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Gotta go with the Seminole. A bunch of outcasts and runaway slaves forging an identity in the Florida Everglades, fighting one of the most costly American wars over the course of decades of guerrila warfare.

Absolute rule by a foreign dynasty and democratic constitutionalism doesn't mix that well, unfortunately.

Britain was so unrepentantly racist that Victoria had an Indian god-daughter? Victor Duleep Singh married an English noblewoman, with the intervention of the royal family, so it's not an insurmountable hurdle. The main problem is that a marriage to an Indian princess would yield no diplomatic...

Didn't the French have a seigneurial system in Canada? So, no castles, but still a feudal style of land distribution and management.

Actually, it makes more sense for there to be dozens of small native Bantustans completely surrounded by the US. If the US didn't encroach on native land, that leaves out lots of opportunities for borders with the western tribes.

Would Catholicism even survive in such a case?

Weren't the Rashidun Caliphs elected? So it wouldn't really be right to call them a "line" would it?

Southerners did use a divide and conquer strategy post-war. They pitted poor whites against blacks, which would do better to keep the entrenched landholding interests in power than a policy of miscegenation (because once everyone considers themselves to be the same race, they'll actually band...

Since the Mukden Incident happened only a few months earlier, and Japanese radicals were poised to take power- Japanese radicals whose aim was to empower the emperor, a goal which Yasuhito was sympathetic to- what kind of effect would stronger imperial control have on the outcome of the Second...

For some reason I think Westerners would just refer to the empire as Japan.

Anti-Korean reprisals would be likely, but why would there any plans for full-scale genocide of Koreans? Korea was considered an important and integral part of the Japanese empire- depopulating the country doesn't seem like it'd be conducive to their plans of dominating East Asia.

On January 9 of 1932, Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang threw a grenade in the direction of Hirohito's carriage when he was on his way to a military parade. The grenade missed, instead exploding near the carriage of Imperial Household Minister Ichiki Kitoko. There was little fallout from this...

Have a particularly strong Holy Roman Emperor centralize the state, capture, and preferably rule from Rome. Given a few centuries, the Pope becomes as powerless as the Patriarch of Constantinople.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_expedition_to_Tibet_(1720)

What, do you mean trying to wrest control of the Liaodong Peninsula from the Qing? That seems like it would be difficult since the Manchus had already invaded Korea at that point.

During the collapse of the Yuan dynasty, a faction of the Goryeo court supported a war against the Ming to seize the Liaodong peninsula, sending general Yi Seong-gye to lead the invasion. He would proceed to turn his army around and oust the ruling dynasty from power, forming Joseon. What if...

If you want to play a game focused on commerce and colonialism, go for Victoria II, as it models those two far better than EUIV, which is far more heavily focused on conquest (more so, I'd argue, than Crusader Kings II). If you like micromanaging your nation's economy, Victoria II is the...