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The Holy Roman Empire, 1543. Charles V dies young and so his brother Ferdinand is elected Emperor; with no foreign possessions to worry about, he is committed to the reform of the Empire which was being demanded at the time. The Empire's new constitution was formulated at the Diet of Dresden...

I once spent a month working on an entire-world QBAM with a POD in the Renaissance; it was one of the biggest tasks I'd ever undertaken and when I posted it . . . it was pretty universally criticised. But you know what, I didn't cry foul, I didn't flood the thread with adjusted versions or...

A year per turn is way too little time: make each turn a decade or so, at least until the early modern era when events start to speed up a little, otherwise we really will be here 2012 years.

Why don't you colour each country as its analogue-colour in UCS: so for example, make France Germany-grey, etc. it would make the effect clearer.

Yeah, because dumping a bunch of white people anywhere on the map is a sure-fire way to kick-start economic development. My contribution would be Senegal or Cote d'Ivoire; those two countries were pretty well developed by the French and retained good relations with the Metropole for decades...

Alright Joffrey... Thing is pre-modern riot control was basically 'call in the army and kill anyone shifty looking', see Belisarius.

Yeah kinda; the big title's Emperor of Austria and Hungary, King of the Germans, the Serbs, Croats and South Slavs, Duke of Venice, Wallachia and Moldavia, etc. etc.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I just felt like wanking Austria-Hungary. POD is the Bavarian War of Succession.

Forgive me; Romanus eunt Domus! And my guess for the reason of the name-change is that the Parisian church sees itself as more theologically pure (i.e. Orthodox) as opposed to the Roman Uniate Church, which places politics above theology due to its imperial subjugation. Just a guess though.

Holy crap and update! I'm intrigued by the hint at the Parisian Orthodox Church, an organisation that appeared in 1.0 under a slightly different name. I wonder if it will be theologically different this time around. You seem to be more comfortable/in depth with your church history in this TL...

The German Confederation offered the crown to the Austrian Emperor due to the empire's massive reforms after the French Wars and due to its growing political liberalism. Austria went to war with Prussia and won hard, locking it out of the Confederation and sending it adrift into Russia's camp...

Crisis on the Continent. Britain's relationship with the Continental Congress has often been strained, especially with the massive economic growth experienced by the colonies in the 19th century that eventually led to their effective independence with the 1898 Statute of Westminster. The...

Weimar Germany has a nice feel to it-I dunno, maybe it's just because I like the 20's... sort some of the constitutional and economic matters out and inter-war Germany was probably the most liberal, cosmopolitan nation in the world. It just went so, so wrong...

Lincoln's death unifies the Union, and probably encourages wavering states like Kentucky to stay in the Union, especially if it happens in the early months of the war; likely people like Lee will defect to the Union due to disgust at such a low attack upon the President. Hannibal Hamlin becomes...

Richard is beloved because, like any good king, he spent very little time actually being king.

So basically the Venetians weren't powerful enough to be equal partners with the Muslim rulers who controlled the land routes? What if Venice or the Italian city states in general had a stronger bargaining position? Perhaps a longer-lasting or more stable Latin Empire/less...

It's commonly asserted that the circumnavigation of Africa made the eastern Mediterranean trade routes from the East to Europe uneconomical, at least by the 16th century or so, thus rendering states like Venice and the Ottoman Empire much less commercially powerful. My question is this: was...

General response to comments: Cyprus is a British protectorate split with a Turkish-backed government. Turkey's junta's been overthrown recently so the situation hasn't ironed out yet, and the Turks are still highly nationalistic and so will probably continue to support the Turkish-Cypriot...

1976. This is a re-do of one of my older maps for my (now-defunct) timeline, sigged below. Germany goes socialist after WW1, although think more Scandinavia than USSR (though it's labelled red) though due to tensions with Imperial Rusia (1917 fails) there's a second Great War, which Britain...

Yeah, because Japan and Vietnam have never resisted a foreign invader to the death...oh wait...