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The Scanian lands were an integral part of Denmark - ancient Danish core provinces so to speak, just as Danish as Sjælland and Jylland.

Sorry, I meant that the POD couldn't be earlier than the Kalmar Union's formation. My bad :o

Your challenge is, to have Denmark-Norway keep more of its territory than OTL, specifically: - The Scanian lands (the provinces of Scania, Halland and Blekinge) - The two duchies Slesvig and Holsten (or Slesvig-Holsten) Bonus points if Estonia is included. Extra bonus points, if you can keep...

Is it possible to save Rome after Manzikert?

Wow...talk about necromancing?

True. it was Western Europe that was in my mind when I posted. My bad :) That wasn't my thought :) I'm thinking more of the "L'Etat? C'est moi!"-style absolute monarchy where the King's power is, at least theoretically, absolute and subject to none.

Basically, I've reached the point where what "intellectuals" say about whether or not a book is good, really is something to which my reaction goes something like this And that's coming from someone who fits the category himself ;) (though not a book critic by trade) I agree with the others -...

As the title says: Make the absolute monarchies in Europe last longer than they did OTL, at least until the turn of the 20th century. Bonus if you can make it to the second half of the 20th century. (placed here, because POD would be pre-1900)

I disagree on the last point. The POD can be the Kalmar Union going better. Another monarch would not have been the kind of prick that Christian II was towards the Swedish nobility, and we might NOT have had the Union dissolve in the god-awful way it did. A closer relationship could then have...

I wish you were right here. However, I'm not sure. As was pointed out, HITLER was the problem. With a more competent Führer, who knows what could have happened?

This, however, was mostly AFTER it had turned out that the Germans weren't better than the Soviets. Had the Germans actually BEEN better, things might've turned out differently. Initially, AFAIK, the reaction was relief when the Germans came and the Red Army retreated.

You need a totally different Nazism for this to work. There was a reason why it was rejected OTL: The "Untermenschen" weren't worthy of having any meaningful part in the Reich's plans. Make Nazism different in this manner, though, and all manners of opportunities arise. Liberating the areas...

Thankee sai :D

I'm no expert on the French Revolution, but off the top of my head, it seems to me that the support for the British Rebels in the American colonies didn't do a whole lot of good for France's economy, thereby adding to the stability problems. Also: The American revolution was the first example of...