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I am curious how one can prevent the Warlord Era and what effects that would have on the development of China. There are of course quite a few possible points where this could be butterflied, but I think a prime focus would be the "westernization" of the Qing Army to the New Army. The New Army...

Was there any real barriers to Gunpowder development taking place outside of China? Plenty of other spots had industrious engineers and inventors.

So, during the 430s before the Hunnic Invasion of the West the Huns battled with the Sassanids in Armenia, supporting a rebellion against the Sassanids in the kingdom. The Huns and Armenians were defeated so the Huns turned westward. The Sassanids at this time was ruled Bahram V, at the time...

After the Defeat at the Siege of Burgos the allied army lead by Wellington makes a run for it across Spain, giving up their recently won territories in Central Spain to French forces who attempt to encircle and trap Wellington and his fleeing forces. In OTL Wellington and much of the Allied Army...

What we need is a Cham wank or a sourcing Cham sate either in Southeast Asia or further abroad in thE Philippines or Malaysia or such.

Just a Trip to Sarajevo In all things said and done Archduke Franz Ferdinand really should never have traveled to Sarajevo. Tensions over the Bosnia annexation were high when the deed itself was done in 1908, that barely six years later the heir to the Dual Monarchy would take a trip, a much...

I know that at least during Roosevelt's Presidency there was some feelers sent out by Germany for an alliance with the United States. They kept a close eye on the Great White Fleet. I don't know how far it went or how close it came to generally and I am curious on how substantial it was.

Your Mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help me devise a scheme that has a People's Republic of China in Manchuria with a Nationalist state in most of China but is not limited to other Communist portions of China. Beijing and Nanjing have to be under a Nationalist government though...

Emperor Kangxi was quite lucky in that at the age of 7 he survived a terrible bout of smallpox which killed his own father and many people in China. He would go on to rule as the most famous and longest ruled of the Qing Emperors and is credited with expanding China to its largest territorial...

Say the ancient Tamil Buddhism that flourished in ancient Tamil Nadu survived and flourished in the region. What would happen for the Development of Southern India?

So it seems that people at the very earliest of the 8th Century believed Jesus had a wife! What if Jesus' marriage was more mainstream in Christianity?

Missionary Berbers Convert the Ghana Empire to Donatism and they take everyone around them with them. What happens?

Kartir from historical sources was a pretty good archtype of the Powr Behind the Throne priest guy. Coming to power under Shapur I he was the Moabadan-Moabad for the next three or so subsequent Shahanshahs of the Sassanid Empire. His influence on the religious development of the Empire and...

For a brief period in 1784, Annapolis was the official capital of the United States and before moving toward DC there was a serious campaign to get Congress to stay in the city. Maryland's legislature would then have moved to Baltimore or to another location in Maryland, possibly St Mary. What...

Basically, Russian forces pretty much barged there way into practically every East European nation, even those unoccupied by the Germans with the exception of Yugoslavia. Is it possible for any of them to not be occupied and forced to join the Warsaw Pact.

What if Kruschev had not assigned the Crimea Oblast to Ukraine and what if the West Ukraine/Galicia Socialist Republic had not joinnned with the Kiev Ukranian Republic?

http://smstirling.com/samples/the-golden-princess-chapter-four/ Buwahahahahaahaha. I spun on my axis though laughing through time after reading that. Long Live King John!!!!

By land, sea, air, and SCIENCE defeat thy enemies! http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?750905-Hearts-of-Iron-IV-Announced-Victory-at-all-costs [img]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=99828&d=1390561646

So, practically all fanciful renditions of Robin Hood have the return of Good King Richard after the death or overthrow of Bad King John. Now, as we know, Lionheart died on the fields of Aquataine before his return to England. What if he had survived and returned?

So, I'm writing a series of short vignietes focusing on New York City after the Change in "Dies the Fire". I've posted a few on the SM Stirling group and their has been an expression of putting them up on the Fanfiction site. So here I will begin posting a few while running them through the AH...