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  1. Ottoman collapse 1808: what new states are created?

    Egypt grabs it. More than breaking off, I feel it's gonna be a Russian-Egyptian race to Constantinople, actually.

  2. Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    And this benefits Spain how? Milan might be gone in the next war and Sardinia would not make for the loss of Navarre and the Philippines in one million years. If anything the reign of Charles II is underrated: the economy improved, the population decline reversed, territorial losses were...

  3. No 1868 Spanish Revolution, or Infante Juan, Count of Montizón becomes King of Spain?

    My point is that Napoleon III was paranoid about another guy with a dynastic claim on France becoming a rallying point for French legitimists and a threat to himself, after becoming King of Spain. In TTL it's the Carlist guy instead.

  4. No 1868 Spanish Revolution, or Infante Juan, Count of Montizón becomes King of Spain?

    Obviously diplomatic intervention makes more sense, but you can't exactly discount Napoleon III's proclivity to getting in an absurd foreign war.

  5. No 1868 Spanish Revolution, or Infante Juan, Count of Montizón becomes King of Spain?

    I'd worry more about French intervention. Before Leopold was offered the throne, Napoleon III was paranoid about Montpensier getting it.

  6. WI: Charles V abdicated differently?

    He technically couldn't do the latter because the HRE was elective. And his brother was already resident in Vienna and popular due to being the king of Bohemia and Hungary. Sicily and Naples were part of the Crown of Aragon so they wouldn't be detached from it. About the only plausible...

  7. Most Ironic moments in History (Pre-1900)

    The Jacobites continued to use the title "King of France" while they were exiled in France and using the "other" King of France's support for a restoration in Britain.

  8. More post-Soviet wars in the 90s

    What other plausible post-Soviet conflicts in the vein of the Caucasus and Yugoslavia could arise in the early 90s in Eastern Europe and how would they go? Poland tries to recover Lviv/Lwow/Lvov? Romania invades Moldova? Hungary invades Romania or Yugoslavia? Bulgaria invades Yugoslavia? Violent...

  9. Scenarios where killing the commander/command staff early in a battle would be beneficial

    Not sure if there is an opportunity within battle, but killing Cervera and Montojo early in the Spanish-American War is about best case for Spain.

  10. WI: A Sahara "Mongol Like" Empire

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almoravid_dynasty

  11. AHC: More Paraguay-like cases(not just in the Americas)

    Independent Moskitia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_Coast

  12. AHC: Charlemagne conquers Spain...or a good half of it

    Spain goes Italy.

  13. (Historical) Border Gore Monstrosities We Would Have Liked To See

    This is Alfonso X of Castile This is Alfonso's kingdom This is the land he claimed according to a treaty with the Muslim king of Niebla This is the land the Portuguese later claimed was part of the same, but on the other side of the sea This is the land Alfonso claimed belonged to his wife...

  14. On the adoption of horses by certain Native American peoples in both North and South America

    I question that the horses escaped and then native peoples never exposed to riders decided to randomly horse break and breed an animal that would have been simply wild and also alien from their perspective.

  15. Non-parallelisms in TL 191

    The last book mentions the commies doing suicide bombings in the 1940s and generally being a pain on the ass for the Russians in the home front.

  16. WI - Orthodox Christian equivalent of the Protestant Reformation

    Peter the Great? The Old Believers call him 'The Shaver of Christians' and hate him more than anyone.

  17. WI: Returning Crusaders popularize Islamic hygiene in Europe

    Medieval Europeans bathed. This stereotype that they didn't, like many other dumb Medievals stereotypes, actually belongs to the Modern Age when bathing was condemned due to a mix of religious zealotry, STDs and the emerging perfume industry.

  18. WI: Khwarezm allies with the Mongols

    GK stays out of Turkestan and focuses on China. Jin, maybe Song fall earlier. Allying with Khwarazm is less of an alliance and more of a "don't try anything stupid, we may visit you still in the future". Gunpowder goes west later, Abbasids survive longer, castles spread later in Eastern Europe...

  19. Name of a Portuguese South Africa?

    They used native names in Angola and Mozambique so I don't necessarily see them creating one.

  20. Foreign realations of an Independent Kalmykia

    Small second Kazakhstan.
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