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IIRC, Otto von Bismarck was initially against annexing Alsace-Lorraine, right?

By the 1850's, Latin was all but phased out of all diplomatic circles in favor of regional languages. Its use as the language of administration throughout much of Europe before the 1700's was mostly due to the influence of the Roman Catholic Church during that time. In the 1850's, I feel it is...

Unification of the Netherlands Did Enable Revolutions South of Tilburg: Another New Dynamic in an Intricate Nationalistic Gamble... ...the creation of Belgium! Next up: STARBUCKS

One thing is for certain: if France has a Rhine border, it will have much more industrial capability. Thus, it would probably become the superior industrial nation on the European continent, even in the face of a united Germany sans the Rhineland, which would at most be on par with France. Of...

I hope it's okay to necro this, but I have some ideas that don't appear to have been mentioned. Switzerland -- Helvetica Great Britain -- Albion Russia -- Muscovy Crimea -- Taurida Portugal -- Lusitania Azerbaijan -- Albania (after the ancient Caucasian Albania) Albania -- Shkip (based on the...

As sort of a follow up to a thread I posted a couple days ago, it is intriguing that the Polynesians settled from the Solomon Islands to Hawaii to perhaps South America, bringing the sweet potato all across Polynesia. Yet, as modern archaeology attests, the Polynesians never made contact with...

I agree with you on the Upper South part. Maryland and Delaware would likely be the first slave states to abolish, between 1868 and 1875, and in those states an abolitionist movement would likely develop that would probably become popular and be successful through Kentucky and Missouri in the...

Assuming a genocide against African Americans, it would not be pragmatic at all to launch a genocide against them considering they form an extremely large proportion of the South's population. Race war? Maybe. Genocide? No.

Perhaps the English use them as a method to counter Spanish hegemony of the Americas, if you get the English to have a stronger presence in (Northern/Eastern) South America. The English were not so powerful in the 1500's so they could supply the Inca and trade with them instead of conquering them.

How could the German ultimatum from the Pig War have been avoided (or how else could true war erupt), and how would this war play out? Would Austria-Hungary be more able to stand their own ground in this war, and this is before the Italo-Turkish War, so would Italy likely join this war on the...

Well, Hinduism did become established in Indonesia (especially Bali, where it is a dominant religion even today), so I don't see why it couldn't spread to other Indian Ocean coastal places such as Zanzibar, Yemen, or Somalia.

Survival of European peoples whose "Indo-Europeanness" is often debated, such as the Etruscans and Picts, would be interesting.

Lots of opportunity in Australia is one thing. What's the POD?

Impossible, I think, considering what OP is looking for. Stettin (Szczecin), I believe, may be important enough to warrant being a capital.

If I believe correctly the chicken hypothesis has been largely debunked, or at least less convincing than the sweet potato hypothesis. Also what I'm looking for is settlement and expansion in to the mainland, if that is possible.

There are theories that in the early 1000's-millennium the Polynesians made contact with the indigenous peoples of South Americas, on grounds that the sweet potato is a native of South America but also present in Polynesian cooking, and that the Proto-Polynesian word for sweet potato, *kumala...

Kingdom of Mysore could pull off a Japan. Not necessarily a Meiji, as it was already very active in trading with Britain, but in the sense of fast modernization. Mysore was already one of the wealthiest kingdoms of India, and that was still the case when it was a Princely State. I think you...

I imagine that most African Americans would remain in the rural South, and most Northern cities' labor would be filled with immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, more so than OTL. In the long run there may be a deeper demographic divide between the North and the South due to the sheer...

I believe this would work for Sweden as well.

Simply put, a Russia with a significant maritime presence was a threat to Britain's best interests, since the British had a Mediterranean presence before the Russians had a Black Sea coastline (I think?). As for the Ottomans, the opposition there is obvious. They and the Russians have the...