Less geo-political injustices world.

Overview
In this short T.L. the world is not subject to the circumstances that lead to many of it's territorial injustices and several nations rise or downfall.

The 20 changes are-

 * 1) Darjeeling stayed in Sikkim, not India. Britain dose not screw colonial Sikkim or Bhutan around.
 * 2) Nepal is defeated by the British in 1816, but dose not lose it's western most provinces to British India, but to the local rajas who used to run them before Nepal took over.
 * 3) The Aztecs regrouped and formed a rump-state in central Mexico.
 * 4) The Portuguese got some of the land they wanted in southern Africa, but the full "Mapa cor-de-rosa" claims planned. Portuguese republicanism takes a blow since the King uses it to promote his cause (as well as Portugal's) and Portugal stays a monarchy. The disgraced UK government falls and the oppersion win the election.
 * 5) The single Spanish soldier who arrived in Mexico in 1520, carrying smallpox and thus initiated the devastating plagues that swept through the native populations of the Americas did not reach Mexico and died out at sea and his corps was thrown overboard. The 1st smallpox plague dose not hit central America.
 * 6) The Balti conquest of Laddakh that took place in about 1594 A.D. was a faliuer, but the Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal war of 1679-1684 was a success. Laddakh becomes part of Tibet. Tibet is generally slightly more territorialy successful any how.
 * 7) Spain conquered Moorish Granada much later.
 * 8) The Domain of Soissons is narrowly not defeated by the Franks, but is still defeated by the Vikings.
 * 9) Rurick's line did not die out, so the Rurakids, not the Romarnovs ruled in Russia until 1917.
 * 10) Russia did not betray China over the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk  and did not annex Outer Manchuria.
 * 11) There is a communist coup in the north of England and Glasgow during the Great Depression. The East End of London also sees some anti-Jewish pogroms.
 * 12) The Inca got there act together, stopped their civil war for a while and defeated the Spanish Conquistadors.
 * 13) Afghanistan is litraly Afghanistan. The only major minority is the Hazara in it's interior. The Tadjiks and alike were not conquered or conquer the Pushtuns.
 * 14) Wazristan stays indipendent and is not annexed to British India.
 * 15) The Conference of Berlin in 1884–1885, lets Portugal take over the whole Kingdom of Kongo, not just the south and center. Portugal abolished the title of king of Kongo, but it remains a sperate colony outside Angola.
 * 16) Florida, Texas, New Mexico and California were more heavily colonized by Spaniards, They are now independent Hispanic nations. American settlement has added to these nations' culture and peoples to.
 * 17) Arab Egypt and later Ottoman Egypt made more effort to colonise northern Sudan and Al Kufra. The Mahdi Army dose battle with them, not the British, who stay in south Sudan.
 * 18) Kurdistan becomes reconised nation in 1923.
 * 19) Ukraine becomes a reconised nation in 1922.
 * 20) Quebec becomes indipendent in 2000.

Map
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Before 1000.

 * Bhutan had gained influence over the norther parts of the Indian regions of modern Assam, West Bengal and Bihar between 1,000 BC and 200 AD. Tibet annexes Arunachal Pradesh at about the same time.


 * Battle of Soissons in 486 was a narrow defeat for the Franks, who went to to conquer France.


 * In 487, the area between the River Somme and the River Loire came under the de facto, but not de jur control of the Frankish lord Clovis for several years.
 * Frankish Protection is extended to cover Soissons in 608.


 * The Vikings started to raid the Seine Valley in the 880s and destroyed the monastery at Jumièges. The disintegration of Charlemagne's empire allowed them to take over Soissons. The fiefdom of Normandy was created for the Norwegian Viking leader Hrolf Ragnvaldsson, or Rollo (also known as Robert of Normandy).


 * 911 has the Vikings conquer loot Paris and settle in Normandy. Under the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte Rollo agreed peace with the West Frankish King Charles the Simple. In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered.


 * The Normans wipe out the Soissons royalty and most of the nobles at the 912 Somme rebellion.

1001 to 1549

 * William, Duke of Normandy, became king of England in 1066 in the Norman Conquest and retained the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants.


 * 1088 sees the Normans formally annex the parts of Soissons to the south and east. The rump becomes a autonomous fiefdom.
 * The First Crusade (1096–1099) involves a couple of minor Dukes from Soissons, who die misteriosly in 1097, wilst traveling with some French and Norman knights in Balkan moutains. Soissons' nobilaty is now exstigushed.
 * After the conquest of Cordoba in 1236, the Nasrids aligned themselves with  Ferdinand III of Castile, officially becoming the Emirate of Granada in 1238.
 * Soissons became a French client state in 1450.
 * The territory around Gibraltar and Cádiz are taken by Spain in 1482. The Emirate of Granada begins to sharpen up it's act and Morocco gives it some help to.
 * The 1488-1492 Spanish-Granada War is a narrow Moorish victory as the Spanish, not the Moors fragment and squabble for a few years over domestic policy and religiouse issues. The 1492 surrender of the Islamic Emirate of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain dose not happen.

1550 to 1700.

 * 1550 has the Spanish and Moors singing the 1550  Alhambra Treaty.


 * After 1532, Soissons retained a certain fiscal, farming and regulatory autonomy, but was formally run by the French monarchy.


 * Having reached Tobolsk in 1585, Russian explorers continued up the Irtysh River to the Kazakh steppes north of Lake Balkhash, to Dzungaria and to western Mongolia.


 * Russian exiles, prisoners, fur trappers and adventurers make themselves masters of the Siberian forests between 1582–1643.


 * Spain finally betrays and conquers Granada in the 1568-72 Spanish-Granada war.


 * Spanish pressure on the Moors to convert to Christianity leads in 1579 leads to an uprising in Granada city, quickly put down, and in the following year to more serious revolts in the mountain villages of the Alpujarra and in the region below the Sierra Nevada for the next 2 years after that! Arabic and Berber languages, prohibited Moorish dress, required Moriscos to adopt Christian names, ordered the destruction of all books and documents in Arabic script, and decreed that Morisco children would be educated only by Catholic priests. Hundreds of Moors died for there faith.


 * Christianity spreads slightly in Granada between 1600 and 1650.


 * Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (22 September 1552 – 12 September 1612) gets marred in 1600.


 * Vasili V's wife, Tatyana, has a daughter called Nadezdah in 1612. Spain begins a 5 year long persicution of Granada's Moslems. Many died for there faith.


 * A Campaign is led by the Manchus against the indigenous rulers of the Amur region between 1639 and 1643.


 * To keep Bhutan from disintegrating, King Ngawang Namgyal's death in 1651 apparently was kept a carefully guarded secret for 54 years. His son and stepbrother, in 1651 and 1680.


 * Soissons was fully assimilated in to France in 1675.


 * During Bhutan’s internal consolidation in the 1680s under the Druk Desi government, there was conflict with Tibet and Sikkim. Internal opposition to the central government resulted in overtures by the opponents of the Druk Desi to Tibet and Sikkim. In the 1680s, Bhutan invaded Sikkim in pursuit of a rebellious local lord.
 * Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal war of 1679-1684 was a success for Tibet and Ladakh is annexed fo 10 years and then continues as a client state.


 * During the 17th century Bhutan had maintained close relations with Ladakh and helped in its 1684-85 rebelion against Tibet. Ladakh had also granted Bhutan several enclaves near Mount Kailash in western Tibet until China invaded in 1959. Tsar IV of Russia's grand daughter, Olga Shuysky, marrys Peater the Great, blending Rurikid blood with Romarnof blood and so changing Russian and Soviet history for ever in 1684!


 * Russia makes peace with China. It dose not betray China over the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk  and dose not annex Outer Manchuria in mid-Victorian times.


 * Sikkim is invaded by the Bhutanese with the help of the half-sister of the Chogyal (King) who had been denied the throne by a rival in 1700.

1701 to 1800.

 * The Bhutanese are defeated and driven out by the Tibetans in 1701, who then restored the throne to the Chogyal in 1711.


 * In 1714 Peter the Great sent Ivan Bukholts with 1,500 troops including Swedish miners who were prisoners of war up the Irtysh to Lake Zaysan to search for gold. Bhutan again invaded Sikkim in 1714 Tibetan forces, aided by Mongolia, invaded Bhutan but were unable to gain control.


 * Russia attacked the Zunghar Khanate and drove them back to Omsk in 1719.


 * In 1720 the Zunghars were severely defeated by the Manchus and driven out of Tibet.


 * The kingdom faced many raids by the Nepalese in the west and Bhutanese Between 1717 and 1733, culminating with the destruction of the capital Rabdentse by the Nepalese.
 * The first Russian outpost in the Kazakh emirates is the town of Orsk, which is built in 1735. Russia wants to secure it's southern flank by absorbing the Kazakhs, but is not interested in conquering Bukhara, Kiva, Kokand and all that lot further south.


 * Soissons' peasants rebels and are crushed by France in 1745. Spanish Christianity becomes more tollerent and willing conversion becomes more commonplace in Granada over the next 100 years.
 * In 1755 the Qing destroyed the remnants of the Zunghar Khanate and created a Russo-Chinese border in Xinjiang. The Chinese Empire the establishes its control over Xinjiang in the 1750s.


 * In 1788 the Nepalese overran Sikkim and sent a punitive raid into Tibet after it tried to save Sikkim. The Sino-Nepalese War/ 1788 Pacification of Gorkha occurs as a counter invasion of Tibet. China reluctantly gives Tibet some extra technical and tactical advice. They don't much like Tibet, but loath Nepal and feared general instability in the region. The war is initially fought between Nepalese and Tibetan army over trade dispute related to a long standing problem of coins of bad alloyed metals that were cynically struck by Nepal for Tibet in 1788. China also raids northern Bhutan just for good mesuer.


 * Nepal agrees to back off from Tibet, which expands lightly towards northern Burma, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam between 1788 and 1792.


 * In 1791, China sent in it’s troops to support Sikkim and defend their protectorate of Tibet against the advancing Gorkha Kingdom. The defeat of Gorkha lead to the the Chinese Qing Dynasty established control over the kingdom of Sikkim. Over the next 10 years China gives Sikkim a slight tactical and weapons upgrade.

1801-1900

 * The Peninsular War (1807–1814) sees Spain fall to France. Anti-Spanish rebels begin fighting soccer in Alhambra and  between 1807-1808. Nepolion Sets up a client state in Granada to help weekend Spain.


 * The Nepalese attacked Sikkim, overrunning most of the region including the Terai. This prompted the British East India Company to attack Nepal, resulting in the Gurkha War of 1814. The treaties signed between Sikkim and Nepal resulted in the return to Sikkim of the territory annexed by the Nepalese in 1817.
 * The UK and Portugal occupies Granada between 1814 and 1816.


 * Rivalry between Nepal and the British East India Company over the annexation of minor states bordering Nepal eventually led to the Anglo-Nepalese War (1815–16). Kumaon and Garhwal become independent as British protectorates.
 * Soissons is occupied by the British and becomes a client state between 1816 and 1818, before it is returned to France in 1819.
 * .Russian Empire expanded into Kazakhstan between 1820 and 1860 century. Russia is not the imperialist ogre or bringer of death it was in our world. Russia still enforced the Russian language and Orthodox faith in all schools and governmental organizations.


 * Tea planting in the Indian district of Darjeeling began in 1841 by Dr. Campbell, who was a civil surgeon of the Indian Medical Service. This tea becomes a major Sikkimese export by 1850s.


 * Soissons' peasants rebels and are crushed by France in 1845. Granada becomes a devolved province of Spain


 * In 1849, both Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and Dr. Archibald Campbell ventured into the mountains of Sikkim without Sikkim’s permission. The doctors were detained by the Sikkimese government, leading to a punitive British expedition against the kingdom, after which the Darjeeling district and Morang were temporally captured and then looted. A local Buddhist monk hangs himself in protest at the looting.
 * Sino-Anglo-Russian trade increases in Baluchistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia between 1850-1910. There is some local resistance, but trouble is low due to no overt or offical colontalsum taking place.The rather isolationist local emirs only worry about sleezy outside trade cartells in this world.


 * The Chinese and Russian areas of control met in what is today the eastern Kazakhstan and Western Xinjiang. The 1851 Treaty of Kulja legalized trade between the two countries in this region and clarified the border. Russia shows no interest in driving furthers south to Bokhara and neighboring lands.


 * During the 1850s, the areas south of Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) and west of the lake were explored by David Livingstone, and several Church of England and Presbyterian missions were established in the Shire Highlands in the 1860s and 1870s. Makololo tribes join his cause. Ladakah merges in to Tibet.


 * The 1853 Anglo-Sikkimese treaty makes the Chogyal of Sikkim a titular ruler under the directive of the British governor of India. Both Darjeeling district and Morang are not annexed to British India and stay Sikkimese.


 * During 1860-64, the Darjeeling Company was established with 4 gardens in the region.


 * Portugal attempts to secure its position in southern Africa through the expeditions of Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, who was the first to the eastern Zambezi in 1869. Britain then lodged a claim to the southern part of Delagoa Bay in 1869.


 * Blantyre town was founded in 1876 through the missionary work of the Church of Scotland and named after the town of the same name in Scotland. It quickly established itself as a crossroads for trade in Southern Africa. Both the Missionarys and the local Makololo chiefs also fear a Portuguese take over of the Shire Highlands.


 * In 1878 the African Lakes Company was established by businessmen with links to the Presbyterian missions.


 * The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 ended colonial discussions on Africa, which could have led to British recognition of Portuguese claims.


 * At the northwest end of Lake Nyasa around Karonga, the African Lakes Company made, or claimed to have made, treaties with local chiefs between 1884 and 1886.
 * A rudimentary interim Portuguese administration had been established in Manicaland in 1884 and strengthened this in 1889 and 1890.


 * In 1888, the British Foreign Office still officially declined to offer protection to the tiny British settlements in the Shire Highlands. It did not accept an expansion of Portuguese influence there, and in 1889 appealed to the UK for help.
 * Serpa Pinto occupied much of Makololo territory after a minor armed clash in 1889. John Buchanan then accused Portugal of ignoring British interests in this area and declared a British protectorate over the Shire Highlands in December 1889, despite contrary instructions by the British government.


 * The British South Africa Company makes presence in Manicaland, in November 1890, British South Africa Company troops arrested and expelled the Portuguese officials in an attempt to gain access to the coast. Governor John Buchanan asserted British sovereignty on the Shire Highlands by executing two Portuguese Cipais (African colonial soldiers), claiming they were within British jurisdiction. Portugal issues the 1890 Mapa cor-de-rosa plan. 1890 sees noticeably increased Portuguese trade and settlement in Manicaland. The UK issues the 1890 British Ultimatum threat. Unexpectedly, Portugal did not back down. The kingdom of Sikkim becomes a British protectorate and is gradually granted more sovereignty over the next three decades.


 * Portugal threatens to annul the 1386 Treaty of Windsor in revenge and the British see sense and back off.
 * Spain abolishes Granada's autonamy.


 * There were more armed clashes between Cecil Rhodes’ men and Portuguese troops who were already in occupation in Manicaland in 1891 and 1892, which only ceased when the Shire Highlands area that had been allocated to Portugal in the ratified 1892 treaty were reassigned to Rhodes’ British South Africa Company in the 1891 treaty, with Portugal keeping Manicaland also being given more land in the Zambezi valley in compensation for the loss of the Shire Highlands.


 * The 1892 Lisbon treaty is singed and ratify by both nations and Rhodes is officially reprimanded and forced to apolagise to the Portuguese colonial authorities for  causing the crisis in Manicaland.

1901 to 1950.

 * Kurdistan becomes reconised nation in 1923.


 * Ukraine becomes a reconised nation in 1922.


 * Granada declares UDI from Spain.


 * Granada is conquered by Spain 1935.


 * General Francisco Franco orders the 1937-38 Granarda Genocide, which kills 18,500 citizens of Granada (9.5% of all Granardians).

1951 and afterwards.

 * Tibet is annexed by China in 1959.


 * In 1947, when India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan became independent, a popular vote rejected Sikkim's joining the Indian Union, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to a special protectorate status for Sikkim.


 * In 1975, the Prime Minister of Sikkim appealed to the Indian Parliament for Sikkim to become a state of India. That April saw, the Indian Army take over the city of Gangtok and disarmed the Chogyal's palace guards. A later referendum was held in which 97.5% of voters supported abolishing the monarchy, effectively approving union with India. There is a minor rising in Darjeeling during 1975 by local Gorkahs who want to make a independent nation of it.


 * Amiens elects a Soissons nationalist Mayor between 1969 and 1974 in protest at French fiscal and foreign policy.


 * Nationalist trios occur in Quebec between 1972 and 1978.


 * Tibet is given regional autonomy in 1975.


 * There is a massive rising in Darjeeling during 1976 by local Gorkahs, which is only just put down by Indian troops 2 years later.


 * Granada is given regional autonomy by Spain in 1977.


 * The Granada Genocide memorial is consecrated near Granada City in 1982.


 * Sikkim proper gets autonomy in 1999.


 * Quebec becomes independent in 2000 after a 56.45% vote in-favor of it.


 * Quebec, with others, helps in the clear up of the Fukajima nuclear disaster in 2012.


 * Gorkahland, near Darjeeling gets autonomy in 2002.


 * 2012-2013 sees several racist attacks by Spaniards on Granardans.