No schism for one. If the crusades happen they will probably be aimed at retaking Constantinople and Greece - which means probably some long term success for the crusades as that area would still be christian and the right kind of christian.
Also didnt Metternich and the tzar have a really bad relationship? As in it nearly came to a duel between them? I also seem to recall that Metternich absolutly refused to even have bilateral talks with him after a point.
This would not be conductive of them allying themselves on the conference.
So some ideas for this:
1. Surviving Oda: Nobunaga seems like both the most megalomaniac and open to innovations. So if anyone does it its him. Why he would do it? Dont know, maybe to imitate the Europeans? In hope of finding silver and gold like the europeans did? Anyway its a good place to...
I think Russia was as European in the late 19th - early 20th century as I think its ever going to be. Yet it still was regularly labeled by its political opponents as asiatic. I dont think thats ever going to change. Its size and population predestines Russia to be a Great Power at least in...
I think the key is avoiding WWI and any analogue for a while.
Russia had a ton of social tensions that makes a time of increased political instability very likely - maybe even a revolution. But as the tzarist regime could get on top of that after 1905 I strongly believe that they can manage it...
I have to state that while I studied the time period between 1900 and 1914 extensively - most of the crucial changes your POD caused is going too take place in the 1890's. Some of the things caused to be earlier I feel confident to comment on - like OTL russo japanese war, the boxer rebellion...
AFAIK one of the main causes was the sino-japanese war so I would say yes.
Would Germany be interested in this at this time? Probably yes but im not sure. I dont think France had much interest in the North of China but again im not sure. If indeed only Russia and Germany goes forward how much...
The alliance was mainly a reaction to russian expansionism in the Far East, specifically russian refusal to withraw from Manchuria after the boxer rebellion. In this sense possibly. Depends on if Russia still refuses to withdraw from Manchuria after an earlier boxer rebellion.
OTL the...
I would argue that the Russo-Japanese war wont be earlier. There is a number of factors for that:
1. One of the main reason Japan decided that if there is to be war it should be before the completion of the transsiberian railway. That wont likely change because of the japanese events
2. The...
...im not a Naval expert, but you are telling me, that building completely new Dreadnought, some of the most expensive ships to be ever built in human history, is supposedly less expensive than maintaining already existing ones?
How about we get around the monetary problems by still cancelling the new british ships, but we avoid the scuttling of the german fleet at Scapa Flow, and the british getting such a number of german capital ships that the two power standard would be maintained without any new builds?
My guess is Russian protectorate and possibly annexed. OTL one of the reasons for the Russo-Japanese war was russian enroachment in Korea. Without Japan there to oppose it I dont think the british will wage war to stop them, so I think its going to be russian in some form.
On hungarian sucession law: more or less. Hungary elected an individual, and than after him as long as he had male descendants the throne had to go to one of them (not necesserily primogeniture in theory but in practice at this point it was). But other members of the dynasty - brothers, cousin...
So im no expert but if I really wanted to screw the place have some European power intervene on the side of the CSA - best would be the british. Have the fighting be as brutal as possible and the CSA be victorious. Add in a large scale slave revolt somewhere before that point massacring a lot of...
What about a muslim conquest of Europe?
Constantinople falls in 718 (It also becomes the capital of the kalifate). The Frank Empire is taken int the mid / second half of the 8th century? The Kievan Rus adapts Islam, and so do the slavs in the balkans, the norse and the hungarians, finally all...