Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26372275-20151026124402/@comment-4920753-20151115053433

India begins developing large trading cities along the deltas of the Subcontinent's rivers, looking out into the Indian Ocean.

Several privately administrated Indian trading posts are set up in Madagascar, the Horn of Africa, Indochina, and Indonesia. Trading routes are established with China via Tibet and the Korean peninsula (thanks to growing economic influence in the Sea of Japan). The trading posts don't need to be shown on the map, since they're really only capitalist forts/ports that have a marketplace in their center.

With growing disinterest in her Persian lands, India withdraws from the Iranian Plateau, letting a powerful local dynasty rule the new Persian Empire.