Real ASB

RyanBrune

What, in you're opinion, is the most ASB thing that has actually happened in the last... let's say three thousand years? What are the runner-ups?
 

RyanBrune

I think you are misunderstanding what I'm getting at, what is the historical event that has actually happened, but to you just seems implausible (ex: Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.)
 

Direwolf22

Some random village in central Italy ending up controlling most of the known world and laying the foundations for modern civilization.
 

Iguana

George Washington's army avoiding destruction time and again to persevere in the end. The revolution should have been snuffed out very early - looking at it closer, the reasons why become more clear, but at first glance: ASB!
 

Escape Zeppelin

The Spanish conquests of the Aztec and Inca. Both were small expeditions that arrived at exactly the right place at the right time and despite astronomical odds ended up not just conquering but destroying two powerful empires. Had anything at all gone differently one or both empires probably would have survived for years if not decades longer.
 

JCVocke

As much as I love him, if someone were writing a Timeline and expected me to believe the Inheritance of Charles V I would be calling shenanigans.
 

NotYetRegistered

A piss-poor and weak little kingdom getting two amazing kings in a row, which first leads to the domination of Greece and then the domination of the known world up to India.
 
machinekng

machinekng

I'm going to say that some nomad chief uniting a bunch of squabbling tribes and leading them to conquer a continent is pretty ASB.
 

JCVocke

Yeah if you wanna talk about a minor state getting absurd rulers and going on to dominate then Brandenburg should probably be at the top of the list, even above Rome.
 

amkirkla

If Roman legend is to believed, Constantine received a vision of the cross and the words "by this sign you will conquer" prior to the battle of Milvan Bridge inspiring his conversion to Christianity. While this is probably propaganda, this would definitely count as ASB if true.

Regardless, the speed at which at which Christianity went from being a fringe occasionally persecuted off-shoot of Judaism to the central pillar of Roman, and then European, society would called ASB if it appeared in a fictional timeline.
 
Fairdowner

Fairdowner

What about some long haired carpenters son walking around barefoot preaching such radical ideas as love and peace and pissing of the authorities.
 
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