Some people comment that they should have take the opportunity and extended the map further south to include the Shona and Great Zimbabwe, although not much it’s known beyond their existance at some point (the same can be said about many of the places already represented though).
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I guess the focus was the Indian Ocean trade.
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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-173-the-map-of-china.1763581/
Tang Empire
Shu and Wu can be formed back as Empire Titles
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Yes ! That’s the killer selling point of the DLC, who cares about the map expansion 
No tanguts yet on the maps, but we have Tibet, Dali/Nanzhao, and Liao/Khitans 
No, that happened much later, in the 19th century… it must have been some asset left over from Victoria 3…Yes, adapted from the Japanese version of AoE 2…
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Tbf Paradox games in general had a sizeable amount of optional alternate history, such as:
- The Aztec invasion in CK2 as part of the Sunset Invasion DLC (as devs thought it’s unfair that only eastern Europe gets raided with the Mongols). Luckily you can turn it off.
- Winds of Change DLC for EU4 allowing American civs to have colonies in the old world.
- HoI 4 allowing Germany to become the HRE again.
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Indeed HOI4 can quickly become Monarchy Simulator 1936
“What is best in life ?”
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women”
“WRONG Conan ! What is best in life ?”
“To overthrow the Austrian painter with Von Mackensen and put the Kaiser back on the throne !”
Also if Shu and Wu reform 600 years after the 3K it would all be very different kingdoms.
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But they are not there by default, and grounded in the relevant settings of the base games
If you form the Roman Empire in EU4, you don’t get legions that throw pilum or a Julius Caesar general. You got early modern Italian units with some minor Roman symbolism. It was “what if Roman Empire continued as a polity into the early modern period” not “what if ancient Rome was thrown into the early modern period”
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Indeed in EU4 roman units still retain some roman style elements while they have a fully functional uniform for the period, it’s not porting legionaries from the times of Trajan.
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