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REGIONAL HISTORY
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Explanation
- This timeline is a 'loose' timeline. It consists of several 'anchor' points, i.e: historical events which are predetermined and deemed to have happened across all of Geopolity. The remainder is determined by player applications and player histories. Disputes surrounding historical events will be arbitrated by the RP Coordinators.
Applications MUST have reference to this timeline.
Anchor Points
The Empire of Alexander
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
The Roman Kingdom, Republic, and Empires
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
The Black Death
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
The Napoleonic Wars
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
Colonialism
- Scramble for Africa, destruction of Mesoamerican civilizations, Atlantic Slave Trade included.
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.World War I
- Germany and colonies, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire against the UK and colonies, France, Italy, Russia, United States.
- Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, and ensuing formation of the USSR included.
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.The Great Depression
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
World War II
- Germany, Italy, Romania, Japan against the UK and colonies, France, United States, China
- Holocaust/Shoah, Abyssinian Crisis, Second Sino-Japanese War included.
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.The Second American Civil War
- For background please read "There's the Devil to Pay: A study of the Second American Civil War (Part One)" and "Hold at all Cost: A study of the Second American Civil War (Part Two)".
- The USA is substantially weakened during the formative years of what would become the Cold War. This has knock-on effects to the Cold War as well, most notably that tensions were lesser in scale, European decolonization was half-hearted, and the world was not strictly divided along the lines of communism and capitalism.- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
The Dissolution of the Soviet Union -
The 1991 Soviet Union referendum was held, with the Russian SFSR, the Byelorussian SSR, and the Ukrainian SSR remaining within the Soviet Union. All other Soviet Republics secede and become independent.
- The Soviet Union survives partially as the reformed Soviet-federation.- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
Geo specific events, now removed from canon.
- Open-ended outcome as to whether the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Soviet-backed), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban-backed), or the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Western-backed) prevails.
Global Financial Crisis,
The Great Recession- Mirroring IRL events and outcomes.
- The British crown commonwealth leads a military intervention into Myanmar following an international incident.
- Open-ended decision as to what the international incident was. It should be of a sufficiently serious nature to warrant a military intervention.- The Ukhtan People's Republic violently secedes from Ukhta, leading to a civil war.
- The conflict spills over to
Romanovskaya. An international military intervention follows and concludes with the surrender of the Ukhtan People's Republic.

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