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A lightbulb contribution. Canadians: none. If we don't think about it, it will keep shining.

While not destroying the concept of Europe, wouldnt it be easier to just reduce its association with Christendom? I mean, part of European identity for centuries was Europe = Christendom (this being Roman Catholics and then Protestants we are talking about here, not any other Christian...

An Irish ninja mind you.

I think what people have been trying to tell you is the opposite. Zheng He is NOT the best for it. The purpose behind and the parameters of his missions were not missions of discovery nor where they colonial in nature. If you want extensive Chinese colonialism, you need a deeper POD. One...

How do define greatest? And by it, do you mean "most powerful"?

Having messed around at work and achieved nothing, I have created this fantasy map based on a basemap in the OTL basemap thread. Earth like 2.5 million years ago, but it has modern humans and is technologically somewhere in the 1500s ish. Sort of. Magic exists, since the humans were...

Dear sir, that map made all kinds of love to my ascetic tastes. Tis' truly excellent!:D

Since we are not omniscient, it is usually most narratively expedient to only have changes happen that you can explain. Therefore, a limited butterfly net works best. It's an acceptable break from (alt) reality.

Why would it be fraudulent?:p

Wasn't Venice founded after the Western Empire fell?

How exactly are Stalin and his armies marching through British Columbia and the Rockies? I dont think you really have an idea of the terrain involved in that invasion...

Ahem. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians There you go.

I'm pretty sure your Kiev doesn't have Kiev in it...

No it wouldn't. There is no incentive, so long as any strong Christian power is in Western Central Europe.

I'm pretty sure they weren't Christian before 1000. In fact, I'm pretty sure Egypt was still majority Copt in this period. So, going by OPs demands as is, I'm gonna say impossible. Unless you mean year 1000 by Muslim reckoning...

Actually, everything would be worse. The British isles would be a nuclear wasteland devastated after picking the wrong side of the second Great War.

This is a site for alternate history, not pseudo/false history.

Constantine converting to Mithraism wouldn't help it. It is, as competitors as truly universal Imperial religions to Christianity go, extremely overrated. The problem lies explicity in its selectiveness of converts. More to the point, it did not accept female converts. It was an exclusively...

Wouldn't a POD centuries before the Bismark era butterfly all those questions? EDIT: Wait, Orkney and Shetland became Scottish in the 15th century. That really kills your Bismark questions and the like.

No it's not, because French Canadian loyalty, or even ambivalence/acceptance, was key to holding the Canadian colonies. Trying to kill them/relocate them would cause more problems than it'd solve.