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The Byzantines were quite famous for using lamellar armor which was a type of armor that used sets of smaller plates fitted together atop a type of padding. What would it take for the Byzantines to adopt Western Style plate armor, or even make their own versions? How would this affect the...

What if Marshall plan instead of foreign aid was wallstreet loans like the dawes plan was? How much influence will US get on Economies of western Europe ?

Shortly after World War 1, Germany was forced to relinquish control over Alsace back to France. However, During the Beginning on the 20's, The still majority German population grew unhappy of French Rule and sought to secede as a united Alsatian nation-state. So on the 17th of July, 1921. Much...

How would Western Europe be changed if the Mongols could conquer it? (This question of whether they could have is asked frequently enough I don't want to ask it again. Personally, I think so if Ogedei Khan didn't die, but it would have been difficult). Would greater connection to the East...

(The timeline this is for.) What would the politicial, economic, and social situation be in Western Europe if the Mongol hordes never arose? Please no regurgitaton of the Chaos TL. Holy Roman Empire's situation. Consequences of a unified Poland (by the Silesian Piasts) on the HRE. Effect on the...

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In OTL, France demanded territorial compensation from both Austria and Prussia in return for neutrality. France demanded Venetia and an independent Rhenish state from Austria in the case of an Austrian victory, Austria agreed but an Austrian victory is very unlikely so we can ignore this...

“Catholic” here meaning those parts of Christiandom which sided with the Bishop of Rome over the Eastern Roman Empire in the Schism of 1054, or those religious sects splitting from said tradition.* No PoDs prior to the 14th Century. *OOC: What OTL would call Catholic or Protestant.

Edit: was a DBWI. Am an idiot. How do I delete this shit?

Okay, so your challenge is basically to have the Far East (as in Eastern Asia) replace Western Europe as the land of great imperialist powers and the metaphorical center of technological and cultural progress (before hopefully eventually realizing imperialism sucks, decolonizing everything, and...

So, today's challenge: have Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, etc) be considered the metaphorical center of modern civilization (even though your mileage may vary on whether it actually is or not) instead of Western Europe. Due to geographical difficulties, colonial empires (at...

Basically just what the header says. It's hard to imagine a world where the Mongols didn't invade and conquer Western Europe just as they did in many other parts of the world. This region became the bastion of Mongol Cultural, Economic, and Military might even as it faded in Asia. These...

So I remember there being a thread on the idea of England having some territory on the European mainland, but I had another idea in the back of my mind: what if "England" never hopped the North Sea, and the Angles ( along with Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) that went to Britain....stayed put? Or...

After WW2, many Western European nations recruited labor from the Middle East and North Africa to make up for shortages in car, textile, and steel industries. In 1970, Western European nations ended labor agreements and provided family reunification rights to migrants that were still there. But...

What if Hungarians were not so tolerant towards the minorities (1867-1918), and they introduce brutal Western European style oppression against the minorities? Would they carve up their minorities? The reality: In July 1849, the Hungarian Revolutionary Parliament proclaimed and enacted the...

Ever since the days of the Greeks, those who named Europe and Asia, the eastern Mediterranean has always been more developed than the western Mediterranean. This persisted through the days of the Roman Empire. When the moldboard plow made the heavier, cooler soils of Sarmatia as productive as...

As with my older thread concerning a greater Icelandic standing military, I want to talk about the possibilities of a far earlier air force tradition in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg's military history. A tradition that leads to the existence of a proper (if small) permanent air force for the...