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Western Protestantism is ASB, but the *Protestant option looks pretty straightforward. Have Metropolitan Nikon not get elected Patriarch of Moscow in 1652, but important enough to have a hand in the revision of the service-books. Unless he absolutely dominates the other protopopes, he'll...

I know more about home cooking than cuisine per se, but I think I can hazard a guess. First things first, everything is getting dumbed down. The gold rush and railroad construction creates two populations that are mostly men and regularly relocating; any recipes that survive from that period...

Western coffee culture IOTL was really contingent on politics from about 1600 (when a pope specifically had to rule that Catholics could drink coffee.) A different Papal succession, or different Ottoman-European politics, could pretty easily change coffee consumption patterns in Europe (and...

If the two Fredericks reconciliate in Altenburg in 1445, the Saxon Fratricidal War doesn't happen, with enormous consequences down the line. (No Ernestine-Albertine division, no House of Saxe-Coburg-Gothas...) Almost all Reformation TLs I've seen or heard of focus on Germany; nobody ever...

Just resting for the moment. My computer was stolen recently, so I'm reduced to writing on what's available during public library hours (or, God forbid, my phone.) But there's an update or two that are in the works.

I haven't read the thread entirely, but I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before. I wouldn't mind as much if it wasn't consistently the same world power. In a thematically related way, there's only one Brazil too...

Religion would work. I'm not sure what the POD would be, but I could see a Catholic (probably Satsuma-led) government not recognizing the Tokugawa. Much smaller differences have kept the Serbs and Croats separate for centuries. (You could get multiethnic Japan too if, say, the Emishi fared...

Japan is politically united. Nobody has ever found the need to identify the RGB for "Japanese colonial successor state" in the UCS or any variation. No matter how long the diaspora population has existed, or what its history has been since, all persons descended from Japanese parents will...

You could get that in 1492; if Pinzon hadn't suggested a change of course on October 6, the first Columbian voyage would have made landfall somewhere north of Cape Canaveral. So by the time America's formed up, the southern Mid-Atlantic coastline would have had a decently long history as a...

Realistically, the odds are that without the Treaty of Portsmouth Japan would wind up losing. They'd spanked the Russian navy, but the land war had been fought to a bloody standstill, and Japan could only afford the war because Korekiyo Takahashi had run around the world several times persuading...

Or for a variation on the theme, maybe New Mexico? In the Spanish Empire, the province of New Mexico was six months by mule from Mexico City, and was never really targeted by the Mexican Inquisition. So you got a lot of Marrano families that emigrated to what's now the American southwest...

The Columbus voyage was a pretty marginal thing. The Europeans had a decent idea of how big the world was, and Columbus hugely underestimated the distance to Asia (which is where secret-map theories come from); Isabella was willing to finance the expedition mostly because the long-shot payoff (a...

A distinct American Muslim population is a non-Christian religious minority, and probably a nonwhite one too, when William J. Simmons revives the KKK in 1915. Would anybody put it past the Klan to invent Islamophobia 80 years ahead of schedule? I wouldn't. That association with the Klan would...

The effects on WW1 are probably pretty marginal. It's not impossible to design a semiautomatic rifle for 8mm Mauser; France had a semiautomatic rifle in the works at the same time, and the ballistics are in the same ballpark. (Even though it was a huge step up from the Lebel, it was doomed...

Yukio Mishima, writing an AH where Saigo Takamori survived the Satsuma Rebellion and Meiji Japan is much more samuraized as a result.

Manchu and Russian Empires. Not because they're the most evil (although I'd rather not have to live in either.) Just because it'd be interesting to see what'd replace them if they *did* fall decades ahead of IOTL.

The numbers I've seen from various sources were about a quarter-million.

Am I the only person who thinks the author has some kind of hardon for Brazil? I mean seriously, look at it. By the middle of the second book, the entire Spanish Empire's turned into the kind of mess we saw after the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire. Most of them are on their second revolution...

Meet the Cast MEET THE EMPEROR: Alfonso VI excerpted from Zygmunt Bauer, Diplomacy on the Frontiers of Christendom. Dresden: Universität Dresden, 1956. "Under the terms of the Pact of Cuenca, al-Qadir was obligated to quarter and sponsor two Leónese garrisons in Toledan territory. One of...

So maybe a crypto-Islam?