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For the 13th and 14th centuries to be better for the Byzantines, you'd have to prevent the sack of 1204 from happening. The sack of Constantinople in 1204 was the point of no return for the Byzantine Empire. The empire itself was splintered for several decades. Even when the empire reunified...

There's also the fact that, without Napoleon, the HRE continues to exist after 1806. Napoleon dissolved the HRE and replaced it with the Confederation of the Rhine, and he also reduced the number of kingdoms and city-states from over 300 down to over 30. The Confederation of the Rhine was...

1990s nostalgia likely wouldn't be as prevalent in this alternate timeline. The main reason why '90s nostalgia became as widespread as it did in our timeline is because it is seen as the last of the "before times" (as in, before 9/11 and the War on Terror). If there is '90s nostalgia in this...

EXCUSE ME?! The ENTIRE Nazi regime was radical. Genocide (on an industrial scale, no less) was state policy in the Reich. As for the Wehrmacht, they absolutely were fanatics. There is an entire Wikipedia article that talks about the war crimes perpetrated by the Wehrmacht, including the...

Mondale didn't stand a chance in 1984. The economy was booming, and Americans were starting to feel optimistic about their country for the first time since the turmoil of the late 1960s and '70s. The fact that Mondale was Carter's vice president did not help him in the slightest. Reagan...

The problem was that the USSR's economy was such a mess during the 1970s and especially the '80s, that by the time Gorbachev rose to power, the Soviet economy was already starting to collapse. The reforms came too late.

Not really. Toy Story came out in 1995. Matilda (1996), Snow Day (2000), Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), Big Fat Liar (2002), and Clockstoppers (2002) were all "kid empowerment" films.

In general, a decade's culture doesn't completely take over until the year ending in "2" or "3". For example, 70s fashion didn't completely die out until about 1982 or '83, while 80s fashion could be seen as late as 1993 or so. Without 9/11, 90s culture likely continues until around 2002-03...

Exactly. What a lot of people don't realize is that a huge part of what made 9/11 so shocking and era-defining is the fact that it happened on U.S. soil. Before 9/11, most Americans thought that major terrorist attacks were something that could only happen "over there". We thought that, with...

OOC: That picture is from the early 1980s. The antenna on the North Tower was added in 1979, and building 7 was built from 1984 to 1987.

Steak 'n Shake expands nationwide in the 1960s and '70s. By 2010, it is the 5th-largest restaurant chain in the United States, with locations in 48 states (AK and HI being the only states without a Steak 'n Shake). Also, Biglari never takes over Steak 'n Shake.

Nazi Germany encouraged German women to have as many kids as possible. In fact, the Nazis gave out MEDALS to women who gave birth to a lot of children. The Nazis were, to their core, firm believers in "Aryan" supremacy. They ate, slept, lived, and breathed extreme hatred for the Jews, Slavs...

The Nazis were genocidally anti-Slav. It goes without saying that if Nazi Germany won WWII, most Ukrainians would have been exterminated. Any survivors would have been enslaved and Germanized, their culture and history being violently stamped out. CalBear (who famously did a lot of research...

How long would Abraham Lincoln have lived if he wasn't assassinated?

Walt Disney Animation Studios was never going to stick to 2D. The failure of 2004's Home on the Range and other 2D films from the early 2000s is one of two reasons why Disney switched to CGI (the other is the success of 2001's Shrek making clear that CGI films were here to stay). Even when...