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Because the radicalism of the Revolution never occurs if Lafayette steps on as dictator early, only to restore the monarchy as a mixed regime under a Roman republican aegis. Montesquieu spoke of the absolutism of the Louies being a divergence from the medieval constitution of the French...

Sounds a lot like what happened IOTL. The Church has basically no real power today and the Protestants only give token resistance to secular egalitarian ideas, perhaps delaying but not stopping them at all. OTL was a Christianity megascrew.

Now there's an interesting timeline, assuming we don't let it fall into all of the most tired cliches about more and more egalitarianism inevitably triumphing. This would likely lead to less democracy and more aristocratic republicanism worldwide as the norm. There would probably be local...

Make Saint Thomas Aquinas's texts better known and received. Have him live another fifteen years to finish his commentary on the Politics of Aristotle and defend his metaphysical ideas to the University of Paris, avoiding the condemnation of 1277, such that Aristotelian Thomistic realism...

Acadie was settled originally in 1604 but abandoned in 1611 after Henri IV's assassination. Just cancel the assassination. Reveillac gets sick or slips; Henri IV survives and invades the Netherlands. There is a larger Huguenot population as well as a Catholic Dutch and Flemish population. The...

Fair enough. My thought was that lake-borne trade might still be economical due to its reduction in the distance one would need for road travel to bring goods to port, but I suppose it would just be easier to move goods down the river.

This is going off the other thread about it the Erie Canal were ever built. These are all major cities now on the Mississippi River, of course. That's the theme here. If the interior of the continent were perhaps settled earlier by the King of France or in more numbers by the King of Spain...

New Orleans and Montreal would benefit immensely, and wealth would be concentrated even more in Chicago, St Louis, and New Orleans than OTL. This would happen at the expense of New York City. The interior waterways of the US would be even more important than they are today and significant...

I wonder if the Portuguese will eventually take over the Dutch colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Cape. It's certainly consistent with Portuguese grand strategy for the Portuguese to possess these territories, though I wonder how that might be changed by Terra Nova being the new power base. I...

Wouldn't it just be easier for the Armenians to accept Chalcedon? There are plenty of ways to strengthen Armenia, which usually involve the continuation of the Crusader kingdoms. There are many ways to do this. Saint Louis lives longer and helps his brother take Egypt and secure Jerusalem...

18 million people is equal to the population of France during the Franco-Dutch War, and Louvois mobilized an army of 180,000. I understand that the Portuguese focus on their navy, but at least 100,000 shouldn't be too difficult. And 100,000 in colonial warfare is enough to take most of French...

With a Terra Novan population of 18.2 million in 1800, it seems like they are under performing quite a bit if their only action was 2-3k men marching overland to seize a West Coast trading post. The British are packing a lot more punch despite their significantly smaller population and less...

Yes, I'm quite familiar with the many different rites and liturgical languages, but that is beside the point. The issue is more complicated than that for ecclesiological reasons. Specifically, bishops who reject Ecumenical Councils are considered by the rest of the Church's episcopate to not...

I'm a little skeptical at the idea of the Latin barons adopting the Coptic rite so easily. It seems like there would at the very least be a strong push for the Copts to accept Chalcedon and the rest of the Ecumenical Councils.

Could we get a map, too?

I think that Mongolia, Manchuria, and maybe Xinjiang, too, would take up too much of Russia's attention and cash for them to consider far more outlandish, populous, and exotic lands such as the Philippines. It seems overly ambitious unless Russia can accelerate its industrialization and have...

What is the relationship between the US and Russia ITTL? On the one hand, a closer relationship with Britain might change the equation, but on the other hand, a stronger Russian ally in the Pacific could act as a control on Japanese and German ambitions, applying a parallel pressure stream that...

They declared war on him to reverse the outcome of the wars of the First and Second Coalitions, which were started by the revolutionaries after they overthrew the lawful government and threatened to overthrow theirs. The Republic clearly was the aggressor and was in the wrong according to the...

I suppose a Ninth Crusade that recovers Egypt would actually make a lot of sense. Then Jerusalem to Tunis would be contiguous and we might see an effort to get Cyprus, Armenia, Tripoli, Morea, and various Greek Isles for the Angevin throne. Whether or not any of these conquests could...

I said Philip in my post but meant Louis Joseph. I'm just wondering about the politics of the different alliances. I'm not sure a Spanish intervention would have done very much to stop the revolutionaries.