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I will not stop Remnants of Rome unless the new timeline is very successful, and I will not start the new timeline for a while.

Leifrland: A world where Vinland not only survives but thrives due to the founding of an ‘Empire of the North’ by Knut--which does eventually break apart, but leads both to the expansion of the Viking sphere in Europe. Two hundred years after the foundation of Vinland, Ogedei Khan declares himself Eastern Roman Emperor, and--I better not reveal any more.
Written in a style including many different fictional sources, one of them being the Saga of the Leifrlanders, a work developed over hundreds of years focusing on the history of the Leifrlandic people, and which is significantly more accurate than the other Norse Sagas, but still contains some fancification .

Yeshua the Conqueror: What if Jesus was not a man of peace? What if Jesus was a man of war? Founding a ‘radical form of Judaism’, as the Romans of the time would call the new religion, which preaches not forgiveness, but forced conversion and bloody, bloody revenge?
Written in a style including many different fictional sources.

Columbus, Vinland, Contact Belated: This timeline has two PODs. In the New World, Vinland survives just a bit longer, but loses contact like OTL, and gradually is mostly assimilated by the natives, though remaining as a political entity, and also leads to the formation of horse-riding hordes in northern North America like those of Central Asia of the time. In the Old World, Christopher Columbus is killed during a mutiny, and, after subsequent misnavigation and general unluckiness, the three ships make landfall in the Bahamas, though all but one is wrecked. The crew end up deciding to stay in these new lands. In the Old World, Columbus is thought to have failed, and the last discovery of the New World occurs centuries later.
Written either in textbook style or compilation-of-sources style.

A more perfect Union: it is the Right of the People: The Northwest Ordinance prevents slavery in all new territory acquired, for ten years after its signing. Many butterflies later, the United States becomes... well, a more perfect Union. It is more perfect in many ways, but one stands out among all others--equal rights. The combination of slavery being abolished nationwide more than a decade earlier than OTL, slavery expanding less than it did OTL, and the absorption of many Latin Americans--ah, yes, the United States will expand to a much greater size than it did OTL--leads to...well, let’s just say that there is a black president in 1900 and a female president in 1908.
Written in textbook style.

Québec - Fraternité, Liberté, Gloire: One could argue that the Quebec Act was uncharacteristically tolerant of the 18th-century British. What if the Quebec Act, though still existing, and though still expanding the borders of Quebec as it did OTL, actually set into law existing discrimination against the French Catholics? And, at the same time, Quebec had a more incompetent governor than Guy Carleton?
In 1775, Quebec revolts alongside the United States, and at the conclusion of the Revolutionary Wars, both nations are successful--though the United States possesses less land in the Northwest Territories. Because of their common enemy, the British, the two nations become strong allies despite their differences--well, for a time...
Written in textbook style.

Qart-ḥadašt - A New City, a Grand Domain: Against all odds, despite their many ethnicities and cultures, and despite all the Romeheathen nay-sayers on this site, Carthage, after winning four ‘Roman’ wars, forms one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen, almost equal or equal in might to the Roman Empire of OTL.
Written in textbook style.

Lo Imperio Romaño; La Ascensiona delo Reño Viziyódrioño: In 568 AD, the Aksumite army, which attempted and failed to pillage the Kaaba and conquer Mecca in OTL, succeeds. Muhammad’s father and mother die in this attack. As an indirect result, the Visigothic Empire is never conquered by the Muslims. The Visigoths, over several centuries, extend their rule over much of the Mediterranean, and become essentially the successor to the Roman Empire. Eventually, this devolves into a Holy-Roman-Empire-like state.
Written in textbook style.
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