I don't know how much we assign technological progress to their historical areas, but cannony were created during the 100 years war in France. So you northerners would still be eating dirt and not even knowing of the cannons' existence.
Clem and I are now officially married. No longer shall our nations be 2 separate states. The new nation will go by the name of Holy Roman Empire and have the magnificent city of Rome as its capital, ruled by an absolute monarchy. Also, i still need at least 1 new person to join this glorious empire.
By the way, there's still lots of white on that map and i sort of assume it will be awarded to people anyways, so i'd like to call dibs already on various territories for the Holy Roman Empire: All of Italy, all of Austria, a larger chunk of western germany and crimea with some of the ukranian mainland coast.
Well, if France and England hadn't beaten the crap out of one another, cannons wouldn"t have been invented. Also, i was not talking about giving the cannons to a soecific nation, but rather to any nation close to the location the cannon was invented at in real history.