Also, I would like to move down one tiny tile in South America, three tiles east in Alaska to Canada land, and you know those groups of little islands on the right bottom corner and that white island at the far left bottom corner of the map? I would like to slowly conquest them, but really all we can so is "say we have these" because most of them aren't really colonizable at a large scale. This reason is just to have refueling points for steam boats and coal boats.
Colonizers in Alaska see land far away on a clear day, so they set sail and claim a piece of land as far as way from Japan as possible, but gold offerings have been suggested to be given as a sign of "friendship" and "we can trade."
England understands oil better and names it "petroleum" in the technical field. By distilling it, they can create kerosene, which is good for lamps and for burning. Steam machines are being used to drill holes into the earth, and an oil derrick to to be placed over them. The first oil refinery is being built. Another use for the oil is being researched.
Also, Russia, converting a fleet in about 60 years to Ironclads is silly, or if I am misunderstood, England will do it as well from the stuff gathered in Alaska.
An England messenger is sent to Russia. Another one is sent to Indonesia asking that it can look for "a black substance", but regular trading is created by trading food and resources, and gossip (fabulous!!!)
Jack Carson looks into the smallest parts of matter, and theorizes that the only smallest size a material can get is an atom, reinforcing an idea that an earlier scientist once theorized, that atoms must have protons inside them and also must have electrons to balance them out.
English infantry and the English navy continue to train for possible war, though.
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