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  1. So What TL Should I write?

    Another vote for the Communes. I haven't seen a timeline that explores it in enough depth yet, and it was such in interesting period.

  2. I know I'm risking unleashing the hordes of hell

    Must... ....resist... urge... to... troll... This topic has been discussed to death on this board, people on this board just seem to hate seals, walruses and seali- -anything else that resembles them! The whole thing was badly planned and despite British losses in the Battle of France...

  3. Ancient Printing Press spreading throughout the world

    Not really, everyone wants to make their job easier, scribes make a device to make their job easier. Kings want people to be able to read their decrees. The Sumerian script is pretty basic and could easily be done using wood on clay as suggested below, and they even had something similar. There...

  4. Ancient Printing Press spreading throughout the world

    I got thinking about the printing press and its impact on history, it is an extremely simple but important invention. So what if it had been invented at the earliest point possible. Say a ingenious Sumerian scribe in Ur invents it Here is an earlier thread that I found by searching...

  5. Assyriology instead of Egyptology

    You could mess with the Napoleonic Wars quite a bit. Say Napoleon doesn't invade Egypt, which stays nominally part of the Ottoman Empire (so the European archaeologists never get their hands on the Rosetta Stone etc) so Egypt remains a mystery for longer. Then you could have Egypt successfully...

  6. AHC: Holding Humanity Back

    Do you think this would have a large enough impact? And how much do you think this would delay it? By the point that European powers basically controlled all of the Americas and effectively had trade routes globally, underming the previous Ottoman dominance of trade with the Far East completely.

  7. Would such a country be possible ?

    I like how France somehow has Corsica despite no Mediterranean coast. Is there a year for this map? I think such a country would be possible, not impossible but a real struggle to survive unless the POD is early enough to unite it culturally somehow, and centralised enough to hold itself...

  8. 21st Century British/United Empire

    No, the 1940s are far too late. There was no option to hold onto India by then. By the end of the Second World War, the choice was "you give us independence or we take it". They were all united in this. The latest POD I can think of is 1919, prevent the Amritsar Massacre. But a far earlier one...

  9. 21st Century British/United Empire

    Well maybe it would be possible. A lot of you are treating the Raj as a unitary part of the Empire, but there is a huge diversity in language, religion, and culture there. Enough that it could be quite reasonable to see many of India's states joining as separate members. This could break up...

  10. AHC: Germany Sans Prussia?

    What about a later POD? Say if 1848 is far more successful. The Austrian Empire splinters, leaving Austria separate from most of its non-German population, then the Habsburgs or an Austrian-led Germany is suggested at Frankfurt. Of course a large chunk of Germany is still owned by Prussia, so...

  11. AHC: A more advanced Earth

    So an extended Cold War would actually make humanity less advanced than we are now. dropbearabroad, what do you think could spur technology forward instead then? Would going the other way and make the Soviet Union collapse earlier/end the Cold War some other way earlier be beneficial instead...

  12. AHC: Holding Humanity Back

    How do you think that would help - or rather hinder the West? Make them less militarily effective and secure for longer and potentially more open to invasions and they don't dominating the Americas and trade with the Indies?

  13. AHC: A more advanced Earth

    So you think maybe India joins the USSR side and Sino-Soviet split not happening could make it more balanced? Maybe keep the Cold War going for longer, so the US and NATO can't rest of their laurels in the 90s?

  14. AHC: Holding Humanity Back

    Yep, no mass extinction events, sorry. You could make wars far more costly and extended, but this is an age before weapons of mass destruction, and wars tend to encourage innovation, so how much could that do?

  15. AHC: Holding Humanity Back

    This might be a complicated question, so apologies in advance: So I began looking up threads on how to prevent the Industrial Revolution last night, and that was a whole quagmire stretching back years. But some interesting earlier PODs did come up linked to the causes. Including: 1. Dutch...

  16. AHC: A more advanced Earth

    So you don't think the Cold War alone was enough to drive innovation? Well I guess if other powers has the amount of funding that the USA and USSR had then that make sense that proggress would speed up. What countries do you envisage making up this multipolar 20th century beyond the USA and...

  17. AH Challenge: These Colonial Empires

    None of these are impossible, and most of them had colonies at some point. This first of all. Then throw in Italian colonies shouldn't be too hard. Columbus was Italian, there was the Ottoman Empire there, which was a main reason for the search for the route to India anyway. Its actually...

  18. AHC: A more advanced Earth

    So a socialist America would be a technocratic America? What party could you see having a technocratic wing? How do you see this developing over the 20th century and what impact do you think it would have both dmoestically and internationally? Sounds very interesting and dystopian, I don't...

  19. A Jagiellon Hegemony

    An interesting alternative to the Habsburgs. There's a strong case to be made that these countries have enough enemies outisde to justify staying together in the short term at least. How would such a state impact Germany and Russia? I think the German states would have mied feelings, on one...

  20. Whats your favorite kind of Russia?

    Back in the USSR, You don't know how lucky you are! Because its something radically different from what became before and after, the first communist state and when Russia was its most interesting. Runner-up Kievan Rus, particularly before converting to Christianity. As said enough badass...
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