Recent content by The Space Viking

Possibly personal union with Jerusalem, and power given to the Copts. Or, the crown is "auctioned" off to a European Prince who has enough gold and manpower to keep the kingdom secure.

But it did it in a bi-polar way. Granted it did end up with a global economy and a global market.

I think the PoD is early enough to change WWI from the one we know to an unrecognizable "Great War". Maybe not by much, but still enough to change things.

I think I found what you're looking for...

The PoD's early enough...what about Hillary?

There's always the obvious other option, which would mean the Medici's get a hold over the Papal Elections with their Florentine capital and ensure that a Medici is either elected as or controls the Pope.

Holy shit. You actually found a Japanese conspiracy to overthrow America using African-Americans. That's awesome.

No New Deal or anything of the likening of a Welfare State status (albeit temporary) could lead the US into a continuous downward spiral, no?

Series of wars were Europeans tried (and failed) to remove native Makassar peoples in Australia in the 1800s. It resulted in the strengthening of the Marege national identity, and by the 1900s, it was a fully functioning powerhouse controlling most of Oceania. The Durrani War of Jihad on the...

I find it amusing how a thread like this could be started over a mundane argument over which political figurehead you support, when neither of them could ever reach the presidency in this world. It's not like we control who becomes president anyways...[end conspiracy rant] OT: Without Mandela...

The first one is awesome, Bridges would be an EPIC Landry. After that they all start to suck. You can't make McGuyver the douchebag, it just doesn't work. I just don't think Hargitay would be a good Carter... THAT sounds awesome. Anna Torv is attractive, but IMHO she isn't as good as an actor...

Stronger Austrian Monarchy leading the HRE, possible centralization but probably not. Pretty much a more successful Spain without the Low Countries to tie it down, which should be noted that it cost Spain more to hold them than they were getting out of them.

OP doesn't guarantee Bohemia would fall into Habsburg hands. Also, having a Habsburg Spain kind of helps a lot. If Charles V were to separate his lands better, and his younger brother instead of himself was made heir to their Grandfather. This way, the Austrian Netherlands never touches Carlos...

HAH! That was funny. War between Russia, Mexico, Britain, and the USA over California. In the end it was decided that an independent Kingdom of California (later to become tied to, of all nations, France, via dynastic ties) was to be formed out of the land claimed in the region by all powers...

War over import of a specific strain of Kush from the mountains of the same name over the import of a cousin strain from Afghanistan. No one except cannabis connoisseurs win. Battle of the Little Bulge