Add 1700 checkpoint: population explosion, Egypt independence, Scramble for India

Population explosion: Columbian Exchange crops + end of Maunder Minimum
- Potatoes/maize/sweet potatoes transform global agriculture
- Every country affected differently (industrial → growth, serf → pressure)

England: coal/iron industrial takeoff, conquers Ireland, expands N. America
Japan: Meiji-equivalent + North Pacific empire (Kamchatka, Alaska fur posts)
France: absolutist reform after losing England, Burgundy as target
Egypt: bread subsidy + new crops → population bomb → revolution → partial independence
- Ilkhanate holds Sinai/Palestine but loses Nile Valley (too costly to reconquer)
New Song: conquers Aceh, recovers Malacca, triggers Malacca War vs Ilkhanate
- Ilkhanate fights on two fronts (Malacca + Egypt) → end of golden age

India fragments → "Scramble for India" by 7 powers simultaneously
Great Khanate: potato-fed population growth but serfdom unchanged = bigger bomb
Australia: Song monopoly cracking (Kalmar + England arrive at west coast)
North Pacific: Japan/Jianzhou/Kalmar three-way approaching Americas

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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