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Iif the Spartans had won the Battle of Thermopylae, the Chinese would have made it to America and Rome would have survived? As well, Spain would conquer England successfully, and somehow that would result in the Confederacy winning the Civil War which would clearly end up in the Nazis winning WW2.

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This kinda reminds me of the wackier side of DoD. I mean, really, how in the hell would the secession of New England necessarily lead to surviving slavery in the mid-20th century and the British Kingdom setup(including Canada and Ireland, no less!)? Or Germany taking over parts of Italy and France but not annexing Hungary, Croatia or even Poland after taking over Austria?
 
This kinda reminds me of the wackier side of DoD.

Sometimes things are just meant to turn out different from OTL, but sometimes there are good reasons for it.

I mean, really, how in the hell would the secession of New England necessarily lead to surviving slavery in the mid-20th century

It doesn't automatically make this so, but it allows for a strong possibility that it would.

Consider that:

i) in OTL, the South did its absolute utmost to impose its preferred racial system (ie black servitude) and make it as harsh as possible. Slavery was held onto until forcibly abolished at gunpoint. Even then the South pushed for as harsh a system as they could impose afterward (Jim Crow), and only ended that when forced to by Northern pressure in the later half of the twentieth century.

ii) the OTL South really, really didn't care what the rest of the world thought of their system, either slavery (when it existed) or Jim Crow (afterward). "Screw you guys" about sums it up.

iii) without New England, New York and New Jersey, Southern-style attitudes become dominant over the large majority of the *USA, and can be expected to remain so.

The rest follows from there.

and the British Kingdom setup(including Canada and Ireland, no less!)?

In OTL, the reason that Canada became a Dominion rather than a Kingdom was because the British worried about the American reaction. (Yes, seriously.) ITTL, the British view of the American reaction is "stiff shit". The rest follows from there, too, in that Canada and Ireland are essentially Dominions, but with monarchs. Canada's case is a little quirky in that particular circumstances (*Metis rebellion, mostly) leads to the monarch having some actual power rather than being a figurehead, but that's just an oddity.

Or Germany taking over parts of Italy and France but not annexing Hungary, Croatia or even Poland after taking over Austria?

Quite different circumstances. TTL's Germany did not "take over" Austria, it was a voluntary union which started out as a defensive pact and customs union and only slowly evolved into a German nation.

Germany, as it existed in 1848 in OTL (and similarly ITTL) consisted of people who wanted unification of German-speaking peoples, and most explicitly did not want too many of the Habsburgs non-German subjects included. This meant that a voluntary unification of Germany in *1848 had to exclude most of the non-German speaking subjects. It didn't exclude them entirely - any more than some Polish-speaking peoples were included in Germany in OTL - but it did limit them.

The compromise was that, with Hungarian nationalism ongoing, to create a separate Hungarian state which took a large part of the non-German speakers with them. The Habsburgs were happy with that, since it meant that they continued to rule those regions, and had a freer hand without the interference of other monarchs or the Diet. Croatia and Poland (from Habsburg Polish lands, not Prussian ones) were later created on a similar principle - as long as the Habsburgs keep control, they're happy.

Quite simply, at the time there weren't enough French or Italian subjects to be worth creating separate states for them, too. By the time there were (Great War in the 1930s), Germany was more willing to annex those areas directly - but they're not going to annex Hungary and Croatia outright when the Habsburgs are quite happy to have them restored as countries under the Habsburgs personal rule, not German, thank you very much.
 
Iif the Spartans had won the Battle of Thermopylae, the Chinese would have made it to America and Rome would have survived? As well, Spain would conquer England successfully, and somehow that would result in the Confederacy winning the Civil War which would clearly end up in the Nazis winning WW2.

Now you know.

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