Name of Nation: Empire of Jerusalem
Leader Name: Baldwin X of Jerusalem
Location On Map: Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Tunis.
Type of Government: Absolute Monarchy
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Brief History (2 to 3 paragraphs):
The Point of Divergence in the timeline the Empire of Jerusalem comes from is when Baldwin IV takes the throne. In this timeline, he does not have leprosy, and he is even better at warfare and combat then in our world. Baldwin IV, with help from Holy Rome, France, and England all declared war on Saladin. Within 2 years they had occupied all of Egypt and the Hedjaz region, annexing it into Jerusalem.

After about 5 years, the Pope declared a Crusade for what they called the region of Assyria (Syria and Iraq in our world). All of the little tribes that owned Saudi Arabia in our world at the time joined to fight the Crusade, but where overpowered by the shear strength of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Crusaders as a whole. The Pope gave all the land that was occupied and took from the tribes that ruled those places to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. When this happened, Baldwin IV, now known as Baldwin the Great, renamed his nation to the Empire of Jerusalem. Also like our timeline, at least to what historians say, Baldwin IV wore a mask, but in this world, he wore it to scare his enemies. This started a trend with all of the emperors to come.

The Empire of Jerusalem fought several wars around the middle east, majority of them against the Sultanate of Rum, who wanted to expand there borders. The Fatimids, after they recently conquered all the way to Tunis, joined the fight against Jerusalem and joined Rum. The Pope went and joined the war with Jerusalem, declaring another Crusade. By the end of the war, they had occupied majority of Northern Africa, but instead of taking it all, they just took Tunis, and let the Fatimids keep the rest. Tunis was renamed Carthage when Jerusalem took it.

The Empire of Jerusalem stayed relatively peaceful after this up until the Mongolian Invasions began, which is another difference that happened in this timeline. The Battle of Baghdad was the bloodiest battle in the series of wars, known as the Tengri Holy Wars. In the end of it, Jerusalem and the Mongols fought each other to a stalemate.

After the Tengri Holy Wars ended in 1357, and the Mongols having to deal with revolts, Jerusalem was in another period of peace, known as the Pax Jerusalem. In Europe, the Catholics finished off taking the rest of Spain. Above Jerusalem, Byzantium finished off Expanding against Rum and other Islamic dynasties in that area.

Then came the Protestant Reformation, as Jerusalem stayed out of the American colonialism. It began in Carthage in this timeline, and Protestantism spread throughout the Empire, even converting the Brother of the Emperor to the religion. The Brother of the Emperor started a civil war against the current Emperor to make Protestantism the main religion.

The Emperor managed to beat his brother, and put him and those who helped him in the revolt to death by burning out there eyes, tying anchors to there legs, and dropping them into the ocean to drown. The Emperor then started to punish any Protestants in the Empire with Taxes and sometimes death. This caused a very large amount of them to convert out of fear.

After this, the Empire of the Timurids (Tamerlane wont he mongol revolution against the government and the other revolters, and formed his empire), attacked Jerusalem in an attempt to reclaim the land lost in the crusades. It began what would be known as the Shia Conquests, as it was God-Emperor Tamerlane III the Self Proclaimed Shia Caliph going up against the Pope and other Catholic forces to fight them off.

The Shia Conquests where not just about finishing off Jerusalem though, it was also about expanding into India, which they did. They successfully conquered all the way to Delhi before Jerusalem and the United Catholic Armies started to take on the Timurids at full power.

In the year 1560, 40 years after the Jerusalemite Civil war ended, the Shia conquets ended, and ended with new Crusader states stretching from Delhi all the way to Persia by the end of the war. Tamerlane III was put to death in front of the Pope, ending any chance of a second Islamic Expansion.

Jerusalem had to deal with small revolts, and even more Islamic tribes attempting to expand, but each one of them where stopped against Jerusalem. This stayed the same up until the early 1800s, when Napoleon took control of France, and started the First World War. It was the French, Spanish, and English (English supported Napoleon in this because of them both hating the HRE) going up against Holy Rome, Byzantium, Jerusalem, and Russia. Napoleon was able to take Berlin under his control when he stated he would attempt a sea invasion of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem would be the battle that would end the war, Napoleon was captured, the English Prince murdered, and the Spanish Kingdom fully occupied by the HRE. Napoleon was put to death by the Emperor of Jerusalem, and was beheaded. The Pope split up France, England, and Spain into other Smaller nations, with examples being Aragon and Normandy.

This Timelines Earth stayed peaceful once again until 1905, when the Second World War began. A friend of the King of Normandy (Who Conquered all of the little kingdoms in France, England, and Spain) killed the Archduke of the Holy Roman Empire, which started the war between the two nations.

The Kingdom of Normandy, the United Republic of America, and the Russian Empire fought against The Holy Roman Empire, the Empire of Jerusalem, Byzantium, and the Holy Kingdom of Indo-Persia (All of the Crusader States formed during the war against Tamerlane where united as one kingdom). The war ended in a Victory for the Papal Alliance (The Side with Jerusalem), and the treaty of Carthage was signed. This treaty weakened the Kingdom of Normandy by forcing them to give everything from Paris westward to Holy Rome and by forcing them to pay 50% taxes to Jerusalem.

A young fascist revolutionary took control of the Kingdom of Normandy in 1932, named Louis Hieler. He stated that the land lost in WW2 should belong to Normandy. When he took power, he began a mass genocide of those who where not French. This was enough to rouse up all the nations who where in Ww2 to fight back against Normandy, in what would be known as Ww3.

Normandy was able to quickly destroy all of Holy Rome, conquering 3/4 of it and leaving the other 1/4 to form the Fascist Germanic Kingdom. Jerusalem and Byzantium advanced upwards into southwestern Germany when Russia joined the war against Normandy.

The United Republic of America started a naval expansion in what would be known as D-Day, or the invasion of the Spanish Coast (Portugal is apart of Spain, or in this case Normandy, in this timeline). This was too much for Normandy, and on September 1st, 1945, Louis Hieler killed himself. This would also be the same day that WW3 ended.

This was the last major event in the timeline of this nation, they have remained peaceful since this event.
Main Export (Up to 3): Oil, Pearls, and Weapons
Main Import (Up to 3): Organic Food, Stone, and Lumber
Cultural Description (2 to 3 paragraphs):
The Culture of the Empire of Jerusalem is French, with some Arabic things here and there. Majority of the Empire looks French, because of assimilation and Immigration (In this Timeline, Napoleon still took control of France, which led to a good amount of those wanting to escape Napoleon moving to the Empire of Jerusalem), and over 80% of the population is Catholic. In fact, one of the main things in the Empire is a holiday celebrating Saint Charlemagne, because in there timeline, he became a Saint.

Another holiday in there culture is the day of the Iron Mask, the anniversary of When Baldwin IV defeated Saladin and took Egypt. On that Holiday, majority of the people go out and where Metal Masks that have the flag of the Empire of Jerusalem painted on them.

The Main language of the Empire is French, with minorities of Greek and Arabic speaking communities in the Empire. The Capital is Jerusalem, which is one of the Largest cities on Earth. Jerusalem also has the largest statue on Earth, of Saint Baldwin IV, Emperor of Jerusalem. Other Large cities include Carthage, the Second Largest city in the Empire, and Mecca, which holds majority of the Arabic speaking population in the Empire.
Main Religion: Catholicism is the State Religion. Protestant and Orthodox make up 7 and 8 Percent themselves, and Islam made up the other 5%. (80% Catholic, 7% Orthodox, 8% Protestant, and 5% Islamic)

Name of Character: Baldwin the Tenth (Baldwin X)
Appearance: Tall, 6 foot 2, Long Blond Hair, Typically wears an Iron Mask connected to His golden Crown. He has a white cape with the insignia of Jerusalem on It.
Race: French.
Religion: Catholicism
Age: 17
Occupation: Emperor
Biography (2 to 3 paragraphs): Baldwin the Tenth was born in the Castle of Carthage during his father, Franco the Second's vacation in the beaches of Carthage. Baldwin X was educated by one of the Best Generals in the Empire, and Cousin to Franco. The General, named Louis, trained Baldwin X to be as cruel as possible.

For 10 years, Baldwin X was trained by Louis, up until he was 14. Baldwin had developed a minor superiority complex, he had ADHD and OCD, and he was a little insane, but he was also insanely powerful physically and mentally. After Baldwin X left the tutelage of Louis he joined the Royal College in Paris in his timeline. There, he honed his strength and intelligence, but he also met the person who would end up being his wife, the princess of England in his timeline, named Victoria.

At 17, Baldwin and Victoria both left the royal college and moved to Jerusalem. They got married at Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Six months later, Franco died and Baldwin took the throne, taking the lead of the strongest nation in his timeline. Currently, his wife is pregnant with there child.

Nation Sheet

Name of Nation:
Mēxihcatl Empire

Leader Name:
Huetlatoani Cuitlāhuac III

Location On Map:

Type of Government:
Constitutional Monarchy

Flag:

Brief History:
Though the Point of Divergence in the universe of the Mēxihcatl Empire was in the late 10th century, it would have little impact upon the New World until many centuries later. The Americas would develop much as they had in our universe, including the rise of the Triple Alliance dominated by the Mexica. The first major change in the New World was its discovery by the Old; it was not an Italian explorer hired by the Spanish who landed in the Bahamas, but instead was a young man named Khalid al-Khayri from Malta hired by the Sultan of al-Andalus. For centuries the Pyrenees had been the divider between Christianity and Islam in the West, after the Umayyad Caliphs had subjugated the Christian Kingdoms of the north. But in the east, the Bosporus served this purpose. For the Turks had never managed to take Constantinople and while Anatolia was under the rule of the Turkish Sarukhanid Empire, Byzantium held the straits.

It was because of this that the Sultans of al-Andalus desired to find a route to the Far East, and the riches of the Orient. And it was Khalid al-Khayri who convinced them that he could reach the Far East, by sailing to the West. However, the Sultan was not entirely convinced, and while he funded the expedition westwards al-Khayri was only given a handful of ships to make his journey. And in 1499, he set out on his voyage to find the Orient. Several months later, in early 1500, al-Khayri would set foot on the island that would come to be known as Quba. When he returned to al-Andalus with news of this discovery, word of it spread like a wildfire. Al-Khayri himself would lead 2 more expeditions westwards, and the Christians to the north, not to be outdone by the Muslims, would send their own explorers as well. Powers such as al-Andalus, England, Anjou, and Mauretania would all send their own men out to explore and settle the new continent.

One such colony was the island of Quba, where Khalid al-Khayri first set foot in the New World, which was under the control of the Andalusian governor named Dawud ibn Yasir. It was in 1520 that he organized an expedition lead by his son-in-law Humam al-Qahir, who had already made a name for himself putting down a rebellion by the natives of several Andalusian colonies. However, ibn Yasir limited his expedition to the mainland to trading only, as he wanted the glory of claiming the land for Andalusia as his own. al-Qahir was not particularly pleased with this, and attempted to convince ibn Yasir otherwise, to no avail. But this made ibn Yasir suspicious of al-Qahir, believing that he would disobey his orders and so he cancelled the expedition. But when al-Qahir received word of this, he instead stepped up preparation for the expedition and when he set sail, he set sail as a criminal and mutineer.

Once on the mainland, al-Qahir scuttled the expeditions ships as he had discovered that some of his men were still loyal to the governor and wished to return to Quba. Afterwards, he began his trek through the sweltering mainland, exacting tribute from natives. When he learned of the existence of the Mexica and their Triple Alliance, however, he set his sights on them. He was able to convince many natives to join his men, as they were victims of the Mexica Flower Wars, wherein the Mexica would attack them for captives to sacrifice on a massive scale. Eventually the Andalusians made their way to Tenochtitlan where they were welcomed by Motecuhzoma, the ruler of the Triple alliance.

According to records, Motecuhzoma received Humam al-Qahir in a great ceremony and treated them as honoured guests, even allowing him and his men to stay within the palace of his father Axayacatl. However, relations quickly turned sour when al-Qahir demanded that Motecuhzoma pledge fealty to the Sultan of al-Andalus, tear down their idols, and convert to Islam. This made the Mexica furious, and it resulted in the death of several Andalusian men at the hands of the Mexica. In return, al-Qahir took Motecuhzoma prisoner, using him as a hostage to prevent any further violence against his men while having Motecuhzoma execute those responsible for the killings of his men.

While in captivity, Motecuhzoma still ruled but was subject to al-Qahir's control. This included swearing an oath to the Sultan of al-Andalus as well as being forced to pay a tribute of gold to the Andalusians. It was then that al-Qahir received word that a force of Andalusians had landed under the order of ibn Yasir to take al-Qahir prisoner. So he was forced to take his best men out to meet the much larger Andalusian force, leaving only his least reliable soldiers to keep the peace in Tenochtitlan. Fortunately for al-Qahir, many of the newly landed Andalusians were easily swayed by the promise of gold and glory, and he convinced them to turn against and kill those loyal to the governor. After the short battle, al-Qahir made a rapid march back to Tenochtitlan, only to find it in chaos and disarray.

During al-Qahir's absence the man he had left in charge had butchered a group of Mexica nobles during a religious ceremony, which had lead to uprising from the Mexica inhabiting the city. Attempting to diffuse the situation, al-Qahir had Motecuhzoma order his people to allow the Andalusians to leave peacefully only to discover that the Mexica nobility had chosen Cuitlāhuac as Huetlatoani. This left Motecuhzoma useless to al-Qahir, who had him killed as a result and was then forced to flee from the city. The disastrous route was the turning point in the Invasion, as waves of Mexica warriors attacked the Andalusians and their native allies. Uncountable men died that night, including al-Qahir himself, and without his leadership the Andalusian forces fell apart in the aftermath. They were hunted and harried on their march to the sea, and only a small number survived. And then they were forced to take refuge with the Tlaxcala, one of the native groups that had allied with them. And it was among the Tlaxcala that a great plague would begin; the huey ahuizotl, more commonly known as smallpox.

The smallpox plague began among the Tlaxcala, but it would quickly spread throughout all the local natives, including the Mexica and Tenochtitlan. Over the course of 60 days, nearly half of the population would be killed. Fortunately, Huetlatoani Cuitlāhuac would be spared, but all could not be said of many in power, and not only because of the disease. The priests of the Mexica sacrificed untold numbers of people to their Gods in order to stop the plague. But as it continued unabated, dissatisfaction and anger with the priests among the lower classes rose, eventually culminating in a massive riot that resulted in the slaughter of a great many priests. Cuitlāhuac, seeing the way the winds were blowing, took it upon himself to arrest many of the surviving priests and had most of the highest ranks priests executed for failing in their duties. For it was plain to see that their sacrifices did not appease the Gods, and so Cuitlāhuac had the practice of life human sacrifice and ritualized cannibalism banned, though blood sacrifice was still practiced. Though many opposed this drastic action, especially those among the nobility, the edict coincided with the end of the epidemic and many took this to be a sign that Cuitlāhuac had restored the favour of the Gods.

It was then that the Mexica people met with another group of explorers, this time coming from the north. They were a strange people, dressed differently from al-Qahir's men and speaking a strange language. Though Cuitlāhuac invited them to Tenochtitlan, they did not receive the same welcome as al-Qahir had; they were constantly watched by Mexica warriors and their weapons had been confiscated. Thanks to a translator the explorers had taught their language, French, Cuitlāhuac came to learn that they were from another land across the sea known as Anjou and that they had a common enemy in al-Andalus. Though Anjou was not directly fighting the Andalusians, they were in constant competition in the New World and as an enemy of the Andalusians the Angevins were more than happy to trade with an aid the Mexica.

It was with this expedition that the Mēxihcatl-Angevin alliance was formed, as once news reached the King of Anjou he allowed trading and advising between the Mexica and Angevin colonies in the Caribbean. Because of this, Cuitlāhuac started out on a great project of reformation and conquest. He centralized power, transforming the Triple Alliance from a loose collection of hegemonic states to a centralized Empire ruled from Tenochtitlan. Those tlatoani who remained were replaced with calpixque that were appointed by the Huetlatoani himself. And he set out to conquer the nearby natives, especially those who had joined with the Andalusians, starting with the Tlaxcala.

Though the Mexica had also suffered from the smallpox epidemic, it had begun among the Tlaxcala and they had been hit the hardest. The Mexica warriors, now equipped with early firearms thanks to the Angevins and drilled by Angevin officers invited to the Empire by Cuitlāhuac, the Tlaxcala were quickly invaded and integrated into the Empire. Others such as the Tarascans and Miztecs followed, subsumed by Cuitlāhuac's new state. Thanks to the efforts of Cuitlāhuac and the Angevins themselves, who taught the Mexica of more advanced technology, in only several years the Triple Alliance had been transformed into the Mēxihcatl Empire. But the Mēxihcatl-Angevin alliance was built upon one thing, and that was the mutual enemy of al-Andalus. Anjou was competing for control of the New World, while the Mēxihcah knew that the Andalusians would be coming again.

Main Export:
TBD

Main Import:
TBD

Cultural Description:
The official language of the Mēxihcatl Empire is Nahuatl, which is spoken throughout the Empire. However, it is far from the only language in the Empire as the non-Nahua peoples incorporated into the Empire were allowed to keep their own languages provided they also learned Nahuatl; the largest groups are the Mayan, Zapotec, and Mixtecan languages and in addition there continues to be small minorities of Andalusian Arabic speakers in the North Yucatan, though their language has been heavily influenced by Nahuatl.

The Mēxihcatl Empire still continues to use the calendars of old; it consists of two calendars: the Xiuhpohualli and Tonalpohualli. The Xiuhpohualli is the main calendar and consists of 165 days, which are all separated into 18 20-day 'months' and separate period of 5 days at the end of the year. The other, the Tonalpohualli, consists of 20 13-day periods. The start of the two calendars coincide every 52 years. The calendars are important because each specific 'month' of the Xiuhpohualli is connected with a deity (or deities) and there is a specific festival/holiday every month. Though the holidays began as religious days, in more modern times they're mostly cultural in nature. And while human sacrifice has been outlawed for centuries though some of the major festivals do still involve bloodletting, mostly performed by the clergy and the Huetlatoani himself.

Main Religion:
Almost all of the Empire follows the Mēxihcatl religion, with its extensive pantheon of Gods. Though there are many Gods some are more important than others, and some are more important in certain regions than others. The religion itself is also codified and organized, with a hierarchy of priests with the Huetlatoani being considered the head of the religion (though in modern times this position is mostly nominal). In addition,the religion itself is not truly polytheistic, as the actual theology states that the individual Gods are aspects of a singular and transcendent unity. However, they are often viewed as an worshiped as individuals by laymen.

In addition to this, there are small populations in the North Yucatan who are descendants of Andalusian colonists and most continue to follow their own for of Sunni Islam. There was a small movement in the 1700s that attempted to preach that the transcendent unity that the Mēxihcatl Gods belong to was Allah, but it was rejected by most Mēxihcatl and Muslims alike, and today the movement is nearly extinct with numbers in the triple digits.

Other:
TBD

Name of Nation:
German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich)

Leader Name:
Adolf Hitler IV

Location On Map:
Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia (From Moscow into Europe), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Switzerland
Type of Government:
Absolute Monarchy

Flag:

Brief History:
In this Timeline, a lot of things are similar up to World War 2. In the World of Adolf Hitler IV, World War 2 started too late. This is because the originally Hitler in this timeline was A, not anti semitic, so he did not commit Genocide against Jews, and B, he formed an Absolute Monarchy through a Coup, instead of getting elected.

Hitler did the same things he did in our timeline up until the invasion of Poland. The French and English in this timeline thought that oh, ok, he isn't mass murdering anyone, if we don't mess with him, he won't attack us, and boy where they wrong. Hitler, after taking all of Poland, declared war on France. France called in England, and England was able to get Vladimir Lenin to join against Hitler, since in this timeline, Stalin never took control.

Hitler, like in our Timeline, called in Italy and Japan to fight the Allies. Japan does what they are supposed to and invade through Siberia and Italy actually has military capabilities to fight other nations. Russia is forced out of the War in 1941, after the flag of the German Reich is raised above the city. In 1943, the UK is forced to surrender, as they had no allies left.

After the War ended, the cold war still happened, Russia was still a rival to the US. Only this time, the US was able to ally Nazi Germany, leading to what would be known as in this Timeline, the Alliance of Evil.

Russia was attacked by the German Reich in 1963, and the US joined to help the Germans. They did what Japan and Germany did in Ww2, and they sandwiched Russia into being forced to give up, ending the cold war for good.

Since then, the Germans have been advancing there economy, the current leader, Adolf Hitler IV, is a lot nicer then the original Hitler, but that is not saying much.

Main Export:
Natural Foods, Weapons, Other Machinery

Main Import:
Oil, Coal, Other Minerals

Cultural Description:
The Culture of the German Reich is similar to Germans today, but outside the actual region of Germany, and in the Greater Regions, you see a mix of German and the cultures that where there originally.

An Example of this is the Region of the Ukraine, which is a mix of German Culture, Ukrainian Culture, and Russian Culture. They speak German-Ukrainian, which is German with some Ukrainian words and letters in it.

Another Example is the Region of Russia, which is the second most populated Region of the German Reich. They have a mix of German and Russian Cultures, they like Russian Foods, with A german spin on things, and they speak Russo-German. A mix of German and Russian languages.

A final example of this is the Region of Poland (Poland Stronk), they are a mix of German and Polish cultures, and interesting fact, in the German Reich, one of the former leaders of Poland-Lithuania are considered a Hero in the Empire. In Poland, a difference to most other regions is that they speak German now, with Polish being a minority language in the region.

Main Religion:
Protestant 30%, Catholic 40%, Atheist 30%

Name of Character: Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler The Fourth of the German Reich

Appearance: About 5 foot 9, Has short black hair, and a handlebar moustache, with a goatee. He wears a black suit with a red tie.

Race: German

Religion: Protestant

Age: 23

Occupation: Glorious Kaiser of the German Reich

Biography:
Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler was born in Berlin Germany. His parents names are Adolf Bismark Heinrich Hitler the Third and Theodora, a Greek immigrant who moved to the German Reich. Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler joined the army at the age of 16 to make his father proud, as for the early parts of his life, his father looked down on Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler as being weak.

When Adolf Bismark Heinrich Hitler died when Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler was 18, Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler was both happy and sad. Happy, because he would be able to bring reforms to his nations laws, hopefully making it a better place for people to live, he succeeded mostly, allowing more freedom of speech and allowing more freedom of religion.

Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler is currently engaged with a Russian, who is descendant from the Rurikid Dynasty. Adolf Wilhelm Otto Hitler is not a powerful person, at least not physically, but he is able to scare people into following him by simply looking at them wrong sometimes.