An Italian America: TL

NOT: This is my first timeline, so its not very good.

Lombardy, 1495

Charles VIII, had lost the battle here. It wasn't too devastating, but it did hurt. He had to abandon all of his booty. He escaped but died before he could attack Italy again.

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Lombardy, 1495

Charles, trapped in Naples, marches his forces all the way to Lombardy. There, he faces the forces of Milan, Venice, the Papal States, Naples, and the HRE. Instead of OTL, his army and him are brutally destroyed by the Italian forces, which ends with him getting his head chopped off. To better prepare for another French attack, the powers of Naples, Venice, and Milan all decide to form a convention as to a simple defensive alliance.

Milan, Lombardy, 12 August, 1495

The powers of Venice, Milan, and Naples attend a meeting in Milan over a defensive alliance. Other states decided to send a delegation to possibly join any type of alliance. These states were: Montferrat, Modena, Mantua, Ferrara, and Lucca. After some intense hours of talks, a general defensive pact is fomed. But the next day, Venice proposes something more than an alliance: Union into a possible confederacy. While Milan, Naples, Mantua, Lucca, and Venice are in agreement, Ferrara and Modena seem to oppose any such rule, but a mojority vote says otherwise. Thus the italian Confederation is formed in Italy, effectively loosely allying the seperate states, for now, against the French. Over the next few years, the seperate powers will be focusing on integrating their armies and navies as well as homogenizing their populace into "Italians".

The Pope, who did not attend, sees this as somewhat threateningly, but as of yet, keeps his mouth shut as he has too much going on in Rome.

-The Spanish finally pacify the Canary Islands.
-The Russians are ousted from Sweden.

Naples, 1498

Finally, the armies had been fully homogenized. Meanwhile, the Spanish and french had been fighting over and over about who would inherit the city and Duchy of Naples. Well, the Italians thought otherwise. In a brief and fast attack, they fought with their 20,000 men to Naples to fight off the ZFrench. Aided by some 10,000 Spanish, they bribed the Swiss mercenaries to defect, who did after a large sum of money, and soon, the French found themselves against an army of 38,000. They were brutally taken down here and snet packing to France. Along the way, they stop in Corsica and seize the island, seeing nothing better to do. With Corsica gone, and another attack seemingly imminent, Genoa begins negotiations with the Confederation. This also spreads fear into the Pope, so he prepares his own army.

Savoy, 1500

The land of Savoy had always been so peaceful. Nothing much came out of it. It was neither French or Italian allied. But now, it was time for France to march through Savoy. A fast and easy hit caused the land to fall, with small pockets of resisting here and there. This alarmed the italians, who mobilized their army in Montferrat and soon, the march through Saluzzo was underway, with 20,000 men, the small fief of France was seized, and by 1501, the Italians had occupied around a quarter of Savoy.

- Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabal officially discovers Brazil.
- The Turks capture two Venitian territories in the Morea
- The High Renaissance begins
 
Not gonna happen, this is ASB. Best you can do is to have a temporary defensive alliance, especially if Charles VIII is still able to mount up at least another assault. If that is not the case, any alliance will collapse when the danger is not imminent anymore - alliances didn't last long in late Renaissance Italy.

Maybe you could have Gian Galeazzo Visconti live longer and be more successful in the XV century, and be succeeded by a stable dinasty, but that is going to generate major butterflies. For starters, the kings of France don't necessarily acquire the claim to Milan. Even so, Venice is never ever going to be pals with a stronger Milan.
 
EDIT: Im totally changing this.

1482 Rhodes

Prince Cem asks the Knights of St. John for protection. They grant it, and soon betray his, where he is banished to Europe.


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1482

-Prince Cem, losing to his brother Bayezid, asks for protection from the Kinghts of St. John. The Sultan offers a large amount of money to keep him there as a captive, but they reject, prompting an invasion of Rhodes. The Pope hears of this and calls for another Crusade against the Turks. While the larger countries resist, Venice, Genoa, Milan, Naples, and Spain agree to it, seeing the Turks as a force to be reckoned with (especially Venice). The Pope, appalled that the European monarchies would reject another Crusade, sends a man by the name of Giovanni Battista Cybo or Cibo, the future Pope Innocent VIII, to France to convince the French to come help the Crusade. While it will end with the French supporting the Crusade, the Spanish won't be too pleased.

-Ivan III renounces Mongol rule in Russia
-Portuguese Diogo Cão sails up the Congo

1483

-Too busy organising the Crusade, the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isbella do not expell the Jews. Instead, they are allowed to stay until the Crusade is over. This will help Spain's future and possibly cause a bit of a richer Spain.
-Pope Sixtus sends the future Pope Innocent VIII is sent to the HRE to try and convince the northern countries to support another Crusade. While it is successful, it causes the French to be a bit wary and the English to downright reject a new Crusade. The Swiss and Austrians, though decide to join as the HRE is.

A force of 100,000 Europeans now assembles in the Republic of Venice, who charges a great deal for passage to the Morea and Rhodes. While the Pope is a bit disgruntled at this, No other power has a grand and powerful of a navy in Europe.

1484

- Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as Pope. He now has full control. He sends Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II, to Hugary for any more help, which comes in the form of 30,000 more troops hammering at the northern areas of the Ottoman Empire.
-Rhodes is taken after a two-year siege. Prince Cem and the Kingihts escape to Malta and regroup.
-Beyazid now sees that the Christians have formed a large army and have already landed at Lepanto, a Venitian territory. He sends a force of 60,000 to meet them and take the morea.

1485

-Portuguese land in Benin
- The Crusading forces march through the Morea virtually unopposed as the Greeks rise up in rebellion. The Crusasding army, which is now numbering over 120,000, and the Greek partisians, which number around 30,000, dig down for the sige of Athens. Venice bombards the city with its ships, also engaging the Ottomans along with Genoa, French, Neapolitan, and Spanish ships.
-Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III, temporarily halting Hungarian forces and Austrian forces.

1487

-Archduke Sigismund of Austria is about to declare war on Venice through bad advice, but decides not to because of a large troop deduction and a large mercenary army inside of Venice already.
-Athens falls after 2 years of besiegement. The Ottoman navy is crippled from piracy due to what is left of the Byzantine fleet, the Venitians, French, Genoanese, Neapolitans, and the Knights, who urge for an invasion of Rhodes.
-Italian architects begin construction of the Kremlin.

1488

-Choe'Pu, a Korean Commissioner, is shiwrecked off the coast of China, and later travels along the Grand Canal all the way back to Korea. His written commentary is valuble in describing the Ming Dynasty.
-James IV succeeds James III as King of Scotland
-The Crusaders are split between taking Rhodes or moving up to Thessaloniki. They could split into two groups, but that would be a bit...drastic. And also, it would be quite unsafe. They decide to go to Thessaloniki, with a larch through mountainous Greece, leaving some 50,000 troops behin to guard the land as well as take any other areas from the Turks. Meanwhile, Prince Cem lands in Anatolia with a force of 5,000 French Knights, calls upon his supporters, and soon, full-scale rebellion has been incited throughout Anatolia. His forces now number around 60,000 as he marches to Bursa to reclaim his capital. Beyazid now has forces pounding him on all sides, as the Bulgars have begun to rebell and push into Thrace.
 
1489

-The Queen of Cyprus decides to sell her kingdom to Venice. Venitian troops soon land on the island and improve the defenses.
- Venitian forces soom bombard Thessaloniki, destroying the Ottomans there. The land armies march upo the Aegean Coast, gaining Greek partisian forces and making it to Thessaloniki by 1490. A long siege soon ensues, but it ends by 1450 as the Greeks rebel. As this news is spread throughout the world, Greeks in other parts of the Ottoman Empire rebel as well. Beyazid sens a force of 30,000 to meet the Crusaders, who number 90,000. The Crusaders defeat the Ottomans in the Battle of Thessaloniki.

1490

-Rebellions throughout the Ottoman Empire end with large parts breaking free and the Ottoman empire being reduced to Anatolia and Constantinople. Beyazid now only controls a force of 40,000 as many defect to Cem's side, who has just recently marched to Bursa. Cem digs in for a siege.
-Leonardo de Vinci observes capillar action in small bore tubes.
He later presents war ideas to the Doge, who looks at them oddly, but decides to try them out due to the Crusades.

-Movable type printing is invented in China.
 
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