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  1. English has strong regional dialects like France and Germany - what happens next

    This is what I'm thinking, even today you can hear a stark different going from Glasgow, to Liverpool, to Bristol, to London. I am not a native English speaker, but I'm fairly certain that if I did not speak English and heard someone from Central London and someone from Blackpool speak next...

  2. AHC: Belgian Language

    I can't see our Belgium making up a "Belgian" language, it already has three. Although, it would be fun to brainstorm/imagine a kind of "reversed English" situation, with a Latin derived language like Walloon with a lot of Germanic loan words, Latin grammar with Germanic words. If you just mean...

  3. Earlier Germany?

    The Kingdom of Germany did exist, but then Otto the Great conquered Italy and established the Holy Roman Empire instead, which lead to the title of German king losing its meaning. Before proclaiming himself emperor he had been reasonable successful about getting the German nobles under his thumb...

  4. Highly Arabized Persia?

    Well I think the premise you proposed in the opening posts is one of the better ones. Either stop the various Turkic tribes from invading and conquering Persia and assimilating into Persian culture. Or perhaps have the opposite happen, make them more successful with their initial conquests...

  5. AHC: Reverse the Roles of Christainity and Islam

    Fairly certain the Emperor would never submit peacefully to being ruled by the papacy, hadn't done so for the last 650 years, why start now? If anything an overwhelming Habsburg victory would probably lead to a stronger imperial control over the princes and bishops of the empire. I don't know...

  6. Maps: Would their orientation change history?

    This is my view as well, most of the worlds landmass and indeed population is in the Northern and Eastern Hemisphere. I just see it as very likely that most world maps will be centered on Eurasia, east or west simply being a matter of preference.

  7. AHC/WI: Sweden remains a major power

    I don't see neither Denmark, Norway or Sweden alone being lasting great powers, for Scandinavia to house a great power that will last as long as the other European powers it really needs to not be divided. As long as Sweden has Denmark/Norway in its west it will almost always be fighting on 2...

  8. Let's talk about the German Princedoms

    Some state west of the Rhine would be cool, Lorraine/Lothringen, Luxemburg, the Palatinate, the area of modern Belgium etc. Basically any prince around the the HRE/French border successfully surviving as an independent ruler would be a nice challenge. Or if you like the challenge, do something...

  9. Ancient history: Is this a wank? Or ASB?

    I always knew I had something in common with the likes of Caesar, Octavian and Trajan. I also save scum a lot, unless I play on Ironman mode, they I just say "Screw this, done with this BS game, so many hours hours wasted, never again." only to be back the next day. Always had the feeling it...

  10. WI: Holy Roman France, and Royal Germany?

    You need a less successful Otto I for this to happen, without hurting Germany too much in the process. OTL he greatly reduced the autonomy and power of the different dukes, making them firmly his subjects instead of equals. He then went on to defeat the Hungarian nomads at Lechfeld, ending...

  11. Nazi "victory" in WWII

    I do believe you should ask a mod to move this to the after-1900 forum. :)

  12. Why is China united and Europe divided?

    TLDR Warning, lots of text and brainstorming. If you want my basic thoughts just go down the the third to last paragraph for my starting conclusion. I do not believe Europe was destined to be as divided as it is today, not by geography alone, but rather the climate at the time. Between France...

  13. Were the pre-Tsardom Russian states + 16th/17th century Russia viewed as European?

    Depends so much on who is saying it, and if there is a political connotation attached to it. For an educated Spaniard, Italian or Frenchman at the time the Russians probably seem extremely distant, not fully European like the Catholic southwest. On the other hand I do not believe they were...

  14. AHC: Keep The Western Empire Wealthly Economicly

    First of I am a history amateur, so this is more of a question rather than a statement. Half of my knowledge about how the frontier was handled comes from a single book "Empires and Barbarians" by Peter Heather, so not claiming much expertise. Didn't both the western and eastern empire pay off...

  15. Are the Gauls doomed to be conquered by Rome?

    There is no reason why they have to be conquered by Rome, the conquest was Caesar exploiting an opportunity. One could argue that had a good opportunity not shown up then the Roman might be fine with settling for Southern Gaul, the part closest to the Mediterranean. If the Romans are fine with...

  16. Muslim Minorities in Christian Europe

    Others have already explained why there were more minorities in Muslim land, so will not go over that. If you want to be picky, there still is to this day a muslim minority in Russia, Kazan for example, the third biggest city in Russia, lies in the Republic of Tatarstan (so Tatars, obviously)...

  17. AHC: Make Prussia accept Polish as a culture

    Simply have Prussia aquire more Polish land earlier on, if for example early Brandenburg-Prussia somehow gained Greater Poland/Wielkopolska, maybe even a bit more, then a significant part of their population would be polish and that would be hard to ignore. But Poland was more powerful than...

  18. WI: Perceptions of the US in a World without American exceptonalism

    I am inclined to agree with Janprimus. Every country thinks itself exceptional, different and unique. With imo is true to an extent, for the US too, don't think you can change that without changing the very nation and how it develops. The US is simply likely to develop differently politically...

  19. Why did Germany do so well in WW1?

    Honestly I find it impressive that the Entente was unable to beat Germany faster than it did. Even without the US joining the war the Entente outnumbered, had a larger army, larger navy and had a larger industry than the central powers. On top of that it had US financial support. They had almost...

  20. Maximum extant of Mongol imperialism

    I could see them taking Japan with better luck, northern Vietnam is also possible, as is Egypt, Poland and Hungary and with some real wanking (beyond the wank that was RL) the ERE and parts of the HRE, this is assuming the Khan lives to be 120 years or more. I do not see them going much further...
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