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Well, y'know. Pearl Harbor and invading the entirety of colonial Southeast Asia didn't either. Maybe you're right on 1940 being too early and it should be pushed back a year or three. It just feels to me like Japan, by the time it invades China, cannot manage to stop itself from biting off more...

Okay, here's a basic outline of a "no WW2" timeline I'm toying with, curious for thoughts. The point of divergence is that Hindenberg does not run for reelection as President. The new President is Eckener, beating out Hitler, producing a different series of elections in '32, the Nazi Party...

1863 AD. Thus it saying, 1863 at the top left.

I don't think I've posted this map before, but I did upload it quite some time ago so... Point of divergence is that Joseph II doesn't get sick as he historically did, meaning that he continues his enlightened absolutist policies, leading to Prussia backing a revolt by the Hungarian estates...

"WWI" being defined as a great power conflict between two "teams" containing multiple great powers, that are closely-matched enough that both sides can realistically see themselves as winning a total victory, as compared to, say, a many-versus-one gank (e.g. Crimean War) or a 1v1 (e.g...

If such a war happened, it wouldn't really be a world war - the world wars happened and were so impactful because they were between two sides of roughly equal power, neither of whom had a certain path to victory. A German/French/Ottoman/British/Japanese attack on a nascent Russian Democratic...

Historically, in 1905, in large part due to the Russo-Japanese War, Russia underwent a major revolutionary convulsion. The general understanding is that Tsar Nicholas II proceeded to give ground, very temporarily, to the revolutionaries, then walked back everything serious that he had done or...

I do agree there was probably a significant biological factor there, in his strokes and later ill-health, but I also don't think it's exactly ASB to propose he avoids those problems. It's not as if a person having some genetic factor leading to X always leads to X. Saying he did not have the...

I guess you could consider it more democratic, in the sense that the PRC under Xi is more democratic than the PRC under Mao. I'm not imagining it as a multiparty state, though, just a more stable and well-managed single party one. Other people who know the late Soviet era better than me can...

This is an idea that I was toying with in the back of my head - what if the USSR follows a Chinese-style development model, with private and state-owned enterprises, export-oriented manufacturing, etc, while maintaining a single party state and explicit dedication to socialism? The real question...

Just a little thing I did; nominal GDP map of the world in 2100. US GDP per capita is ~$1,400,000, or about $300,000 in today's dollars. (The brackets given are ~$100k, ~$70k, ~$20k, and ~$2k in today's dollars.) It's based mostly on projecting the rate at which countries move from poor...

I cannot find where I originally got it from, and therefore credit whoever it was that made it, but this is the map I used: e: For specifically subdivisions; some of the other elements (lakes, coastline) are from some other base map idr, including the rise in sea levels affecting e.g. Vietnam...

An attempt at a plausible, but interesting map. My main goals were: A world that is organized very differently from our own, not just in direct technological manners (as in, e.g., Transhuman Space), but also in the more simple and plain methods of economic and social organization that do not...

Not really the same thing as a smallpox at all. When smallpox hit virgin populations, it killed 30-40% of the population. Syphilis did not kill 30-40% of the population of the Old World, not even close.