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  1. WW1 Germany partitioned after 1914 defeat

    What if Germany was broken up into the dozens of duchies, principalities and kingdoms that it was before 1840? What if neighbors severely limited joint military exercises between German principalities? What if neighbors banned any form of German General staff? What if neighbors banned any form...

  2. What if the US just kept Greenland after ww2

    In another timeline, the USA runs out of oil, stranding American servicemen on Greenland. Natives patiently snoop around the edges of USAF Base Thule, etc. encouraging G.I.s to deplete their finite stock of ammo at fleeting images. Eventually, Eskimos close in on starving G.I.s with harpoons .....

  3. could the british have really retook the Americana colonies and occupied America if they wanted to, in 1812?

    Why would England bother claiming parts of Northern Maine. To this day, Northern Maine is only thinly populated with few roads. The only industry is logging, but those logs were/are a long way from any market.

  4. could the british have really retook the Americana colonies and occupied America if they wanted to, in 1812?

    Britain may have had the best navy in the world, but their army was still small. Then consider the massive cost of sailing that army across the Atlantic and re-supplying it in the middle of North America. The place I can see that being practical is along the Mississippi River ... which was...

  5. How would the absence of Jewish population affect Europe?

    Not to worry, Nazis would still find ways to blame gypsies, communists, homosexuals, etc. for all of their problems.

  6. Why did Austria-Hungary want Bosnia and Herzegovina?

    The Balkans were one big battle ground where the Greek, Eastern Roman, German, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Persian Empire, Russian Empire and later Turkish Ottoman Empire fought over their differences. Serbs, Croats, Kosovars, etc. were just cannon-fodder for these empires. The...

  7. Earliest possible movable-type printing press

    Literacy? Literacy? You think that you need literacy before you can invent printing presses? Perhaps 5 percent of Europeans were literate before Gutenberg invented moveable type. Prior to Gutenberg, only small handfuls of churchmen and scholars were literate. The average nobleman still needed to...

  8. WI Back to Africa Scenario for African Americans

    Yes. And then those recent immigrants disrupted Liberian politics because they formed a distinctive voting Bloc. What percentage of American black slaves could read and write circa 1860? What percentage of Liberian natives could read and write circa 1860? What percentage of South African blacks...

  9. What if the invention of vitrum flexile was not lost

    Windows made of flexible glass would be impervious to little boys with sling shots.

  10. WI: Record keeping continued to be done in clay tablets

    What if some religious law required all federal records to be kept on clay tablets? This would eveentually devolve into a highly-formalized language written and read by only a tiny percentage of the population. Even well-educated kings would need to hire cuneform scholars to read their "mail" to...

  11. AHC: surviving city-states

    Andora, Lichtenstein, Luxemberg, Monaca, San Marino, Singapore, etc. still exist today as city-states. Mind you Lichtenstein's foreign affairs are managed by their large neighbor: Switzerland and Monaco's foreign affairs are managed by France. A few others exist as city-states with only small...

  12. WI demographic balance of New France and the 13 Colonies flipped

    Even if the Saint Lawrence river lowlands could support 1.5 million habitants, there is still plenty more farm land in (what is now) Ontario, the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins. Remember that only a 30 mile portage south of Chicago separates the Saint Lawrence and Mississippi River...

  13. A bigger Russian presence in North America?

    What If the Tzar assigns the Alaskan colony to a particularly troublesome second son of a Russian Baron or Count? The primary goal being to transport this embarrassing "remittance man" as far as possible from Moscow. There was always enough lumber and fish to support a larger colony. This...

  14. Russia without ww1

    A few million fewer casualties from War and the Revolution. Russia's slow industrialization would continue similar to the slow industrialization of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but hereditary nobility would need to learn how to cede some political power to industrialists as industrialists become...

  15. What are some minor geographical incidences in one part of the world that caused catastrophic consequences in another part?

    OTL Back about 6,000 years before Jesus Christ was born, God warned Noah about an impending flood. Just as Noah was completing his ark (huge boat), Lake Aggassis released a few million gallons of glacier melt-water. Lake Aggassis released so much melt-water that sea levels rose 300 feet (100...

  16. Better Chinese Junks?

    You would need Chinese politics to look farther outwards.

  17. Most plausible part of England to avoid Norman rule

    What if the fifth great grandson of Rollo the Viking stayed home? ... and some other band of merry Vikings retained control of the British Isles?

  18. AHC: Bigger Hispanic America

    What if some sort of naval blockade (French or English Navy) limits trade with Europe? What if Spanish plantation owners invest in iron works, weaving mills, etc. along the major rivers of the Americas (Amazon, Mississippi, Colorado, etc.) until they can produce goods rivalling the quality of...

  19. AHC: Bigger Hispanic America

    Spanish would need to change their attitudes towards commerce. Instead if a medieval extractive economy, they would need to compete better with French and English traders.

  20. Are modern day Ethiopians really genetically original Homo Sapiens or did they migrate from somewhere else?

    According to "The Economist" (July 30m 2022, page 65) the latest skeletal finds at the University of Witwatersrand are a million years older than first thought. These Australopithicus bones were recovered from a cave Sterkfontein, Johannesburg were dated via the new cosmogenic nuclide dating...
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