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Someone here did a TL on Ayutthaya doing a 'Meiji'. But since you want countries that are colonized... But yeah, a country doing a 'Meiji' can't really be a country that is conquered by European powers, as Japan isn't either, so it's unique. Other nations: Earlier Brazilian independence...

But there were no Winged Hussars were there :D. I'll like to see a US tradition of tanks having feathers on the back while they drive into battle.

It depends how far Timur goes. Does he leave Constantinople alone, raze Constantinople and leaves or goes for the whole Balkans? The last scenario might lead to Timur heading up to Hungary, bypassing Macedonia and Greece. After a few more butterflies, the King of Hungary dies in combat...

The countries that have the most 'potential' to be a power in Africa would be the ones lining the Mediterranean, mainly Egypt or Morocco, if you can get rid of the Sub-Saharan restriction. You could pull something off and cause a second Spanish Civil War, causing a greater...

I take my OP back, that'll work. Polish mercenaries go and fight the Americans and stay in the Americas, providing some much needed Polish influence.

With any POD, get Polish Hussars charging down British-American colonials in America :D Or to be more serious, get a Polish presence in the Americas under the control of Poland or the PLC. EDIT: But the first statement still stands.

The Pacific Ocean is quite large. That's the same distance from China to America as from China to the bottom of Africa. For a smaller distance, anyone can have access to the markets in SE Asia, India and Egypt. The chances of anyone being blown off-course to the Americas from Asia and...

Even if the exploration programs continued, China had no need for colonization. They had everything they needed produced domestically or from traders. You'll need to change the Chinese mindset and make them expansionist? But then they'll just subjugate nearby nations rather than sending men...

In most likelihood, the wind would push the radioactive fallout south to west. So Finland isn't going to suffer as much as anything down-wind. Germany and Sweden suffers more. Not to mention the other Baltic countries.

That is less of a cliche but just common-sense :D No matter where Sweden turns to, they just face more opposition. Adding on to that: - Any United Scandinavia/Kalmar Union is destined to fail unless the TL is written expressively for it or the writer has a fetish for space-filling empires. -...

The reverse: White Siberia is already done. No-one's done the other one probably because it's too hard :p Unless Manchuria becomes ethnically Russian. Hm that's a good idea. Greater Soviet Siberia. The Cossacks have to be more successful. But that would probably butterfly away China and...

A couple of ones I'll love to do but lack the knowledge: - Song Dynasty beats back the Mongols and starts off the First Industrial Revolution. - Japanese Sealion: Operation Ashika, Japanese Navy ISOT or other ASBness. - Peaceful End of Reformation: No Protestantism, rather Reformed...

I actually think it's a double subversion. People here on this site are knowledgeable enough about the lack of liberalism pre-1900s and they don't want to be accused of writing history like Hollywood, transposing current values into the past. But then they stick to this idea like glue. How...

People here like their Monarchies a bit too much. Is there a TL where Monarchies and the aristocracy die off en-mass pre-1800s? And what about a TL with no Catholic Church Schism or Reformation like OTL?

Can we have Americans training Chinese Paratroopers for insertion in a "Divided Japan" scenario in the Cold War? Or Nationalist Chinese soldiers in the UN-mandated invasion of Red Japan :D. Doesn't matter what type of Japanese they kill. China doing it for the Soviets is less likely in that...

Korean war gets escalated by US nuking China. By that time, the only form of payload delivery are from bombers and both sides still kept nukes as more of a tactical weapon due to its limitations. It'll be a mostly one-way bombing spree though by the Americans.

I must ask this important question. Does Hitler still have his mustache? If not, are you giving him a Stalin mustache or even a beard?

The Japanese and the Italians are a deadend alliance for the Germans as far as they're concerned. Would Barbarossa be more effective if Germany managed to get the Soviets invading Turkey beforehand? Somehow Germany pulls a diplomatic masterpiece and gets a secret alliance with Turkey...

But you'll end up with a Nazi Germany that is less inclined to attack the Russians and hence be more successful. A Fascist Russia would still have their historical interests in the Balkans, and Central Asia. A non-aggression pact would be the most likely after a possible partition of Poland...

A successful Fascist Russia... allies with Nazi Germany? Truly Unthinkable :eek:. I'll like to see how a Fascist Russia influences China and Japan.