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  1. Fascist/Nationalist USA

    I think that the anti-Catholic sentiments are the best place to start. If the know-nothings become popular enough America shuts the door on non Anglo-saxon immigrants and the idea of America as a nation develops. At any later point the idea of America as a nation of immigrants is too entrenched.

  2. Which peoples before & contemporary with the Chinese, could've discovered gunpowder?

    So to develop gunpowder a people would need to know how to acquire carbon, sulphur and saltpeter. Which of the 3 is hardest to get? I know that sulphur is found naturally in a relatively pure state, carbon you can get from charcoal so the hardest to get is saltpeter. In OTL it was first found in...

  3. Medieval America Tk II: Discussion Thread

    While everything you say is true in this thread we just ignore such problems. This is just a fun thought experiment, putting modern culture in medieval society. There is no way to realistically do this, so we don't bother trying.

  4. Medieval America Tk II: Discussion Thread

    Isn't that too topical considering how vague we are being about the fall? Also I don't think that there would be enough population for a series. I one Muslim kingdom hidden away I could understand as it could be formed by Muslims fleeing persecution but if it was well know it would get crusaded...

  5. Does no WWI equal the suvivial of European monarchies?

    This assumes that the reforms are successful and aren't rolled back in a reactionary backlash. After all there were good reasons that these reforms hadn't been carried out earlier, powerful sections of society stood to loose a lot. That said I imagine that out of the three empires, A-H, Russia...

  6. Bayonets Won't Cut Coal: The Socialist Republic of Britain

    I wonder if any countries will recognise both the SRB and the BGE, the SRB as the rulers of Great Britain and the BGE as the rulers of Northern Ireland? Or is Northern Ireland now as independent as the other dominions?

  7. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    Wait, are you saying that the FBU is kicking countries out of their political/economic system? Telling them to go red or go it alone. Are they trying to lose the cold war?

  8. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    With the capitalist nations needing their colonial empires to be loyal and productive (you can’t have a modern industrial economy when most of the people are dirt poor and rebelling most of the time) and the reworking of the entire culture and society of the USAR after the revolution this...

  9. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    Does the USAR have some sort of system to stop the upper levels of administration in socialised industries becoming de facto capitalists? In OTL I can’t think of many communist countries where the managers and the party didn’t end up as capitalist in all but name. In the USAR the democratic...

  10. Second Republic of the United States

    How the Border States react to the Radical Republicans calling a constitutional convention mainly depends on what changes the Radicals are calling for and then what they propose at the convention. With this is mind I doubt that the most extreme proposals would be put forward before the...

  11. Which is easier to knock out

    The USSR is by far the easiest to knock out. Just have the Germans keep Lenin in Switzerland and have Trotsky decided not to go into politics and the USSR will most likely die in the Russian civil war.

  12. WI: Bulgarian's take Istanbul in winter 1912?

    I really doubt that they would get to keep it. Constantinople falling would attract the attention of the Great Powers (Britain, France, Germany and Russia) and they would set up a peace conference. Bulgaria will probably get all of what they wanted but will have to give Constantinople back to...

  13. Poll 2: Which "invention" would have benefited the Roman Empire (until 395 AD) most?

    Exactly! Economic history is not a subject that gets the attention it deserves. If the Roman Economy grew at the modern rate of ~2% per annum we would be living in Star Trek by now.

  14. Medieval America Tk II: Discussion Thread

    wow, an update. I thought that this was long dead. You did a good job of showing how important the Shore is to California while still being detached from from the central governance. I'm looking forward to learning about the Salish city states more than any other part of Medieval America. So...

  15. Poll 2: Which "invention" would have benefited the Roman Empire (until 395 AD) most?

    What Rome needed was stability. Of these inventions the one that could lead to that is economics. While germ theory would help with plagues and chemical with industry and agriculture it wasn't plagues or agricultural/industrial deficiencies that brought Rome low. So why would Economics help...

  16. Bayonets Won't Cut Coal: The Socialist Republic of Britain

    How is it decided which Unions are "official" unions that allow their members to vote? Or can any group that calls itself a union vote?

  17. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    I reckon that while the UASR would talk a lot about toppling tyrants and expanding freedom and socialism et cetera and will do that in a few cases they will also prop up their fair share of dictatorships as well. This is the Cold war, a struggle for national survival, nothing, well, almost...

  18. AHC/WI: American Suffrage Retains Property Requirements

    I'd imagine that it would lead to much greater political power for farmers. This would lead to more conservative politics most of the time, the exception being during the progressive era when the farmers in the plains states were amazingly radical. Unfortunately I don't know enough of the...

  19. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    I remember that after the revolution in the United States a new Catholic church is formed in the USAR after the Catholic church excommunicates all the American communists. Would a cult of St.Joseph, patron saint of workers, develop? I was thinking of something along the lines of the cult of the...

  20. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    What happened to all the capitalists paper wealth (stocks, bonds, bank accounts) when the revolution happened? Was it distributed to the workers? Taken by the government? Or just abolished? On a related topic, what about the debt owed to the USA by the European nations? I doubt that they would...
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