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  1. Mr.Wigglemunch

    Australia keeps the "White Australia" Immigration policy.

    If Australia is concerned about its population not growing fast enough, or growing enough full stop it can quite easily seek out a couple of immigration incentives. One that pops to mind is in the wake of the British miners strike it could quite easily give incentives to British miners to...
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    Byzantine Empire converts to Islam

    So then, accepting the very minimal chances of Byzantine conversion without conquest I will take a different tact. Is it possible for Constantinople to ally with the Arabs against their age old enemy Persia early on under Heraclius (even in a minimal role considering exhaustion from the previous...
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    Byzantine Empire converts to Islam

    I know many argue this, but the key difference is that I am seeking an internal shift rather than an external force to achieve this.
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    Byzantine Empire converts to Islam

    Am I right in thinking this is for a few reasons. A) Christianity unlike the Roman polytheistic religion before it is a relatively homogeneous religion, B) It is a proselytising religion, C) It is the state religion and more importantly it is centralised, and lastly D) Islam is considered...
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    Byzantine Empire converts to Islam

    That is a fascinating link, but I take from it Heraclius could have been swayed, it was those around him who were hostile?
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    Byzantine Empire converts to Islam

    It is often discussed on this forum how the Eastern Roman Empire can avert, destroy or survive the expansion of Islam. Conversely threads often also pop up regarding how Roman religion can survive Christianity, or how other religions can take hold, e.g. Manichaeism. I'm interested in the...
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    WI; Julius Caesar still betrayed, but survives his assassination?

    If confident in Caesar's survival Lepidus' Legion stationed outside the city will move in.
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    Why do people think the Soviets will just self-destruct against the Nazis?

    Absolutely, it is an issue that afflicted all sides involved, the Germans included e.g. the generals seeing Moscow as the primary goal and not the oil fields. Conversely, as I argue here, it also means the Soviet leadership won't just roll over when they have faced similar dire circumstances in...
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    Why do people think the Soviets will just self-destruct against the Nazis?

    To answer the OP with a few, in my view, under appreciated factors. 1. People do not really understand the USSR, Marxism Leninism or the Bolsheviks. The nuances of the individuals and the collective that made up the party and the state have been reduced to a cliche, e.g. Stalin's paranoia...
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    Alternate Ideologies

    I wouldn't be so sure. I think it would be less authoritarian but not necessarily less condemning of bourgeois degeneracy, so to say. Two examples, in A Philosophical Review of Reform: "But in the habits and lives of this new aristocracy created out of an increase in public calamities, and...
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    Alternate Ideologies

    A very interesting point! It will almost certainly have a different publication, limited runs in English and French occurred in OTL prior to Percy's death and the first major run of Mary's final edit happened in 1831. This was cut to be much less radical and is the version we're all familiar...
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    Alternate Ideologies

    Shelleyism Percy Bysshe Shelley instead of dying prematurely of drowning in 1822 at the young age of 29 lives til 1862 til the ripe age of 70. Importantly, and most immediately post divergence in this TL he finishes and publishes his what can only be described as a manifesto in 1825: A...
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    When firearms were first itroduced, why was the noise so terrifying on morale? Even after repeated engagements?

    As Mildryth has stated horses would easily spook especially in the earlier epoch of firearms - this would contribute to others breaking their nerve when your cavalry seemingly rout. Also during the epoch of the arquebus many of if not most troops may still be conscripts or levies, cannon...
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    What if the Germans lose a entire armygroup in 1942/1943 in Soviet

    There are two primary components to this, one political and one logistical. The political component was Churchill's fear of the Soviets. The logistical was the resources in all realms (hardware, training, stockpiles etc etc) required for D-day. The funny thing is Churchill was sold totally on...
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    Would Hitler take the crown as Kaiser of Nazi Germany

    The short answer is no. The longer answer is Hitler established a title as already others have stated, Fuhrer. The thing is the thousand year Reich was predicated ideologically on overcoming the failures of German monarchy and the past more broadly that culminated in German defeat in ww1. It...
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    WI: no partition of India

    I did not argue it was a 'good' idea, I posited it as a secular struggle, so please come up with something other than a measly moral judgement. My point was Bhagat Singh and his ilk railed against communalism. What is more, the Hindustan Republican Association he belonged to could have...
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    WI: no partition of India

    Given that India today has 200 million Muslims without collapse into civil war (that is not to say there are not severe issues) I do not think it inconceivable a United India can exist. You need only have the secular current for independence come to leading prominence around figures like Bhagat...
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    AHC: An American "Taiping Rebellion"

    I think John Brown being more competent is key but I think not in the way you suggest. I think if John Brown is competent in garnering even more widespread sympathy (and he actually had it in heaps, both in the US and abroad) he could be hailed a martyr in not just a political sense but also...
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    WI: Anti Slavery Roman Republic

    I can see this happening in a couple of ways, or a mixture. First possibility I believe is feasible is Spartacus, akin to Eunus in the first servile war, proclaims himself a prophet and appeals to both slaves and impoverished plebeians (off the back of the Populares). He either dies a martyr...
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    [Roman Query] - Roman figures who could be as mythologized as Arthur?

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned Spartacus... The man could quite easily be mythologised amongst slaves in a cult like fashion and consequently become more mainstream as slaves become freemen and then citizens over generations. He, in my view, provides numerous possibilities for mythology...
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