Most ASB event that happened in OTL

Goldenarchangel

Vuu said:
The fact that nobody figured out how to effectively counter the Mongols
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Someone forgot about the Mamluks

Anyways you have to admit that a bunch of backwater colonies uniting into a single country that encompasses much of a continent and become a world superpower is a bit ASB
 
ennobee

ennobee

The German re-unification 1989-1991. First the DDR being overthrown by a bunch of people coming iut of church, singing hymns. Then how after 40 years of separations, both Germanies merged together into one homogenous country in less then 3 years. Finally that all this happened without a single shot being fired.
 

LunazimHawk

yoyo said:
A boring island with terrible food and hideous teeth managed to dominated everyone even on a genetic scale.
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My people went from dominating South Asian trade, and being one of the most Industrialized regions in the world, to getting Conquered by a tea-craving horde of English traders.
 

LunazimHawk

Japanese industrilization and imperialism is asb af. Seriously, they were a feudal backwater region, but they quickly rose to curbstomping both European powers and other Asian nations.
 

LunazimHawk

Eastern Rome survives up to 1453 AD is pretty ASB. They were pretty much outmatched by neighbors on all sides, but still somehow got lucky enough to survive. They survived the German hordes, Persian invaders, and even the Rashidun Caliphate due to random factors for the most part.
 
Gwrtheyrn Annwn

Gwrtheyrn Annwn

The Miracle of the House of Brandenberg was pretty ASB. A small German nation invaded by three of Europe's major powers, its army defeated, foreign armies closing on the capital and yet Prussia manages to not only survive but arguably win the war.
 

funnyhat

LunazimHawk said:
Eastern Rome survives up to 1453 AD is pretty ASB. They were pretty much outmatched by neighbors on all sides, but still somehow got lucky enough to survive. They survived the German hordes, Persian invaders, and even the Rashidun Caliphate due to random factors for the most part.
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I don't know, I would say they were a major power for most of their history despite a total mess of an imperial succession. Also their capital was in an extremely defensible location.
 

m0585

A small city on the Italian Peninsula goes on to become the largest empire the world had seen up to that date, and shaped the world for the next millennium.
 
Basil Makedon

Basil Makedon

I, for one, find a timeline where this odd cult “Christianity” becomes the Roman state religion, rather than the logical one, Manichaeism.

Oh, and Rome surviving the Second Punic War
 

RyuDrago

Remitonov said:
Ah yes, the bizarre victory of Prussia over Russia where the Tsardom is taken over by a Prussoboo who proceeds to throw away all potential gains and indemnities to his empire to please his senpai.
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And never forget this dude being overthrown by his German lesser noble wife, who proceeded to become ruling Tsarina for decades, and by a coincidence adopting the name of the only other not Russian ruling Tsarina who besides was just a simple Livonian washerwoman while her husband proceeded to kill his legitimate firstborn who eloped across Europe with an Italian mistress.

Thinking better the Romanov history from Peter to Catherine was a wild ride. But if we talk of Russia today is due to them...
 

John Roscommon

metalinvader665 said:
The absolute dominance of the Arabs and Islam in the Levant, Middle East, and North Africa, and the resulting cultural dominance in that region, marginalising local Christians, Zoroastrians, and other faiths. The Caliphates and other Muslim states did such an incredible job that in other circumstances would be deemed ASB.

Persia and India going from vibrant centers of civilisation to peripheral colonies. British India would be deemed ASB in any other context, especially since it included many lands beyond the Indus River and even Burma of all places, which almost beat the British in the first war against them and caused huge economic damage in the process.



Only because they beat a bunch of other minor forts for that title (although it helped they had a prince who was great friends with the head of the religion there). Come to think of it, same with the Roman Empire (beat a bunch of small post-Etruscan cities to make an empire), the Ottoman Empire (beat a bunch of small Turkish states to make an Empire).



A lot of coal plus leeching off the continent's innovations without having to fight too much in their wars will help do that. Plus grab Northern America once the natives are depopulated by disease (obviously depopulate the natives more by war and all). So much farmland, lots of natural population increase, etc., huge economic resources, why, you've secured your cultural descendents (even if they aren't so much like you and come from your continental rivals, people you conquered, people you hate as barbarians, or even people you trade as livestock) dominance over the world for many centuries.



Irish Americans gave us the St. Patrick's Day meal--corned beef, cabbage, soda bread, potatoes. It's really good, and I'd take it over fish and chips. Don't think it's too popular in Ireland though (seems to be a New England thing).
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It is a New England thing, specifically a Boston thing. Here we call it "New England Boiled Dinner"; some people add parsnips and/or turnips.
 
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