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It was Paul I who canceled Catherine I's expedition against Iran as he didn't like his mother's adventurism. Also, what if Agha Mohammad Khan had not been assassinated? When Agha Mohammad Khan was assassinated, he was on his way to crush Kartli-Kakheti again. Do you think the Georgians would...

@NotDavidSoslan Considering your interest in Georgian history, you may be interested in this thread.

Georgia is not like Ukraine, it's not considered a lost Russian land. Russia would never have annexed Georgia in 2008.

Let's quote two historians here: (1) Dominic Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution, p. 255: "In 1917, the liberal and moderate socialist parties all joined the provisional government and supported its commitment to remaining in the war. Their stance was...

Ramallah was still predominantly Christian, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramallah#Demographic_evolution.

What is the book? BTW, the Spaniards were likewise surprised to find Muslims in the Philippines. It meant that Islam had spread much further than they thought.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you write so many timelines at the same time?

A Russian annexation of Moldavia in 1814 is plausible, they could have annexed all of Moldavia rather than just the eastern half.

So, does anyone have any thoughts on this?

An often forgotten fact is that the Criollos actually had some participation in the Spanish colonial administrations during the Habsburg era, it was the Bourbon reforms that limited the administrations to Peninsulares.

I assume you mean "Southwest", not "Northwest" There was increasing Spanish settlement in the Southwest at this time as Spain had bought off the Comanches. The Spanish population of New Mexico had finally outnumbered the Puebloans. Also, how successful would the Spaniards have been dealing with...

Such a Russia is likely one that is satisfied following the conquest of the Northern Black Sea Coast and doesn't seek further wars with the Ottoman Empire. I would argue that gaining access to the Black Sea and ending the Crimean slave raids was absolutely worth it for Russia but the wars...

A Russia with less interest in the South Caucasus is likely also one with less interest in the Balkans.

FWIW, when I asked him, Jonathan Edelstein told me that he doesn't rule out the possibility of alternate universes but that he doubts very much that we could ever visit one as those universes would be out of causality with each other.

Do any of you believe that alternate timelines actually exist? There is the multiverse hypothesis. It has more support among physicists than you may think.

During the Great Depression, conservative politicians in the United States wanted not only to slash spending but also to launch a national sales tax. What if that had happened? I think a national sales tax would have had a disastrous deflationary effect which would have delayed economic recovery.

Could Spain have kept the Southwestern United States? Spain had bought off the Comanches, Spain paid the Comanches tribute in exchange for them not raiding Spanish settlements. Thus, Northern Mexico's population was growing. However, following independence, because of its instability, Mexico saw...

Without the Peninsular War, for how much longer would the Spanish Empire in the mainland Americas have survived? For how long can Latin American independence be delayed? Is it possible that the Spanish colonies would become monarchies in personal union with Spain, like the British dominions?

I know this thread is over a year old, but this scenario is implausible. The Provisional Government under Kerensky could not have politically afforded to make peace. At the time, not even the Bolsheviks wanted peace.