So while we are waiting for the release of the editor I have been thinking a bit of Oceania (working on some base data thoughts for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and I am working out the big puzzle called Europe.
As Europe has a big effect on the rest of the world in terms of colonisation and decolonisation I needed to rework some of my initial idea to make the historical divergence a possibility. Some things would not have worked out otherwise in terms of 'realism'
So I came up with the word ignition point which is the moment that an area of the world is set on fire and the history was changed. I got the following for ignition points for Europe, with the first one being obvious. I might pick another few out when I read through the American histories again
- Napoleonic Wars (you have seen that in South and Central America)
- Unification of Germany (the one around 1870, not that one from 1990)
- Unification of Italy
- Irish independence
- Scandinavian royal houses
- Winter War
- Spanish Civil War
- Balkan Wars early 20th century
- First World War
- Algerian War of Independence (yes, it is North-Africa, but this one is probably a lot more relevant than you will realise)