To be honest, any French 75s (the good 75, not the ones they exported prior to the Balkan Wars) they have would still be perfectly acceptable pieces during WWII.
Probably, (I mean Catherine's age should've been a bit of concern). That's why if he is better prepared to be King, he could just wait until 1512-ish, to marry Eleanor.
Well, I can say that the map of Italy shown at the beginning would match pretty well the map of the Confederation at the end of the war. It would just happen 70 years earlier. XD
You mean those currently busy repressing their own ukrainian populations?
Anyways, its not like Ukraina was happiness and sunshine in OTL, and the Soviets were never seriously threatened that late.
I believe the Asmarid Empire would be more of a modern naming convention to separate the eras of what is essentially the Umayyad Caliphate, which would most definitely be the endonym of the entire empire. It's still a Caliphate despite the Hajib and the Majlis running the show.
As for the...
At the end of the 1970s, my family traded Canada for Ireland. We would have loved to have experienced Canada's economic decline of the 1980s, as compared to the form decline took in the Ireland of that decade!
Only if you can get them to expand beyond the fur trade? In Hawaii the main draws would be a place to grow tropical crops (like pineapple and sugarcane), a strategic location in the center of the Pacific, and (later) the tourism industry.
Quoting my OP:
I suggested that he lives until 1654 (3 1/2 years longer), but actually it could be as little as six months longer: just long enough for Mary to become pregnant with a second child. Thus the effect on Dutch politics should be minimal, unless OTL William II died at a critical...
Anne Holland would be perfect for Buckingham, if she had a brother (who would be a good match for Cecily Bonville). George Neville can get Elizabeth de la Pole (o a daughter of Edmund, if he had one of the right age)
A temporary speed-bump in the grander scheme of things, but a commando raid on some of the petro-chemical works in the Middle-Atlantic states or the Gulf Coast. Big showy fires, toxic fumes, rattles the hell out of the locals. "Where's the Army!!! Where's the Navy!!! Where's the Coast...