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I just had a pleasant surprise. 4th ruler of Seljuk Turks in a row counting from starting one, Arp Arslan, is a Persian Sunni instead as all before him a Turkish Sunni. Now, by the size of the titles they hold first comes "Sultanate of Seljuk Turks" and then "Sultanate of Persia" and so on.. But...

Yes I know the circumstances and difficulty that the said state was in after the described situation, but I'm asking more about what would be the Empire's first step of expansion after they could stand on their two own feet again.

I've been playing a lot of CK2 lately and begin wondering about the first step that the RL Empire would take after the stated wars. The premise is at least that they would pull off a white peace, exiting the conflict unscathed. 1) Revenge against the Normans and reconquest of Southern Italy...

1. Skenderbeg would turn in his grave. 2. Jim Belushi would be the world's first Hollywood celebrity guerilla leader.

After he starts wearing his glorious mustaches he becomes a spokesperson/poster man for world's biggest mustache wax producer.

It would help if they would have more manpower for their horse warriors or at least to master the consistent advance of weaponry technology to be able to counter the Russian colonial advance/Cossack adventurers from mid 16. cent onwards.

For Tsarist Russia - With advent of 20cent, even before 1905 revolution happens expand the powers of Okhrana, predecessor of NKVD and institute the ferocious policies against anyone deemed danger to the state. Anything from shipping to gulag, death threats to the family to simple state...

There was a recent thread about surviving Khwarezmian Shahdom that didn't gent conquered by Mongols and that would help a lot stability wise, although they are still centuries earlier than Shi'a Safavids. You basically need a firm political/religious structure of a Persian state and a lack of...

No problem.

Black Death would still come in Europe since one of the first signs was when Mongols of Golden Horde were trying to conquer one of Genoese trade colonies on the Black Sea, think it was Azov. From there the genoese ships went with infected hosts back to their ports. Forgot about Baghdad...

I have a soft spot for Persia among other countries so I'll comment a little. 1. The population of Persia was so thoroughly decimated by Mongols and in the end Timur that they didn't reach the same level of population until late 19cent. That alone says much. ( And when you read about...

Nah, I doubt it. We have a thing with for warring so we would have ample of reasons and opportunities to be in at least low intensity insurgency 24/7 with wide national supports for rebels. And cooperation between various nationalistic/militant organizations would be very common. Macedonian...

The quantity of men that would work on themselves would improve greatly, be that on mental or physichal agenda, since the possibility of attracting women would be even smaller. All activities that serve as "letting off steam" would be more prominent, also more alcohol and bars, more crimes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_megaprojects A list of russan megaprojects. The future ones include Russia - Sakhalin - Hokkaido tunnel, maybe Bering strait tunnel or bridge.

It seems that one of the truths that are taken for granted here at AH beside failure of Sealion and awesomeness of Teddy Roosevelt is the unquestionable madness of this guy. He was the craziest of all RCW warlords but still, the oddities that wiki provides on him don't make him THAT crazy. ( was...

Monty Python would have less material to work with.

Austro - Hungary in the Entente wouldn't be that improbable, they are a natural ally for UK in their part of Europe. They even had series of alliances during 18cent, don't know the details. For me the big question in this scenario isn't the fact that Russia and Ottomans would be fighting on...

1) Shoot Stalin and Trotsky, Bukharin takes the leading position. 2) Continue with NEP and Korenizatsiya

Paintings would probably be all of the same sort, something similar to N.Korea's socialist realism that portraits only the Dear Leader, the party, state success etc. Toss in the race superiority factor and you got yourself something.

This. And any potentional alternate resistance force beside partisans was cleared off the table. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlatko_Ma%C4%8Dek This guy, Vlatko Maček, was the leader of the biggest croatian political party at the time and unofficial representative of all democratic forces in...