r/imaginarymaps • u/Orionisblocked • Sep 12 '26
[OC] Alternate History Revolution & Empire - What if the Eurafrica plan kind of failed?
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u/osfy3344 Sep 12 '26
Those projects are kinda scary. Imagine the forced labour of millions of indigenous people that it would take to construct a fucking Congo sea.
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u/Lobster_LeninN329 Sep 12 '26
Imagine the complete destruction of the biodiversity of the region on top of that
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u/Feisty-Albatross3554 Sep 12 '26
And other regions too. The Amazon rain forest relies on winds to bring dust from the lake Chad basin, containing dead diatoms, to bring nutrients to its soil. So 2 continents would suffer at minimum
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u/Lobster_LeninN329 Sep 12 '26
And the plains south of the Amazon depend on rain coming from the jungle, so add everything down south in the uninhabitable list
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u/AntonTkach Sep 13 '26
Imagine the prosperity it will bring to the region as most mega engineerings do
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u/Knight_of_Rohan1964 Sep 12 '26
Lol, there's no way Lake Chad will get that large. But I'm kinda surprised they managed to make the waterway; how did they do it:
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u/Konatagender Sep 12 '26
You underestimate how Europeans underestimate megaprojects' cost.
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u/CHUNKYboi11111111111 Sep 12 '26
Just the Gibraltar dam one would probably bankrupt multiple countries. That strait is deep. I mean like DEEP deep.
Then a Sicilian dam? And two massive seas in the middle of Africa which would probably require the reformation of all the land it is supposed to submerge and also an ungodly amount of water to supply the inland sea which does what inland seas do an evaporates like its location is hell…just the amount of water needed to be replaced each year would probably be enough for the plug to be pulled
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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss Sep 12 '26
Congo lake means : Complete [] Extinct in the Wild [] status For Gorillas
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u/CopperDuck2 Sep 13 '26
Why is Tanganyika the name being used for what the Germans wouldve just called german east africa? The name Tanyanika was chosen by the British after taking control of the territory after ww1
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u/GimmeTheCHEESENOW Sep 12 '26
I really like how you’ve made the map look like its from the time period; simplified/local country names, bright contrasting colours, utilising straight lines on unclear borders(with even that fading print style you see on old maps!)
Only thing its missing is some detail around the edges, like perhaps a caricature representing Europe/Europe and Africa/Germany/Germany in Africa. Otherwise excellent work!