Timeline 1800s (Easternized World)

1800s: The "Modern" World
The 1800s were a time of immense change all over the world - making the 1700s pale by comparison. Nearly everything, including technology, architecture, national boundaries, power relations, and social mores, were part of the process. While technology helped people to live better, it also fueled overpopulation and produced new instruments of war. Architectural skill would dramatically fall...and then rebound, over these one hundred years. Colonial powers would get into a heated battle for continued imperial dominance, and then lose their empires as sovereignty was attained by many new states. In the latter part of the century, Europe's economic rise was palpable. Changes in cultures and liberalization in certain segments of populations produced infighting between members of the same ethnic groups and nations, while helping minorities attain power they never thought they'd wield. Whereas coal was the fuel of choice in the 1700s, in the 1800s this became petroleum. Whether the people knew it or not, it was this compact form of highly-transportable energy which was instrumental in kicking off this bold new world.

Technological Innovations
In the year 1800, most people of the world simply walked, and rode horse- (or human-) drawn carriages at times. Bicycles had reached mass-marketing potential in the late 1700s, and were gaining ground in the early 1800s. Long-haul trains, likewise, had been already invented, but it was only in the 1800s that they became major modes of mass transportation. By the end of the century, a city wouldn't be complete without a slew of commuter lines criss-crossing it. Automobiles, airplanes, spacecraft, and computers, in particular, would give people a new sense of themselves and humanity, and the incredible speed of innovation kept people expecting that tomorrow would always be more comfortable, convenient, and advanced than today, just as today was more advanced than yesterday.

The Early Years
The early 1800s at first looked a lot like a continuation of the 1700s. China, Japan, and Srivijaya were the undisputed colonial powers of the world. Spain was trying to become a major power in the Meditteranean, and was successful so far. Although Meixikou had gained independence in Yodderick, at least they were ethnic Chinese, and there was no immediate cause for concern that the other races would pull the same stunt. The idea of colonialism was unshaken. In fact, Meixikou continued to be a major trading partner with China. China merely had to get more land to make up for what it had lost.

Social Turmoil in Sri Vijaya
Across the modern world, there came to be not only expanding pockets of liberalization, but also increased cultural awareness among minority ethnic groups. In the early 1810s, student demonstrations in major western Srivijayan cities such as Palembang (பலெம்பங்), Jambi (ஜம்பி), Temasek (டெமஸெக்), and Sunda Kelapa (ஸுன்ட கெலப), demanded that the people be allowed to choose people to represent them in a council that could supplement the Maharaja's power. Although the empire was extremely wealthy, this wealth was distributed quite unevenly. The cities were developing, and were becoming quite magnificent to behold, and besides this, more people were wealthy than ever before, but this new wealth brought with it a desire for even more. People weren't content with merely earning enough money to survive, but wanted change in the stuffy government. At first, it was the sons and daughters of the richest Srivijayans that felt the need to help the less fortunate, the environment, and minorities. Later, the less educated people would join in.

China takes over much of the World
Emperor Han Zhang starts to invade all of Russia (except a part in Finland), Eastern and Balkan Europe, all of Asia, New Guiena, Pacific Islands, Egypt and Northern Sudan, and the Mediterranean Islands. Europeans started to re-westernize and CHina did as well. Beijing became captial and Christianity, Taoism, Confuncuism, and Buddhism became major religions forever. China was a futuristic, green, eco-friendly, super empire, and "great lord of the world". The economy built up 67 times faster and it covered 77% of land suface and soon became world power.