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The shift of agriculture and cities north doesn't necessarily mean the end of Roman dominance any more than the shift of agriculture and cities south meant the end of Han dominance. If the center of gravity for Rome moves north, then Rome moves north. It can stay Rome during and after that...

innovations like double-entry bookkeeping are way more exciting than some boring shovel. this could actually change the fate of nations

I didn't notice the first time, but Kennan OTL wasn't a published writer until the late 40s. That could hint to the war either lasting very long, or more likely, ending in stalemate.

Language and religion are not recognized by the Constitution. Most states have no official language, and New Mexico has Spanish and English as official languages. Also many states had an established religion upon entry into the union. Massachusetts was a legally Congregationalist state until...

I hope Poland gets in on this, too.

100 meters is absolutely huge and farther than effective bow range, especially then. And before people start talking about 300 meter longbow shots or 500 meter Mongol bow shots, those are target hits, not range where you could actually injure somebody. At that range, you're just using the...

This thread isn't about the plausibility of an American Canada, it's about what would happen to OTL Canada if it was always in the USA. A good enough writer could come up with some scenario where the Canadians decide that without joining into union with the other colonies it would be reconquered...

General Suvorov was key to Russian victory against the Ottomans around this time OTL, where is he ITTL?

True. Both of those were bad examples. Indonesia would be a better example for both Buddhists and Muslims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_war_finance They literally couldn't collect the taxes levied in cash or specie so they resorted to tax in-kind like a feudal state. And Spain has twice the population of the CSA and a vast empire. Though looking at the actual stats, they would have had...

Regarding filibustering: Mexico and the US would loooove to fund fights against CSA invasions. It would be an amazing way to drain the CSA on a budget. The CSA involving itself in Central America would probably drive Mexico and the USA into each other's arms, making the only two countries in the...

Where would the CSA get the money to buy Cuba? The central government can barely levy taxes and even then, the southern economy is agrarian and anemic. Also there's no way the CSA could beat Spain in a war, especially since the Cubans would side with Spain over the Southerners. That's not even...

In OTL there was a very high-tension balancing act between free and slave states. I don't see why the north would agree to add more slave states just to balance it out. At the very least they have control of the Senate from day one. Why would they give that up? Just for brownie points with their...

Eastern Ontario: the state of Ontario. Southern Ontario: the state of Huron. Northern Ontario: the state of Hudson. That's three more free states before 1836...

Yeah people can whine all they like about merchants, but merchants and trade spread culture/religion. It's why Bengal is Muslim and why Singapore is Chinese. It's why Russia is Orthodox. More Greek money means more Greek establishments and more people who would rather be Greek. Good old Leopold...

The argument of America not getting Oregon country is silly. If anything, a US with an early majority of free states would want more northern expansion and might not even annex Texas. Think about the composition of the Senate with the states of Nova Scotia and Canada admitted at the very...

It's not better protected, as the Olympic Peninsula protects Seattle's harbor. And although the mouth of the Fraser is in Vancouver, upriver the Fraser is nowhere town. By the time the northwest coast is settled, access to rail is more important than being on a logging river and Seattle would be...

Now that I think of it, Montreal would almost definitely become very Irish and siphon a lot of Irish immigration from Boston and New York. As a primarily Catholic and non-English port on the Atlantic I can see it going like New Orleans and getting thousands of Irish. There would also be quite a...

I would could see a St Lawrence canal being built much earlier. Montreal would thus be a bigger city, moving trade all the way through to New York and Chicago in the 1800s could do a lot for the development of Lower Canada. I can also see some different population distribution out west. I would...

I would tell those people that Jesus knew he was going to die on the cross.