With a post 1900 POD it would be hard. If the US had a similar colonial history to Canada and Australia and a peaceful transition to independence vs revolution then for sure we would see an even more Anglophile US.
Post 1900 however, maybe an earlier joining higher casualty experience in WW1...
For most of the 19th century into the early 1900s, I believe Canada had more emigrants than immigrants. Something like a million French Canadians alone migrated to mostly New England. Finding a way to keep those people from leaving would be crucial. The larger size and economy of the US did and...
90% of Chinese are nominally Han but there are cultural and genetic differences between northern and southern Chinese for example. Other groups in China were assimilated into becoming "Han" (that process is still happening in the west of the country). Have the Han be less aggressive in...
Yes and rape and "genocide" were occuring in all corners of the world in multitudes of cultures/civilizations from the dawn of history. I can think of several holy books that contain documentation of such.
This. The modern American south and southwest (sunbelt regions) are thriving now but they were indeed economic backwaters compared to the rest of the country before the development of modern air conditioning and this is a phenomena that didn't take off until the middle of the 20th century.
I'm aware that the Mongols had conflicts with the Russians and various other Eastern European groups. However, if they had come across mounted Western European knights – let's say Crusaders – in the 13th century in the Middle East, how would things have unfolded?
Would China not be one of the most likely cases? Have the Zheng He voyages serve more as a stalking horse for discovering new lands than solely to showcase China's wealth, with the emperor pushing for them to continue further?
Canada finished World War II with the third-largest navy globally. Just by being situated between the United States and the Soviet Union, the nation held significant influence, particularly with its dominance of the western hemisphere Arctic. All of this was true without an additional 1,499,300...
What if it wasn't one side full of archers vs one side of pure musket men but one side employing a mixed usage. Not sure it'd be the exact same employing archers, but the Russians in a late 19th century battle deployed Winchester repeater armed units who were then backed up by the longer range...
All of those battles are post-adoption of the revolver. The Colt Walker was designed in 1846 and soon adopted by the Texas Rangers.
This is from the article on the 1858 Battle of of Little Robe Creek:
There is no debate that repeating cartridge arms have every advantage over bows and...