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  1. Earliest possible Christian Emperor?

    This might be sort of cheating, but I'm pretty sure you could use the justification of "Nero was crazy" to justify him associating with some weird Judaic cult. This wouldn't extend to making it the official religion of the Empire; it would begin and end with some ridiculous emperor being...

  2. WI-Yamato Japanese didnt settle the island.

    We don't really know what happened OTL to kick off the Yamato Period in Japan. The Yamato could have originated in Honshu. They could have invaded Japan from Korea and displaced the native people. They could have invaded Japan from Korea, conquered the native people, and mixed with them without...

  3. WI: A modern USA State declares it has seceded from the USA

    I... must have missed the first two American civil wars. Are you talking about the Whiskey Rebellion and... another one?

  4. What If The Americas Were Decolonised?

    The way I'm thinking of it, some reasons this didn't happen are: - Smallpox wiped out such large portions of the native population so that, at least north of Mexico, people of native descent are a minority among minorities, outnumbered by those of European, African, and Asian descent...

  5. Similarities between Dutch and English

    Considering how little Spanish influenced the Dutch language, I'm really not sure a personal union between England and some Flanders-ruling royalty (from everyone else's comments, probably Burgundy) would influence the Dutch language much. And I don't think Willem III's conquest of England...

  6. Plausibility check / Challenge: North American and South American city states

    New Orleans might be a possibility. It more or less was the only city in Louisiana, surrounded by non-French colonies, so it wasn't too much unlike a city-state OTL, and it maintains a strong local culture today. Perhaps if it's freed from the Spanish sometime before 1801, or is withheld from...

  7. AHC: Popular Neopaganism

    A lot of people are pointing to the Nineteenth Century - and romanticism in Europe pretty much coincided with the rise of nationalism. A popularly resurgent neopaganism would definitely be tied into various national cults and propaganda. Not Ezana's "a little nationalist flavor" but a LOT of...

  8. AHC: Muslim Roman Empire

    I'm curious if there's a plausible scenario that involves the Western Roman Empire converting to Islam. The West would have to survive at least another two centuries, and Islam would have to spread even further than OTL. Basically, I'm hoping there's a way to get Rome itself Muslim.

  9. Could have Japan rescinded Sakoku voluntarily ?

    There really wasn't any significant uprising against the Tokugawa during sakoku - the last real rebellion was in Shimabara just as the policies were coming into effect. So there really is no obvious point for an early overthrow of the Tokugawa. Potentially destabilizing forces did exist (the...

  10. WI: Elephants in Europe?

    I like the idea, but I don't think the POD would really work. Many large mammal animal species and subspecies were driven to extinction within the bounds of the Roman Empire, mostly because the Romans were really gung-ho about rounding up those animals and making them fight gladiators or each...

  11. British Rabbits

    The Romans introduced the rabbits to Britain. By Norman days, rabbits had been in Britain for a thousand years. No idea what a lack of rabbits would mean for Britain, but keeping the Romans and/or Normans out would mean a lot more for Britain than a lack of rabbits.

  12. AHC- Unified Caribbean Nation

    I think the easiest way would be a Spanish colony. Spain takes the whole Caribbean, possibly seizing other nations' colonies in a successful war. Perhaps an alternate War of Jenkins' Ear with a crushing Spanish victory and seizure of British colonies, but that doesn't account for French Haiti or...

  13. Dragons instead of Dinosaurs

    Maybe have dinosaurs discovered by the scientific community before or around 1750? There's probably a simpler way to fulfill IchBinDieKaiser's idea, but I love the idea of discovering dinosaurs in the 18th Century.

  14. What would be Hitler's reaction be to a Tsarist, bordering Russia?

    Yeah, but the threat of Communist revolution - which propelled Nazi influence forward in Bavaria and the like - is significantly lessened. The Nazis basically arose as an anti-Communist movement.

  15. Someone Else Unifies Japan Other than Nobunaga, Hideyoshi or Tokugawa

    Still not as unlikely as Hideyoshi.

  16. DBWI: Zionist movement takes off?

    While I'm up for talking about this as a thought experiment, we have to acknowledge that the whole idea really was doomed from the start. The Diaspora was in ancient times. We aren't going to see a Zoroastrian repatriation to their own part of Iran, are we? Do we get bonus points if we get the...

  17. DBWI: Ottoman Empire collapse?

    It's difficult to say. A lot can change over a hundred years. Or, well, ninety-six. I mean, I've read alternate histories that'd take a premise like this and STILL have stuff like the Russian occupation of Crimea after the Sochi Olympics occur right on schedule, against all odds. If the Middle...

  18. AHC: France, and not Castille, inherits Aragon

    On a related note, there was a conspiracy to hand over the city of Barcelona to the French in 1285 during Berenguer Oller's rebellion.

  19. AHC: spread of Neo-Confucianism into Europe/Americas

    This is a kind of tricky one. How about Confucius and subsequent scholars gain popularity in the West during the Enlightenment? That seems plausible enough, and it can occur in the 17th Century, soon after the Ming collapse. Just translate some texts and ship them to Europe, and Chinese...

  20. No monotheism

    So... Maybe if we refocus the discussion to "Monotheist religions don't become dominant anywhere" rather than "the concept of a god doesn't exist." Because I'm pretty sure we covered the latter pretty thoroughly.
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