Map Contest

This is the official page for the Map Contest. The corresponding blog post can be found here.

Basic Rules
The rules are very basic:

1) Follow the instructions, formats, and prompts provided.

2) Act your age.

3) Notice the period after #2

4) The best way to prevent drama is not to start any. For clarification, see #3

5) The leader's word (in this case, my word) is law

6) In the case I am wrong, see #5

Challenges
Read the challenge. Make a map and short timeline. Pretty straight forward.

Submitting
Entries will be submitted the day before voting starts. Early entries are permitted, if the submitter talks to the leader. The entries should be sumbitted in the following format under the contest heading:

Entries (Heading 4):

Your Name (Heading 5)

Your Map (preferably 650px, but no more)

Your Timeline

Votes:

Voting
If you want to vote for someone's entry, simply put your signature in their Votes section, using the four tildes (~)

Sign-In
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Map Contest 1 (Open): King of the Hill
PoD: Columbus goes exploring for a different country (not Spain). This country goes on to dominate the new world.

Challenge: Create a map of the new world, dominated by a different country. This map can be from any time period, just be sure to say which time period. Be sure to include labels, map keys, subdivisions of countries, etc. (Note: By dominate, I mean this country has the most influence in the New World. Other countries can and should still have some land.)

Time Frame: Two weeks, July 7 - July 20
 * Voting Starts July 20, 0:00 UTC

Guns
First entry xD! A brief summary of what goes on here: Columbus sails for Portugal instead of Spain, and it is Portuguese ships which dominate South America. The Treaty of Todresillas is still forced upon Portugal but they ignore it completely and wage war against Spain, with France and England. The end of this war is the unification of the Portuguese and Spanish Royal families, to form the Kingdom of Iberia, which goes on to control many of the regions that the UK did OTL, such as India, New Zealand, and vast parts of Southern Africa. The Ottoman empire declines but never dies out, still being a major regional power. Russia is a major power here, and control OTL Alaska, while the British still control what is basically OTL Canada. This is a present day map. (I'll upload one with labels soon )