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  1. Draeger

    Napoleonic Questions

    Napoleon was willing to sacrifice every ship and sailor available to him in order to get his army across, so confident was he of his ability to break the British at home, and he had loads of reasons to believe it would work.
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    Alternate Ideologies

    This necessitates that the nobility don't directly fund/form the foundation of that class from the get-go. Enlightened Paternalism, or Egalitarian Monarchy, which I think you're describing, is interesting though. Requires competent nobility, though.
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    I'm back

    I'm back
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    Napoleonic Questions

    Not if you smash everyone hard enough, and make them all economically/militarily dependent on you. Napoleon's France in 1812 does not have the ability to subsidize industrialization across Europe, such that the Continental System could be effectively self-sufficient. Britain (and thanks to...
  5. Draeger

    Hungary without Ottoman/Habsburg Rule

    Sigismund von Luxembourg has a male heir who's every bit as competent and pursues his reforms. Boom, Hungarian Renaissance.
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    PC: Separate Catholic and Protestant German ethnicities

    Try telling a Serb that there's no ethnic difference between him and a Bosniak lol
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    WI: European discovery of the Americas prevented by changes in the 1300s/1400s?

    There's an entire TL that was based on this premise, somewhere on here.
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    PC: Separate Catholic and Protestant German ethnicities

    This is about what it would take; Germany would basically have to never unify, never have the Kulturkampf, and never industrialize to the extent it did. You probably have to butterfly away the Kingdom of Prussia, which could lead to a much more fractious 'Germany' by the turn of the 19th...
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    WI: Mercia unites England

    Impossible, I think, given how completely broken Mercia was by those invasions---not quite as bad as Northumbria, but still pretty bad. Can't rule England when you can't rule yourselves. Beornwulf has to survive and preferably win at Ellandum, and after that Wessex has to be soundly defeated...
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    Best Economic options for Spanish Empire?

    LSCastilina still dropping in with those savage knowledge bombs as per always. The actual impact of the influx of silver into the European economy, as was said above, wasn't felt until China starting spending the silver it had traded for from the Spanish on European finished goods in the late...
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    New world has more diseases then the old world in 1492

    Considering smallpox was the biggest killer of new world populations, you have to somehow inoculate American native populations against it. For that, geographical/ASB changes are required, plain and simple.
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    WI: Osman I converts to Eastern Orthodoxy

    Talk of the Ottoman ascendancy necessarily involves the Byzantine death-spiral, so this is good discussion. However, I'll ward against fatalist thinking with regard to either 'empire'. Neither was 'doomed' to succeed or fail. Byzantium post-1204 was not nearly as mortally wounded as a...
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    Assyrian Resurgence?

    Palmyra -> Syriac Empire WHEN? also Found the Muslim, guys! (duh---I get the point, at the time it would have been pointless information, but now it might be interesting; just like it's interesting to hear from modern Christians in Syria, who are still somehow alive despite centuries of...
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    DBWI: What is This a Map of?

    Looks like an Umayyad colonial empire, though I'm not sure how they blobbed into the Lowlands and elsewhere in Europe. Controlling the *Philippines without controlling (hardly) anything in between seems a bit farcical, maybe they only briefly controlled them? Maybe the Eastern Caliphate remains...
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    Most Decisive Battle of the Middle Ages 500-1500

    Grünwald, led to P-L hegemony replacing Teutonic primacy in the Baltic/Eastern Europe. Had it gone the other way, PLC likely is a nonstarter, and Baltic/Eastern Europe looks a lot more German...
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    Could Napoleon have done more?

    Your points highlight the futility of the Russian campaign. What could Napoleon have done differently, if not invade? He had no navy to starve them of trade, no ally on the 'other side' to put pressure on them or open another front (i.e. Ottomans in the Caucasus/Balkans, which might have worked...
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    Please, help me decide which Italocentric TL to write!

    Yanez!!! Ever going to continue An Ausonian Tale? I vote A, but would like to also write-in an option E: Norman Sicily continues into the 13th century and beyond.
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    Is the Kingdom of Poland better off long term without Lithuania

    To this end what becomes of the stagnant, entrenched Sejm? The Liberum Veto?
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    England retain Calais

    Needs a much earlier POD by which England holds onto Normandy as well. Basically needing more continental holdings to make holding onto them more of a strong incentive for the otherwise distant and internally-occupied English.
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    AHC: wank off a mediocre historical figure

    I did this with Ladislaus of Naples and Sigismund von Luxembourg in my dead timeline.
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