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Could the Spanish have taken London? Yes. Repeat 1066, which is what I presume most scenarios call for? As ASB as unmentionable Sea Mammals. If anything, committing tens of thousands of troops, huge fleets and millions of florins to keep England, especially against renewed pressure from...

Odds are right now, the first critically acclaimed video game movie will emerge from the descendants of Machinima, working with even more liberal modding tools a decade or so from now.

Perhaps the Hapsburgs hold on to Southern Italy. From that point, have the House of Savoy somehow go extinct, and the Papal States stripped of much of it's territories and added to the Hapsburgs domains- and you'd get a triple, or even quadruple Monarchy of the Slavs, Germans, Italians and...

Eric the Red Take Two will be arriving in Greenland as the Northern thrust of a Southern European/Ibero-Phonecian descent Global age of Exploration, me-thinks. Retard ship-development in Northern Europe for two or three centuries (and the technological advances that allowed for the Vikings), and...

IC: What Gold Standard? They've been shifting the goal-post since the late 80's every few months or so, to the point that the markets have more or less learnt to compensate and anticipate each change in rates. OOC: I think there's quite a few people forgetting their OOC tag here....

Highly Infectious (preferably via multiple means of transmission), shares less genetic relation with other prior human diseases, long Incubation period and very high mortality rates. Yes.

Well, I think the main point of debate will be how far we'd see the Soviets going past the Rhine, and overunning France. Furthermore, losing 6 divisions will mean that a Torch analogue will be sufficiently delayed, for at least a year, if not two. Might it be that the Germans will only be driven...

For this to happen, you must butterfly the Seljuks away, and keep the Levant, Iraq and Persia a mess of unstable, feuding Sultanates and Emirates, first of all. Only with a massive reprieve in the East, and a very competent and long lasting dynasty on the level of the Macedonian Dynasty could...

Let's face it. Any such virulent plagues, with the long Incubation times implied will very much total most of Eurasia's human population, and probably even cross the Sahara to ravage the Sahel.

Let me point out that a secular equivalent of the effects that you are postulating out of semi-thin air, isolated anecdotes and general prejudices would emerge in Europe, if somehow, a classical Antiquity Empire remained and developed. Let me also ask you another question. In general, China...

Could we see an earlier Turkish menace in South East Europe in the longer run? The Sultanate of Rum on the Danube (and beyond) by 1150 or 1204 at latest?

If you mean, by the aversion of the dark ages, a stable Empire that stretches eventually from the Tigris/Euphrates and the Vistula to the Atlantic and Scottish Highlands to the Lower Nile, I have a radical answer for you. In all probability, this Europe will end up like China. Technological...

An excellent and well written start to this time-line. The truth is, until someone explores in detail how the premise might execute itself, alot of these debates remain very unsubstantiated, However, would Congress ratify the resulting treaty?

That's a first rate Anachronism. I believe the more accurate term, if you wish to use the Greek Equivalent will be Iōánnēs.

If the Ottomans could forge such a huge Empire and be a huge threat to Europe on the very same territorial base, who is to say that a resurgent Eastern Roman Empire under a dynasty of vigorous emperors (for added irony, and in homage to many Post Manzikert Surviving ERE time-lines, of Turkish...

Curbstomp. The Chinese had gunpowder armies by this time. The Green banner armies will sweep the ill disciplined Feudal Levies of the Crusader Kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greater Syria , etc. ESPECIALLY if they have the ability to supply an army all the way that far from the main urban...

Mongols are probably the most plausible way to throw back European development for centuries. The elements for most of the alternatives have already been there - baring a series of massive PODs and shifts , there is no way to make them even stronger IMO. Furthermore , I must ask. Define...

Ha! I'll one up that and nominate Mehmet II.

I'd probably nominate Arminus , though honestly , there was no real danger to the Roman Empire then during the Principate , so any "threat" was bound to be rather peripheral. Themselves is of course a good answer too :D

Quoted for truth. I personally think Khosrau II deserves to be on that list. Almost destroying the Eastern Roman Empire makes you far , far more of an adversary than almost anyone on this list , with the exception of Hannibal or Brennus , ever was to the Roman Empire. Caliph Umar , the Second...