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  1. inawarminister

    Why did Subhash Bose think he would succeed in conquering India with Japanese help?

    Well the Allies did that in Indonesia, fighting for four long years to stamp down on Indonesian independentist movement. So there must be some campaign to try doing that, but as you said America will probably block it at the end (just like in Indonesia 1949!)
  2. inawarminister

    Independent Bali.

    southeast java (Blambangan) was basically a Bali outside Bali, but yes central java is also similar. High Mataram culture is Islamised Majapahit culture after all. Since the 1900s Banyuwangi has been a center of NU Islam culture though, as examined here...
  3. inawarminister

    Independent Bali.

    1945 POD would not work since the Balinese were already put inside the conception of the Indonesian nationhood (keep in mind all the Dutch East Indies were put inside it except West Papua at this time). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jong_Java Remember that with the exception of religion, Java...
  4. inawarminister

    Mamluk Egypt Gunpowder Empire

    You'd probably need Mamluks to adopt local Egyptians and Syrians as infantry armies armed with pikes and guns earlier.. Maybe during the wars against Il-Khanate? And economic development of the Red Sea, maybe dominating all the way until Somalia. As Elfwine mentioned, Egypt alone isn't enough.
  5. inawarminister

    Was Iberia always bound to be reconquered by the western powers?

    Eh, Sicily was full of Muslim minorities and they never persecuted the local Christians; still ended up deported by 13th century Catholic rulers. Read https://www.jstor.org/stable/40350668 This era is not an era of tolerance by Christians. (Or at least Catholics). The only way to make Muslim...
  6. inawarminister

    AHC: Monotheistic pagan Rome

    Secularly, Zoroastrianism Monotheism/Dualism seem to came from pre-Gathas Vedic-alike sources. the oldest Vedas had Lord Varuna, lord of the heavenly waters, and Mitra etc. And the relations between Varuna and Mitra... https://sreenivasaraos.com/tag/varuna-and-ahura-mazda/ and: So there you...
  7. inawarminister

    AHC: Monotheistic pagan Rome

    Depends, some of the Hinduist heterodox school that identified their personal cult god with the One and deny all others actually look pretty monotheistic to me, at least secularly very similar to the old Yahweh-El cult forming process (again, as speculated by secular historians). And...
  8. inawarminister

    A Greater House of Islam

    Hmm, on one hand 889-era galleys should not be able to go directly from Iberia to Hispaniola/Caribbean isles, but West Africa <--> Brazil route should be achievable due to the trade winds. That would butterfly Mali very much. You just need the POD of someone being able to navigate using...
  9. inawarminister

    TL Planning/Brainstorming : Mu’awiya takes Constantinople

    Hmm, most Iranians were Sunni still until the Safavids. Most likely 70:30 or 60:40 but the majority were still Sunnis. There were actually more Shiites in Anatolia than in Iran until the Great Realignment lol. the Shia Fatimids actually started Arabization in Tunis and Algeria by sending the...
  10. inawarminister

    PC/WI: Sudanese Egypt

    the Fatimids did conquer Egypt through force from the West... Why not the South? Which year was the Sudanese most powerful and politically united anyway? Latter-day Fatimids might be a good potential to get conquered. Not one of their subjects revolted in support when Saladin came after all. The...
  11. inawarminister

    TL Planning/Brainstorming : Mu’awiya takes Constantinople

    Most of the languages replaced by Arabic were Afro-Asiatic, including Amazigh languages and Coptic. And the Aramaic zones of Syria and Mesopotamia. Greek language might survive with a native dynasty rising up while still swearing fealty to the Caliph, like the Iranians did, or by culturally...
  12. inawarminister

    Under wings of the Zilant: a Golden horde timeline

    Man, at last I will see a proper Timur invading China. Can't wait. And the Tartary Siberia sounds really cool Just one question: will there any potential for anyone from Asia discovering the Americas due to all the nomads alternate fates? Can a few ordus escape all the way east they end up in...
  13. inawarminister

    WI:Egypt successfully modernized and industrialized

    could a more developed and integrated Sudan solve this? Was it possible to fix the cataracts so boats of iron ores and coals can sail up the White and Blue Niles?
  14. inawarminister

    Get a long term decently sized Hellenistic state, outside Mediterranean, surviving to the Modern Era

    Thanks for the correction, my impression came from local highschool history classes so I know it's bad but didn't know how bad. Meh, it's legends so timeline doesn't make sense, typical. The fact that Indianization of SEA takes place right after the Kushans overran all the Indo-Greek mleccha...
  15. inawarminister

    Get a long term decently sized Hellenistic state, outside Mediterranean, surviving to the Modern Era

    There's a legend that the Malays/Minangkabau in Sumatra and West Borneo (or at least their royals/nobles) are descended from buddhist Indo-Greeks fleeing the Kushans through ships to the east (the fact that upper-caste Hindus of post-Ashoka India seemed to have alread practiced the Sea-Crossing...
  16. inawarminister

    WI: Rashidun Aksum?

    Weren't one reason why Islamic adventurers/missionaries didn't penetrate Trans-Sudan Sudan- I mean Central Africa, was because of Ethiopia? There might be Somali-Ethiopian adventurers raiding Lake Chad and Zaire for riches and slaves and making sultanates there. Are Ethiopian armies reliant on...
  17. inawarminister

    Latest Germanisation of Czechs

    Yeah well, if ~50-70% of Czechs are Germanised like how Western Maghrebis are Arabised, I think it'll satisfy the requirement of OP. So keep the cities speaking German, avoid any repopularisation of Czech language, and have the Bohemian authorities start proper schooling in German only in later...
  18. inawarminister

    Latest Germanisation of Czechs

    I hear the Czech cities were pretty much Germanized, with Czech language only surviving in the rural area around early 1800s before the reflowering of Czech language due to novelists and art makers. Butterfly that, and the rural areas will speak German too with the coming of standardized school...
  19. inawarminister

    WW2: Germany with 100 million people

    Wouldn't a surviving Imperial Germany have the demographics trend for this? Of course not 100 million Germans, more like 90, million Germans and 10 million minorities, but spade is a spade
  20. inawarminister

    Muslim China? Challenge accepted!

    Indeed. OTL Twelver Shi'ism is stereotyped as Iranian religion, so TTL Imperial Shi'ism might be stereotyped as Han religion while those against them choose other sects/cults as applicable (like OTL Pashtuns (?) Turkmens and, of course, the Ottomans themselves. Though the last is mostly just a...
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