raharris1973
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1531 - Just before Henry VIII sends the expedition to Ireland to crush the revolt of the Earl of Kildare, Ireland disappears, teleported to the northern Pacific, around the western end of the Aleutian island chain.
How does Europe develop with Ireland simply vanished?
How does Ireland develop in isolation from Europe for the next two centuries, with its only neighbors, the Inuit and Chuckchi?
In the same world, whatever sensation the vanishing of Ireland created in Europe is hardly noticed in Asia, at least by Asians. It hasn't made an impression by 61 years later, 1592. Hideyoshi is about to launch his grand project of conquering Korea and then China and then maybe India and then maybe Persia and then he'll see.
But his fleets report back that Korea is gone. Where land was expected, there is only open sea.
At the same time, Koreans are disturbed by the disappearance of China and its replacement by open water. Within a few weeks they notice that Tsushima is nowhere to be found. Korea is in the central Pacific north and west of the Hawaiian island chain. It is a land alone, without any neighbors it knows.
How does East Asia develop without Korea, and how does Korea develop in isolation from the wider world until the late 18th century British or European exploration of the Pacific. Korea may meet some new neighbors in that time, maybe some Hawaiians, maybe even Irishmen, but Korea finds itself on the one hand left alone and uninvaded, but on the other hand lacking in trading partners and outside sources of supply.
Map:
Ireland and Korea are at the respective western and eastern "ends of the earth" in this map.
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