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Published: 2011-07-11 22:36:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 16053; Favourites: 75; Downloads: 103
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In this TL, a somewhat different set of wives for Henry VIII meant that an alternate daughter of Henry married a Catholic Habsburg prince and actually bore children: England remained in the Catholic camp, and by the end of the 16th century Protestantism was pretty much stamped flat. The huge, interweaving family of Habsburg-Tudor ended up owning most of Europe, and the Family Concord after the bloody French Wars kept peace in Europe for over a century. All good things come to an end, however, and a revolution of rising expectations took place in an HRE which hadn't suffered anything nearly as destructive as our worlds 30 years war ended in a shattering explosion...(The Ottomans were driven out of Europe by a Habsburg military alliance over the course of a century, but they managed to rally at the end and held onto Constantinople: the last great siege was so epic that the City has become a byword for invincibility in Christian Europe).
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Brilliant especially when you consider there actually was a guy called Munchausen - German aristocratic officer who served in the Russian Imperial Army
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Now thatΒ΄s German wank.
But your ideas for all these new European nations and borders are very creative.Β
Not sure if this order would last for long , but then many orders of this times didΒ΄nt.Β
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It's not, any more than Napoleon's did in our world.
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True, I forgot about the Napoleonic Empire as a result of the French Revolution.
I guess itΒ΄s on purpose that France of this AU got dissected, like Germany got in OTL.Β
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That's nobody's business but the Turks.
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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
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To each their own...
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agree on that one
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No Protestantism? So I am guessing in this AU me and my family are likely Catholics? Wouldn't be surprised if there was no separation of Church and State in the US... or its equivalent in this new TL.
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To answer the second first:
"Wouldn't be surprised if there was no separation of Church and State in the US... or its equivalent in this new TL."
Maybe, maybe not. Our French revolution took place in a Catholic country but was pretty anti-Church.
"So I am guessing in this AU me and my family are likely Catholics?"
I suppose, but with a historical divergence this major nearly five centuries ago, the odds of you and your family (rather than people who just coincidentally look like you) being born are comparable to your being enriched by a solid gold meteor landing in the back yard.
Keep watching the skies!
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Yeah, I know the odds of me being born with such a point of divergence. However I personally believe that if I was not born at all, my soul could very well have been placed in another person who doesn't exist in our timeline.
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Love it. The iberians and balkans especially.
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The term "rump state" is an actual political term. It denotes a state which has lost large swathes of land (usually including its cultural centre and its original capital), but still clings on to power. Nevertheless, I agree with you. It IS hilarious.
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Shouldn't this mean that Avigon, Liege, and more stays under the control of the Papacy and Prince-Bishops?
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You're right, but then I'd have to add in a bunch of niggling little patches of Church-ruled territory here and there...
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