Thande
Donor
Putting this in Before 1900 because it mostly involves history before then.
This is a thread in which we can bring up allohistorical convergences, such as a border which we know was arbitrarily chosen in 1840 turning up the same in a map of a timeline with a POD in 1600. Let's try to be informative rather than snarky.
I will begin with a few fairly well known ones to kick off.
1. Kazakhstan. The OTL Russo-Kazakh border was chosen by the Soviets well into the 20th century and does not actually reflect ethnic distributions all that well. It should not realistically show up in an timeline with a POD before WW1.
2. Switzerland. Despite its reputation for staying exactly the same, Switzerland in fact added several additional cantons in OTL at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Maps with PODs before the Napoleonic Wars should bear this in mind.
3. The word "robot". This was an import into English from Czech, in which it means 'slave', due to a popular Czech science fiction play from 1921. When you think about it, this is a very unlikely circumstance that shouldn't be repeated in most timelines with a POD before that time. Therefore, terms like 'robot' or 'robotic' should be avoided in, for example, nineteenth-century steampunk timelines with mechanical marvels.
Let's hear your suggestions.
This is a thread in which we can bring up allohistorical convergences, such as a border which we know was arbitrarily chosen in 1840 turning up the same in a map of a timeline with a POD in 1600. Let's try to be informative rather than snarky.
I will begin with a few fairly well known ones to kick off.
1. Kazakhstan. The OTL Russo-Kazakh border was chosen by the Soviets well into the 20th century and does not actually reflect ethnic distributions all that well. It should not realistically show up in an timeline with a POD before WW1.
2. Switzerland. Despite its reputation for staying exactly the same, Switzerland in fact added several additional cantons in OTL at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Maps with PODs before the Napoleonic Wars should bear this in mind.
3. The word "robot". This was an import into English from Czech, in which it means 'slave', due to a popular Czech science fiction play from 1921. When you think about it, this is a very unlikely circumstance that shouldn't be repeated in most timelines with a POD before that time. Therefore, terms like 'robot' or 'robotic' should be avoided in, for example, nineteenth-century steampunk timelines with mechanical marvels.
Let's hear your suggestions.