Beyond Rice and Salt

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In this alternative history mod you will see what the world would look like if instead of a third of Europe dying in the black death, 99% did. With no Christian Europe to colonize and subjugate the rest of the world, it leaves the Chinese and Muslims to take up the slack. This timeline led to a much later colonization of the new world, late 1600s into the 1700s. China has hegemony over much of the world, and has colonized the west coasts of the new world. The Mughal Empire falters with a Sikh rebellion and the Travancori Indian League upstart in South India. The Ottoman Empire’s control over the Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Red Sea is absolute, but may be at it’s zenith. The western Muslim powers of Andalusia, Morocco, and Mali are colonizing the east coasts of the new world. The steppe hordes to the north are quarreling over tribute; could one of them unite the tatar lands and reform the Golden Horde? The natives of the new world are besieged on two sides; and with help from a subjugated Japan they are mobilizing to resist colonization, conquest, and disease.

The world uses the Muslim solar calendar (essentially the Gregorian calendar minus 621 years), thus the game begins in 1180 (1801 AD) and ends in 1280 (1901 AD).

This mod is based on the great alternative history narrative The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Many liberties have been taken to fill in gaps for a more interesting game play and narrative experience.

It is advisable to set AI aggression to high for a more interesting game.

Make sure to add the Mod Community Framework to your load order above Beyond Rice and Salt.

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Many thanks to the following people:

Eckingsan – Twitch[www.twitch.tv], for listening to my many ramblings about modding.

Victoria 3 Mod Co-op[discord.gg], for answering all of my inane questions about this poorly documented modding process. Come on Paradox, give us better documentation!

1230 James – China Power Bloc , for allowing the integration of their mod into mine, plus all of his help on the the mod co-op.

Smithy, for posting a youtube video playing my mod!

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Feel free to post below any bugs/comments/suggestions you may have, or go to my discord and post there for a more community oriented discussion. In particular if you notice any negative 600 year old babies in the game, or the protestant religion, or Christianity outside of Europe, Africa, and India. Also thank you so much to the community for over a year of supporting this total conversion project. The support is incredibly appreciated.

Discord Link[discord.gg]

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If you would like to use any parts of this mod in yours feel free, just make sure to credit me and link to this mod.

Chinese Translation Submod – by Duke RCL