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Hmm that could work with
that also works
that works. Mary Tudor perhaps marrying Brandon as otl
Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread
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Kill off Lajos in the year between the proxy wedding after the Congress of Vienna and the end of the time for the definitive decision about the identity of Anne’s husband.
Neither of that would work in forcing Charles to accept a wedding who he had already refuted. Plus in the first case Charles would still be heir of Castile
Let's imagine; Spain kept Santo Domingo after 1821, but in 1870, it gave Cuba independence earlier than OTL, while it sold Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico to the US.... Which also bought the Danish Virgin Islands shortly before... Could this scenario have been possible?
PS: ITTL, France keeps Haiti....
PS: ITTL, France keeps Haiti....
Almost impossible. German political culture was so profoundly changed by WW2 that it became basically unrecognizable. No prewar German government of any ideology would have ceded the east without major blood-shed. Defending those areas was a major part of the national consciousness, and well into the OTL 70s the deal with Poland was seen as a betrayal by large parts of the population, especially those that lived in Pommern and Eastern Prussia.
You'll need to absolutely kick Germany's shit in for that to happen.
Was there a particular reason why the Carolingian Empire was split west/mid/east in Treaty of Verdun and not North/mid/south or three pizza-slices? or was it all down to the fact that the respective claiments had their powerbases in Bavaria, Italy and Aquitaine which are all relatively southern?
What about keeping Polabia having a Slavic or Polabian-speaking population while a majority of Silesia and Pomerania remaining having areas with heavier Polish/Silesian, and Kashubian majorities?
What happens if the Medici family is never ousted from Florence? Like Charles VIII never invades Naples.
I think who Pietro could still lose power in Florence for a rebellion against his rulership also without Charles VIII’s invasion
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Intetesting would Babur even go for india if he had Samarkand? After all it was the loss of said trrritory that prompted him to head east
Probably not, since the politics of Central Asia (esp. Uzbeks) would have prevented such adventures. Humayun would have likely lost their domains. Mughals would have just been another flash-in-the-pan Timurid successor. If any ATL Akbar equivalent arises in Samarkand, he would have expanded towards Iran as the more natural target.
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So Babur takes Samarkand, Humayun maybe loses it or holds it. Akbar expands westward? That could be fun.
In order for nations to conquer China, they need one of two things
1. A technologically advanced military
2. A militaristic population which heavily cares for honour
As far as I know, 17th-18th century Korea lacks these qualities.
The only way I could think of a Korean conquest of China could occur is if Korea's entire society is structured around glory and conquest.
Maybe as a result of a Korean Manchuria? Have the many Koreans who settled in the area during the Yuan dynasty survive, grow to demographic pre-eminence, and eventually reunite with the Korean peninsula. Easiest way might be to keep the Red Turban Rebellion confined to southern China and have a Ming/whoever-(northern) Yuan border approximating the Song-Jin border of earlier centuries. As Northern Yuan collapses, Goryeo/post-Goryeo state unites with the northern Koreans and revamps itself by looking back to Goguryeo for inspiration. Perhaps northern China ends up conquered by another barbarian state (Oirats?) and as the Koreans push west, eventually come to see themselves as the heirs to China rather than a southern dynasty which is inept and decaying and northern dynasties without any history or prestige. So by the 17th century, Korea has conquered northern China and a few decades later conquers southern China and unites China once again under a new dynasty that has long since Sinicised.
The POD for this is going to be no later than the 1290s.