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Pretty sure Chinese depictions of Jesus weren't the blonde-haired, blue-eyed ones you see in American churches. Jesus was either portrayed with dark hair and eyes in the Greek fashion, or as Chinese himself. The popularization of Jesus as phenotypically (northern) European started far after...

Only way I could see it happening is if the Arabic elements are stripped out, at which point it kind of ceases to be Islam in any meaningful way.

Actually, the far more straightforward path is to claim the Roman Empire through King Arthur, who fought and became the Western Roman Emperor in Le Mort D'Arthur.

How does technocracy at all mesh with the decidedly aristocratic/feudal caste system of Edo Japan?

There was a Christian khan (Sartaq) of the Golden Horde in OTL. Have Sartaq avoid his untimely death (though it seems like he was poisoned, so...) and you might have a Christian Golden Horde. I have no idea how you'd make the other three convert, though.

We'd be arguing with Byzantine nationalists over whether or not the Turkish Genocide was a thing, surely...

Rather, Mongols DON'T invade anyone, delaying the spread of gunpowder warfare into Western Eurasia.

Depends on what "no amnesty" entails. If the Union still accepts oaths of loyalty, it'd be a lot different than if they simply summarily executed anyone who had been associated with the Confederacy.

Actually, how would Truman have reacted to this, as well? In OTL, after learning of the true extent of the death toll in the atomic bombings, he immediately gave orders to stop bombing. As Henry Wallace recollected, he didn't like the idea of killing "all those kids". How much more would the...

The hundred thousand Confederate deserters show that there was widespread disillusionment with the cause, especially as the Union started bearing down on the troops' actual homes which they left the army to defend. If the leadership stubbornly fights on, I can only guess that desertion rates...

Given that Southerners would be the ones facing the majority of the terror of the Southern bushwhackers, wouldn't that actually sour the population as a whole to pro-slavery fanatics? Especially since they'd need to "requisition" supplies from the local populace to keep on the fight.

Kyoto was a city of massive cultural and historical importance to Japan. It'd be like if Rome were nuked. Not to mention, Kyoto had three times the population of Hiroshima- over a million people. Had it been flattened, the death tolls would undoubtedly be larger.

Apparently, Kyoto was briefly on the list of potential targets for atomic bombing in Japan. What would be the ramifications if Kyoto were nuked instead of Hiroshima? Effects on Japanese morale, resolve to fight, Japanese culture post-war, etc.?

Except black political rights were secured for decades after the Civil War, and it was entirely decisions by federal authorities that allowed them those rights to be revoked. It's rather odd that practically all threads regarding Reconstruction view it as inevitable that Jim Crow is established...

Juche is not a religion and it's quite ridiculous to seriously suggest that it is one.

Only way I can see them being integrated with continental Germanics is if the Danelaw survives.

Knights of the Golden Circle form their own political party?

The decision to split the Korean zones of occupation along the 38th parallel, and later the decision to ignore Korean wishes and enforce trusteeship over the country directly led to the creation of North Korea. Maybe not in the top ten, but pretty terrible decisions in hindsight.

There were already Anglo-Norman rulers in Ireland in OTL. What OP is asking is if one of them can manage to unite Ireland and maintain independence from England.

...Which is why roughly 2000 African Americans held political office during Reconstruction? The myth that the Union had to accede to the Southern elite is just that- a myth. The reality is that African American rights were abrogated because of a lack of interest by the federal government, not...