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Keeping France out of Italy.

Just don't think that a country founded over the preservation of slavery is going to give up slavery if it is successful. And don't think that a world that forced diplomatically Brazil and the Ottoman Empire to give up slavery in the 1880s and justified the colonization of Africa and Asia...

The alternate African theatre is something I almost mentioned on the last message and certainly worth a discussion. Providing a CP-Belgium, and regardless of the time of British entry, the first objective would be to blockade the Congo by sea and then take over the river. This would be part of a...

Wouldn't it be great if they DOW'ed Belgium for breaking their own neutrality...

As said already, France would move into Belgium before the Germans reach the border. The Belgians would then become the frontline between France and Germany, or be compelled to defend against France after basically lifting their dress for Germany, with all the PR problems that causes. The most...

Since Spain is still in control of Ifni and Guinea at this point, will this war change the way or time in which they were decolonized IOTL? I know nothing about how it actually unfolded IOTL, but it seems weird (at first glance) that the Regime would commit resources to fight other country's...

Charles divided the empire because he wanted his firstborn to inherit his father's homeland, Burgundy. However, the electors preferred Ferdinand to Philip as emperor because Ferdinand was already king of Hungary and Bohemia and viceroy of Austria.

If only they didn't touch Timur's bones...

And an Iran-Iraq War. And a Balochi War. And an Afghan War, for that matter. I don't see the Soviets getting in that quagmire without the Iranians pushing to 'liberate' their brethren in Herat. Not to mention that the Afghan king, unlike the Iranian Shah, was actually popular in his own country...

1) If Titanic had disappeared without a trace, it would have been discussed for some time after, but not reached the notoriety of OTL, and eventually would have been forgotten by the grand public. It would be known as "the ship that disappeared mysteriously" by people into naval mysteries and...

The Titanic will be included in a list of Bermuda Triangle victims along with the dozens of other ships that vanished nowhere near the Bermuda Triangle IOTL.

That the victorious Nazis will pick new ethnic groups to enslave and exterminate randomly as they successfully exterminate their previous picks, sometimes from among their own former allies. Pure Blood for the Blood God.

On the other hand the Spanish people is among the most anti-American in Europe IOTL and I don't think this is going to improve that...

It seems hard to believe that the Spanish would get all that but not Minorca. I think they would even trade it for Jamaica if it came to that.

...holy shit. Can Henry of Burgundy be given Murcia instead of Portugal? A Condado Cartaginense? It'd be a monumental kick to the teeth to the "Inevitable Portugal" trope.

Well, Maimonides pretty famously sought refuge in Egypt late in his life (although from the Almohads rather than the Almoravids). Averroes, I'm ashamed to admit that I was under the impression that he was earlier. Checking (Spanish) Wikipedia, it seems that the Almoravids actually forbade him...

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The crocodiles of Chott El Djerid acclaim Mackenzie as their god and savior, the reverse-Sobek. EDIT: Nevermind. It's saltwater we are talking about.

My two cents: Because Seville is a way smaller fish than the Almoravids, I see them basically doing what Ibn Hud did 140 years later IOTL, that is, wasting their energies in campaigns to unify the south while the Christian kingdoms take the northern Taifas undisturbed, and then being jumped on...

The weirdest part is that the Caliphate of Cordoba had been dissolved just 4 years before. It's like Sancho decided that Spain was entering a new stage and that neither of the main two players before that point, Cordoba and (uber)Navarre, would go on without the other. He left Castile, Navarre...