Unfortunately, by the time he died, Charles VI was a spent force. He was useful for political legitimacy, but that was it. He was, by all accounts, a well treated prisoner. He was allowed to hunt, have a mistress, and be seen on certain public occasions. He never made any political decisions by...
As a fan of Bedford, it is nice to see a timeline where he and Anne have a kid!
Though, I'm curious as to Gloucester being Regent of England. OTL he was denied that right, and it's likely both Bedford, Bishop Beaufort, and many of the other magnates were behind this. Gloucester was popular...
The thing I love about this timeline is how excellent a job you do of putting the events of this timeline in historical context. I feel sometimes that authors jump right into the alt-hist, with little discussion on how things are changing. While this may be fairly obvious for certain events, I...
As am I.
The idea of Poland-Lithuania surviving longer into the revolutionary wars, and possibly even surviving into the 19th century, makes this timeline a must-read for me.
I'm also interested to see the knock-on effects for the French revolution!
Queen Anne famously had 17 pregnancies, with none of her children surviving her. Only five of her pregnancies resulted in a live birth, and only three children lived longer than a few minutes or days after their birth. The remainder were stillborn or miscarriages.
So here is the POD, Queen Anne...
I would agree that its not impossible, but it would need an earlier POD. The pattern of Mongol conquest and rule doesn't reveal any active effort to destroy established religions (excepting of course when that comes hand in hand with the destruction of cities, or people groups), or to promote...
The problem there is that historically, I don't think the Mongols ever converted people to Tengrism. The Mongols instead, as with the Golden Horde and the IlKhanate, converted to Islam.
If the Mongols conquered Europe, its likely they would have converted to Christianity.
I agree that there would be both opposition, and efforts to protect local interests. OTL's Charles V had similar issues when he inherited Spain, and OTL's Henry V had to agree to specific terms in the Treaty of Troyes about not appointing foreigners and not alienating french land when he tried...
One of the things I find interesting in history was OTL's Charles V and the idea of a universal Christian monarchy. Charles V is often considered closest to this idea in the early modern era, with him having ruled the Hapsburg lands, much of the Burgundian inheritance, Spain, and parts of Italy...
I think an earlier union under Edward II and Margaret would be interesting, especially on relations between France and Britain.
People keep talking about British-French rivalries, and France trying to create some kind of Auld Alliance with someone. That just seems very anachronistic, and using...
I had been thinking about this as a comparative example this morning.
While British colonialism didn't cause the potato blight, it both set up the circumstances for it to be as devestating as it was, and for the response to it to lead to more deaths and misery, coupled with a permanent decline...
I was about to come in to say this. I don't know where this would fall on a percentage scale.
Much of the initial collapse was disease. Native Americans got hit by a combination of new diseases that no one in Eurasia had to deal with. The Black Death killed between a third to two-thirds of...