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Assuming the Hapsburgs don't get Spain, and so his death is butterflied away. I know Maximilian was trying to reorganize the Empire's government, but died before it was completed, and Charles never had the time to invest in Imperial reforms. By the time the Hapsburgs were able to pay attention...

At the beginning of 1473 the 24 years old Nicholas of Anjou married the almost 16 years old Mary of Burgundy, dying less than two years later and leaving his young widow, pregnant with their second child, and their son Charles, only few months old, in the care of her father Charles the Bold...

What would have happened if Henry VII was willing to return the part of Catherine's dowry that Ferdinand had already paid? Would Ferdinand have suggested that Catherine marry Prince Henry? If not, who would he have wanted Catherine to marry next? Would he have used her as a pawn to regain...

A/N: Alright guys, as promised, the revived Jewish Ethiopia thread! Hope you guys like it! And as always, do please inform me if there’s any discrepancies in history I made, and I’ll edit them when I can. “To simply point out the sins of the people is to invite anger and condemnation, and...

During the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, the Italian City States (Genoa, Siena, Firenze...) had half banks-half trade conglomerate organisations that concentrated a large chunk of the financial and trade power in Europe. They developed financial innovations such as Double Entry...

The Pazzi family were a Florentine banking family during the middle ages and renaissance, but after the Pazzi Conspiracy failed in 1478, the family were exiled by the Medici, and their name removed from Florence. Challenge: Have the Pazzi family either gain a ducal title, or create their own...

Death is Bitter but Glory is Eternal (Mors Acerba Fama Perpetua) A History of the Sforza Dynasty The Coat of Arms of the Sforza Dynasty "Today the Peace of Italy has died” - Pope Sixtus IV upon hearing of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza’s assassination "Having become libidinous and lustful...

A/N: Alright, here is my promised rewrite of my original Ethiopia TL, and this time it will take place in the 5th century AD, some years before the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Decline of the Western Roman Empire The year 476 AD, a year that marked great misfortune and terror...

Alright, just a quick foreword, this is a TL I've made after reading @twistedirregular's Ethiopia TLs and several Ethiopia AARs on Paradox Forums. This is basically combining Earth's past with my Warhammer Fantasy Quest Dynasty of the Woodfolk on Spacebattles and the possible future that would...

In 1536, Francis III, Duke of Brittany and heir to the throne of France, collapsed after playing tennis and died a few days later. To this day, there's debate about whether he died of an illness or was poisoned (many - then and now - have strongly suspected his sister-in-law Catherine de' Medici...

Challenge: have a member of the house of Borgia marry a member of the House of Medici, and create a powerful Noble Family in Italy.

How far could Cesare Borgia have gotten? Could he have achieved significantly more than he did IOTL?

Now this is probably borderline asb, but what do we have to do to unite Germany as a cohesive nation state (or at least kingdom), separate from the HRE before the 1700s? With or without austria, your choice. Now the easiest would probably be preventing Otto I's forming of the Holy Roman Empire...

In 1539, a tercio of Spanish soldiers fought an impressive last stand against an Ottoman force more than ten times its size led by famed admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa at the town of Castelnuovo (now Herceg Novi) in what is now Montenegro. While the Spanish were eventually overwhelmed and slain...

IOTL, there were some Russian penetrations into Siberia. Some Russians - mainly Cossacks - had dreams of annexing large parts of Siberia, or even conquering the whole of it. Of course, these dreams never came to pass. But suppose they had? What if Russia had been able to take control of Siberia?

Georgius Gemistus Pletho was a Byzantine scholar and intellectual from the late 14th till early 15th century who appears to have had an influence on the "neoclassical" elements of the Renaissance. In the 1410's, Pletho proposed a bill of reforms to the Byzantine emperor and aristocracy, in...

1463 Netherlands, Germany AD 2000 The Cities of Antwerpen, Leuven and Den Haag were cities that the German Empire would use as warm water Port since the Habsburg acquisition of the Netherlands, the Low countries have a French or Walloon community in the South but it has a German/Dutch...

I wanted to branch off in a new thread similar to the one previously made but from a topic that was not exactly covered: slavery, specifically the development of a plantation economy or a mecantilist economy. Would England send in families or single men ? Would there even be a plantation economy...

Assuming the English got to the Triple Alliance/Aztecs first (English Columbus in the north then later voyagers post-1500 began travelling south to look for a Central Passageway to Asia to bypass Portuguese African route monopoly), then what and how would the English approach to colonising or...

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