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First, that's quite a shock that it "didn't make it to Argentina," considering the Inca Empire spanned parts of Argentina, OTL. Also, Argentina is the wrong direction. And finally, Llamas are originally North American. They made it south and then died off in the north. All on their own. No...

You do not have to have a PoD before 1054 to keep the church united. Probably best if you didn't. All you need is to get everyone some time to mend bridges better. The whole mutual excommunication thing wasn't important, nobody saw that and went "and now our churches are different." No, it was...

I agree on both counts. In non-ASB more advanced new world scenarios, I tend to prefer later PoD's because I want to see OTL cultures develop differently. Saving horses is so early it makes that infeasible. It's possible. The reason I think this sort of thing wasn't done is that it wasn't...

This is ridiculous. The condemnation of Aristotle's books in Paris only applied to the university of Paris. And only to a specific department. Even the wiki article you cite points out that other universities taught Aristotle, and went out of their way to mention this fact. What we don't see...

I mentioned Heath Hens. They'd probably make a good chicken analogue if things went differently. Turkeys and Muscovy Ducks are domesticated now. Blue-winged Teal and Mallards I've seen suggested for other potential domesticated ducks. Really, the new world (assuming a PoD that's not 10,000...

Best case does make disease two-way at least, which "evens things out" so to speak. I agree insomuch as this is probably one of the biggest needed additions. Adding more things doesn't help if they stay too localised. I do also think that people overestimate the problem of a north-south...

In what way was Gomez Addams a sociopath? He's just weird, but is generally a nice guy. Like all the Addams's. Except Wednesday, who can range towards being a terrible person depending on what media we're talking about. Incidentally, what a great ASB idea that is. Gomez could probably win...

I always wondered why nobody did like, a "best case" scenario for the New World. You have things like Mississippi Rice and Ice and Mice. Mississippi rice killed corn, and Ice and Mice is rather late. Bronze Age New World only assumed a better spread of ideas, it didn't add anything. While I...

Do they? Aurochs, I mean. They seemed to be violent dangerous animals that are fairly similar to American Bison in terms of hierarchical structure. Sheep are an example where it's pretty clear that you can establish a dominant role over them. From what I know of horses, them too. Aurochs? If...

I don't think "Geography" had that much do to with it. It was a factor. Minor, in the grand scheme of things I think. The bigger problems were more along the lines geology and flora/fauna. One will notice the only places that developed Bronze were the places that had both Zinc and Copper close...

They said from the beginning, it creates two huge, advanced, Aztec and Incan empires at the start. I'm currently in the process of playing to the end so I can convert. Started off as Connacht, then united Ireland, and started taking bits of England using Holy Wars against Norse. It kept...

Forget the "Virginia doesn't secede" thing. That's not fun and wanders away from the OP because it's not necessary. Instead, the obvious way is to have Lee fight for the Union before Virginia secedes. The late Robert Perkins pointed out that Robert E. Lee was stationed in San Antonio in...

I like these movies. I'm confused about exactly what you want too, because you said, In which case he still has this. I think Grownups is funny. I wish I could have seen Grownups 2, but I didn't have the money. Now I will not say these movies are good (in a lot of ways they hardly even pass...

I certainly do. But it seemed that's where you were going.

I agree with both these points. I didn't particularly like Lizzie McGuire, but it wasn't terrible. But if there was a single explanation for why the shows that exist on Disney now exist, it's Lizzie McGuire. Before and during that show's airing, Disney had plenty of live action shows. And even...

Personally, Awake to Emptiness if one of my favourite sections. As others said, the poetry and the 4th wall breaking (it's not 4th wall breaking, the Narrator is not a character and can not break the 4th wall) are unique to that chapter because it's trying to be like Journey to the West. Each...

I'm pretty disappointed in this news. I was totally hoping for a Grossdeutchland somewhere in the 20th century.

The Universities could teach what they wanted, outside of Canon Law and Theology. As it so happens, towards the end we get a mention that Aristotle's books on Natural Philosophy are "not to be used in Paris" until they have been "examined and purged of all suspicion of error." This only applied...

I think it'd be rather easy if you change a few things earlier in the road. Somebody brought up Popular Sovereignty not replacing the Missouri Compromise. And dividing Texas. These two things by themselves I think would probably be enough, but they'd imply other things that would be a bit...

I'm not concerned with probability for this reason here: But you've ignored all this. Instead you're clinging to the forty-three seconds example, which was meant as an example, to show that the Transit and Sojourn clause does not demand a terribly long 50-year definition.