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I find your insistence on a great power needing an overseas colonial empire strange. Look at Russia. Italy's most likely course of action, after being completely united, would be to create a Mediterranean based Empire, perhaps in an attempt to recreate the Roman Empire (reach back into the past...

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it seems like there was a lot of potential for the Crusaders in Egypt; The Kingdom of Jerusalem made some serious incursions on its own, and some of the later Crusades, I think the 5th, were able to take Alexandria. Catholic Europe could find many opportunities if they could just get a large...

WWII tunnel vision. Yeah, I have a feeling that if Italy managed to unit any time much before the Industrial Revolution, it would shoot up to great power status immediately, at least...

Post-Viking age Scandinavians, maybe?

There are a lot of possibilities here, and I think it might be possible for the Crusader states to ultimately survive if the fallowing conditions are met: 1) permanent European colonization in large numbers 2) Secure boarder and friendly relations with Byzantium 3) capture of Aleppo...

This seems to have been a pretty critical moment in the development of the Crusader states, and I think the Crusade of 1101 has a lot of Alternate History potential.

Pretty good, thank you My sources seem to think that if the Crusade of 1101 was more successful, or at least not a complete disaster as it was OTL, that it would encourage more settlement from Western Europe and that proceeding Crusades would be more successful due to the overland rout...

More like Anglo-German Empire.

So what if the Crusade of 1101 was more successful?

So what if Philip dosen't get dysentery, and stays with the Crusade?

I might very well be a Republican by now (though the world would be a much better place...) Yeah, not sure what your talking here again, might be a Republican right now, unless the excesses of the Bush White House still manage to turn me off without the Iraq war (and I was watching the Daily...

Richard Nixon's Head.

Alexander had, or was planing on moving, his Capital to Babylon.

If Alexander has already conquered China (and all points west), I don't think he would have much use for Sun tzu:rolleyes:

So what if the Soviets invaded Turkey in 1945?

Napoleonic Invasion of Britain: more or less possibility of success then then an Invasion by Nazi Germany?

But its sooo cute! Just look at it: How could you not want to include it?

This has interesting possibilities, I think.

Most of them are based on the US census devisions (because I couldn't think of anything better) It has a population of less then 30,000? ( Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in comparison, has a population of around 300,000; Much too small to be a State) Makes sense.