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Imperial Russia opts for less executions and internal exile and more external exile and property seizure where some troublemakers, like one Aleksandr Ulyanov, are concerned. Exile would also impact the relatives of the perpetrators, not just themselves, with all of them being rendered penniless...

It would also mean Louisiana staying French and Alaska - Russian. Also, a major point of contention, at least according to 1775: A Good Year for Revolution was that the British were limiting the Colonies in other ways, not just where representation was concerned. They blocked territorial...

Dunno how useful it will be for navigation, though. Probably rerouting a few rivers into those lakes, then digging so that there is a direct connection might be better, but harder.

Well, the Suez canal is a rather straightforward design as opposed to the Panama canal, read, it is just a big trench full of water connecting two seas that connect two oceans. SO in theory it should have been possible, maybe with a few dams to feed water into the stretch of land between the...

Imagine it with a working canal linking the red and Mediterranean seas. I ahd a simiar idea where Byzantium built the canal and Byzantianised a lot of Oceania and South-East Asia.

Since we are focusing too much on the West IMO here are a few more ideas: 1. China is never unified, no confucian civilization spreads. If the warring kingdoms state continues then they might develop faster in some aspects, like the military one. 1.1 China breaks up at some point after...

PM that, please. Also, another geographic POD, the land link between Africa and Eurasia is severed at some point, this can be due to flooding, climate change, whatever, the idea would be to somehow make travel into the pacific possible without going around the horn of Africa. Maybe the...

John Ringo did that already, IIRC, with telepathic catpeople.

An asteroid destroys Mecca before Islam could take hold. Genghis Khan is slain early on and his coalition of tribes falls apart. Bronze Age collapse does not happen. Greece or Rome develop steam power and more advanced machinery(Both had some interesting mechanical devices and even steam...