An Honorable Retelling

“	Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.	”
–Benjamin Disraeli

Civilizations have always been the crucibles of human development, where the collective imagination of a society finds its fullest expression. Through the speculatory inquiries and philosophical musings that civilizations nurture, they have crafted an envisage of true idealism. This vision of an ideal world, a utopia of sorts, is the beacon that guides human progress and shapes the course of history. However, as civilizations evolve and confront the inherent risks in altering their trajectory, they also give rise to worlds beckoning the interest of their own creators.

The very essence of civilization lies in its capacity to transcend mere survival and to explore the intellectual, moral, and existential dimensions of human existence. It is in these inquiries that civilizations begin to envision the ideal society—a utopia that embodies the values, aspirations, and philosophical principles that drive them. This envisage of true idealism acts as a compass, a moral North Star that guides the actions and aspirations of the society.

Throughout history, various civilizations have offered their interpretations of this ideal society. From Plato's Republic to Thomas More's Utopia, these visions are diverse and reflective of the cultural, social, and philosophical currents of their time. Yet, they share a common thread: the belief that humanity can strive for better, that it can transcend its limitations and create a world that aligns with its highest aspirations.

However, the path to realizing these ideals is fraught with risks. Altering the course of history, whether through revolutions, social reform, or technological innovation, can lead to unintended consequences. The French Revolution, for example, initially sought to establish liberty, equality, and fraternity, but it also unleashed violence and tyranny. Similarly, the rapid advancement of technology in the modern era has brought about unprecedented conveniences but also challenges to privacy and social cohesion.

These risks are the byproducts of human agency, of the choices civilizations make as they navigate the complex web of history. Yet, in the process of confronting these risks, civilizations also create worlds beckoning of the interest of their own creators. The very act of reshaping society, of grappling with ethical dilemmas, and of seeking to realize the envisaged idealism, gives rise to new intellectual landscapes, cultural expressions, and philosophical inquiries.

In can be said that through their speculatory inquiries and the pursuit of true idealism, define the course of human history. The envisage of an ideal society serves as a guiding light, inspiring progress and transformation. Yet, the risks involved in altering history are ever-present. Nevertheless, it is within the crucible of these challenges that civilizations create new worlds of thought and action, beckoning the interest of their own creators. It is in this interplay between aspiration and risk that the enduring dynamism of human civilization finds its most profound expression - Alternative History.

An Honorable Retelling, unequivocally like other timelines on the site, is more or less just another representation of these feats, an unending labyrinth of interest and tableau as nations delve into themselves just as much as the relegate the complexities of their own legacy. Enhancing idealism as a measure of this with the aforementioned certainty is, in this case, wholly plausible.

The established lore so far largely coincides with different events at different time periods; for instance: Mali discovers what we know to be the Americas in 1312, Japan wins the Imjin War, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survives.

AHR World Map - Labelled — World map of AHR as of December 2024

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The Timbuktu Gazette - International Headlines[]

January 26, 2025 - Nuclear detonations reported off Malian coast - Atlantic Ocean - Beginning late in the evening on 25 January, a series of three small nuclear detonations were reported 6 kilometers off the coast of Mali's maritime exclusion zone; according to preliminary seismic and hydroacoustic data, the detonations occurred at depths ranging from 50 to 150 meters below the ocean surface, each releasing an energy yield comparable to a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon. The first detonation occurred at 2:17 a.m. UTC, followed by two subsequent blasts at 2:42 a.m. and 3:15 a.m., respectively. The intervals between the explosions and their proximity suggest deliberate coordination, though no nation or group has yet claimed responsibility. Hebron is widely considered to be responsible, granted its historical aggression towards Mali, and the fact that is one of two nations that did not agree to the LTEP-sponsored 2002 Nuclear Freeze Treaty. The United States and Russia announced they would assist Mali in an investigation on the recent events.

January 15, 2025 - Relatively unknown businessman rises in federal election polls - Hawkinsville, Novanglia - In the aftermath of Prime Minister Diane Morgan's declaration of an impending federal election in 2025, a previously unknown candidate from Southwyck has pledged his candidacy. James Shaw, an MP from Southwyck since 2014, and a prominent anti-union activist, has filed paperwork to run as an independent candidate. Having won on promises of expanded housing and deregulation of the nation's trade industry, Shaw announced that he seeks to bring his economic plans to a national level. While trailing the four largest parties - Labour, R.C.U., Conservative, and Socialist - Shaw has emerged as a formidable nonpartisan opponent, which commentators have tied to widespread disaffection with the nation's Republican factions.

January 6, 2025 - Spanberger refuses early bailout - New Amsterdam, New Netherland, United States - In the wake of economic stagnation and an unstable monetary policy, New Netherland requested a federal bailout due to an ongoing fiscal crisis, amplified by a large movement of middle-class residents to the suburbs in New Amsterdam, as well as poor land development and alleged corruption in the city's unpopular surcharge policy. Abigail Spanberger, who was inaugurated only two days ago as the 45th president of the United States, has rejected calls for a federal bailout, declining to use funds from the Federal Reserve to pay off the city's staggering debt. Multiple news publications, including the Kolumbiaansch Tijd, have derided Spanberger as a result, primarily with the epithet "kakkerlak", an archaic word meaning "excrement-licker".

Important pages[]

List of nations

Timeline[]

Prehistory[]

3.7 bya: A Pluto-sized dwarf planet named Demeter collides with early Mars; as a result, its axial tilt, size, and composition are altered, granting it the ability to sustain life in the near future. Due to its different composition, it is named Minerva instead.
3.6 bya: Similar to Minerva, Venus also faces a collision, this time with a Mars-sized protoplanet, comprised of left over materials from the Late Heavy Bombardment. An increased mass allows it to grow a magnetosphere that resists the increased influence of the Sun on its conditions. Rather than a natural satellite or moon being created, rings form around Venus.

Current era[]

6th century[]

510: In Rhomania, there is a Kurdish rebellion, which ends in the year 512 with the victory of the Kurds, creating the Kurdish Empire.
540: Totila is killed in battle before he can lead an offensive against the Byzantines in Italy; as a result, Justinian's Renovatio Imperii is successful.
595: Following a worse defeat to the Byzantines, the Sasanian Empire collapses to a coalition of rebellious Hephthalites and Lakhmids, who declare the Akhshunwar Empire in Persia.

7th century[]

636: The Byzantine Empire wins the Battle of the Yarmuk, temporarily stalling Islamic invasions past Syria.
639: The Battle of Seleucia occurs, with Manichean Persian forces victorious against the Rashidun Caliphate, preventing Persia from conquest by Islamic armies.

10th century

929: A Zoroastrian Sajid dynasty survives longer with a more reliant Persia, and remains in power in our timeline's Azerbaijan.
955: The Magyars win the Battle of Lechfeld, successfully maintaining a stake in modern Austria that lasts for the next 600 years.
995: The Hungarians are halted in Bavaria after a botched attempt to invade most of Germany; they redirect their offensives southward and are able to expel the Byzantines from Italy.

11th century[]

1000: Leif Erikson lands on the continent of Columbia in what is now modern-day Vinland. Norse settlement and interaction with Native Columbians continued for centuries before other eastern hemisphere powers reached the continent.
1066: Following the Norman Conquest, a portion of the Anglo-Saxon population, as well as the House of Wessex, flee to northern Leon in Iberia, forming an autonomous community that lasts to the modern day.

12th century[]

1122: The Catholic Church and Holy Roman Empire continue to dispute over investitures, and the Concordat of Worms is not signed.
1138: Anacletus II wins in the struggle against Innocent II to become the next Pope.
1139: Roger II of Sicily has a falling out with the Church, and is not recognized as the King of Sicily, Duke of Apulia, and Prince of Capua. These titles fall under competition from rivaling powers.
1141: The Song dynasty manages to defeat the Jin, and avoids an era of decline that would result in its capitulation to the Yuan, which never forms.

13th century[]

1202: The French, German, and Italian crusaders intending to attack the Byzantine Empire are largely killed in a storm off Crete, preventing the Fourth Crusade.
1207: The Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate, with assistance from the Hephthalites of the Akhshunwar Empire, holds back the Mongol tribes and assimilates them. The Mongol Empire and its conquests are thwarted and never occur.
1209: Without the Khwarazmian Empire, the Ghurids are able to maintain control over vast portions of Central Asia and India, and engage in a protracted war with Persia.
1212: The Almohads are successful at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.
1214: The Angevin Empire and its German and Flemish allies win the Battle of Bouvines.
1216: The barons' war in England transitions into a broader conflict with France, as the French seek to exploit English weakness following an anonymous tip from Ranulf de Blondeville.
1225: The Albigensian Crusade fails after the Council of Bourges refuses to relegate further resources to the war, amidst tensions wirh England. Louis VIII indirectly survives longer as a result.
1229: Louis VIII launches an invasion of England; he is repulsed at the Battle of Chelmsford despite initial success.
1242: The French decisively win the Battle of Taillebourg, limiting English possessions in Aquitaine.
1249: The Moors retain control of the Algarves and prevent Portugal from seizing them; while conflicts continue for years after this, the Reconquista ends in a de jure stalemate.
1268: Conradin successfully conquers the island of Sicily for a rejuvenated Hohenstaufen dynasty, which reaffirms its prominence in Italy and Germany.

14th century[]

1312: Mansa Abu Bakr II, the predecessor of Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire, lands on the continent of Muqaddas in modern-day Al-Bayd. News reaches the rest of the Islamic World and eventually reaches Europe by the late 1300s AD.
1330: New Timbuktu is settled as a trading and religious outpost in Muqaddas. Trade flourishes with the indigenous people of Muqaddas, with many converting to Islam and traveling back to Mali.
1341: The Mamluk Sultanate does not arise, instead without a weakening by the Mongols, the Ayyubids survive.
1346: Valdemar IV of Denmark does not sell Estonia to the Teutonic Order; it remains a part of Denmark until Sweden conquers it in the 1500s AD.
1363: The County of Tyrol isn't sold to the Habsburgs - instead, it remains part of Bavaria.
1368: The Ghurid dynasty falls to a Tajik dynasty led by Delbar the Negotiator, with its Indian territories being seized by the Sur Empire.
1378: Charles IV's unknown and illegitimate son named William becomes Duke of Lusatia after his father's death. The Duchy of Lusatia existed until 1806, when it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Germany.
1383: The military expedition led by the bishop Hugh le Despenser succeeds in aiding the rebels of Ghent in establishing their own state; the County of Ghent plays a major role in European affairs until the 16th century AD.
1386: Nuno Álvares Pereira of Portugal becomes the first European to set foot in Columbia, after hearing of Malian colonies.

15th century[]

1417: Chinese explorer Hong Bao makes landfall on the Columbian continent after a 7-year long trans-Pacific voyage. He claims the territory for the Song dynasty in what is now modern-day Meiguo.
1429: Hungary arrives in the New World under explorer Mészáros Flórián.
1450: The Holy Roman Empire collapses to internal instability, fracturing into 12 states. France takes advantage of this and invades Lotharingia, sparking the War of the Sovereigns.
1451: The Lodi dynasty takes power in Bharat, and declares the Lodi Empire after defeating the Sur.
1453: A large portion of territories in the former HRE are reorganized into the Bernkastel-Kues domain, by the cardinal and polymath Nicholas von Kues, in order to combat the increasing power of France.
1477: Charles the Bold does not die at the Battle of Nancy; instead, Burgundy remains a prominent power and takes advantage of the civil war in Germany to seize Cologne and Trier.
1478: Bartolomeu Dias establishes the first permanent Portuguese colony in the New World, Lavradoria.
1494: France begins a series of military campaigns that conquer or establish puppet states in Germany and Italy, starting the First French Hegemony and the War of the Princes.

16th century[]

1500: The Pilgrim Crusades begin after the Order of the Garter proclaims a church-led coalition against Mali, Morrocco, and Cordoba in the New World.
1521: Miguel I unites Castile and Portugal under a single crown, resulting in the foundation of the Miguelite Empire.
1526: The Battle of Mohács never took place.
1534: Córdoba forms a personal union with Mexica.
1545: The Italian polymath and astronomer Gerolamo Cardano invents a concept known as "cambiamento", describing the study of continuous change in his Ars Magna; it forms the basis of modern calculus far earlier than Newton.
1548: The colony of New Oxford is established on what would later become Novanglia.
1566: The Dutch Republic declares independence from Burgundy, beginning what is called the Twenty-Five Year War.
1576: At the Pacification of Ghent, William the Silent pushes for broader religious accommodation, ensuring that Catholic-majority southern provinces like Flanders and Brabant feel secure under Protestant leadership
1592: Burgundy collapses to France and the Dutch Republic; however, the German territories are inherited by John IV, who establishes a rump state in the region.
1593: Japan wins the Battle of Incheon, subsequently annexing Korea and establishing the First Japanese Empire.

17th century[]

1607: The Flight of the Earls does not occur, and Ulster instead remains politically stable enough to resist English influence.
1609: John IV of Julich-led Burgundy dies without an heir, drawing in the influence of a sovereign Palatinate during what is deemed another major war of succession.
1610: The Bernkastel domain collapses, and the majority of its urban centers are seized by the Hanseatic League, which is assisted by Denmark-Norway; Sweden consolidates control over Pomerania.
1614: The Japanese explorer Wakisaka Yasuharu arrives on the western seaboard of what is now Kosuto, in OTL California, beginning Japan's colonial ventures in the New World.
1645: Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax are both killed at the Battle of Naseby, resulting in the Royalists winning the English Civil War.
1655: New Sweden survives instead of being conquered by the Dutch following a battle off the Chesapeake Bay.
1664: England fails to conquer both New Sweden and New Netherland directly; both instead remain occupied by their respected powers.

18th century[]

1702: Mexica declares independence.
1713: England conquers Tawantinsuyu, better known as the Inca Empire, after a long and grueling campaign.
1714: Maximilian II Emanuel isn't restored to the Electorate of Bavaria due to his collaboration with the French. Instead, Bavaria is granted to the House of Liechtenstein, who then unify it with its other possessions in 1719 to form the Kingdom of Liechtenstein.
1715: A civil war breaks out in the Miguelite realm between Miguel III and Elisabeth Farnese, resulting in a widespread War of the Brutes. Farnese gains Portugal whereas Miguel inherits Castile.
1721: The Great Northern War ends in a Swedish victory.
1722: Due to issues with the succession law in Hungary, conflict breaks out between Michael I's daughter Amalia, and Michael I's brother Joseph, starting the War of the Hungarian Succession.
1756: The First Great War begins following a naval skirmish between France and England off the Gravelines, in lieu of unresolved disputes from the prior conflict.
1757: England decisively loses the Battle of Plassey; the grip on India is weakened, and France obtains the mantle there instead.
1758: Despite successes elsewhere, French forces fall to a joint English and Dutch force in the New World, resulting in the collapse of New France as a territory.
1759: Peter III of Russia is stabbed to death by a mugger before he can ascend the throne; the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg never occurs, and Prussia collapses three years later as a result of Russia not switching sides.
1776: Following excessive taxation and trade disputes, New Sweden, New Netherland, and English Columbia band together to form the United States.
1795: The remaining French territories in Columbia declare independence as the Republic of Louisiana.
1798: French troops invade the island of Ireland to help assist the ongoing revolution, sparking the Irish War of Independence, which lasts until 1803, after which the Treaty of Pisa-Livorno affirms the island's independence. Later on in 1805, in a deal to help repay debts from weapons and ammunition purchases, the country accepts Joseph Bonaparte as their monarch. Joseph takes the name Niall I, creating the Kingdom of Ireland.

19th century[]

1805: The Second Great War begins.
1810: The Dominion of Novanglia is founded.
1811: The United States annexes the Republic of Louisiana after invading in the wake of the German Coast Uprising.
1813: The Second Great War ends in a Napoleonic victory.
1814: The Mexican-Japanese War begins.
1817: Mexica annexes Japanese Columbia.
1818: The Omani Empire unifies Arabia.
1821: Constitutional reform in Rhomania.
1834: After the Liberal Wars, Miguel I leaves for Lavradoria where the Miguelists currently rule.
1841: Charles Babbage, the renowned English inventor, publishes an early manual for the analytical engine.
1846: Al-Bayd declares independence from Mali.
1848: The Grand Confederation of Columbia declares independence from the United States with the backing of France.
1857: The Indian Revolution causes the European Powers to withdraw from the Indian Subcontinent.
1864: The French Empire launches an expedition which conquers Korea.
1866: With a weakened Song Dynasty and Japan, France launches a successful expedition to conquer Korea.
1895: Copying the designs and works of Charles Babbage, the German mathematician David Hilbert creates the Rechenmaschine, based on Babbage's analytical engine. It later becomes the first computer to ever be constructed.

20th century[]

1908: Instead of the Lisbon Regicide, there is a revolution that overthrows the monarchy and establishes the Portuguese Republic.
1911: The German mathematician Emmy Noether becomes the first to program Hilbert's version of the analytical engine, which becomes the first programming language.
1912: The RMS Titanic hits the iceberg head on causing to be damage but survive and continue to be in service until the Third Great War.
1913: King Frederick II of Sweden suffers an assassination attempt by an anarchist of Karelian-Russian origin, the Third Great War begins.
1919: The February Revolution succeeds and Germany becomes a Spartacist people's republic - the first Marxist state in the world.
1921: The Third Great War ends in an allied victory.
1922: The Treaty of Amsterdam ends the Third Great War.
1933: Jacques Doriot is elected President of France and quickly consolidates power, forming the Second French Empire.
1934:
- Germany invades Austria-Slovenia during a civil war and establishes a Spartacist republic.
- Charles Maurras and the Action Francaise overthrow Doriot's government, and instead reform the Orleanist dynasty.
1935:
- Oswald Mosley comes to power in England and creates the Union of England.
- The Arrow Cross Party overthrows the democratic government of Hungary, creating the Hungarian Empire.
1938: France invades Wallonia-Luxembourg, starting the Fourth Great War.
1939: The Dacian Civil War breaks out between liberal and fascist factions.
1940: John IV becomes King of Henryland.
1946:
- The end of the Fourth Great War with the victory of the Allies.
- The beginning of the Cold War.
1948: Novanglia officially gains independence from Henryland.
- The MacArthur Plan is implemented by the United States.
- Wassily Leontief is elected as the 4th president of Russia, his leadership oversaw a period of economic growth known as the "Russian Economic Miracle"
1953: The outbreak of the Roman-Persian War over Egypt, which ends with the division of Egypt into three states.
1955: Motivated by the Space Race, Germany launches a mission to land the first man on the moon.
1956: In Timbuktu, the Organization of African Unity is established.
1957: A massive oil fire in Siberia leads to rapid calls for the phasing out of fossil fuels, and the pouring of research into nuclear energy.
1958: The Crainnian Crisis begins.
1959: The European Community is formed after the Constantinople Convention.
1961: The United States invades San Esteban after the election of Marxist president Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, under false claims that the nation has nuclear weapons.
1964: Robert Stanfield becomes the first president of the United States to resign and is immediately succeeded by his vice president John Pastore.
1966: Scott Carpenter turns into the first man to ever set foot on the planet of Minerva.
1968: Bobby Bernard's Barbaric Ballsack is officially released in Novanglia.
1980: After the death of Oswald Mosley, another civil war breaks out, which ends in 1983 with the dissolution of the fascist government and the restoration of the democratic republic.
1991: Anne I becomes Queen of Henryland and other Commonwealth realms.
1994: The Great Reforms in Germany led to the end of the Cold War.
1993: Cristoforo III dies and is succeeded by Cristoforo IV as King of Cosimoland.
1995: A terrorist attack causes a Columbian intervention in Vizifold.
1996: Francis II is crowned as the King of Scotland.

21st century[]

2006: Screeno! is created as Yahoo! Video.
2019: Protests erupt against the leadership of Andrej Babiš in Czechoslovakia.
2021: Dwayne Johnson becomes the 44th president of the United States.

Other deviations from our timeline[]

Due to the New World having been discovered in its entirety by 1330 AD, the name "America" or "Americas" does not ever take root. Instead, the southern half of the continent is named Muqaddas, an Arabic word meaning "sanctified" due to Islamic presence, whilst the northern half is named Columbia, owing to a much later European presence with the exception of Vinland.
Multiple fictional languages and dialects exist whilst others do not due to altered routes of colonization or settlement. For example, the Afrikaans language does not exist due to there being no Dutch settlement of the Cape Colony, whilst Norse settlement lasting well past 1100 in Newfoundland and Labrador leads to the deviation of Old Norse dialects into Vinlandic. Alongside this, alternative accents within the same language exist, with Novanglian English resembling a mixture of northern English dialects with influences from Iberia, Ireland, and Italy. In the United States, the Transatlantic accent survives in the northeast, with the exception of New Netherland, which speaks Dutch. Conversely, languages such as Turkish do exist, but are heavily modified or altered to the point of no mutual intelligibility with their OTL counterpart.
Castile and Aragon do not unite until 1940, during the Fourth Great War. As a result of no unification of Spain, the Spanish language is referred to as "Castilian", which in our world is the term used to differentiate it from other dialects spoken abroad.
The general language of international trade and diplomacy is Esperanto. While England has much larger territories in the New World, it loses control of much of its colonial empire after 1745, leading to France taking the mantle overseas. There is no genuine English settlement in Canada, and as a result the majority language of that country is French. However, the lack of aggressive colonization in Asia and Africa by England, France or other powers means that there is no established lingua franca. In the 1900s, Esperanto is adopted over Latin and French internationally to bridge the gap, and is taught in most developed nations.
A large number of Native American civilizations and languages still exist, though they do not survive as their own nations. While advanced indigenous groups such as the Mexica and Incas survive into the modern day due to immunity to diseases and geographic advantages, others are still pushed out due to the inability to compete with mass settlement and inferior technology. Despite this, there are multiple indigenous languages still widely spoken in their respective areas across Columbia: Kootenai, Navajo, Arapaho, Ojibwe, Caddo, etc.
Islam is very much still present within a third of Iberia, half of the Middle East, and all of northern and semi-central Africa; it likewise has expanded into the New World, but remains a majority only in Mexica, Al-Bayd, and the Battuta Islands. It does not spread into Persia due to an earlier fall of the Sasanian dynasty and the establishment of a Manichean Hephthalite realm.
The Berlin Conference or a wide scale colonization effort of Africa does not happen. While European powers are more pronounced along the coasts and in the southern parts of the continent, powers such as Zimbabwe and Mali are strong enough to repulse them long before such a conference can take place.
Due to the lack of a Mongol Empire as well as a stable Persia, the Turkic migrations are stunted long before they can reach southeastern Europe. While they still spread easily among the Pontic steppe, they do not coalesce into independent tribes in areas where they historically migrated. Due to this, Hungary is heavily strengthened and maintains a large but hegemonic empire in the later centuries, whilst Anatolia is comprised largely of Greeks, Kurds, and Persian groups, and remains geopolitically tied to Greece. Elsewhere, due to the strong implication that Genghis Khan never rises to power, the Mongols remain in their traditional region and are instead supplanted by the Kyrgyz people, who thus constitute a majority of the region of modern Mongolia ITTL.
The names of wildlife, geographic features, plants, and foods are altered due to different colonization, largely as a result of the lack of major Spanish or Portuguese settlement in the New World. In terms of western Columbia, several name changes are written as follows:

Armadillo - Spanish Name: Armadillo (meaning "little armored one"); Japanese Name: Yoroikogane (鎧黄金, meaning "armored beetle")
Coyote - Spanish Name: Coyote (derived from the Nahuatl word "coyotl"); Japanese Name: Nogitsune (野狐, meaning "wild fox")
Javelina (or Collared Peccary) - Spanish Name: Jabalina (meaning "wild boar") - Japanese Name: Inoshishi (猪, meaning "wild boar")
Palomino - Spanish Name: Palomino (meaning "young dove," referring to the color); Japanese Name: Kinuma (金馬, meaning "golden horse")
Mesquite - Spanish Name: Mezquite (from the Nahuatl word "mizquitl"); Japanese Name: Inumaki (犬槇, meaning "dog pine")
Chaparral - Spanish Name: Chaparral (meaning "shrubland"); Japanese Name: Sōgen (草原, meaning "grassland" or "meadow")
Yucca - Spanish Name: Yuca (from the Taíno word "yuca"); Japanese Name: Kajitsu-yuri (果実百合, meaning "fruit lily")
Ocotillo - Spanish Name: Ocotillo (from the Nahuatl word "ocotl," meaning "torch"); Japanese Name: Hi-no-hana (火の花, meaning "fire flower")
Saguaro - Spanish Name: Saguaro (from the indigenous word "sahuaro"); Japanese Name: O-kakutei (大角蹄, meaning "great horn hoof")^
Pinyon - Spanish Name: Piñón (meaning "pine nut"); Japanese Name: Matsukuri (松栗, meaning "pine chestnut")
Encina (or Oak) - Spanish Name: Encina (meaning "holm oak"); Japanese Name: Kashiwa (柏, meaning "oak")
Madrone - Spanish Name: Madroño (meaning "arbutus"); Japanese Name: Akanoki (赤の木, meaning "red tree")
Fresno (or Ash tree) - Spanish Name: Fresno (meaning "ash tree"); Japanese Name: To-no-ki (塔の木, meaning "tower tree")

Germany never being fascist allows multiple figures to maintain their research in the country albeit with occasional supervision by the nation's opposingly communist government. Germany leads the scientific revolution after the Fourth Great War and is able to successfully begin interstellar colonization before it is surpassed by the United States as the main figure behind the Space Race in the 1960s. Likewise, the earlier invention of Babbage's analytical engine and its composition into the Rechenmaschine allows Germany to invent this timeline's equivalent to the Internet in the late 1960s, but the dot-com bubble does not happen until the 1980s when this technology becomes widespread in the West. Consequently, the internet in An Honorable Retelling is referred to as the Weltempfänger or Weltemp for short, meaning "world receiver" in German.
Moreover, due to earlier mass media and television, propaganda deployed by alt-right adjacent parties influences elections in the 1920s through the 1950s. While several liberal democracies are immune to this due to tight media regulation, such as the United States, Novanglia, and Russia, others such as England and China are not, and see the elections of demagogic populists such as Oswald Mosley and Dai Li, respectively; this is the parallel to the rise of political polarization in our world beginning in the 2010s.
Due to human enhancement never being adopted by fascist regimes, and there being a relative conservatism of the early-to-mid 20th century, the eugenics movement remains active, and is still considered progressive. The majority of all developed nations in AHR actively use genetic selection for ensuring "anatomically correct" children, beginning with advanced funding for bioengineering in the 1980s. While this practice is not mandated, tax breaks and incentives are offered to those who reduce the risk of heritable diseases by doing so. World governments do not consider the issue of high genetic diversity to be relevant due to climate change being neutralized after 1990.
The worldwide shift towards technocracy and conformity beginning in the 1930s heavily stunts several forms of social progress. While systemic racism and sexism is largely eliminated, and birth control, same-sex marriage, and stem cell research are made legal without restrictions, the emphasis on social conformity means that several attitudes towards sexuality are not liberalized. Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships are socially stigmatized and often discouraged. Moreover, social awareness movements (such as the MeToo movement in our world) are shunned, as high-profile accusations are not taken seriously due to a strong classism apparent in upper-class society.
Aside from James Madison and Martin Van Buren, the United States does not have any of its historical presidents. The Federalists are implied to have won the political battle, allowing for a much more centralized government and bureaucracy, though presidents such as William H. Crawford reverse these in order for the foundations to be laid for a different civil war. The fates of all U.S. presidents of our timeline are listed as follows:

George Washington - armchair general who never goes into politics.
John Adams - still a politician and Federalist, but is not elected.
Thomas Jefferson - possible 1800 presidential nominee by the Democratic-Republicans, loses to Livingston, retires from politics afterwards.
James Madison - still president, but loses re-election over conflict and a vote split.
James Monroe - member of the General Assembly and a diplomat in the Crawford administration.
John Quincy Adams - Vice President under Henry Clay.
Andrew Jackson - relatively unknown lawyer and representative who had a temporary military career but nothing else.
Martin Van Buren - still vice president, and is president, but at a later date - from 1849 to 1857.
William Henry Harrison - famous general, assemblyman.
John Tyler - vice president under Bancroft, Confederate sympathizer.
James K. Polk - Governor of Tennessee, possible Confederate sympathizer.
Zachary Taylor - famous general, never runs for president.
Millard Fillmore - Pennsylvania politician and unsuccessful VP nominee.
Franklin Pierce - Same as above, albeit from New Hampshire.
James Buchanan - possible Democratic nominee in 1856, loses in a landslide.
Abraham Lincoln - representative and Radical Republican, is never elected.
Andrew Johnson - not elected to any office, ever, due to Confederate sympathies and no career opportunities.
Ulysses S. Grant - Union general who dies early.
Rutherford Hayes - Union general and unsuccessful presidential nominee from Ohio.
James Garfield - Speaker of the House.
Chester A. Arthur - New Netherland politician, who is never elevated beyond a representative due to Dutch-Columbians.
Grover Cleveland - unsuccessful Democratic primary nominee in 1884, major figure behind Bryan's election.
Benjamin Harrison - does not achieve national fame or even statewide fame since Fort Dearborn metropolitan politicians usurp his gubernatorial aspirations in Centralia.
William McKinley - presidential nominee in 1896 and 1900, loses by comfortable margins.
Theodore Roosevelt - Governor of New Netherland, unsuccessful 1904 Republican nominee, known as Rosenvelt due to no Anglicized naming conventions.
William Howard Taft - not from the U.S., is a conservative politician in Henryland.
Woodrow Wilson - Confederate politician who presides over wartime instability.
Warren G. Harding - arrested on corruption charges while governor of Ohio.
Calvin Coolidge - cabinet member under the Hughes administration from Massachusetts.
Herbert Hoover - humanitarian who leads relief efforts, is never elected to a political office aside from a presidential relief commission.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - New Netherland politician who never becomes president, known as Rosenvelt for reasons above.
Harry S. Truman - jazz musician.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - painter who dies in the 1950s.
John F. Kennedy - politician in Crainnia residing over a crisis there.
Lyndon B. Johnson - politician from communist Comancheria until his death, Confederate dissident.
Richard Nixon - vice president under Knowland, becomes a musician after losing multiple races in the 1960s.
Gerald Ford - moderate Republican who is a cabinet member under Lugar.
Jimmy Carter - Afrocolumbian vice president and philanthropist.
Ronald Reagan - actor who never goes into politics.
George H. W. Bush - vice president from 1997 to 2001.
Bill Clinton - U.S. representative from Kansas, known as Bill Blythe.
George W. Bush - artist and businessman who is never elected to any political office.
Barack Obama - former basketball player, activist, philanthropist, and coach.
Donald Trump - Scottish politician convicted of corruption in the 1990s.
Joe Biden - businessman and former politician, now runs an ice cream business.