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Well it's a long way, but those area were - and are still - sparsely populated, beside we are talking of a hunting tribe, without much belongings to carry along. There were no centralized state in the area north of Koguryo, only tribes, so the Raven negociated or fought their way through their...

Yes, but there is still the disease problem. In OTL, that was the main barrier to European colonisation. African malaria is particularly nasty. And don't forget the crop and cattle problem. Wheat won't fare well in this area, and both horses and cattle will likely die

Europe 120 AD - 470 AD Vassals of the Huns : Very little is known about the history of the Raven during the first centuries of the Common Era. They seem to lived in the steppes north of the Caspian Sea. There, they have grown in number and power, absorbing several minor peoples in the...

What have happened : Outside their frozen homeland, Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples have had little impact upon world history.Numbering a few ten of thousands at best, they fished and herded reindeer in the north-eastern reaches of Siberia until discovered by the Russian during the XVIIth century...

Well sorry to say that, but there are a lot of holes in your scenario : Gaston Monnerville was actually instrumental in bringing De Gaulle in power. They had a falling out in 1969 because De Gaulle wanted to diminish the power of the senate. He was not abhorred by the right, and certainly not...

The problem is at that time Britanny wasn't unified in any meaningful way. It was divided into a host of squabling statelets which paid (or not) lip service to Frankish suzerainty. Every so often, there was a rebellion by some warlord, who usually got squashed (Morman, then Wiomarc'h). Nominoe...

Maybe the other way around. During the Viking invasions, the count of Poher, Mathuedoi took refuge in England. His son, Alain II conquered Brittany from the Vikings in 939. In OTL Alain married Roscile of Anjou and had a son called drogo who was basically a puppet of Foulque of Anjou...

Try Arthur of Britanny : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_of_Brittany Just have Arthur escape from John's clutches. John being his usual self, the kingdom will fall naturally into Arthur's hands. Or just kill off John. Richard, being his usual self, won't produce a heir and Arthur...

Well, you can have an independent Corsica propped up by England during the Revolution survive and a larger Monaco which has never lost Menton and Roquebrune. You can also have a papal Comtat Venaissin reinstated by the Congress of Vienna, but aside that... There was no serious separatist...

Elizabeth and Catherine II of Russia, who basically staged a coup and got rid of the legitimate emperor (Ivan VI locked away and Peter III murdered). Anna of Russia might also qualify (the whole Ice house business), but she was appointed by the Council of state. You also have Wu Zetian in...

The main problem for aborigines was not their appearance but their technological level. Papouans and Melanesians looked the same but fared better because they were at the neolithic level and therefore more numerous. American Indians were numerous and advanced enough to put a reasonable fight and...

Well, they tried to grab some land between 1932 and 1939. Let's say it was not a resounding success, even when Zhukov himself was not there. A tank weak army simply won't prevail against an heavily mechanized one... in the middle of a steppe

Afrikaan is far simpler than Dutch, in fact simpler than English, with no grammatical gender and a much simplified conjugation. Afrikan became a new language mostly because the dutch settler where cut off from the Netherland, with no common institution. Quebec French, on the other hands...

There was a story about a French noblewoman who gave birth to a very brown child because she had drunk too much chocolate - at least that is what her physician said. She also had a black servant, but honni soit qui mal y pense:D Let's say that some European queen becomes very fond of...

First you need something to work with, something you have not with Cumbrian or Devonian. Gaelic, Breton, Aymara, Quechua... are living languages, so it is not really revival, at least not the same way as for Hebrew nobody spoke anymore. The possibilities are surprisingly few if you exclude...

Well, Attu is a part of Alsaka, which is a state, so technically the United States were invaded in 1942... the same way the UK was occupied in 1940. Something more, say, spectacular needs a lot of work since you need a big navy, a large industrial basis and some kind of beachhead. Let's try...

With time, both lines will grow apart and Gascony will become just another Duchy within France. Where things becomes interesting is when Louis XI tries to do away with the autonomous principalities. The Duke of Gascony, whoever he will be, may side with Francis II and Charles the Rash, which...

Kim Stanley Robinson has already done it since I am from Nsara (Saint-Nazaire) :D If you don't want to kill all Europeans off, however, it becomes quite harder as the city is relatively new. You'd probably need to kill off Nantes in infancy so that a major port grows further westward and...

That's quite easy in France : just make Mitterand's gambit work and have a part of the right ally with the National Front. The right would split between a right wing allied to the National Front and a left wing which would style itself as autonomous but would ultimately ally with the socialist...

Well, being something of an insider, I can tell you that the PS, when in power, is quite left-center mainstream. They just need to vent a lot of hot air to keep the far left down, but when ruling they are not that different from your average German or Spanish social-democrat (a tad more socially...