As others have mentioned, strangling Islam in the cradle nets you at least the Levant and North Africa, and could get you Persia as well. This probably also leads to the Christianization of parts of Central Asia going on into the future, although how effective that ultimately is is dependent on...
Several native American tribes developed democratic systems completely independently of the Greeks.
The early Caliphate was also elective in nature (technically speaking, this is still part of Sunni doctrine--the Ulema elects the caliph).
Also a lot of non-state tribal peoples across the world...
Europe's rise was far from inevitable, but its location did afford it several advantages that made its ascendancy more likely than Chinese, Middle Eastern, or Indian ascendancy--readily available early industrial resources close to major population centers, being close to Americas, and being...
I believe that there was some serious talk about gradual emancipation in Upper South states like Virginia before the invention of the cotton gin which could have peacefully reduced the extent of slavery had said invention come later than IOTL, but peaceful abolition in the entire US probably...
As far as I'm aware the US isn't holding hundreds of millions of people in colonial bondage and didn't invade a nation twice because it tried to ban the sale of heroin. So no.
The modern word for "censor" comes from the job titles of people who administered the Roman census.
This should tell you everything you need to know about the nature of the Roman census
Unless the US government promises unconditional support for it (and even then this is sketchy), no Taiwanese leader from this time period is going to be insane enough to declare independance when it's only Britain that's backing them, and in all likelihood PRC leadership knows this. And the US...
I mean yeah, from a moral perspective it could be argued that Britain is in the right here. Problem is that no nations actually base their foreign policy off of pure morality.
International law clearly dictates that China is in the right here. National interest from pretty much every other...
Because Britain's lease--you know, the only reason they own HK in the first place--is up? I mean yeah they could just return the New Territories and keep the central city but that's about as viable as someone trying to declare the independance of Manhattan (not even NY. Just Manhattan)...