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  1. No maleline cadet Capets

    I see this as the most likely outcome.

  2. No maleline cadet Capets

    That's what I meant. Honestly it'd be a mess since Charles daughter was an infant, and bypassing her for one of Philippe's daughters could be problematic as well.

  3. No maleline cadet Capets

    Well, that and the very heavy suspicion that Jeanne of Navarre was a bastard. Philippe's eldest daughter was married to a Bourgogne so they could still claim agnatic descent.

  4. No maleline cadet Capets

    Well, there's still the Courtenay, the Bourgogne, Bourbon, Artois, Anjou, and the Dreux as agnatic descendants. Are we not counting them?

  5. If the U.S. invades North Vietnam, does China militarily intervene?

    Not sure, but Manchuria has always been a major industrial center. Actually, I think their infrastructure was actually underdeveloped along the Vietnamese border which is another issue that Pentagon war planners didn't appreciate. As previously stated, no invasion happened because of US...

  6. War of the Roses and British Empire

    That's the point, there'd be no reason for such a colony to have the name other than lazy writers make things congruent with OTL. Which is why IMO people harp on things being butterflied away so much because it used to be fairly common.

  7. War of the Roses and British Empire

    I don't think anything like that is necessarily wrong, other than people are wary of homing butterflies where people just assume that things would be mostly static otherwise and write such. For exemple, having a Lancastrian colony in the New World being named Virginia and Carolina inexplicably...

  8. War of the Roses and British Empire

    Probably in reference to the Butterfly Effect, but I think people sometimes take that too far. Maybe back in earlier years when you'd have weird TLs with PODs from say, the Crusades, yet Napoleon Bonaparte somehow becomes Emperor of France it made sense. I don't see how a Yorkist/Lancastrian...

  9. WI: Bermuda discovered and colonised before the New World?

    I'm pretty sure Columbus knew it wasn't India. The problem was his contracts with the Crown of Spain were for India, not some uncharted land. So, he had to argue that it was India so he wouldn't lose out on the riches he was contracted.

  10. WI: Bermuda discovered and colonised before the New World?

    Rumors of Gold, it's what spurred a lot OTL.

  11. What if Donald Trump had fought in Vietnam?

    What? That's a pretty gross generalization of Vietnam Veterans. Are you seriously suggesting all Veterans did drugs?

  12. How would Feudalism develop in North Africa?

    OK, so it seems like my TL was worked out backwards. Any type of "Reconquista" is likely to start out with OTL Tunisia, and then spread out West as Al-Andalus fragments.

  13. How would Feudalism develop in North Africa?

    That's my fault for not really being specific, more of a parallel Reconquista occurring in North Africa as well as in Iberia. The slave trade idea was a concept that gave the Christian Berber tribes leverage to have a vassal state agreement, similar to how Moscow operated with the Mongols. While...

  14. How would Feudalism develop in North Africa?

    OK, further complicating things is the role that the slave trade would have. I imagined that the Mauretanian state emerged by the Christian tribes having a vassal status similar to Granada did near the end of the Reconquista. The Christian leaders used their connections in the trade routes...

  15. How would Feudalism develop in North Africa?

    OK, I'll admit the premise relies on homing butterflies with the Donatist schism being mended, and then the real POD with the initial invasions of North Africa. Not the best writing, I admit. Well the scenario was mostly projecting similar circumstances in North Africa as in Iberia, so I...

  16. How would Feudalism develop in North Africa?

    Well the POD was around the time of the Donatist Schism, so there was several centuries of alternate development that lead to butterflies by the time of the Arab conquest. Part of the butterflies was that tribal confederacies were in schism as a result of Islamization and recalcitrant...

  17. How would Feudalism develop in North Africa?

    So let's say that a North African christian kingdom or two emerges in North Africa in a somewhat similar manner that occurs in Iberia with the Reconquista. How exactly would a North African kingdom be politically structured? Is it safe to say that the Berbers would organize themselves as in...

  18. France and Germany are still (constitutional) monarchies today

    Not really. Catilina is pretty solid on this, most people weren't convinced monarchists but rather Anti-Jacobin. People were nervous things might get out of hand again, but this didn't mean Republicanism was utterly discredited. It's why the Opportunist Republicans ended up winning, because most...

  19. France and Germany are still (constitutional) monarchies today

    Philippe had plenty of his own problems, mainly his deep depressive episodes. He was nervous and allowed his wives to have large influence. He wasn't exactly the best ruler himself, Charles III was the best of the Spanish Bourbons and he was the third son of Philippe and would likely be...

  20. France and Germany are still (constitutional) monarchies today

    I think Prince Philippe was a decent man, unlike the lot ever since. I don't think he should have replaced IIIème République. I picked my account name for a reason.
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