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I talked about this elsewhere, but IMO, a successful Vinland is going to need to co-operate with the Amerindians to survive, and if/when Vinland get isolated completely from Europe, (the Little Ice Age doomed the Norse in Greenland, and that would be the main route to Europe for Norse...

I think this would end up as an interesting counterpoint to Kaiserreich's TL. In that, the Germans win decisively, but I think this thread hints at another "German Victory" timeline that would be worth exploring. I guess the basic idea would be a Pyrrhic victory for the Central Powers, with...

I think that may turn into "soft" Germanization of the Czechs and Slovenes, just because of the sheer number of Germans in the HRE making Germanic cultures the default. As for a name, I think it would depend on how liberal the reformers are, specifically how they want to deal with the monarchs...

Depends on the definition of "discredited." Like @Analytical Engine said above, no modern ideology that has actively governed a country has been completely eradicated. As a relevant governing philosophy, it would be similarly impossible. Even if China went mask off and dropped the trappings of...

Ever since I read Neither Left Nor Right: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Stirnhell, I've been intrigued by his central thesis that Fascism wasn't an only Italian/German affair, and the most of the policies espoused by later fascist regimes (anti-democracy, Corporatist economics, to some...

I used Times New Roman, I use it all the time for essays, so it just looks more "natural" to me.

Knights of the New World A long running thought of mine, inspired by a recollection of an old History Channel documentary on the Templars that, in true History Channel fashion, implied that some of the Templars got further away from France than Portugal. I took that thought and ran with it, and...

I think de jure slavery would end when the boll weevil sweeps in. I know someone suggested that the slaves would just be sent to factories, but I must ask - what factories? The South, even OTL, remained a largely agricultural economy even with slavery abolished. A South that keeps slavery has...

Sorry, that's what I thought I was getting at, that the Europeans used the resources from the colonies, at first America and then colonial possessions in Asia and the coasts of Africa to essentially do what they were doing at home, but in more places around the globe and to a greater extent.

I'd argue that Europe (esp. Northern and Western Europe) was still a backwater on the world stage until the Americas were conquered and their resources extracted. And that wasn't due to any "genetic superiority," the Europeans came in and, in the case of the Spanish, exploited existing feuds...

I think you're reducing a lot of complexity here in the pursuit of geographic determinism and European exceptionalism. That Mediterranean climate doesn't automatically confer advantage in trade and contact. The Bronze Age Middle East was connected to both Africa (Egypt/Nubia/Kush) and South...

There can be multiple or blended elite classes, and Medieval Europe is a good case of both, particularly of the latter due to the expansion of the Church temporally in both Italy directly and in wider Christian Europe through land grants, which allowed a Noble/Priest to directly control land...

Mediterranean shipbuilding was really restricted to the coast/non-ocean waters, so I don't think it would be a source for an African colonial empire. Maybe it could help build up the naval tradition and possibly expand pre-colonial Atlantic oceanic trade along the coast of Africa, thus giving a...

The Mexicans winning at San Jacinto was what I was thinking the POD would be. Maybe after winning three times in a row Santa Anna could have forced the Texans to the table at least, but as said upthread it seems like Mexico had bigger structural and geographic issues even if he could win in...

Interesting. Maybe these later revolutions will result in more nations in the OTL Southwest and West? Like, perhaps we have a Deseret, a California Republic, a Texas and maybe a couple of Amerindian nations pop up (I'm thinking Comanche and Navajo/Apache) as Mexican borders and troops retreat...

Suppose somehow, Santa Anna suppresses the Texans and reincorporates them into Mexico. How would this effect North American history? Would the Mexican-American War be avoided, what with no dispute over Texan land, or would there be another justification? More broadly, what happens to Manifest...

It's been brought up that the Norse were officially Christian before the Vinland expeditions, so I think any remaining pagan beliefs would be in the minority before the colonies lost contact with Europe. It wouldn't however, stop Norse descendants from syncretizing Catholicism with native...

It depends on if the diseases make it to far-off Vinland. To sustain itself it would probably be more linked into the Viking North Atlantic trade network pre-Little Ice Age so it's possible some of Eurasia's diseases make it over, probably the ones that don't burn themselves out on the long...

I think the reason you're getting push back on the Christian = progress, Confucian = conservative thing is that that part is rather blatantly untrue. China wasn't handicapped by Confucianism for most of its history. Look at the Song, who despite losing the heartland of the North China Plain to...

In the short term, I'd believe they'd both style themselves "King of France," with the Plantagenets adding it to their titles and the Valois elevating themselves with the support of the remaining lords not paying homage to the Plantagenets. Long-term it's more up in the air. Having two Kings of...