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  1. Levelheaded Koxinga

    The germ of an idea: When Zheng Zhidong defects to the Qing in 1646, Koxinga's filial duty compels him to grudgingly accept his father's decision. Zheng is made a Feudatory and is awarded with control of Fukien (and possibly even Zhejiang), as well as extensive trading privileges throughout the...

  2. Decentralized Central Europe: Vienna secret alliance aborted

    It is often overlooked just how much the modern map of Europe owes to the decisions made in Vienna in 1815, and how much the continent was in flux. Napoleon had just been defeated, but would make a comeback to Paris before the agreement was finalized. Much of the changes were being decided on...

  3. U.S immigration quota laws without world wars and red scare

    I'm considering finally wrapping up a defunct TL in which WWI, the bolshevik revolution and WWII are all averted, and the U.S stays out of any of the more localized conflicts which occur in the Eastern Hemisphere up to the 1970s. Furthermore, persecution of Jews in Tsarist Russia is somewhat...

  4. Muslim China? Challenge accepted!
    Threadmarks: #0: Premise. Shia China: Challenge accepted!

    This idea has been kicked around a few times. And its an attractive concept because Islam is an effective antidote for China's tendency towards isolationism from the Song (or even post An Lushan Tang) onwards - the Haj alone would ensure constant traffic and exposure of China with Central Asia...

  5. The heir of Muhamad (PBUH): Qasim lives

    Oddly enough, I haven't seen a TL centered around this. OTL's Islamic expansion was stunning enough on it's own, outstripped only by Ghengis Khan's exploits six hundred years later. Like the Mongol expansion, Islam benefittedfrom divided and exhusted enemies (Persian-Byzantine Vs Jin-Song-Xia)...

  6. Decisive victory of An Lushan rebellion- impact of succesful Yan dynasty on Chinese development

    All imperial dynasties fall. This is ineveitable. The vigor of their founder is not sustained by his succesors, who are forced to coup-proof their armies and administration by rendering them impotent and paralyzed. Increased corruption and reliance on predatory strongmen triggers revolt...

  7. AHC: have Austria piss Nicholas I off enough to lead him to intervene AGAINST the Habsburgs in 1848

    Premise: with the wisdom of hindsight, 1848 offered Russia, which had avoided revolution at home, a unique opportunity to eliminate it's main continential rival for hegemony in the Balkans (and, assuming that some sort of Pan-German alliance is in the long run ineveitable, deny said alliance...

  8. Bear of the Bosphorus: We had to save the Ottoman Empire in order to destroy it

    An Egyptian-Ottoman war scenario from a Russian centered perspective. Background Russian policy regarding the Eastern Question was constrained OTL by three primay constraints: 1. A genuine commitment to maintain the post 1815 statues quo in Europe, at least as Russia interpeted it. This...

  9. Alternate emancipation of Russian serfs

    OTL the "emancipation" of Russia's serfs was accompanied by the following limitations: 1. Being saddeled with reparation payments, both for their own persons and for the land they recieved from their lords- reperation payments which they were never able to pay fully, and which essentially placed...

  10. Early "Crimean War"- Russia occupies Danumbian Principalities in 1848.

    Actually, this is OTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavian_Revolution_of_1848 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848 But OTL, the Russians maintained semi-friendly (as in seeking to vassalize and utilize as a buffer as they did with Persia) relations with the Ottoman...

  11. WI: FF lives, Hungary secedes late 1917 following Ausgleich breakdown, Croat insurrection

    The scenario assumes a repeat of the 1903-1906 crisis, but with the addition that the Croat parties openly lobby the Franz Joseph to weigh in on their side and either grant Croatia a seprate crown or transfer it to the Cisleithanian half of the monarchy (and unite it with Dalmatia and possibly...

  12. Death of a Dynasty: Emperor Komei of Japan and only heir die in Kinmon incident_1864

    In August 1864 Radicals Associated with the Chosu domain sought to kidnap/protect the emperor in Kyoto, setting fire to much of the city in the process. What would be the reprecussions if the conflagration spun out of the control, killing the emperor and his (only) heir, OTLs future Meiji? You...

  13. Latin America without Monroe doctrine: European neoimperialism in a confederacy victory scenario?

    Napoleon III attempt to install Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico is of course the most blatant example of the above. However, I am more interested in later developments- assuming developments in Europe and the rest of the world take place largely as OTL until 1914, What form does greater...

  14. ACW scenario: Democratic party does not splinter in 1860, Douglas wins disputed election... and dies

    Following Kansas, the the loss of faith of the deep south in the ability to advance or protect their perceived interests through the "National Party", and particularly the selection of the "traitor" Douglas in the national convention, the deep southern representatives bolted and ran Breckenridge...

  15. Effect of butterflied Crimean War on Second Opium War timing and Taiping Revolt

    Premise: OTL, Dissatisfaction with their gains in the post first Opium War Treaty of Nanking did not result in Britain finding a casus belli (October 1856) until the Crimean war was concluded (February 1856). By then: a. The French had aided the Qing to retake Shanghai from the Triads...

  16. Chinese dialects/languages in"stable" warlord scenario- linguistic balkanization possible?

    I know this has been discussed before, and that the consensus is that China cannot (and should not) be balkanized. Nevertheless, I will raise this yet again- Assume for the sake of argument that a scenario develops (detailed below, but I want to focus on linguistic theory, not the POD), in...

  17. U.S joins Crimean War in late 1854/early 1855- how is it likely to go down?

    OK, the subject of a third Anglo American war pops up occasionally on the forum... and generally devolves into a flame war. Still, let's give it another go, shall we? Let's suppose, for whatever reason, that Anglo-French operations in the Pacific are more energetic and succesful- perhaps they...

  18. Timeline in a week: A serendipitous detour (Napoleon focused)

    What's this then? It's a timeline. About Napoleon. I'm going to write it in a week. Of course you are. What happened to Lycuragus? Or a heartbeat away from greatness? And don't even get me started on you Israel focused TL? How about he alternate Romanovs? and when are you going to get back to...

  19. Napoleon does not go to Egypt- shot term and long term effects

    Of all of Napoleon's errors the Egypt expedition seems to have been the most harebrained. The backround to the expedition was that following France's victory in the war of the First Coalition over it's continential enemies it found itself still facing Britain. Napoleon concluded, probably...

  20. 1898: Qing Military organization around Beijing during the coup which deposed the Guangxu emperor?

    Does anybody have a clear breakdown of the military units around Beijing in the period preceding the coup and the nominal chain of command at the time (yes, I know Qing military organization was deliberately overlapping, but still) ? I have a pretty good idea of the reorganization Cixi put in...
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