Kongo Empire
Government: Absolute monarchy
Location: Congo basin
Religion: Catholicism
Language: Portuguese, Kikongo
In 1808, Crown Prince John and his royal court flees from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal. The prince attempts to go to the colony of Brazil but his ships are blown off course...
Okay so perhaps this doesn't fit into the timescale but I'm taking Dark Ages as a relative term.
How and why eastern Bengal became so thoroughly Islamised. This is quite a puzzling situation and nobody has really come up with a definitive answer. We don't even know when this area of Bengal...
Humorous term actor Daniel Day-Lewis uses to describe the night he sobered up to find himself in an ice-bath in Marrakesh with two prostitutes. Apparently he has no idea how he got there.
The Islamo-Buddhist Synthesis
Statement made by Argentine-Irish fashion designer Eduardo McLeish on his infamous "B*tch Dress". The dress - derided as hideous and in extremely poor-taste by almost everyone - was infamous for its anti-British, and especially anti-Thatcher, motifs. Notoriously the dress featured an image of...
Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn at a cabinet meeting on September 5th 2019. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) had been threatening to nuke the Republic of China due to a blockade of the Korean Peninsula. This would have led to full-scale nuclear between The Republic of China...
Quote made by Joe Rogan on his eponymous podcast. Rogan's guest, Antonius Pionachus, was recounting the story of the 1487 naval expedition of Theodoris Kalkis that landed on the island of New Tadmakki (OTL Trinidad) and thereby discovered the New World. Pionachus was a native of Notusipole, a...
Government type: Absolute monarchy
Location: OTL South-Western France and Navarre
Religion: Catharist
Language: Aquitanian (modern descendant of Visigothic), Basque (in the autonomous region of the Basque Stretch)
History: The only surviving Gothic state in Europe. Imperial Aquitaine is the...
The decolonisation process of everything could wield a great number of alternate names.
Mali could have plausibly called itself West S(o)udan.
Burkina Faso could have been Upper Volta (in OTL Thomas Sankara came up with the name by combining words from two languages to render a name that...
Prime Minister Amir Kabir offered Mirza Hossein Ali—better known as Baha'ullah—a place in the Qajar government. How would it have shaped history if Mirza Hossein took a post and championed progressive policies, such as his views on the education of women.
Perhaps then the Russian Revolution would have succeeded. He was a very canny political leader. I'm sure he would bring much required competence to the Bolshevik cause
Thanks for the comments. A bit of backstory on how I aim to achieve this. First, with regards to Islam, it still rises and still conquers most of Central Asia, however the hold of Islam over these regions doesn't last for very long and develops in the way of religious pluralism. After a few...
Looking at an extremely culturally and religiously mixed Central and North Asia but still with nation states.
Iranic nations:
Bactria (OTL extreme northern Afghanistan, most of Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan) - descendants of Greco-Bactrian kingdom. Practice Devangarism, which is a Buddhist...