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If Japan held onto Korea for longer, or indefinitely, how Japanized could Korea become? What portion of the population would consider themselves Japanese citizens first and Koreans second, and what portion of the population would not be able to speak Korean? Also, how much could the Korean...

The Templars were accused of worshiping Baphomet, often thought to be Mohammed, and disbanded. What would it take for the Templars to actually allow Muslims in their ranks? Bonus points if you have a Muslim Grandmaster. I assume this would entail the Templar Order getting secularized, but extra...

The Seminole Wars were one of the most expensive wars ever fought by the United States. What needs to change for the government and public to give up on the wars, and what is the fate of the Seminoles after that?

Have the majority of Anatolia inhabited by Armenians with any PoD, the later the better, preferably as part of an Armenian nation-state.

Of the style of North Korea, Syria, or various banana republics. Any post-1900 PoD is fine.

What it says on the tin. What's the earliest PoD that would allow for a Basque-Speaking Pyrenees?

Simply put, have Thomas Fairfax usher in a republican government that lasts to the modern day.

As you might know, Sejong the Great created the Hangul alphabet during his reign, one of the most intuitive and easy to learn alphabets ever devised. Why wasn't this invention spread widely in Korea? And further, what if it was? What would be the effects of a fifteenth-century state that had...

What it says on the tin. If Hitler was killed in battle or otherwise disinclined to enter politics and the Nazi party never gets mass support, what are the chances of a Communist government seizing power in Germany after World War I?

Challenge: Get Poland to be the head of the Panslavic movement. PoDs no earlier than the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland.

Challenge: make Italy the central pivot point of the HRE instead of Germany, with the Imperial court in Italy, preferably Rome. Bonus points if it can form a neo-Roman identity and gets acknowledged by the Byzantine Empire.

Ireland recently voted to leave the UK in the 2014 independence referendum and heads towards an uncertain future. It's often said that Ireland was the economic heartland of Britain, paying the way for war after disastrous war. With a population of 20 million, it certainly is a major country in...

How would a Korean-controlled Manchuria look? Would it be possible for a Korean-Manchu commonwealth or would it be more colonial in nature? Would the population of Manchuria be mostly Korean or Manchu? How significant would be the cultural exchange if this happens? Would it be possible for them...

If Canada were annexed by the US sometime after 1781 and sometime before the middle of the nineteenth century, what would its culture be like, especially regarding sectionalism? Would Canada still have a "Canadian" identity, or would it devolve into a Newfoundlander, Quebecois, etc. identities?

Richard Lawrence assassinated Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835. His first pistol misfired, but he had a second gun and shot Jackson outside the US Capitol, causing a debilitating spinal injury to the President. How would history have turned out differently if Richard Lawrence didn't shoot Jackson?

I assume that Germany would inevitably become revanchist even without the rise of the Nazi party, but I wonder how far they would go with their revanchism. Would there still be an Anschluss? Would Germany invade Czechoslovakia and annex the Sudetenland? Etc. Furthermore, of greater interest is...

Have Americans take over the government of a Latin American state and have over half the population have English as a first language by 2000 (or if that's too difficult, at least 50% with ESL). The ruling political class must be of American extraction.

Or any other civilization before the advent of modern birth control? How is it possible for several Roman emperors in a row to be incapable of producing a natural-born heir to the Empire?

Just a question. What sort of cargo and how much of it did he bring with him to the Americas on his first journey (and if you know, subsequent journeys)? I know he had many glass beads and caps, but did he have anything practical? Say, firearms, armor, swords? Did he carry any valuable goods...

Mussolini, as we know, was a leading figure in Italian socialism and first General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party. How would the "Trotsky of Italy" become a leader of a corporate state? OOC note: Fascism, because it wasn't developed in Italy ITTL, is referred to as National Socialism.