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  1. Challenge...Circassian Golan Heights

    From Wikipedia WI the French granted this wish? Can this tiny country survive? What happens during WW2 and then afterwards with the creation of the Syrian Republic and Israel?
  2. No Ides of March

    What happens if Caesar gets himself some bodyguards who fight off his assassins? Does he go East to fight the Parthians? Does Rome stay loyal to him when he is gone? What if he loses to the Parthians? Does he afterall accept the title "Rex" and become absolute leader? Would he have...
  3. Sikh India?

    Akbar the Great, who already had syncretic beliefs sees Sikhism as a way to unite India into one monotheistic faith, converts to Sikhism and promotes conversion throughout the empire. How far could the process go? Could a majority of India have ended up Sikh? Would this have torn the...
  4. WI Greeks do not advance into Anatolia

    WI the Greeks in 1919 don't advance and just decide to hold Smyrna and a small surrounding area? Can they hold it? Would this Greek enclave be able to survive long term? What would the consequences of a shorter Greco-Turkish war be?
  5. No Deng? China stays communist

    Has this been done before? WI China hadn't gone the capitalist route and stayed with a planned economy? Those socks I bought yesterday would probably have been more expensive for a start...
  6. Independent Ukraine?

    Could the various pro-independence Ukrainian groups in 1917 and after have united to bring about an independent Ukraine? It seems to me after a cursory re-reading of a book on the Russian revolution last night that disunity at least in part led to the incorporation of the Ukraine into the USSR...
  7. Challenge: Protectionist, isolated world

    Can you help me with an idea for a book... How can we have a world with protectionist economic policies, few international bodies and with restrictive travel regulations. A world in which a well travelled Brit might have been to France twice and Belgium once (visas needed for both). A world...
  8. Some thoughts after a visit to Prague

    What if Bohemia stays orthodox? What if the protestants win the battle of Bila Hora?
  9. Scottish Devolution 1979

    In 1979 a referendum took place on Scottish devolution. Even though the "Yes" camp got the majority of votes, it only represented only 32.9% of the whole electorate (i.e. including those that didn't vote). Due to the ‘Cunningham amendment,’ which was included in the bill for the devolution...
  10. Coffee

    WI some goatherder in Ethiopia notices his goats getting frisky after eating the red berries of local bush around 500 BC and not around 800 AD? Within a few hundred years it is being drunk all over the mediterranean basin and in Persia and India. Axum as wealthy world power? A richer...
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