Nations created by User:Firesofdoom was probably one of thee most successful fictional nation map games ever on the wiki. One user, User:WikiBuilder1147 spun off his nation Cygnia to become a large and successful timeline called Joan of What? where Joan of Ark died early leaving England to conquer France, and Willem Janzoon of Holland to land in southwest Australia and not the barren north in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Game of Nations eventually died out in the middle of the third turn with the final country added being the Balkan Republic by User:Orangebird763. But what if, many of these nations had come true.

Points of Divergence

 * 1) Galicia (Spain) grows as a power and takes over most of Northern Spain becoming the most powerful on the Iberian Peninsula to that of the more Naval Powers of Portugal and Castile.
 * 2) In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue; ACCEPT, in this he lands in Maryland which the land around the American mid-Atlantic is termed Columbia by mainly the English settlers who arrive there.
 * 3) Several events in East Africa leads to Ethiopia becoming a prime expansionist power in the 1100s and only truly becoming an empire worthy of looking at on a map by 1850
 * 4) Italian businessmen and settlers invest heavily in a 1500s sin-city like colony in the Gulf of Mexico and on Cuba.
 * 5) During the American Revolution Quebec Revolts as well.