AHC: Fewest amount of monarchies possible

ThePest179

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Your goal, if you choose to accept it, is to have as few monarchies* as possible existing in the world by 1914. Good luck....




*Constitutional monarchies count.
 
If the goal is to make as few countries as possible, France was undergoing some dynastic trouble in the 1500s. If Portugal had won the Castillan Succession War, you would have an Eastern Iberia allied to France and a weaker Aragon to be shared between those kingdoms. Poof! One less kingdom. You can merge France and Iberia later using a Royal Mariage, for example with François Ier.
In the North, if England had attacked Scandinavia with French support, there's a way to reduce the amount of countries too.
However, in the Balkans it would mean expanding Austria, Russia, Greece or ottomans.
In my view, you can make this : Franco-Iberia in the West, frontier on the Rhine in the north, Piemont-Sardinia added in the South; Anglo-Scandia as the Septentrion Kingdom (Denmark, UK, Sweden, Norway); Russia; Germany is born from Bavaria instead and has added Bohemia to its lands; Austria stayed united (no problem in second Monarchy of Hungary or Transleithania), with Romania annexed; a New Byzantium in the south covers Greece, Thracia, Bulgaria and Albania; Serbia, Bosnia and Illyria taken over by Italian kingdom (from ashes of Aragonese Sicily as France crushed Savoy)
 
the UP got a good start in 1680otl when they conquered britain (the british keep calling it the glorious revolution though lol). in otl it went more amicably, but take an atl where more force had to be used. and then that combination really goes against france full power...
 
Hapsburgs rule everything by 1700.

Papacy does the same by 1550.

Genghis Khan keeps charging into Europe and a Confederation to fight him is born but becomes the basis for a post-Roman Senate that governs Europe and later the world

Byzantium makes a few key changes anywhere before 1300, or especially if Basil II has three successors as long-lived and capable as he is

Angevin Empire takes France and just keeps going

Spanish Succession eventually causes France and Spain to unite and unify Italy and the Benelux nations. Hapsburg marriage results in combined heir abt 1770 and controls coninental Europe along with much more by 1800. UK and (former) colonies stand alone.

Tunguska event at funeral of Queen Victoria
 
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