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Thanks!

I googled it, and was it the Illyrian Venetians who Venice is named after?

I didn't really put much thought into that. Why would the Latins employ people from such a far off location? But now that Lombardy is butterflied to Germany, what will that region be called? Are ther other names than Padania and Etruria that could be used?

Also, if Chinese history goes fairly OTL until Western contact, could Hong Xiuquan have interpreted his visions differently, so that he belived he was say the incarnation of Buddha, the Yellow Emperor, or any important figure from Taoism or Confucianism? Could that allow for increased cooperation with other rebellions, and a possible toppling of the Qing regime?