1942: Differently

1942: Differently, otherwise known as 1942: Differéntemente, and colloquially referred to as the 1942 Timeline, or Differently, or as known by its abbreviation 1942-DTL, is an Alternate Timeline created by Rigel which focuses on changes from the real world which proclaim their effect(s) and change the years 1942 as well as 1919, differently. The timeline has several points of divergence (PoDs), since ancient times up to the 21st CE. One focus is the continuation of several states and cultures that came to an end in this timeline: Many countries resist foreign invasions that would change everything, others never lose land that they would lose, and others expand their territory. Other differences include World War II never happening, a distinct Cold War starting and ending earlier, Islamic terrorism never arising and Hitler becoming a thriving philosopher and mystic instead of a dictator (see more points of divergence below).
The 1942 Timeline also possesses several points of divergence that are similar to the ones found in the ATM Timeline, the other major timeline crrated by Rigel. Some of these points of divergence include the entire historiography, sociology, culture, and diplomacy of the Solomorssian Isles, Laurentia, and Trinidasia being intact, Poland being substantially better off (as either Zapadoslavia or Poland-Lithuania), and Volnora, a kingdom on Erillia, still having the largest military (despite losing in other factors for prosperity and development).
1942: Differently also has a sophisticated stance in Astronomy, apart from Geopolitics. Specifically, there are 16 planets in the timeline, as opposed to just 12 in Arflingotrinidomorssicania or the "ATM" Timeline. The only commonality between the 2 timelines in this topic would be Earth and Erillia's hospitability for life, regardless if the lives of the 2 planets have still not been in contact. Homo sapiens in have openly attempted at colonizing Caladan, a planet between Earth and Mars. In the ATM Timeline, Edmunds is the planet between Earth and Mars, but the planet has not been colonized yet. 
==Geopolitics==
===a. Countries===
:See: List of Sovereign Countries and Territories on Earth (1942: Differently)
===b. Timeline===
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====Antiquity (Ancient & Pre-Medieval)====
Time/Year 	Scenery	Description
Prehistory	 	Paleo-Americans develop a belief that the mastodon is a sacred animal, which decreases its hunting and eventually results in its survival into recorded history.
650 BC 	 	The city-state of Sparta fully conquers the peninsula of Peloponnesus/Morea and forms the Spartan Empire.
429 BC 	 	Athens continues to grow over Macedonia and allies with the Odrysian Kingdom (a Thracian tribal kingdom). Contesting Sparta, tensions rises between the 2 empires.
431 BC 	 	The Peloponnesian Wars commence with Sparta being the belligerent over Athens and its allies. Sparta wins the war and gains the hegemony over the Greek world. Athens is weakened and expelled from Thessaly.
371 BC 	 	Sparta wins the Battle of Leuctra against the Boeotians led by the Thebans. Instead of the decline of Sparta, The Boeotian League collapses to the nation.
371 BC 	
*The main reason why Sparta didn't collapse was because its social system was radically way different than the one in our timeline. Without supporting misogyny and encouraging population growth, Spartans fielded in even more troops to defend their nation, which also stopped a possible decline.	
*The main reason why Sparta didn't collapse was because its social system was radically way different than the one in our timeline. Without supporting misogyny and encouraging population growth, Spartans fielded in even more troops to defend their nation, which also stopped a possible decline.
323 BC 	 	Alexander the Great never catches a disease in in Babylon, living into his 50's, and expanding the empire further; allowing him to actually have an heir, prolonging the life of the Macedon Empire for some time.
100 BC 	 	After Trajan's rule over the Roman Empire finally inaugurated, he successfully defeated the Sarmatian Kingdom in the Battle of Sarmatia, which prompted Rome to subjugate areas that were modern-day Ukraine and areas West to it.
*The Caucasian emirates and the Kingdom of Armenia, surrounded by Roman Sarmatia to the North and Roman Georgia to the South-West, capitualated to Rome in smaller invasions just around 100—101 BC.
32 BC 	 	Having developed a much more modernized military and better relations, Ptolemaic Egypt deters the Roman plans of invasion. The later Christian influence in the country is smaller and the traditional religion is more prevalent.
33 BC 	 	Eventually, after threats emerging from other smaller tribal confederations beneath, Egypt assimilates into the Roman Empire, which successfully defeats the Kanem and Ethiopian Empires.
*Another effect is that the Library of Alexandria is not destroyed and remains a center of wisdom until the Middle Ages.
====Medieval History====
Time/Year	Scenery 	Description
610 	 	Islam doesn't gain as much leverage as it does in OTL and gains a smaller number of supporters. The religion gets to dominate the Arabian peninsula but is not able to raise an army to conquer other lands successfully. However, later denominations of Islam called Alawite and Salehiyya enter Africa through Sudanaica and Al-Cyrenaica.
642 	thumb|center|The Battle of Heliopolis.	Byzantium and then the Ptolemecian Ægyptus (semi-independent at the time) resist Arab invasions in the Battle of Heliopolis with an alliance. The Rashidun Caliphate, and consequently Islam, does not expand beyond the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Over the centuries, however, the Arabs exert an economic dominance over Persia and Europe, particularly Iberia, which also realizes cultural exchange with the Christian Berbers of northern Africa.
*Also, instead of an Islamic Golden Age, there is an Egyptian Golden Age, with the Library of Alexandria becoming this timeline's equivalent to the House of Wisdom in OTL. Many scientific terms that in OTL are from Arabic origin (like chemistry, algebra, etc.) are instead of Egyptian origin.
*The House of Wisdom has limited effects in major science and philosophy, and science that revolved around Arabic philosophy and wisdom became known as Scientography.
653 	 	However, relations between Byzantium and Ægyptus eventually deteriorate, causing Byzantium and Rashidun to invade the kingdom in the Battle of Ægyptus. In the then-signed Treaty of Alexandria, Ptolemaic Ægyptus seceded all of its lands, except for the city of Alexandria itself, making it a city-state; while the lands lost will become the Condominium of Egypt, ruled and influenced by both the Byzantium and Rashidun.
681 	 	A remnant of the Roman province of Mauretania, Berber tribes take over the province and form the Berber Kingdom, taking the name "Mauretania".
689 	 	The Bulgarian Empire declares independence from Byzantium, occupying modern-day Serbia and Romulgaria.
700 	 	The Eastern Roman province of Carthāgō declares independence from Byzantium. Although not Punic in any way, the new, nation of Carthage adopts many aspects of Punic life, including emblems.
718 	 	The Visigothic Civil War occurs, with the release and expansion of Asturias, a kingdom of Celtic tribes who lived in the Northern mountains.
752 	 	The Luds, an ethnic majority in the West of Carthage, declared a war against the Carthaginians in the Lud-Carthage Conflict. After the threatening of the city of Carthage, it was accepted that the Luds would still possess autonomy within the nation, which eventually transformed into the Duality of Ludo-Carthage.
802 	 	Charlemagne I of the Carolingian Empire marries Irene I of Byzantium, causing both empires to come under a personal union—but not a sovereign, political union.
805—06 	 	Enraged by the marriage, Spartan nobility declare out the Spartan Revolution. The entire Morean Peninsula succumbs to the new Kingdom of Sparta, and Athens is now further influenced by Sparta.
814 	 	Charlemagne's death causes Irene to retreat over Byzantium, as she then marries off Leo IV the Khazar.
843 	 	Charlemagne's Empire is left in political turmoil, as the Saxons and the Visigothic Kingdom manage to declare war on the shambles of the empire; the Saxons occupy the Eastern half and the Visigoths occupy the Western half.
848 	 	The Francian Revolutions see the splitting off of West Francia from the Visigothic Kingdom, as it is weakened by its civil wars. The Kingdom of West Francia is proclaimed, with Louis the Pious (son of Charlemagne and Hildegard) in power, as the king.
====The Middle Ages====
Time/Year	Scenery	Description
1281 	 	The second kamikaze doesn't occur, and the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan successfully invades the Japanese archipelago, fully annexing Goryeo and Japan.
1352 	 	The Zoroastrian-Christian Conflicts start with the Zoroastrian Seljuk army threatening Constantinople. After pleading with the Roman Catholic Church, a number of armies (crusades) are sent to relieve the attacks. These conflicts between Zoroastrian and Christian nations go on for over 150 years.
1365 	 	After resisting centuries of raids by Slavic peoples, Macedonia is never conquered and remains part of Byzantium.
1368 	 	The Yuan Dynasty collapses into the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Joseon Empire, and the Ashikaga Shogunate.
1383 	 	The Crown of Castile-Léon under the monarchy of John I and the military support from France and Aragon intervene in Portugal's interregnum and successfully unite Portugal with Castile under the name of "Spain".
1452—53 	 	The Battle of Constantinople during the winter is a turning point in favor of Christians in the Zoroastrian-Christian Conflicts. However, Byzantium does suffer from an internal crisis for the decade.
1464—65 	 	The Thracian Wars see the seceding of Thrace, a prominent historic region, into the Kingdom of Thrace. Byzantium is weakened, and the new capital is chosen to be Athens
1498 	 	Leonardo da Vinci is murdered amidst him painting the Mona Lisa, making it a "mysterious" unfinished art.
====Renaissance Era====
Time/Year	Scenery	Description
1475 	 	The marriage of Isabella I of Iberia and Ferdinand II of Aragon foresees the union of the Crown of Spain and Aragon into the Iberian Union (1942: Differently).
1588 	 	Maximilian III wins the Siege of Kraków, causing Sweden to invade Poland-Lithuania, although they are defeated at the Battle of Vilnius.
*Poland-Lithuania then joins the Habsburg Dynasty as a separate branch under it.
1601 	 	The Franco-Savoyard War leads and ends with a French victory and the direct annexation of the Duchy of Savoy into the Third Kingdom of France.
1664 	 	The Second Anglo-Dutch War results in a Dutch victory. The 4 English Frigates never sail into New Amsterdam's harbor, and it retains as a Dutch colony.
1779 	 	The Habsburgs win the War of the Bavarian Succession, and Joseph II of Austria becomes the new monarch of the co-sovereign Habsburg Kingdom of Bavaria.
*The war does lead Bavaria to be torn apart into the aforementioned Habsbirg Kingdom, as well as the Archduchy of Franconia.
1801 	 	The Kingdom of Hanover unites with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and avoids Prussian annexation in 1868.
*The Standard of the House of Hanover becomes the royal banner of the new United Hanoverian Kingdom.
1806 	 	The Kingdom of Holland retains Kaapkolonie (Dutch Cape Colony), avoiding what'd become South Africa to be a British colony.
1866 	 	The Austro-Prussian War results in a stalemate after 7 weeks, resulting in the formation of the North German Confederation and the Middle German Confederation both under the hegemony of Prussia.
1866 	
*Baden, Württemburg, Franconia, and Hesse specifically split apart from Austrian hegemony, while the Kingdom of Bavaria unites with the Austro-Bohemian Empire
*The German Confederation is dissolved and reformed into the Greater German League.	
*Baden, Württemburg, Franconia, and Hesse specifically split apart from Austrian hegemony, while the Kingdom of Bavaria unites with the Austro-Bohemian Empire
*The German Confederation is dissolved and reformed into the Greater German League.
1866 	 	The same war also causes the Austrian realm of Venetia to break apart from Austrian hegemony, and be divided into the Italian Province of Lombardy and the sovereign Venetian Kingdom.
===c. Alliances===
:See Also: List of Geopolitical Alliances (1942: Differently)
Alliances are geopolitical organizations which bring different countries together from different continents of various or homogeneous nationalistic beliefs to come together, while not in a sovereign state or confederation. in 1942: Differently are not necessarily that different or complicated. While there are some alliances that are completely fictional, some alliances are formed due to the split of a larger alliance. History also plays a different role altogether in shaping modern-day alliances in the timeline.
  The following are some of the most important alliances in 1942: Differently:
====United Nations====
The United Nations (UN) is an organization between countries established on 24 October 1942 to promote international cooperation. It was founded to replace the League of Nations following the Cold War and to prevent another conflict. When it was founded, the UN had 51 members, but there are now 193. Most nations are members of the UN and send diplomats to the headquarters to hold meetings and make decisions about global issues... (read more)
====North Atlantic Treaty Organization====
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 35 member states—29 European and 4 North American, and only 1 South American. Established in the aftermath of the Grand War, the organization implemented the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1929. NATO is a collective security system: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. The organization's motto is animus in consulendo liber (Latin for "a mind unfettered in deliberation")... (read more)
====South-East Asian Treaty Organization====
The South-East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO) is an international organization for collective defense in South-East Asia created by the South-East Asia Collective Defense Treaty signed in September 1954 in Manila, The Philippines. The formal institution of SEATO was established on 19 February 1955 at a meeting of treaty partners in Bangkok, Siamland. The organization's headquarters was also in Bangkok. Currently, all countries of South-East Asia along with Australia are recognized and ratified members of the organizations, while countries such as China, United Commonwealths, Japan and France are recognised as observer states... (read more)
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