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A more realistic goal then: Cyprus. An Egyptian garrison there would be quite viable.

I wouldn't say you've gone off the deep end - I drool over the idea of Egyptian-ruled Ionia too :p But pursuing that policy really isn't in line with the New Kingdom empire's behavior or power-projection capabilities. Defeating the Mycenaeans at sea to wrest away control of the waters around...

Nope, the technology and political conditions aren't in place for that yet.

First, Egypt is not marching to Hattusa - that's not in the cards. Second, how cataclysmic is this victory? Is Muwatalli dead/captured? I combine them because it's basically the same outcome - Urhi-Tessup won't be trying to get his father back, he'll be wheeling back to Hattusa before his uncle...

Muwatti's line was to take over the kingdom and rule as a converted client of Atenist Egypt, with a heresy (dubbed "the Handantatric Faith" - after the concept of handantatar, the Hittite Ma'at-analogue) emerging and becoming popular in Anatolia, the Caucasus, and parts of Greece. Muwatti's...

That was basically the plan, yeah. By the "Modern Era" much of the world was to be following one "Atenic" religion or another, with a very clear history of where and when it all began underpinning it all. This. Until roughly 100 BCE ~ 100 CE, the Atenist Hierarchy in Greece (and throughout...

Alphabetic (for Greek)! The strain of Hieratic used to write Egyptian was to evolve into an abugida.

Well, I might as well spill the beans about what I had in mind, since if that TL ever comes back from the Field of Reeds it'll be as a reboot... By 1000-800 BCE, the Levant was to be largely Egyptianized (same religion, Egyptian-derived language, but still seen as distinct from the culture of...

Possible PoD: The prestige of the Tuscan dialect is attributable in part to the works of Dante, particularly the Divine Comedy. BUT, Dante almost chose to write in Occitan, because that was the troubadorial prestige language of the time. So, allohistorically, there's a decent chance "Standard...

"Hyraxia", or some variation thereof. Derived by calquing the Punic root that gave us "Hispania" into Greek.

An issue is that any Russia-sized Ukraine would probably just think of itself as Russia... A Central Asian Turkic empire the size of Tsarist Russia though, that would be an interesting reversal.

That's an interesting choice of flag.

You probably end up with a far more decentralized early Egypt. Building the pyramids was a huge undertaking in social engineering and coordination, which the centralizing Old Kingdom monarchy was able to thoroughly exploit. Chances are you end up with more power devolved to provincial magnates...

Did a Tunguska Event with an extraterrestial twist get nudged west?

You don't necessarily need Christianity to be out-competed by another religion. Another option is for a country to develop high rates of irreligion, such that the percentage of practicing Christians falls within OP's parameters.

Akhenaten didn't exactly do nothing - he was quite active diplomatically, but he never backed anything with military force and he tended to take Egyptian prestige/preeminence in the Levant for granted. We'll assume that Thutmose V doesn't do that, but that still doesn't mean he can go toe-to-toe...

Let's say that we get Thutmose V instead of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten... The Aten was already becoming associated with the royal office/house during the reign of Amenhotep III, and that could very well continue, but perhaps it becomes more of a totemic deity for the office rather than the centre of...

People have answered your fundamental question clearly, multiple times, but here we go again... Languages are grouped into families based on their shared history of word evolution (e.g. which key words have remained central, what sound changes said words have all undergone together etc.) and...

Nobody. Nobody agrees with you, not in all of linguistics. Nobody says English is "purely" Germanic either (Proto-Germanic isn't even "purely" Germanic - "purity" doesn't exist in any language), but it unequivocally belongs on the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family tree. Its history...

This is OTL. Germany and Austria planted settlers all over their Eastern Europe and Balkan territories (most of them were expelled following The Wars). You could argue that Turkish settlement in the Balkans was this sort of colonization as well. ;)