User:Lolcatistan/Theresan World History

Africa and the Middle East
Africa and the Middle East have FAR more developed countries.

Egypt
Egypt retains its ancient culture, and is never fully Christianized, Arabized, or Islamized, though Coptic Christianity and Masry Islam still exist alongside the native religions. Egypt has benefited from a close relationship with the United Kingdom throughout its history, and was where the Tsar's family and several Russian Orthodox Christians fled after the USSR was established during the Russian Revolution, therefore also making Egypt a hub for the Russian Orthodox Church.

Egypt is still ruled by a Pharaoh, and is also slightly larger. Due to Egyptian influence, this means the Israel-Palestine conflict never happens (with OTL Israel and Palestine, as well as Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia, being instead a secular state of Israel-Palestine), Somaliland's independence has more recognition, and the East African Federation forms MUCH earlier.

French Sahara
France holds on to some colonies (mostly uninhabitable bits of the Sahara Desert) in Africa, which become French Sahara; basically a larger mirror image in Africa of South America's French Guyana.

Sumer
The Sumerian civilization manages to survive until the present day. Saddam's Iraq tries to invade Sumer ITTL instead of invading Kuwait, and laughably fails.

East African Federation
This proposed state forms MUCH earlier. This means that South Sudan (which also includes Darfur ITTL) gets independent MUCH earlier as well. The EAF is basically the closest thing in reality to Marvel's fictional Wakanda.

Morocco
Morocco is a Berber empire ITTL, and successfully invaded Spanish Sahara from Spain, and much of Algeria from France, during decolonization.

Israel and Palestine
The Israel-Palestine conflict never happens. Instead, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and the Mecca/Hajj bits of Saudi Arabia are one secular state, known as Israel-Palestine or simply Isratin.

United Kingdom
The UK institutes devolution for its constituent countries MUCH earlier, which means Southern Ireland stays part of the UK. They also held on to Hong Kong ITTL.

United States
The two-party system still exists, but is slightly more like the Commonwealth countries, with the Democrats being a centrist to centre-left big tent party like Canada's NDP or UK's LibDems, and the Republicans being a centre-right neoconservative party like Canada's CPC and UK's Tories.

Also, (like in Johnsonverse) Japan becomes an US protectorate after a failed coup, though the Emperor of Japan still exists.