- Would it be possible to have a semi-successful German Peasant's War in the early 16th century? IOTL, the popular uprising was of course brutally crushed with more than 100,000 slaughtered.
I don't think it's necessarily guaranteed that they had to be brutally crushed - if nothing else, in a semi-similar situation, the Hussites enjoyed successive victories against apparently insurmountable odds a mere century ago. But my grasp of the era isn't good enough to draw any firm conclusions.
For instance, would a different German Protestant Reformation (e.g. led by Thomas Müntzer) that supported the rebels and gave them better organization be sufficient to turn the tide?