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  1. Brittany Remains Independent Until the 17th Century?

    Kurland and the Knights of Malta had the resources for small colonies. So Brittany could be a player in the colonisation game. Their colonies would probably be too weak to defend themselves without a strong motherland, which means Brittany could lose it in a war. But what's stopping Brittany...
  2. WI/AHC: A "Prussia of the Americas"?

    I think to qualify as "Prussia of x" the state needs to be medium sized. Prussia was the weakest of the european great powers of the 19th century until the german-german war. Previously before the Congress of Vienna or better before Jena it's debatable to even call it a great power. That's why I...
  3. Would the German “imported Kings” convert to non Christianity to rule their new nation?

    It would be smarter for the european prince to marry someone from local families or neighbouring countries than going back to european nobles. They already have ties to Europe but they need ties to their new country as well.
  4. WI the Swiss Confederacy is never formed/doesn't survive?

    Parts of it would be Milanese, parts of it would be Savoyard, some parts would remain either as free cities or low level nobility, while the majority of the territory would probably be subsumed into further Austria. At least if we're talking of the late medieval ages.
  5. No Commies,Marx is Assasinated in 1800's

    Because the interior politics of all great powers change dramatically without marxist parties representing the working class. Anything between the Agadir crisis and the July crisis could have blown up or just fade away like most crises did otl.
  6. No Commies,Marx is Assasinated in 1800's

    In Germany the workers movement wasn't pushed by Marx to be Marxist but by the repression of the Prussian state. Lasalle wanted to work with Bismarck but Bismarck didn't want to. And then when they were outlawed they had no choice but become radicalised. So even without Marx they would be...
  7. WI: Rosa Luxemburg as leader of Germany

    Setting aside the how she's able to become the leader or how the revolution succeeds. How would Germany look like if its led by Rosa Luxemburg from 1919/1920 onwards? How different would her socialist republic look like compared to OTL soviet russia since I think she was critical of Lenin at...
  8. Carolingian/karling Successor States in German

    I don't think that we have contemporary german sources from that era talking about the realms but in modern german it is called Lotharingien, Mittelfranken, Mittelreich, and Ostfrankenreich, Ostfranken. While Germany as a label for this realm is ahistoric but surely something what historians...
  9. No Reformation scenario: is German unification accelerated or delayed?

    There will be no german unification in this case Germany is already unified
  10. Plausibility Check: England permanently divided after 1066?

    On this forum I have sometimes seen scenarios where England is split between William and Harald or someone else. Creating a norman England like OTL in the south and a scandinavian-influenced anglosaxon England in the north as it was before the conquest. Is this a plausible development? I kind of...
  11. What if Gorby did as Honecker Asked and went Sicko Mode on Berlin?

    What would happen if Gorbatschow replaces Honecker with more moderate SED members? I mean the leadership of the GDR couldn't even cope with the destalinisation in the 50ies. Could a Glasnost SED prevent the fall of the GDR?
  12. WI: Merovingians remains the royal frankish dynasty?

    What if Pepin the Short was never able to take the crown of the frankish kingdom? Would a Merovingian be able to mirror Charlemagne success or is Saxony and Lombardy safe for a few more generations? How would it even be possible for the merovingians to remain kings as the last one appointed by...
  13. AHC: William the Conqueror elected Holy Roman Emperor

    The thing is if the current emperor is excommunicated why wouldn't the german nobles elect one of their own as antiking? Something that regularly happened during the timeframe for example Rudolf von Rheinfelden and Heinrich von Salm were antikings in Williams lifetime. Why would the german...
  14. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    If we're talking about science fiction in this alternate timeline one should also note that modern fantasy won't exist as Tolkien will not spend his youth at the western front and Lord of the Rings was written during the second world war.
  15. Not alternate history, move it if you have to. Austria-Hungary's policy towards people leaving the Empire

    Everyone who could afford it just as it is today. Many people emigrated from Austria-Hungary to the US for example.
  16. AHC: William the Conqueror elected Holy Roman Emperor

    While the emperor was elected the german nobles always voted for members of the same dynasty until the family died out. Only later in the 13th century this changed with the election of Otto IV.. So I don't think that's possible without the Salians dying out and William somehow being an option...
  17. AHC/WI: Allemagne, mon amour!

    Were the french royalists who supported the Orleans or Bourbon dynasties also obsessed with the rhine border? If they weren't we could either set the Pod a few years back or as OP did specify second half of the 19th century have Napoleon III toppled earlier or without the Franco-German war and...
  18. It might be ASB but, what if Frederick the Great tried to standardize Low German or even Old Prussian?

    It's too late to standardize low german in the 18th century. This would need to happen in the 16th century with a bible translation.
  19. Malevolent Democratic state

    The United States today fit the bill with the Iraq war and everything else
  20. WI/AHC: A far-right equivalent of communism?

    Which is why they need to be in favour of a big welfare state and maybe racism since that sadly works for right wing populist movements in OTL.
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