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Have the Bourbon Dynasty after the Restoration in France (thus after the Napoleonic Wars) last as long as possible, preferrably until the present day. Bonus points if the Orleans don't come to power, even though they technically count as Bourbons. More bonus points for continous rule...

Reading over old posts, Abdul stated that the Hagia Sophia only became a mosque because the district of the city resisted after the walls were breached- other churches in districts that did not resist remained Churches. Therefore, what if the district had surrendered to the Turks earlier? The...

Antiochus II Theos ruled from 286 to 246 BC, inheriting a war with the Ptolmeic Kingdom over Egypt. He managed to lead his forces to victory, forcing the Ptolemies to retreat back to Egypt in 254 BC. However, this victory came at a price, as in 255 the outlying province of Bactria broke from the...

What if something happened to avoid the Second Partition of Poland, keeping an independent Poland under the May Constitution? I can think of several scenarios- for example, what if the Tagowica Confederation had not been formed, or had failed to gain Russian support? Another scenario, which...

What if Stalin lived a few more years? For example, say he lived until 1955, or 1960 (possibly a bit long). What would the effects on the world been?

Alright, this is just a quick thought I had, but I figure, since radical_neuteral can post his random thoughts, I should be able to as well. The idea I'm thinking of is a complete collapse of the Kalmar Union, resulting in an independent Norway, hopefully sometime in the early 1530s. Dynastic...

What if the Seleucids had managed to crush the small kingdom of the Parthians before it became a major threat to their possessions in Mesopotamia and Iran? Would the Seleucid Empire remain a power, perhaps eventually Hellenizing Mesopotamia and Iran?

Sometimes, scenarios come up where the North secedes from a Southern-dominated union. Now, let's take a scenario where the slaveholding states dominate the union. I'm not sure why- perhaps the NW Ordinance never forbids slavery, causing slaveholding states to pop up in states like Illinois...

In 1859, Austria and it's Italian allies (the Duchy of Parma, Duchy of Modena, and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany) were faced off by an alliance of France and Piedmont-Sardinia. Now, France only joined because it was promised Savoy and Nice. What if Sardinia had decided that Savoy and Nice were too...

What if Macedon never became a major power, instead staying a minor semi-barbaric Greek state in the north? I suppose this requires the wiping out of the line of Phillip and Alexander... What happens in Greece without Macedonian subjugation? What about Persia?

Now, in 1071 the Byzantine Empire only narrowly managed to defeat the raiding Turkish army, who went on to conquer Iran and Mesopotamia. If Byzantium had lost the battle, what might have happened? Certainly their position in Anatolia would be destroyed- would the interior be lost to the Turks...

What would be the affects of a Magyar victory at the Battle of Lechfeld?

In OTL, the fall of the Hapsburg Empire occured when Emperor Karl I/IV, responding to allied demands in the Fourteen points, began negotiations on creating a new government which would have autonomous sections for all ethnicities. Unfortunately, events spiraled from this into a number of...

Here is a map of (most of) the Ottoman Empire and surrounding countries in 2000 AD. What has happened to make this occur, and what might the rest of the world look like?

Great Moravia was a powerful Slavic Empire in Moravia, Slovakia, and the Hungarian Plain that existed up to around 900 AD. It seems a large contributor to this nation's falling apart was the coming of the Magyars. Is there any way Moravia could fight off the Magyars and stay a powerful Empire...

ca. 450 AD - Jutish incursions into the British Isles result in formation of Kingdom of Kent. ca. 450-490 AD - Jutes migrate en masse to Britain, resulting in formation of states of West Jutetia [Roughly Sussex and Wessex up to Wight] and East Jutetia [Roughly OTL Essex], which are later...

What if, in the aftermath of WW1, this treaty between the Entente and Italy had been kept by the Allied powers at Versailles? What could make Wilson agree to it, and had this happened, would there be a Fascist Italy in WW2?

Roughly, red countries are communist and blue countries are anti-communist and mostly NATO members. Yellow is neutral, though I may have screwed up in North Africa and the Middle East. In addition, Dalmatia's borders may be off... They should include Croatia, Slovenia, and a few small pieces of...

First off, let's look at the Treaty of Sevres as it applied to the Caucasus. (Here is a nice map) Armenia was assigned a massive area of Turkey that it could not likely hold, while Armenian areas and areas that then had Armenian minorites were assigned to Azerbaijan (greyish areas marked...

What if the Cathar religious movement, and thus the Albigensian Crusade, had never happened?