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  1. Sian

    WI: Burgundy in the Protestant Age

    On one hand, promoting Protestantism (whether it was Lutheranism or Calvinism) for Burgundy could be seen as a strong way of defining themselves as not!French, but it could easily end up being a way of being very much someone where others would think that religion was the only thing that...
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    What if the Church did not burn Witches?

    But to answer that question it’s valuable to define where the problems arise from and as such which dials and levers we get most movement out of
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    What if the Church did not burn Witches?

    In a discussion about which was precieved as “least bad” it’s not quite helpful to claim that any non-zero amount of terrible is equally bad
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    Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Was there a particular reason why the Carolingian Empire was split west/mid/east in Treaty of Verdun and not North/mid/south or three pizza-slices? or was it all down to the fact that the respective claiments had their powerbases in Bavaria, Italy and Aquitaine which are all relatively southern?
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    If Sweden-Norway joins the Second Schleswig War, could it led to a united Scandinavia ?

    IIRC (been quite a while since i looked into it so might well be wrong) there were mentions of using the intermarriage between the two houses via the OTL bethotal between Frederik VIII of Denmark and Princess Louise of Sweden (only child of Carl XV, and who Carl unsuccessfully tried having...
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    WI: Christianity was polytheistic

    have no other gods before me ... my literalist shoulder-devil would then argue that people are perfectly allowed to have gods underneath/behind God, and as such aren't inherently incompatible with some variants of polytheism, as long as God is acknowlegded as some sort of over-deity. As others...
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    AHC: have an earlier rise in atheism

    Thought of 2 European-centered ideas 1) much more devastating religous war following the rise of protestantism, followed by a nihilistic counter-movement, proclaiming that if there were a god, he would’ve stopped the wars much earlier, hence he can’t reasonably exist 2) Much stronger Deism in...
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    Which non-European nation had the potential to industrialize first?

    Japan in the 19th century. Even before the opening of Japan they had a significant proto-industrialization, specially within silk production, sake brewing and slowly starting with mining. Also they had already at thid point a rapidly growing sub-group of rich, risk-willing, peasants dipping...
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    AHC: Culturally/Linguistically Alternate Scandinavia

    Given that the accepted urheimat of Proto-Germanic is Denmark, southernmost Norway and the Southern half of Sweden (approximately anything south of the Swedish lakes) ... It'll be difficult to do without massive butterflies all throughout Europe What you can, probably, do is having the...
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    To be a Fox and a Lion - A Different Nordic Renaissance

    Mary is a queen without a throne yes, but iirc she is also the recognized de-jure ruler by everyone but the french, including a significant portion of the English It’ll be a somewhat risky wager, but if successful the prize would be high
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    What if Jesus was a conqueror?

    Given that by all accounts you couldn't swing a cat in Judea without hitting a jewish preacher that was flavour-of-the-day doing this time period
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    What if Jesus was a conqueror?

    Rebelling against Rome when Rome was at/near their zenith? Yeah, that ain’t going to go too well, and will be slapped down quite severely, and there’s zero chance of Parthia even considering helping as they themselves were plagued by Jewish unrest in/around Babylon
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    To be a Fox and a Lion - A Different Nordic Renaissance

    While the Baltics is a 'shallow bathtub' in comparison, this'll ultimately help supplying a larger amount of adventurous/skilled sailors and merchants willing to splurge on the chances of getting stupid-rich on colonial projects. As an aside, given the population of the Livonian Order...
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    No Socialism.

    That you suggest that Facism is a descendant of socialism suggests to me that you don’t know enough about socialism to understand why it grew, much less what your asking for
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    AHC: Norse God-King

    https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/saga-of-fróði-Ævarsson-the-norse-prophet.494287 This?
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    To be a Fox and a Lion - A Different Nordic Renaissance

    of the Kalmar populations I'd expect Finns and Swedes to be the least represented in America, not because they're actively (or even passively) kept away, but rather because they don't have the same population surplus that are hard to relocate internally
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    To be a Fox and a Lion - A Different Nordic Renaissance

    None ... mainly because there weren't a standardized language at this point, but rather a dialect continuum
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    WI: Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene

    In fact, I seem to recall hearing about some gnostic writings (... Gospel of Mary and Gospel of Philip in particular?) all but out-right spelling out that they were married, but that these thoughts was actively and aggressively suppressed by (semi-deliberately) mis-identifying her as a prostitute
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    Plausibility of Catholic Collapse During Reformation

    a Pope (... or more, competing popes), making even more of a mess of it, specially up through the 15th century so it's still actively disputed by the time reformation rolls around, could possibly push towards a more decentralized Church, but whether it would raise to the point where the Catholic...
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    Could the Romans have circumnavigated the southern tip of Africa?

    it’s sorta like saying that you can get to space if you have enough people experienced in pushing millstones around
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