In the most literal sense, Hideyoshi's plan to conquer Asia. Beyond that:
Ottoman Italy
Asians colonizing the Americans across the Pacific
(IMO) preserving the Crusader States
Europeans conquering more than the minimal ports (i.e. vast parts of the hinterland) of Asia before at least the 18th century if not later
There are plausible ways for the CSA to win a diplomatic victory and far fewer ways for them to win a military one. Unfortunately trying to go down those roads often causes a disproportionate and enthusiastic response. Just a heads up in case you are thinking about it.
It would probably require a larger Greece, since it looks like major coal deposits are further north in the Balkans and east in Anatolia. A very interesting idea, though...
Absolutely agree, I could not say it better. Unlikely is not the same as impossible, and an unrealistic scenario is not the same as a bad one. There are many high quality TLs or map series based on extremely unlikely or even impossible events.
It would probably require a larger Greece, since it looks like major coal deposits are further north in the Balkans and east in Anatolia. A very interesting idea, though...
Absolutely agree, I could not say it better. Unlikely is not the same as impossible, and an unrealistic scenario is not the same as a bad one. There are many high quality TLs or map series based on extremely unlikely or even impossible events.
Less than a "Southern Victory" being ASB - it really isn't - it's more that "the type of Southern Victory acceptable to those with the most emotional stake in that victory" are ASB, or perhaps "the reasons for same" are ASB.
A victory of exhaustion, producing a CSA that contains most (but not all) of the seceded states could happen, possibly aided by a European intervention is possible, that would have led to a nasty slave holding export state that in a European aid scenario is in hock to that state.
But this is not Lee rolling his victorious army into New York City as the South prior to the CSA becoming a race-blind utopia before the a 20th Century where feats of Southern Valour win every large war.
A Southern Victory gets its ASB reputations because of it being the favorite vessel of some modern political trends; not because a CSA win is impossible. It's just the historical CSA is so very inconvenient, and curing its inconveniences makes it ahistorical.
A romance language written in Arabic script(Spanish in Arabic script in the Middle Ages OTL is a thing) would be used.Yes, it's far more likely Christianity would've remained common, just like in al-Andalus
A romance language written in Arabic script(Spanish in Arabic script in the Middle Ages OTL is a thing) would be used.
indeed(Egypt shifted from Coptic, descended from its old language, to Arabic this way)But, as I take it, Arabic was increasing in commonality among the classes, as shown by @Planet of Hats here.
If the Ottomans were (ahistorically) interested in Italy why couldn't they have held part of it temporarily?
Regardless, a few large coal fields accessible by pre-industrial technology are still pebbles in comparison to the coal of, say, Britain, and I'd say India is still far more likely to industrialize through water mills. Though, this admittedly shows it's far from Sealion levels of implausiblility.
Although not common, an Argentina that is a first tier industrialized country and major military power is another bad cliche.
If there are any people who know German on here, at least request them to write said timelines.Austria not getting shit on
Very few timelines that are Austria-focused or involve the Habsburgs surviving as rulers of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.
Temporarily, they maybe could have, although logistics would make it unlikely (and even more unlikely that they'd be able to hold it for any length of time). Plus, European tactics and siegecraft were advancing rapidly during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, so any advantage the Ottomans had over their opponents would have been rapidly eroded.
In fact they did hold Septimania for about 40 to 50 years. As late as the 900s the Umayyads still held a colony at Fraxinet near Provence. It's entirely possible to have more competent leaders on the Muslim side or less competent ones on the French side and have a more lasting Muslim impact in the south of France.It's entirely possible that the Caliphate conquers southern France. After all, they came pretty close to doing so IOTL.