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Depends on what happens instead of Christianity. A continuation of paganism/neo-paganism? A new religion? Presumably Islam is butterflied away. I think "Jews in a_______ World" would narrow it down a little.

Sometimes used as a noun in Canada to refer to Americans: "A bunch of you-alls were in the pub...."

What's his motivation? Is he still allied with the Ming?

Funny, I was just reading an article in Aeon about that (not that I necessarily agree with everything written): https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-paved-the-road-to-modernity

More Thomas Malthus than God. Politicians, especially Whigs (Liberals) believed that population inexorably outstripped food production and that to intervene would make the situation worse by trying to keep alive unsustainable numbers.

Yeah, the Qing received Taiwan back from Koxinga's grandson, but didn't really want it. They offered it back to the Dutch, who didn't want it either. The Emperor was finally persuaded to occupy it by the argument that if it was left to its fate it would become a haven for Japanese and Chinese...

Pacific Islands would have reached population limits earlier; other than that, not much. Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, and Hawaii may have been more united internally. I think the distances were too great for them to have much effect on each other.

There were three groups of Loyalists that did not have the option of assimilation: the American Indians, notably Mohawks in New York, who had fought for the British; their white allies- people like the Butlers- who were accused of massacring settlers while fighting for the British; the black...

A thread in the pre-1900 forum reminded me of an old story in which a British traveller meets a French officer in the 1760s or 1770s(?). The officer, a Corsican, has all kinds of ideas for French military triumph, but his lowly birth prevents his advancement. Sound familiar? (I might have asked...

OT, but decades ago there was a story in which Napoleon himself had been born earlier. A British traveller in the south of France meets an army officer from Corsica who had all sorts of ideas for making France militarily triumphant, but, alas, his lowly birth doomed him to a lifetime of...

Start global warming a few hundred years earlier. Though most ATLs would have to be some form of geological departure. and hence ruled out of this forum, an earlier contact leading to more time to recover from disease might work, if- emphasis on the if- the 'depopulation and reforestation of the...

Pavane, by Keith Roberts, especially the first story, "The Lady Margaret", has this. Large steam freight haulers, smaller private vehicles (aided by sails).

Geographically central, yeah, but even now over three-quarters of the population lives east of it.

'If Paris is worth a mass, then London is worth skipping mass.'

OT is dubious- if Rome after Augustus was not a hereditary monarchy it would eventually degenerate to a struggle between various generals for control. The Praetorian Guard, instead of being a byword for loyalty down to the present day, might even turn into "king-makers", offering the crown to...

I wrote a TL where Britain established the sea otter fur trade with China in 1742, resulting in them establishing forts and claiming the Pacific coast from Alaska to San Francisco, with eventual settlement being mostly by fleeing Loyalists (the Rebels take Canada and Nova Scotia during the ARW...

If the Franco-Spanish Invasion of Britain had gone ahead in 1779 the Irish might have more successful.

The question is would they exist outside if Africa, and I think to get that you'd have to have a sizable white population. Northern Rhodesia had 1500 whites to 800,000 Africans and 75,000 white settlers to 2 .5 million natives in 1961. You'd have to get a substantial settler population to get...

Don't want to derail this discussion but the society of Starship Troopers was not controlled by an elite military caste; serving members of the armed forces didn't even have the vote.

The flying shuttle https://www.antonhowes.com/blog/is-innovation-in-human-nature