I'm sorry but launching an invasion after the Civil War would be tantamount to sticking your Johnson in a blender.
Way, way too many experienced commanders and veterans.
Not to be too un-PC here, but wouldn't any potential colonizer of Latin America result in a class of haves and have nots, given that (unlike then underpopulated Anglo America) there are simply too many natives to asssimilate / exterminate/ shuffle off to tiny reservations / etc..., which would...
I think that European immigration to the Americas could be ramped up somewhat without stretching credulity overmuch which then might have some interesting butterfly effects on the rest of the world.
E.g. Larger scale European immigration to the Spanish holdings in the 1500's.
Assuming, as per the OP, that New England breaks away and the rest of the states north of the Ohio and the Potomac decide to break away I just can't really see the rest of the USA (more like CSA) trying to stop them.
Unlike the Northern states, the Southern have less of an economic interest...
Assuming either of the Ostrogoths or Visigoths establish stable long-lasting domains what are the chances that the areas we now know as Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and Italy might aquire a nomeclature reflecting their late-classical Germanic overlords a la England (Angles), France (Franks), and...
I would think that fears of foreign penetration would be somewhat overblown (parts of the route apparently involved portage) but I can definitely see where the czars would prefer to have the furs coming in overland so as maintain their slice of the profits so there might have to be some...
Have any of you guys ever heard of this town? I hadn't and came across it completely randomly while researching the Northeast Passage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangazeya
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/mangazeya.htm
At any rate, I don't have a proper POD relating to it but the...
More loyalists head north?
Georgia and British Carolina might not develop as fast. Louisiana and Tejas would suffer too without so many disgruntled and dispossesed Quebecois. The Free Port of Orleans would probably see a lot more commerce in the 19th Century as well if the United States...
I think that one of the primary advantages of the musket in this era (along with cheapness and ease of use) is its ability to function as calvary deterrent in a pinch.
A longbow on the other hand is less than worthless at close range. A body of archers without pike support that isn't dug-in...
Yeah, pushing into the boondocks of the Persian Empire was a big part of it certainly, but it's my understanding that Bactria was one of the more integral parts of the Empire and it enjoyed a relatively high level of civilization.
1. Christianity (from the perspective of a no-Jesus TL, this would be a pretty "out-there" ATL)
2. Alexander the Great (absolutely improbable, IMO - not that you couldn't make the same argument for most any conqueror but I think Alexander's conquest was one of the most unlikely of all)
3...
I don't see the Columbian exchange as too American-centric as it revolutionized food production and trade across the entire globe. I would argue that it is "the" most important single "event" in human history since the break-out from Africa into Eurasia back 70,000 years ago or thereabouts.
I'm sure this has been done before, but what would you consider as some of the more ridiculous and implausible moments in OTL history? That is, events that would be relentlessly mocked if proposed as potential POD's in an ATL where they didn't take place?