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There would certainly be less taboo regarding it on Japan, being that OTL some scenes involving nukes and big explosions over cities in movies are censored in Japan. If the peace process in Japan is not too traumatizing, no nukes could also butterfly away the Article 9 on the constitution...

Well, you could have the pope adopting some reforms that do not amuse the spanish kings, like how a few churches broke off from the catholic church after Vatican 2, or something like the Old Believers in Russia. Or the Old Catholic Church. I'm not sure what reform exactly would piss so much the...

USNA still seems a bit implausible. But what the heck, OTL is ASB.

Well, even with this 1865 POD, we still have Oklahoma and Utah as territories - while i can't think of a reason of why they would split Utah, they could split the Oklahoma and Indian territories in two small states.

The USNA looks good, but what would America want to do with all those lands? There were proposals for annexing Mexico, but they were discredited because people thought it'd bring too many mexicans into the Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement#All_Mexico >Conversely...

It's worse. The guy released a new book saying the chinese went to Italy and sparked the Renaissance. http://www.amazon.com/1434-Magnificent-Chinese-Ignited-Renaissance/dp/0061492183 What's next? The chinese had nuclear plants on the Indus Valley and Democritus got his atomic theory from...

Thanks, i'm going to check it.

Couldn't the Pope go to Avignon, assuming it's still on papal rule?

Every time i read on pre-columbian european contacts people mention this fishermen thing, sometimes saying they were basque and breton, but i can never find a detailed article on this, it's always some minor reference in the text. Do you have more info on this? I'm not being very lucky with Google.

Yes, this. We could have a parallel to France's insistency on keeping Algeria OTL. But what about the african colonies? Do you think the brits would keep them? I remember something on the colonies not being economically useful anymore post-WW2... Also, you could have a weaker USSR by having...

So, what i'm asking is: In the event of the cold war going hot, did nations necessarily had to deploy their full nuclear arsenal at each other? Couldn't we have a conventional war or a 'limited' nuclear war (for example, just one or two nukes deployed?) Is this ASB?

I think that the solution (no pun intended) for this would be having a more pragmatical and less idealist (idealist not being a good thing on this case) Hitler, deeming the killings a waste of resources and adopting a 'total war' mindset, putting all the focus on... well, duh, war. His plans...

So the "solution" would still be west africans, right?

I think you'd need a bigger Maryland for that... I think their best chance to grow would be having the upper hand in colonial disputes, like those: For example, it could get areas of Virginia, and then further west. The problem would be... Why the hell would the english grant precious land...

What, seriously? Damn, i had no idea. They teached me some "sharia does not allow slavery" thing on high school, so i'm guessing my teacher got his things wrong. Well, guess the 'jungle routes' thing is also a myth. Yeah, but wouldn't it be a longer route? Well, does it need to be sugar...

On what circumstances? (James II never getting out of power, having George dieing before succeding, having Anne's son surviving childhood, etc) Edit: Ninja'd by less than a minute! :p

Hey, if you want a more "weird" region, you can always go for the sunk continent down under. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_(continent)

Ah, my bad. I thought of the Malinese empire, but now seeing on a map, i see it didn't dominate the Ivory Coast, Benin and etc, so... You're right. Well, now that's clever. Evil, but clever. :p Thanks for the answers, y'all!

Hello lads, i've been lurkin' for a while, first thread here. So, i've been thinking about this... Should a muslim nation (an Al-Andalus nation resisting the Reconquista, some Almohad-like entity remaining powerful in northwest Africa, dunno) colonize America, where would they get their...