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  1. Map Thread XXI

    The autonomies would largely predate the revolution if it happened in the 20th century because a lot of the reservations already existed with some measure of self-governance, but tend not to be shown on most maps on this site. The only reason they would be gone would be if the Revolutionaries...

  2. Map Thread XXI

    Looks good! If this is a WIP, great start! One nit-pick I have about communist USA scenarios is that you would expect there to be a lot more autonomous regions for indigenous peoples (and maybe also for black people) similar to what you see on the map over there in Russia and China. You figure...

  3. Map Thread XXI

    That's a lovely map, but barring a pretty significant ATL, that's not the location of St. Louis, Missouri. It's closer to the midpoint on the line between the place you have labeled as St. Louis and that place in central Illinois. Tucson also looks like it's where Phoenix should be.

  4. Who Would the CSA go after first, Cuba or Northern Mexico?

    They would try to take Cuba, the desire was there and the plantation economy was more amenable to the institution of slavery. They might succeed in the short term but local rebellions would likely turn it into a quagmire. Spanish attempts to hold the island in the 1880s were about as brutal as...

  5. Map Thread XXI

    Also I think the motto would be something more like "Ad fidem honoremque firmus." Per Lewis and Short, "firmus" usually uses the preposition "ad" + the accusative case, and "fidelitas" (which would have to be "fidelitate" if governed by the preposition "in") seems a bit redundant.

  6. Map Thread XX

    So I noticed the US color scheme is a bit weird. What are the political developments there? I also noticed you showed the larger reservations on the map (with the exception of Eastern Oklahoma). Do they have a different legal status in this US than OTL or are you just doing something I wish...

  7. If not for the dominance of Islam would North Africa and the Levant region be viewed as more interconnected to Europe?

    I mean if the butterflies flap their wings a lot could happen. New Persian dynasty could be much better at securing that territory than the previous ones had been. Roman Africa might be considered part of whatever idea of "Europe/The West/Christendom" eventually develops, but it could also be...

  8. If not for the dominance of Islam would North Africa and the Levant region be viewed as more interconnected to Europe?

    I mean it's not like it wasn't interconnected already. There were extensive trade links between the Middle East and Europe even after the former went Muslim, with Middle Eastern architecture, fashion, cuisines, etc. having a huge influence on Europe at the time. Do you mean that the Middle East...

  9. Why was Islam not seen as a "heretical Christianity" instead of a new religion?

    True, but Manicheism if anything shows the importance of the former criterion as well. Mani was raised in a (very heterodox by today's standards) Christian sect and explicitly claimed to be the "Paraclete" that Christ promised would come after him in the Gospel of John. Nonetheless, Mani didn't...

  10. English culture if Harald Hardrada won

    If other European kingdoms are doing it, there's no reason to think England won't. If their naval forces are more interested in dominating North Sea/Baltic trade, then it's possible they just won't be interested until most of the good land is taken. That said, I think colonization is too far off...

  11. Best-case scenario for the Jacobites

    I guess it depends on the POD. Imperial support is probably the easiest way to do it, unless something really crazy happens and you get a non-Chalcedonian revolt and conquest of Egypt that also extends up into Syria. Islam would probably have to be butterflied away too otherwise....oh, you mean...

  12. WI: A pope killed by other Christians

    Pope Vigilius was imprisoned in Constantinople by Justinian. It wouldn't be hard to have him die there. Wouldn't exactly be an execution but it would essentially be killing a pope. This could actually have huge effects on the development of the church so that we get an earlier great schism, or...

  13. Less Racist South in a Confederate Victory

    The attitudes in Virginia were not something I was aware of, but there remains the larger issue of the Confederate Constitution. This is the procedure for amendments (of which I'm sure at least one of you is aware): That's going to be very hard to accomplish. You'll have to get two thirds of...

  14. Less Racist South in a Confederate Victory

    Lol beat me to it. I think you'll have to make them less racist towards the Japanese, but the fact remains in any Confederate victory scenario a white Southerner will likely be more racist against black people than their OTL counterpart. The right to own black people is why the South rebelled...

  15. AHC: More “Shogunates” around the world

    Abyssinia functioned more or less this way during its decentralized Zemene Mesafint period from 1784-1855. The rulers of Yejju province were usually the Regents for the Emperor, and exercised authority over the other feudal lords much as the shogun did in feudal Japan.

  16. AHC: "Protestant" derivative of the Orthodox Church

    It's a bit more complicated than that. Constantinople did claim a more limited type of supremacy over most of Eastern Europe because much of Eastern Europe was under its direct jurisdiction up until the beginning of the 20th century. It also had a strong de facto authority over the Eastern...

  17. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    It's also worth noting that the conversion of much of the core Muslim areas to Islam took a long, long time. From what I understand, much of the Middle East was still plurality Christian by the time of the Crusades. Other areas like Spain and the Balkans which saw centuries of Islamic rule did...

  18. WI - Orthodox Christian equivalent of the Protestant Reformation

    That doesn't quite fit the OP, which asks for a surviving Byzantine Empire. I don't think it fits the politics of the Ottomans either, who would probably not want to give Lucaris that much support because it would create unnecessary schisms. By that point the Ecumenical Patriarch was the...

  19. WI - Orthodox Christian equivalent of the Protestant Reformation

    I've commented on threads like this before, and rather than drag up my old posts about why the ideological/theological/political framework isn't really in place in the Orthodox East for Protestantism as it arose in the West, it might be more conducive to ask the OP: What, for the purposes of...

  20. WI: Martinos Eleftherios and the Orthodox reformation?

    I've mentioned this before and will do so again here. What would the grievances be that would motivate a Reformation? There needs to be a sense that the Orthodox Church is so rotten to its core that there has to be something wrong with the doctrine, not just its administration (schisms over...
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