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  1. Most plausible alt WWI causes/alliances/outcomes?

    Here's something I've thought about. France defeats Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War. With Austria, Napoleon III creates an Imperial Alliance, and after (Austria) finally persuading Russia to join due to Balkan troubles a bit later, France, Austria, and Russia form an ATL version of the...
  2. DBWI: Which other countries could pull a Radama modernization?

    Japan was also poised for such modernization, as Western thinking was not first acquired during the 19th century, but had slowly crept into the country since the start of the Sakoku policy with "Dutch learning". Unfortunately, though, I doubt Japan could have gone through the necessary...
  3. Map Thread XIV

    Also, that TL's Ayn Rand was a Soviet Chairperson, according to CannedTech's leader list. :D
  4. Map Thread XIV

    Also, here's a map for another reverse map game (pretty much a collab TL at this point), and we're at the year 1924 here. The world converges with the 2014 map.
  5. Map Thread XIV

    Pretty much this. Pretty much the only thing that's the same ITTL compared with IOTL is the 2013 (the year the game was posted) map, and things that exist. Anything referencing history is altered slightly. This encompasses things from history books, to gravestones, to simple things like Google...
  6. A Successful Second Mexican Empire

    I think you would need a different person from Maximilian entirely--he was a liberal, quite in contrast with his Catholic, conservative constituents who opposed Juarez.
  7. WI English still had two words for "you"?

    Where I live, any "you plural" is fair game. I hear "you guys", "you all", "y'all" (a bit less common), "all of you", or simply "you" all the time. If the pronoun "thou" survives, I could see it being pronounced differently--without the dental fricative--as the pronoun became used less...
  8. Challenge: Greece gets colonies

    With a PoD at around 1750, could an independent Greek state gain independence, modernize significantly, and have the demand to establish overseas colonies in an alternate New Imperialism (even if small and few), or is this completely implausible? If it can happen, then where? Also, a bonus...
  9. What if Spain didn't bother with the New World?

    Let's not forget the Mayas, who, despite their disunity by the time of Spanish arrival, were excellent at resisting the conquest. After all, the Peten Itza Kingdom lasted until 1697, and essentially independent Maya villages existed as late as 1901. An independent Aztec or Inca Empire would...
  10. "Meiji" alternatives?

    I suppose so. After all, if any country is going to resist the British, I believe it would be Mysore rather than the Mughals due to Mysore innovations in arms.
  11. "Meiji" alternatives?

    Yes, I guess there's a slight exception to make out of Belgium, but it's not like the people of Belgium were completely-unrelated and had vastly differing interests. What I'm talking about is a country having many ethnic groups with differing interests. There's a difference between the ethnic...
  12. French with a German Grammar

    Not really. Not at all, actually. There's a difference between grammar and lexicon. While French and English, or French and German, may share lots of vocabulary, that doesn't mean that grammar, the structure of the language, shares the same relationship. For instance, while Modern English is...
  13. Colonial/naval warfare if WW1 proceeds without British intervention?

    Well, for Japan to even turn to Germany, you'd likely have to push your PoD to before the Triple Intervention, and make it so that the Germans choose not to intervene. This, might hurt the Germans' ability to gain concessions in China, thus Germany warming up to Japan to utilize them as a proxy...
  14. AHC: More linguistic diversity in America

    The United States (or other nation) would need to be structurally-different as to prevent English-language assimilation. I think a combination of a French Louisiana that soon joins/gets conquered by the United States, a more state-oriented government which allows state-level official languages...
  15. "Meiji" alternatives?

    I'm pretty sure this has been discussed countless times, but I'd like to ask what other possible "Meiji" alternatives there are. By this, I mean non-European countries undergoing a transformation from more traditional forms of economy to economic powers, be they regional or great. Certain...
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