Recent content by TheWitheredStriker

I've always thought that the French territory in what is now Canada would probably hold, while all land in the OTL!USA would likely be lost. IIRC, New France was sparsely populated, with most of the population being concentrated in and around Québec.

For an extra-early PoD, you might have Portugal subjugate and vassalize the Ryukyu Kingdom in the 16th century. Maybe they'll even Christianize it, making Okinawa the last bastion of Catholic Japan after Sakoku. The main issue here, though, is ironically not Japan - it's China. Japan had no...

Definitely, but I can't see Spain willingly allowing Portugal to surround its Philippine holdings from all directions. I'm not entirely sure what could drive Portugal to go after Luzon. My best bet, again, is Magellan, but that leaves us with the same issues I mentioned earlier (no Spain in the...

Italy would need to unify earlier, most likely in 1848, if it wants to retain Nice and Savoy. Sardinia couldn't keep either territory afterwards because they needed France to militarily defeat Austria, and France only agreed to help them in return for Nice and Savoy. Subsequently, an Italy that...

IIRC, the Portuguese actually attempted to enforce their claim to the Philippines during the reign of Sebastian. They lost a naval battle (or blockade) against the Spaniards and subsequently left the archipelago. I've toyed around in a previous thread with the idea of Magellan sailing for...

I just checked, and yep, peace talks started two months after the royal massacre. However, they went nowhere because the Maoists withdrew and launched another attack. That being said, without Gyanendra's suspension of the Constitution and sacking of the government, maybe the Nepalese monarchy...

Not sure, I'll have to check. Thank you for the reply!

Yep, exactly my thoughts. It's often suggested in these kinds of threads that Brazil would not expand westwards without an Iberian Union, which I think is bogus. Hence why I brought it up in my previous post.

Alright, long overdue part 2 :p Let's start by debunking some common misconceptions: The Netherlands would still declare war on Portugal for some reason and somehow they'd still win (and conquer Malacca, Ceylon, the Moluccas etc) ...Huh??? Look, I won't beat around the bush: this strikes me...

You are welcome! Glad to help.

Following this out of interest. South America tends not to receive a lot of attention in althistory, and when it does, it's the same set of 19th century clichés: the Empire of Brazil, the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation, Gran Colombia, and British Patagonia. Two ideas I have for post-1900 both...

I second Viriato here. Besides, even if Sebastian does survive and marry, he would most likely be childless. He was molested by a clergyman as a child and became infected with sexually-transmitted diseases as a result. We're talking about Sebastian's children having problems living to adulthood...

Many people designate the the Parliamentary Era of Chilean history as a so-called "pseudo-parliamentary" system, because it seemingly differed a lot from the Westminster model. However, having read History of Chile during the Parliamentary Era (1891–1925) multiple times, asking ChatGPT to...

There was apparently a referendum in 1980 about whether or not to replave the panchayat system with a multi-party democracy, but it supposedly failed to pass. What if it did?

So to summarize everything we've concluded so far: There was genuine opposition, or at least reluctance, from Russia to annex Outer Manchuria, and it mainly happened because of independent-minded officials deciding to disobey orders; The retention of Outer Manchuria by the Qing dynasty would...