This is outright wrong.
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Mesoamerica more broadly are very contingent on the actors involved. As stated upthread, the Spanish lost during the Night of Tears against the OTL Aztecs, and Cortez's army was made largely of natives armed and organized...
That's theoretically possible, but you have to consider who the Taiping were and the times they lived in. The Heavenly Kingdom was ruled by a man who legitimately believed himself divine and on a mission to violently purify China. His policies and the war lead to famines. His family ruled in his...
Japan was two of the first atomic bombs and surrendered before more nukes could be dropped. By LeMay's day, yields had increased and the bombs were higher in number. Nuclear war couldn't and can't be won.
You should really look up what fallout is. I'm not talking about the games. I'm talking...
I don't think anyone would look back on a nuclear holocaust and say it "lanced the boil" considering that it would result in complete destruction for both sides. Mutual annihilation, along with the irradiation of countless millions and even more millions dying in the break down of global society...
You do know the Soviets had nukes right? A preemptive strike with nukes means nuclear world war III, full stop. Europe would get fully irradiated, most major US cities and military bases go up in mushroom clouds and fallout ensures millions more will be irradiated and die in both the short-term...
I'm usually an Egypt lover, but I think that Songhai had some real potential to be at least the regional power of the Sahel. Given a few caveats that are endemic to a lot of empires worldwide, I think you could see a more unified front against colonization.
One, and this is IMO the biggest...
A widespread slave revolt in South Carolina would be devastating. IIRC, the colony is actually majority Black and enslaved by a decent percentage, something that didn't change until the OTL Great Migration. If they don't flare out like OTL's Southern slave revolts, we could be looking at a...
All of this brings up a question I have about the arts in the new America.
Are the official propaganda posters and such based in alt-Socialist Realism or are they more avant-garde?
The reason I ask is that in the period between the OTL Russian Civil War and Stalin's solidification of power...
Most Native American TLs focus on the pre-Columbian era, it's very interesting to see one that post-debate European colonization.
Hoping to see some independent Native states!
I think it would be interesting to see Christianity compete and have to (uneasily) coexist with the traditional syncretic polytheism of the Mediterranean that syncretized with the mystery cults. To my knowledge, the pre-Christian religions followed by those surrounding Mare Nostrum were pretty...
To my knowledge, Vietnam is actually the names Dai Viet and Annam combined, to symbolize the reunification of the country from when it was split into the separate kingdoms of Dai Viet and Annam in the early modern period (IIRC). Assuming that Red Vietnam is just Vietnam, they'd probably just...
I'm liking the potential for a revived Inca/indigenous ruled state in the Andes, though I am wondering how Britain will deal with an America that doesn't really have a protector and seems to still have the Articles of Confederation, I assume.
I think so, the in-universe writer in the first post...
OTOH, the arms smugglers/dealers would find much better deals reselling old Soviet gear to the Russian warlords at a high markup than to a single cult in a stable nation. Why try and smuggle to a nation that is not going through disintegration when you can get almost any price you want from...
I'm betting on tactical dirty bombs or some other sort of short-range hacked together WMDs in Moscow. At the end of this, there really may be no safe way to rebuild if they are throwing anthrax or suitcase nukes at each other.
Also, something more terrifying that I just realized - the USSR was...