A temujin that becomes a monk may never create the infrastructure that is largely responsible for the modern world. That could be a horrible earth.Or Temugin to keep his goals modest and became a monk.
Oh my....there are so much possibilities... starting with the Roman emperors, the Byzantine ones, up to the Russian ones. Every country had at least one guy in charge who could have being done much better....
Yeah but then he would never have been elected and wouldn't have made any difference anyways. Your best bet is to make him still a little racist against Natives but not as much as he was.
Victoria didn't remain idle for 40 years after the loss of Albert. While she always dressed in black afterwards to indicate her widowhood and there was indeed a short periode of time where grief overcame her and she isolated herself, she still went back to her role as Queen eventually. In fact, Victoria opened the Parliamentary session of 1866, five years after Albert's death.Or, for a funny option - telling Queen Victoria to just get over the loss of her husband and go back to leading the country instead of sitting in a room crying for 40 years. Granted, this probably wouldn't have any real effects on the world.
I'm not sure that would lead to a better world. If Caesar hadn't become as important as he did, it's likely that Pompey would have taken over... And Pompey was an Optimares, not a Populares like Caesar.Caesar follows the will of the Senate and doesn't invade Gaul.
You're probably thinking about Adolphe Thiers, the first President of the Third Republic and the man legally in charge of France after the first elections of said First Republic. I don't think that would be in-character for Thiers to accept the Commune taking over: he was a moderate that hated radicals."Should I crush the Paris Commune or let it subsume all of my country? Eh communism is pretty neat I guess."
- Whoever the leader of France was in 1871
Hmm, since no one seems to have mentioned this so far: I'd convince Khosrau II to not invade the Roman Empire in 602. If I could change some OTL ruler's mind before they became top dog, I'd probably convince Phocas to not revolt against against Maurice, but that is problematic as he then won't be a ruler...
I am not entirely sure it would lead to a better world, but it could and it would certainly be radically different enough to be exciting. Especially if folks in the Roman Empire take the ideas of John Philloponus to their logical conclusion and figure out Newton's laws a millennium in advance. At the very least this would spare the Eastern Mediterranean a century of bloody fightingalthough someone else might fill the vacuum and flatten the two giants , leading to roughly similar results.
Victoria didn't remain idle for 40 years after the loss of Albert. While she always dressed in black afterwards to indicate her widowhood and there was indeed a short periode of time where grief overcame her and she isolated herself, she still went back to her role as Queen eventually. In fact, Victoria opened the Parliamentary session of 1866, five years after Albert's death.
I'm not sure that would lead to a better world. If Caesar hadn't become as important as he did, it's likely that Pompey would have taken over... And Pompey was an Optimares, not a Populares like Caesar.
You're probably thinking about Adolphe Thiers, the first President of the Third Republic and the man legally in charge of France after the first elections of said First Republic. I don't think that would be in-character for Thiers to accept the Commune taking over: he was a moderate that hated radicals.
The second thing is that it wouldn't be Communism... But "Comunardism". And frankly, I'm not sure that's a good thing: the Commune of Paris is one of History's most glorified mess from my POV, especially on the left side of the Political Spectrum. Some of the ideals of the Commune were good and the repression it faced got out of hand... But the Communards weren't white doves themselves: they set fire to a bunch of Parisian monuments (most notably the Tuileries palace) and most likely tried to have others burned (Notre Dame was on their list), they executed a bunch of people whose only crime was to disagree with them or not being to their liking (like the Archbishop of Paris) and more importantly they didn't want to end the war with Prussia, or should I say the newborn German Empire.
Which also bring to my last argument: even if France turned Communards, I'm pretty sure Bismarck would react in a "Kill It With Fire" way, justly because it's not a France that is accepting her crushing defeat...