AH "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" scenarios.

What were the potential AH three way contests in the same geological arena?

You can do it by adding another contender to a bipolar contest, or splitting a unified OTL power into two.

I can think of only three:

1) Second Macedonian unification of Greece, putting the Kingdom of Macedon in the same game Rome and Cathage was playing.

2) Sassanian survival in the Islamic Conquest, reducing the OTL Arab wank to a three-way contest with the Romans and Persians.

3) A resurgent China in the late 19th century, adding another player to the OTL Russo-Japanese contest for domination in Northeast Asia.

And the good old Nazi-Soviet-American three way cold war. (Not counted since it's post-1900)
 
Maybe a Britain that doesn't lose the 13 colonies, a more successful *Napoleonic France, and Russia that remains strong by just being out of range? Or a China that pulls of reform could replace Russia?
 
How about the survival of prince john, son of Ferdinand and isabella. This would mean that austria/burgundy and castille/Aragon would never get unuted by charles V and you could have a three way struggle between spain, France, and the HRE (although, France being sandwiched between the other two, might have a difficult time getting Spain and the HRE to fight each other - but then again France would also be the most powerful of the three)
 
How about the survival of prince john, son of Ferdinand and isabella. This would mean that austria/burgundy and castille/Aragon would never get united by charles V and you could have a three way struggle between spain, France, and the HRE (although, France being sandwiched between the other two, might have a difficult time getting Spain and the HRE to fight each other - but then again France would also be the most powerful of the three)

How about Spain taking part in the scrambles for Italy? And a HRE v. France fight over the Low Countries?

Europe without a supercharged Habsburg dynasty would be a very intersting scenario.
 
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