It would also have implications for Austria. If Galicia is not joined to the restored Poland, then Poland becomes an enemy of Austria (perhaps even allied to the Tsar; IOTL pro-Tsar sentiment did exist after 1846), if it is, then it changes the balance between the various Slav nationalities in...
I would agree that this is the most plausible scenario for a successful November Uprising, but there’s a few added hurdles beyond British and French disinterest.
Per the French historian Louis Leger ("History of Austro-Hungary to 1889"), the biggest single problem is that Italy rose up in...
The issue with that is that Italian soil (and soil across much of the Mediterranean), fundamentally, doesn't have that problem. It's relatively thin. That's why Romans generally used scratch plow rather than heavier wheeled plow (though the latter were not unknown).
I say generally because...
Did any Spanish conquistador remark on the water-resistant quality of the clothing during the conquest of Mesoamerica? Pedro de Alvarado, given the rather large number of Aztec auxiliaries under his command during the subjugation of Guatemala, would seem to be the natural candidate for that. I'm...
Mexico's ability to project power into its northern territories was always flimsy, as was its willingness to invest in them--hence the Californios actually being somewhat open to US annexation by the 1840s simply because Mexico City was very remote from them. New Orleans, being downstream of...
There's a difference between promoting pogroms and speculating about whether they'd be amorally effective in achieving a certain goal. For example, one can say that, if the USSR had reorganized itself as a unitary (rather than federal) state and ethnically cleansed the Baltic countries, Ukraine...
IIRC, from other times this has been discussed, the answer tends to be "Yes, but it would have a hard time escaping the blast."
(EDIT: Though I wonder if you could address that problem by putting a parachute on the bomb itself, as was done for the Tsar Bomba test, to delay the blast and let the...
Wouldn't a balkanized US in the 1780s/1790s just get reabsorbed by Britain, if not outright politically than economically subjugated? New England drifting into trade and military agreements with the mother country, the rest becoming economically dominated like Latin America became? Louisiana...
The early Cold War will certainly look a lot different if the taboo looks different. The obvious change is that the US Army and Navy might not be drawn down as much as IOTL--leaving them more ready to react in Korea.
But that assumes the late 1940s progress in a recognizable way, which they...
...but they were already doing that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hundreds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok_pogrom
The US actually decided to make Japan the primary target for the bomb as early as 1943--the stated justification being that they'd be less likely to be able to reverse engineer a dud. The fact that the US didn't bother constructing B-29 airfields in the ETO helps support the idea that, by 1944...
I'm not sure you could get a donkey to not swallow it, or to bother chewing it at all if it doesn't eat it.
With that said, maybe some kind of press or mill could be developed?
Rice cultivation in Spain got off the ground thanks to the Moors, but it depended on the introduction of extensive irrigation and drainage systems (one historian called that the "Syrianization" of Spain). Similarly in Sicily, before it made the jump to mainland Italy. Could you have the Romans...
Frederick Barbarossa might be the most plausible candidate, actually, given his bad relations with the Papacy--though it's hard to imagine a scenario where he doesn't patch things up with Rome if there's a prominent Jihad against him.
Central Asian steppe peoples are unlikely, though. The...