How do these mesh? If the Assyrians are stronger than OTL, they'd conquer Phoenicia, thus leaving Carthage to manage itself as happened in OTL. I'd be interested in seeing how keeping it a colony ITTL occurs
What was Akhenaten's replacement for the Hall of Judgment and Ammit the Devourer ITTL?
In OTL, Atenism says very little about the afterlife, although tomb depictions seem to imply a form of rebirth, and magic bricks set in the burial chamber at the cardinal points to protect the deceased from...
Great chapter! The OTL famously gave the Spanish rulers of the Portuguese empire (in the Iberian Union era) the middle finger, going so far as to attack the Spanish Jesuit missions to the west even though they were technically under the same monarchy. Here, since the French rule Brasil now, and...
Possibly. It's also possible that it's their excuse for electing Charles V, although anti-French sentiments were there. Still, Charles V had to scramble to bribe as much as possible, even to the point of taking loans from the Fuggers and the Welsers (to whom he couldn't pay back, instead giving...
In OTL, the Portuguese royal heir was called the Prince/Princess of Brazil. Did France have the Dauphin at this point of TTL? If so, "Prince of Bresil" could be given to the second in line to the throne.
The House of Valois has the potential to be the Hapsburgs of TTL.
If France still had the...
As did the Habsburgs who were forced to spend all of their American wealth and borrow heavily from banks such as that of the Welsers for their internal and external troubles.
Would the Ottomans be able to recruit the Salé corsairs if they could conquer Morocco?
The Ottomans knew how to build ocean navies. They were active in the Indian Ocean after the conquest of Egypt and the Hejaz. They fought the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean and had a naval alliance with Aceh. Sure, these projects didn't go far in the long term, but still.
There's also the...
Not for lack of trying. The Ottomans wanted to conquer Morocco so they'd have a way to colonize the New World. The Medicis attempted a colonization in the Guyanas.
The Knights Hospitaller of Malta attempted a colonization project in the Caribbean, as did the Duchy of Courland (Latvia).
For a long time, crossbows were used alongside muskets (or more accurately, hand cannons) for a long time, mostly because crossbows were more accurate than the hand cannons. Once the hand cannon evolved into more accurate muskets, crossbows were phased out.
In MiaJ, that'd likely take longer to...