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Points of Divergence : The Vatican (Holy See)
Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of the Vatican (the Holy See).
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Plausibility check: A Vatican City analogue based in Jerusalem ?
Challenge: The Papacy permanently evicted from Rome/The Vatican
Plausibility check: Former Popes automatically becoming saints an established policy ?
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Early Modern
Challenge: The thousand army divisions of the Vatican
Challenge: The Papacy permanently evicted from Rome/The Vatican
WI: Vatican massacred in 1527 ?
HREmperor Maximilian wanted to become pope in 1511 (German)
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18th and 19th century
Challenge: The thousand army divisions of the Vatican
WI: First Vatican Council leads to a separate Germanic Church
WI First Vatican Council continues
WI: The Martyr of the Vatican (Pius IX killed during violent reunification)
ATL independent Confederate States of America and Vatican relations
What would have changed had the Vatican been based on the Leonine City ?
WI Italian troops occupy Vatican at 1878 ?
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20th century
WI Cardinal Mariano Rampolla becomes Pope in 1903 ?
Challenge: Make all Catholic Churches territory of the Vatican
Challenge: The Vatican Republic
WI the Vatican became a quasi-constitutional monarchy ?
Vatican as just an extraterritorial territory
WI: Capital punishment in the Vatican City
Plausibility check: The Vatican and San Marino not staying neutral in WWII
Challenge: Vatican joins either side in WWII
WI: The Vatican actively opposes the Axis
Plausibility check: Nazis occupying the Vatican
WI: More devestating 1943 Vatican bombing
WI: Allies accidentally bomb The Vatican and kill Pope Pius XII
Challenge: Vatican city a member of the UN
The Vatican in a Communist Italy (1)
The Vatican in a Communist Italy (2)
Fate of the Pope/Vatican in a Soviet occupation scenario
Soviet Italy, consequences for the Vatican ?
Challenge: Communist Italy + West Berlin-like Vatican
WI the Second Vatican Council happens a decade earlier ?
Soccer/Football WI: Vatican soccer team in UEFA Champions' League ?
Challenge: Sports team that represents The Vatican at the Olympics
What would happen to the Vatican in a nuclear war ?
WI: Giuseppe Siri becomes Pope in 1978 instead of Karol Wojtyla
WI Lefebvre does not back out of May 5 1988 Agreement ?
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21st century
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ASB / ISOT / Geological
Vatican ISOT from 2005 to 98 AD
Vatican City ISOTed to the First Crusade
2010 Vatican City ISOTed to 1200 AD
Vatican City of 2015 (including tourists, etc.) ISOTed to 1518
WI: Vatican City ISOTed to Protestant Reformation
Papal States (minus Vatican) ISOT from 1796 to 2013
Present-day Rome & Vatican ISOT to 1861
Microstates ISOTed to the past
The entire Italian military defects to Vatican
Vatican passes an Israel-like Law of Return
US gets its population proportionally rescaled to that of Vatican City
WI: Mecca and The Vatican state switch places
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