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Maybe a sustained Safavid Dynasty? They weren't a Christian holy order, they were Shia Muslims, but they were a holy order ruling much of modern Iran.

It kinda overlaps with other ideologies, but has anyone done anything on the Diggers/True Levelers? Their Christian proto-Anarchism is really interesting, even if they OTL never had a large enough movement to avoid being suppressed by Cromwell.

I'd say yes, seeing as the Great Plains tribes took to horse nomadism pretty quickly after they got access to horses. I doubt they'd build massive Mongol/Hun empires, however. Eurasian nomads were largely pastoral and even if the Horse survives in the Americas there are a lot less grazing...

I believe that Virginia was turning a profit at the time of Bacon's Rebellion, and his militia was only in the hundreds, so I don't think that London would think twice about sending a detachment to retake the colony. The main part of the Rebellion was defeated by armed loyalist merchant men OTL...

Bacon's Rebellion was about not being able to trade with/kill Indians, so I doubt that they would be interested in independence at all. I'm partial to having the "lesser" colonizers (e.g. Netherlands and Sweden) keep their colonies some how and they gain independence later. I believe that the...

I don't think much would change, IMO. Original Greek Fire throwers were very short range weapons mounted on Byzantine warships. It burned ships and men and couldn't be put out by water, but it's range was pitiful. Anyone attempting to use it in anything but a close-quarters ambushes is liable...

I doubt it. As stated up thread the Protestant-Catholic divide was a later factor in Anglo-Irish tensions. Henry's Church of England wasn't even very Protestant in form and wouldn't be until Elizabeth I. His Church of England (and the Church of Ireland that was set up in English held Ireland)...

Eh, I think that's a bit too far-fetched. Maybe the Hussites could win their war and establish a Hussite Bohemia that, with luck (because I'm sure the Pope would sanction a war of "reclamation" of Bohemia for Rome and the neighbors of Bohemia would be more than happy to oblige), survive until...

So, as we all know, Central and Eastern Europe (e.g Hungary, the areas along the Danube, Poland, Belarus, and Western Ukraine) in the early modern period was eventually dominated by either the Ottomans, the Russians, or the subject of this thread, the Habsburgs. But it didn't have to turn out...

Ah, thank you for the info. I was really only aware of the immediate pre-Mongol period as blobs on the map and since the Jin were the newest blob, I just assumed that they held similar momentum to the Qing. With that in mind, perhaps the Mongols could play a part in this hypothetical timeline...

I don't think that a lack of Mongols would save the Song dynasty. To my knowledge, they had already lost much of the North China Plain to the Jurchen Jin Dynasty and had evacuated their bureaucracy to the south. Perhaps the Jurchen would continue their southward push and end the Song...

Seconded, though it'd take Charles the Bold not being, well, Charles the Bold and perhaps the Dukes of Burgundy before him not making an enemy of the ascendant Hapsburgs. I think in that case Burgundy has a good chance of avoiding the curb-stomping of the Burgundian Wars. France would always be...

So OTL, the Crusade of Varna is one of the tipping points of Ottoman history, where they pretty definitively established the as a major player in Europe, and sent shockwaves throughout Eastern Europe with the death of Władysław III, king of both Poland and Hungary, setting the stage for both the...

So, Alexander the Great has been spared from whatever disease killed him. What is his next move? Conquer more? Sit back and enjoy the fruits of his new empire? Also, what happens to the Hellenic Civilization he - unintentionally - founded? Does the Hellenization of Anatolia/the Levant take...

As pointed out pretty much everywhere in this thread, American Indians were far from the homogeneous noble savages that you're sort of painting them as. Yes, they didn't use metal tools and had no significant beast of burden outside of the Llama in South America, but to suggest that they simply...

A Man, A Plan, Nicaragua! What if William Walker didn't fail? May, 1856 It had been seven months since the filibuster William Walker had seized effective control over the government of Nicaragua. Though he never fully and directly seized control of the Latin American republic, his and his...