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TX is also severely gerrymandered to maintain GOP dominance in spite of the popular vote.

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Wasn't the multi-generational imperial shift away from the city of Rome partially a response to the institutional strength of the Roman Senate within the city? Outside of Rome, the Emperors could do more of what they wanted with less senatorial meddling.

Right, that too. There's really no limit here.

It really, really, really depends on innumerable factors, but one of the biggest would be: which country was the !US's colonial parent? England's influence on OTL American culture (which is essentially an Anglo-dominated culture) and governance is literally impossible to overstate. A...

Quipu may have come from China originally and spread across the Pacific via Polynesian explorers (slightly dubious source). And Andean societies did have visual art; "Textiles produced by the Paracas culture, for instance, contained vivid depictions of local birds that could be found throughout...

Well it wouldn't be the Báb or Baháʼu'lláh. They grew up as Muslims and wouldn't even try to do a Zoroastrian revival or splinter movement.

Fascinating! What are your thoughts on Judaism and specifically the Cochin Jews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_Jews)?

If the Ottoman Empire doesn't fall apart, why is there a Big Egypt? OTL after WW1 the British forced its "independence" from the Ottomans by coup-ing Khedive Abbas II, the pro-Ottoman / anti-British leader, and putting his pro-British brother in power who proclaimed himself Sultan; Britain...

If Imperial Shiism won't abandon the Hajj then we're going to see a mild Sinification of the rest of the Arab world regardless of Sunni feelings towards them. Thousands or hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Sinified Shiites travelling to the Arabian Peninsula on a regular basis will certainly...

Here's a thought: how will Imperial Shiism (and I do like that term) deal with the Hajj? I don't think that China would be super pleased with a religious requirement to leave China and travel to the opposite end of the known world. That would diminish China's status as the "Middle Kingdom" /...

Oh snap this will have a major beneficial impact on the Mongols Will we see a much, much, much earlier attempt at sakoku by Japan to keep Shia-Chinese influence out? And if so, will we see Japan be conquered by Shia-China or will there be another typhoon miracle as what happened OTL during the...

I don't think that anyone actually believed that the Chinese emperors were literally children / descended from heavenly beings or deities. A Muslim dynasty could claim that "Son of Heaven" is nonliteral and mean "regent" or something, too.

Ooo, I'm intrigued

Doesn't have to be in antiquity. But I thought it'd be easiest starting in antiquity.

With any POD, is it at all possible for a Persian empire to stretch from the Indus to the Pillars of Hercules? I envision it would start with a Persian victory at Marathon or Salamis and subsequently butterflying Alexander the Great. But could such an empire even exist? Or would it be too big to...

Roman, Anglo, Saxon, Viking, and Norman invasions all fail or are less impactful Celtic Christianity remains dominant Because of those two points, the Britons, Scots, and Irish are much more cultirally insular and disinterested in continental affairs - butterflying anything like the Avengin...

Either by butterflying the Islamic part of the revolution or by having the theocracy collapse, how could Iran have become a liberal democracy after deposing the Shah?

I am fully aware of the offical ambivalence Mussolini's regime had towards Jews and of the heroic efforts many Italians, government officials and clergy and civilians alike, took to protect Jews from the Nazis. I think that if Mussolini's regime had been more explicitly anti-antisemitic...

Canaanism was a secular, pseudo-fascist pan-Levantine movement. Like other pan-ethnic movements that encompassed multiple religious groups (e.g. pan-Arabism etc.), it tried to separate itself from those religions to appeal to all potential members. The goal of Canaanism, as far as I understand...