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Let's say the Kingdom of Jerusalem (under Amalric) with Byzantine aid is successful in conquering Egypt from the Fatimid dynasty and making sure Saladin doesn't get anywhere near of it. What would relations be between the Crusaders and the nearby Nubian Christian state of Makuria?

During the Greek War of Independence, the Ottoman Sultan apparently became desperate and called for military assistance from his Viceroy in Egypt, Muhammed Ali. Ali promised aid in exchange for Crete, Cyprus as well as making his adopted son Ibrahim Pasha, Pasha of the Peloponnese. The Sultan...

What if Leopold I of Belgium accepted the Greek throne? How would this affect Greek and Belgian history? Discuss

What if George I of Greece was not assassinated? Would he maintain a policy of neutrality in WWI like his son Constantine or would he support the Allied Powers and join them?

Go ahead and do it guys! I really like to know what responses we'll get!

WI: make Tucrophilia as popular among Westerners (especially young ones) as Japanophilia is to Americans in OTL. You can have a point of divergence as early as 1914. Begin!

Two minor PODs: What if there wasn't a severe outbreak of malaria in Mark Antony's camp before the Battle of Actium? In OTL, malaria wiped out a large portion of his men and left many of his ships undermanned, forcing the Roman general to burn many of them. And what if Mark Antony's...

Anyways after Sultan Mehmed keeled over in 1421, his brother Mustafa was released by Emperor Manuel II; his freedom guaranteed by promising to return a few cities to the Byzantines. He captured Gelibolu, the fort which controls the strait of Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and after capturing Edirne the...

What if Aden continues to be governed as a part of British India under the Bombay Presidency? You know not being detached and becoming a separate Crown Colony. Meh, entertain me. I do mean the Colony of Aden, not the Aden Protectorate.

In 1169, King Amalric I of Jerusalem sent the archbishop of Tyre, Frederick de la Roche, on a mission to drum up martial and financial support for Jerusalem and get her daughter Sibylla a husband as her only brother Baldwin suffered from leprosy. Frederick convinced a well-connected nobleman by...

People's Crusade POD here folks: anyways the Byzantine Emperor Alexius warned Peter the Hermit not to engage the Turks and instead wait for the main body of crusader soldiers which were marching on their way when all thirty thousand were shipped across the Straits. Let's say Peter and his French...

I'm kinda drunk right now. Just make it happen.

How interesting would it be if the British accepted the offer of Pasquale Paoli to make the island of Corisca into an autonomous realm, with the British monarch as the head of state? It would had been modeled on the Kingdom of Ireland, or at least that's what Paoli would had wanted. Sorry for...

Since I have been brushing up on rather obscure and useless history trivia, I have become aware how autonomous Lebanon was during the Ottoman era. The Shihabi amirs in the 1700s and early 1800s managed to rule the land not as subjects to the Sultan but as their own rulers. Originally Sunni...

During the Crusades, many of the Assassins lived under Crusader lords and were numerous and paid very high taxes as to not get killed. The Assassins planned to convert so they could be exempt. However there plan went awry after their negotiators were murdered and they ditched all talk of...

Here's another idea for a POD that I thought up of: Alexander the Great was almost killed at the Battle of the Granicus River but he was saved by one of his bodyguards right in the nick of time. Let's say the bodyguard doesn't come in time and the lucky Persian soldier kills Alexander. Discuss...

So anyone here has any ideas of what may happen?

This will be a continuation of this thread. I think it's a realistic possibility with no need of the divine spatial flying mammal but this isn't exactly the reason why I am posting it. Think of this thread as more of a speculation of what would happen after Hernan Cortez, after conquering the...

What is language reivival? It usually is an attempted by individuals or entire cultural communities, governments, and other interested parties to reverse the decline of a language. If the decline is severe, the language may be endangered, moribund or even extinct. The goals are to get people to...

What if Francis I buys the Farm and croaks? Who takes over from there? Is it plausible for Henri II of Navarre, Francis I's brother in law, become King of France? Feel free to rip apart this idea.