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The Based answer is “Austria-Hungary.”

Alright then, here’s a slightly more plausible one. What if France comes of the better in what is essentially the second “Hundred Years War?” (Otherwise known as the long 18th century, from Blenheim to Waterloo). Basically, the wars against Britain that France lost, it wins in this timeline...

A question I have, that probably can’t be answered, is a scenario in which the Americas aren’t discovered for another few hundred years. We know there were many great pre-columbian kingdoms and burgeoning empires at the time, so I can only ponder what would happen with a bit more time. When...

On of the biggest effects is, being strapping young lads, the Imperial Princes would go on to sire children. And just like that the reigns of Caligula and Nero are butterflied away (along with Claudius unfortunately, but ho hum). I think the dynasty could then quite handily make it into the...

I'm currently reading a biography on big daddy Augustus, and an idea has come to mind. What if fate hadn't decided "fuck you two in particular", and Lucius and Caius Caesar (Augustus's grandsons) hadn't so inconveniently died?

I could definitely see Japan meddling in China all the same, as the nascent island empire would have a lot to gain out of it. The young Imperial Japanese Navy could be a tie-breaker between Qing and Ming. Bearing in mind that an industrialised China on its doorstep provides even more incentive...

Necessity is the mother of all invention after all. They might not quite be able to do what Japan did, but a China that is forced to modernise is still in a far better position.

In terms of European interference in this timeline, whilst I do think more territory would be hoovered up, what happened in India would be difficult to happen here. This would be a divided China between two very centralised bureaucracies in possession of huge armies, not so much a dynastic...

Here's a question. Barring too much outside interference (like for example trade would still be a thing), which native culture or society would have ended up dominating/conquering Sub-Saharan Africa? Because in terms of the long game, weirdly enough, my money would be on the Zulu. Yes they...

He's an example but not necessarily the rule so to speak. Roman assimilation was incredibly potent and usually happened quite quickly. Gaul did not have an Arminius.

It's both funny and grim to realise that Nazi Germany was essentially defeated by its own ideology.

Speaking of Celts, here's an idea. What if they had become the founders of Western Europe instead of Rome or the Germans (or in France's case both)? I know a lot of things would have to happen, from power coalescing in the hands of High Kings to militarily repulsing the Romans, but what do we...

The Roman Empire was so mighty it could afford to be too proud to attend to crippling problems for centuries. That's how the Imperium works, my guys. Ave Roma.

If I recall the Romans had to station eight legions there from time to time, especially after Boudicca's revolt. Britannia was a problem child.