Which Timeline should I do?

Which Timeline?


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As A longtime Lurker, I would want to write a timeline. however, I will let you all vote what my first timeline will be about.

City Empires: The tale of Empires Made By Cities - POD: Nabateans or another desert people conquer/settle Damascus around 5200 BC and in the 1900s BC, they establish an empire after they conquer/defeat multiple other tribes. Possible Ideas: Afghan empire in an ancient Kabul, weaker Achaemenid Empire, a Damascan Empire

The Levant's Coastal Power - POD: Ugarit decides to strike the Iron while it's hot and begins to go from economic power to Military power by taking cities near them. Possible Ideas: Ugaritan Empire, Greece falls, Rome crushed/never rises

The Kingdom of the Anchor - POD: Ptoelemy Keranous dies during the battle of corrpedium, thus allowing Seleucus I Nicator to become King of Macedon. Possible Ideas: Stronger Seleucids, Rome V Carthage, Hellenized East

The Two Eagles: A tale of the Austro-Prussian Union - POD: Frederick The Great and Maria Theresa Marry. Possible Ideas: Nerfed France, Bigger German Empire, early Italian unification, nerfed USA, Nerfed Britain, Ottoman Collapse

Bulgaria: The Balkan's Prussia - POD: Bulgaria is much stronger as no one contests the treaty of San Stefano due to Russia absolutely domolishing the ottomans. Possible ideas: nerfed Serbia, Romania, Greece, and Ottomans; Strong Bulgaria; CP victory.

Spartacus Across The Rhine - POD: the Spartacist League launches a successful revolution that overthrows the german government in 1919. Possible Ideas: Spartacist v Stalinist Communist doctrine divide, Germany in allies, 2nd American Civil War; worse ww2; worse modern day.

so which of these do you think I should do?
 
I wish i could change my vote from that austro-prussian union into the bulgaria-wank, as i have changed my mind a bit.
IMO, Frederick marrying Maria is unlikely, for the main reason that Maria, alongside most Habsburgs, insisted on fully catholic marriages. Since Frederick was a protestant, he would have to convert to catholicism in order to achieve his (arguably weird) goal, and even then, Prussia would be dominated by Austria in a potential union as they wouldn't possess Silesia.
OTOH, a larger post-ottoman Bulgaria could have been a possibility if you get the germans on the side of the russians and bulgarians -- having Bismarck die or be assassinated before the russo-turkish war could suffice, as you could get a pro-russian chancellor who would support the San Stefano treaty. Butterflies of this could be an earlier independent Albania, and Austria-Hungary annexing Bosnia earlier than OTL.
 
Someone did do a fanfic on a anime that was ripe for world building (the author eventually realized the past had nothing to do with the current protagonist and so even the name "Hapsburg" for the Imperial dynasty was removed from the source material because again it doesn't matter, so the past was unbuilt). In it, in the 1700s Alt-Maria Theresia (and bad child general) fell in love with a young count while her allies were fighting for her inheritance. The boy was... the great-grandson and rightful male preference primogeniture heir of a king of Prussia who was usurped by his nephew.

You can probably tell where that fic is headed to. Hint: It relates to one of these options
 
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I actually like the idea of Frederick converting, but the position of Archduke-consort is taken, and I don't really know why people besides myself like it.
 
Bulgaria pls

Modern era Balkan TLs are almost exclusively Greekwanks or Ottowanks. Bulgaria becoming a decent power would be a South Slavic counterbalance to Turkey.
 
Well, I do like anything regarding the Prussians, but, in this especific case, I must say I got more fascinated by the Ancient POD ideas you proposed.
 
Bulgaria wank, yes please.

it won't be a wank. it'll be more that luck favors Bulgairia a little more TTL. a Bulgaria wank would be them getting turkey, greece, Serbia, macedonia, and romania as vassal states and getting colonies (something I don't plan to do, my friend) but I can see how people can see it like one.
 
it won't be a wank. it'll be more that luck favors Bulgairia a little more TTL. a Bulgaria wank would be them getting turkey, greece, Serbia, macedonia, and romania as vassal states and getting colonies (something I don't plan to do, my friend) but I can see how people can see it like one.

With a 19th century PoD they should be able to annex Macedonia outright, as well as take OTL Northern Greece up to Thessaloniki/Salonica/Solun and Thrace up to Adrianople/Edirne.

It's a lot more than OTL, but yes not necessarily a wank
 
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