Only had it been the French or Spanish who colonized the current US instead of the British inasmuch as the first two nations DID have very distinct legal recognition for Native Americans as well as biracial and mixed ethnicities and were eager to have them convert to Christianity whereas the...
Considering that both the Tsarevich Alexander and Vic were not going to give up their faiths which in both cases was required to keep their respective thrones, marriage between the two would have been OUT (despite some vague flirtation on Vic's part that was countered by him calling her plain...
I wonder if the notorious casu marzu ('rotten cheese' with live maggots) would have ever gotten produced or would it been butterflied away via Spain keeping Sardinia?
Sorry, but I do NOT think that Vic would have had the Duchess of Kent return to live in the very same abode/s merely due to PA's early death. Yes, others may have attempted to nag her into doing so but she'd have totally refused to consider it on that grounds that she HAD been married and...
I think that perhaps willingness of the Federal Government and its troops to strictly enforce the 13th and 15th Amendments in all parts of the US for many decades [not just that of Reconstruction] for all US born (non Native American) inhabitants to ensure that were not only free but also...
He and Queen Mary were already quite on the outs by the time of the assassination (even though she did drop by to play the lute right to cheer him up from smallpox right before his sick house got blown up). Since he DID survive being blown up, WI he had somehow outrun those in Bothwell's service...
But I believe them converting to Christianity either right before or during the occupation of the northwest third of France somewhat muted resistance to the Norse occupation via the local inhabitants- to say nothing of defanging surrounding territories from being tempted to engage in a holy war...
Problem is that the main ports during the 1880's in what's now South Africa were controlled by the British because they were within the Cape Colony by that time and Great Britain's navy ruled the seas. Even if Willem III had greenlighted massive Dutch migration to the Boer Republics, no way...
Until the Prussians created the German Empire, Berlin was a rather small and even sleepy city compared to Hamburg, Frankfort, Munich, Bremen or even Hanover. It seems to have only become the capital of a united German state solely due to it having been Prussia's capital. It has NOT had the...
Ah, but a Scottish dynasty dominated the island now known as Great Britain for over a century after the last Tudor's death. Ironically, until the Act of Union, these were independent kingdoms (with James VI of Scotland and I of England even having the distinction of having both his kingdoms...
While it may have slightly hampered trade with others in the peninsula, slightly, I'm wondering had Venice had its own distinct language (as opposed to 'Northern Italian dialect') could it somehow have maintained independence or at least autonomy with no push to 'unite' it with the rest of Italy?
Since Rome was starting to emerge as a regional power by the 330's BC, I have to wonder if there were any records on their rulers' parts re Alexander? I know Alexander seemed to want Rome for himself but died before any attempt was made.
Surely the Romans had had to have heard of him so I'm...
One of the most underrated migrations in human history was that of Malays who first island hopped to colonize virtually all possible habitable islands in the Indonesian and Phillipine archipelagos, then island hopped all over the South Pacific as far away as Hawaii and Easter Island as well as...
Let's also not overlook El Camino de Santiago (St. James Highway) which has had inns and resting places a day's walk apart from the 1500's onward for pilgrims and travellers to Santago de Compostela that's still in use! Most of them are hostel in quality but in the ultimate goal of Santiago, a...
Considering that feminism's most visible times of action have seemed to occur during times of turmoil (e.g. Mary Woolstonecraft's manifesto "Rights of Women" being written hot on the heels of the French Revolution), I'm wondering if perhaps it could have had an even earlier start in antiquity...