HW - Hesperides 1215

A map of the Hesperides (the Americas) in 1215, from my Hastingsworld timeline. In just over 80 years, several small outposts founded by the English earldoms have developed into a set of fully fledged colonies, the largest of which is Lucania (which stretches from our world's Louisiana to Florida, and up the Mississippi), governed under Mercia's leadership. Shortly behind them in the colonial race follow the Hungarians and the Lombardians, sailing on ships constructed in docks in Corinth, Crete and Venice. The Venetians themselves have established a handful of settlements, spread between the Venetian Main (New England) and the Carribbean.

In the north-east, a few states exist, initially founded by Norse settlers in the 10th and 11th centuries before the Christianisation and later English conquest of Norway, and lost during that time. They shrank after losing contact with Europe, but survived long enough for contact to be reestablished after English explorers began charting the coastline, and started to negotiate trade with European powers. The religion of these people has diverged from original Norse-Baltic paganism, with many influences from native Hesperide animism.

The Mayan state was reaching it's zenith upon contact with the English, but has had a resurgance in development since trade in advanced metals and technologies began; the Mayan people have proven resistant to conversion attempts by Catholic and Reformist missionaries however...

The native peoples of the Hesperides have taken some toll from infectious diseases brought to the continent, but English medical and hygiene practices have helped to avoid the worst of the plagues inflicted in our own timeline, in those areas where English are dominant. Also, the wholesale slaughter of natives has been (mostly) avoided by the colonising powers, favouring instead conversion and absorption into society, bringing with them their skills and labour. A caste system which operates irrespective of race is quickly developing in the English colonies, where those highly skilled Hesperide natives are becoming well paid artisans and craftsmen, employing white colonists or even owning white slaves (generally convicts sent to the Hesperides to serve their term as cheap labour).

Questions and comments always welcome, and if anyone has any detailed information on the 13th century history of the Americas, it would be much appriciated!

1086: [link]
1107: [link]
1215:
.........Europe: [link]
.........Hesperides: THIS MAP