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Keep Frederik II of Denmark from getting a male heir and kill of his eldest daugter before she get a child, he had already made a deal that his line would be inherited in the female line, meaning that James VI of Scotland would become king of Denmark through his marriage to Anne of Denmark.

Yes and I could walk to Oregon from Paris by crossing the Bering Strait in the winter.

Seeing as Zheng He's fleet was land huggers not deep sea vessels, no just no.

Yes and no, Austria need Germany to back them up, but Germany need Austria too, simply because it's their only ally they can fully trust. Also if Austria beat the Hungarians into a bloody pulp, they're suddenly free to push reforms through. The reforms the Austrians planned (land reform in...

I think we're more likely to see a short civil war, and when Vienna force through all the refoms they want. I don't think the Hungarian army will have a chance against the Austrian one, especially not with the minorities in Hungary rebelling and with Germany telling AH's neighbours (Italy...

A Mesoamerican discovery of gunpowder would be interesting, but it would have relative small military value. They would not be able to make guns and any cannons they would make, would be on the border of useless.But that doesn't mean that gunpowder would not have uses. You could make rockets and...

I think Austria giving the Polish territories up is unlikely at best, but not impossible. But what I find more likely, is that Austria just annex Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and unite it with Dalmatia, Slavonia and Croatia as the third kingdom. This will limit or even remove the South Slavs...

East Germany was one of the most successful Communist countries, but in many way it was in full decay when USSR fell. The primary reason that East Germany was so successful was because private ownership of light industry, farms and trademen business. But by the early 1970ties USSR pushed the...

The problem with a Amerindian-"African American" alliance, are that there lack common interest. Yes they had a common enemy, but it's too large extent something which exist in modern pop culture not something which existed on the soil at the day. Let say that you're a Amerindian anno 1700 in...

To adopt medieval agricultural practice you would need first to develop the heavy plough, and that would demand that the blast furnace was developed. Also to get the true benefit of medieval farming you would need red clover to spread, and at the time red clover had not been trough the radical...

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I think Dutch West Papua is quite possible, they mostly left it because of international pressure (the same as in Suriname). If UK have begun to integrate some colonies, I would say that West Papua would be a good case for one, as it had a relative small population. The three Guyana colonies...

Okay so Ottoman Italy would be possible if France just had been ruled by retards. Because that's the only reason that France don't see a problem in Ottoman conquest of the Italian peninsula and dominace of the western Mediterranean. There are a lot of difference in selling Hungary and Vienna to...

I think when we look at the conquest of Italy we need to look at the peninsula The entire peninsula are dominated by the Apennine Mountains. What do this mean? It mean that it's easier to supply force on the western side from the east by sea, than over land. So let imagine the Ottoman...

It depend on when. I would say before 1618 it was fully possible for the HRE to set up "imperial" colonies, as it would simply be the Hanseatic cities setting up colonies under Habsburg suzerain. After 1648 it's no longer possible, here any colony will be seen as part of the German city or state...

I would imagine that the British and Prussians would be in a weaker position, while Austrians would be in a stronger position. I think Russia got what they could get. But Austria may be able to force the Wittelsbach to accept losses in Bavaria against a stronger position in the Rhineland. The...

I don't think in any realistic timeline, where Germany fully federalise we will see a partitioned Bohemia, in all likelihood it will be part of Germany, in the same way Catalonia is part of Spain. Of course we may see a strong seccessionist movement, but not necessary. Austria and Bohemia...

I think that altwere come with most of the good points, beside that when you have a literate tradition in a alphabet, it make a lot of sense to upkeep it, to avoid that the "hardware" (the old books) become obsolete, even more so at the time, when it took one specialised worker, several month to...

I think you overestimate how difficult it is to upkeep different alphabets, runic survived beside the Latin alphabet until 1500+ (and only died out, because of increasing literacy in the Latin alphabet, as Lutheranism put a focus on teaching it, so that people could read the Bible). Here Gothic...

Interesting, seeing as Chaplin was completely non-Jewish