Beatriz
Gone Fishin'
Assuming Russia is stronger in the 19th century and expands into the North of Persia (roughly the OTL Sphere of influence), how will the following work:
1. administration - direct rule, protectorate of the shah or a mixture of the type
2. Settlement: mostly Russians and Ukrainians as OTL’s settlement of Kazakhstan or a wider set of groups? Restricted to the Caspian coast or more broadly including the Zagros? Involving the unequal tenant system where Persian farmers work Russian-owned farms as tenants?
3. Ethnicity - creation of a middle rung? Armenians, Azeris, Gilakis and other groups as a buffer?
4. Economy - what to export to the metropole? Use of a local currency?
5. religion? Prohibition of missionary activities as OTL Central asia? Or some degree of efforts concentrated at minority populations
1. administration - direct rule, protectorate of the shah or a mixture of the type
2. Settlement: mostly Russians and Ukrainians as OTL’s settlement of Kazakhstan or a wider set of groups? Restricted to the Caspian coast or more broadly including the Zagros? Involving the unequal tenant system where Persian farmers work Russian-owned farms as tenants?
3. Ethnicity - creation of a middle rung? Armenians, Azeris, Gilakis and other groups as a buffer?
4. Economy - what to export to the metropole? Use of a local currency?
5. religion? Prohibition of missionary activities as OTL Central asia? Or some degree of efforts concentrated at minority populations
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