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Herr Frage, On the America's, you are touching on a few points I intend to implement. I definitely think that keeping great powers on the scale of OTL's France, Britain, and Spain, from playing major roles in the New World's colonization, at least in the initial stages, should afford the natives...

You would be surprised how many Protestants I know haven't heard of that, and don't count it as a part of their theology, but I agree with the rest of the assessment. As for changing the view, well, TBH it almost sounds like calling life a meaningless transitory stage with no reason for being...

The westward migration of Turks was over by the PoD, the empire having survived while retaining control of most of Anatolia. As for defensible borders, the Byzantines IOTL held Western Anatolia for two centuries without controlling the plateau, and there are mountain ranges seperating the north...

In a dominant surviving Christian Roman Empire scenario I can definitely imagine the Chi-Rho being the most popular symbol. Other than that I'm not sure, but never ending Rome is a fun cliche, and certainly not totally impossible.

At the time of the PoD, and for some time thereafter, Anatolia was majority Greek, so I fail to see why a small and likely shrinking Turkish minority hurts this. By WW1 IOTL Anatolia was 15% Greek, this following five hundred years of Ottoman control. By the PoD I specified most of Anatolia has...

This. Converting doesn't instantly turn the Kahn into a genocidal idiot, and there is plenty of room to convert to Christianity without forcibly converting everyone around you. The most successful OTL example is obviously Constantine the Great, so following his example would probably be a good...

Basically what has been said, they need a complete agricultural package. Frankly the only way I can see that happening is by grafting one of the old world agricultural packages onto the Americas somehow, and it would have to begin before 500 A.D. at the latest for there to be native...

Andristan, difficulty coordinating the Roman-Syrain pursuit helped Yusuf quite a bit, though his skill in the matter certainly shouldn't be minimized. Pike and shot just isn't something he was prepared for, but his skills as a commander in general are quite great. There are those in the HRE...

How about Charles V? He pretty much won every conflict he involved himself in, and left not one but two of the most powerful empires in Europe to his heirs, both larger and stronger than when he inherited them. Not only that, but his reign saw the first early modern colonial empire's founding...

Maybe, maybe not. Martin Luther could be butterflied or have his life altered or cut short depending on the butterfly effect, which could totally reshape the reformation, possibly even making it an internal reform rather than a schism. Even if the Reformation happens just the same, Protestantism...

I favor the Habsburgs not inheriting Spain as my method of choice for these threads. Basically, Habsburgs do inherit Burgundy, but Joanna la Loca doesn't become the heiress or doesn't marry Philip. Without Spain the Habsburgs focus their efforts on unifying their German holdings and inheriting...

Mostly what Elfwine is saying. Crusaders likely can't take Egypt, and Byzantines are far from guaranteed as long as Alexios III is on the throne. Honestly I would not be surprised at all if Alexios is usurped even without the crusade. The only question is by whom. Obviously OTL's Alexios IV is a...

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