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  1. Communist Sudan: What Would It Look Like?

    hmm - would it get into any really big dam projects that would freak Egypt out? Could it face a Mujhadeen moment? I imagine as a Communist aligned government, it would see its regional allies as Somalia and South Yemen at first, and see Saudi Arabia, and soon Egypt, as enemies. It could join...
  2. Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    I disagree Chrisanity was a small minority before constatine and his succeors . Legaliaztion was a great boom to the church along with the soft power have having a christian emperors. If those factors were missing and say the elite tried to premote another faith I see no reason christianity...
  3. How would Kennedy, Khrushchev, and their governments be remembered if the CMC went hot?

    It would all depend on the propaganda afterwards. Given the overwhelming media power, even in the early 1960s of "Hollywood" and Nicky's rather unfortunate "we will bury you" statement, and his UN shoe performance, painting the Soviets as the Black Hats would have been anything but a difficult...
  4. How would Kennedy, Khrushchev, and their governments be remembered if the CMC went hot?

    Well, the Polaris warhead was hot garbage that probably would have had a 50-75% failure rate if actually fired, while the Minuteman had literally just come into service, was available in small numbers at best, and had a warhead, the W59, that was not terribly reliable either. Between the small...
  5. Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor

    Just winning Costantinople the impact is massive, capturing and Holding Rome even more. If Anything the Banu Ummayd would exploit and took the emperor title, even argue that the Sura-al-rum was a forewarning the romans would come Islam(rhomanoi were people of the book, unlike the sassanids) plus...
  6. Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    You wouldn't need to go that far back. If you can somehow facilitate an earlier collapse of the Roman Empire or prevent it from expanding too far into northern/western Europe then that will give the Celtic and Germanic tribes a lot more power. Pagan religions do lack certain doctrinal advantages...
  7. Do you think the Union would have won a Civil War beginning in 1856, 1852, or 1848?

    1832: Isn't that Jackson's Bizarre Adventure into the South, and his side wins easily? I think I had this discussion about a "Nullification War"; long story short, the Union still wins because of Andrew Jackson...
  8. Basileus_Komnenos

    Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor

    They tried and failed in otl. The Ottomans expended a great deal of manpower and resources with the use of huge cannons to take the City. And keep in mind that Constanople during the 15th Century was a shadow of its former self. It was heavily damaged during the Fourth Crusade thanks to the...
  9. Galloway and the Plan of Union: A Saga of a British America

    On the other hand the key event in British History (or process )was the growing power of middle class opinion and the relative weakening of the power of the West Indies Lobby. Whilst a British Empire would include more slavers conversely BNA would contain more abolitionists with Canada adding...
  10. More Holy Roman Empire Electorates

    How could I forget Thüringen. As for Brabant not quite, the counts of Leuven were dukes of Lower Lorraine (disputed by the later duke of Limburg), counts of Brussels and landgrave of Brabant. The latter was raised to a duchy, while they also were dukes of Lower Lorraine. Lower Lorraine saw a lot...
  11. If not Russia what would have been the most likely state to have been the first to turn communist?

    I have always thought the left wing--right wing continuum is more of a circle than a straight line. Take away Hitler and a left wing revolution would have been plausible in Germany, Similarly the French Third Republic was weak and I can see how a totalitarian regime could have taken root...
  12. RedKing

    An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V

    Oh I see! That makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying that!
  13. Reagan’s reputation on economic issues if no assassination attempt?

    GeoDude: Are you positing that the absence of an assassination means Reagan has different policies, and hence a different reputation? Or that he keeps the same policies, but his image is still interpreted through a different lens? Either way, I wouldn't see much difference. I think RR is...
  14. Archduke

    Baltic Blunder: Europe at war in 1727 (the 2nd Edition)

    Ask and you shall receive.
  15. Archduke

    Baltic Blunder: Europe at war in 1727 (the 2nd Edition)
    Threadmarks: 23: Return of the King

    23: Return of the King Sir Robert Walpole When negotiations in Vienna finally resulted in a signed peace treaty, King George II of Great Britain was beyond distraught at terms that Waldegrave had agreed to. According to the Treaty of Vienna, George II's birthplace, the Electorate of...
  16. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A short film made by New Zealand conceptual artist and avant grade film maker John Lennon. The film is basically just a movie of Lennon getting his haircut by an old friend from Auckland who gives him a bad haircut. In the meantime the two men talk about current events in New Zealand and the...
  17. galileo-034

    Feeble Constitution - A Red-and-Green Russia 1917 Timeline

    Not discovered yet, but suspected, which might be as good for the British government as if oil wells were running, at least in a context where the British are firmly pro Saud instead of playing both sides. For instance, Frank Holmes went at some lengths to get a concession in the region from Ibn...
  18. An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V

    Not really. The claim of the main blood line was the “Brienne“ one and the direct line there go to Charlotte’s cousin Isabella and her daughter Bona Sforza. Still that claim was united to the “Cyprus” one (held by the Savoy and then Laval) who was a line junior than the Brienne one, but the one...
  19. The Reform Party: 20 Years of History

    Whats the Internet like in this timeline?
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