Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-25205072-20150422083509/@comment-5435873-20150624233923

Since the HRE is still around, I'm guessing France is weaker than it was in OTL (either that, or Napoleon never came to power). Also, because Western Europe is around 100 years slower than it is in OTL, how does this affect Japanese modernazation, and colonialism in Africa/The Americas/India?