A thread for alternate 9-11 attacks.
What if 9-11 hadn't happened? Would the Islamist state in Afghanistan fall apart without a common foe?
What if 9-11 had been attempted in China/Iran/Israel/Europe/Russia instead of America?
etc etc etc
Also, someone should do an al-Qaeda wank. Just saying.
Here's the plan. Some of it might need a little bit of handwavium, but these steps are all pretty necessary.
1. Tape jowls on Bruce Willis, and call him John McCain. McCain refuses to believe that Huckabee's death was part of a larger conspiracy.
2. Witnessing McCain's corruption, Norris walks...
The year is 2007. Mike Huckabee is fatally shot by a lone gunman.
Everyone thinks he was just an accident, but one man isn't satisfied. One man is going to find out the truth, by any means necessary. One man doesn't play by the rules.
One man is Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris sets out from his...
Um, Nikolai Tesela is highly successful, sending out butterflies that cause WW1 to start in 1904, with but with technology a decade ahead of OTL.
Everything else is basically identical to OTL, but ten years earlier.
Good point.
Sakhalin's Ainu, so that could probably be incorporated. Any chance of perhaps some native tribes joining Ainu culture, like maybe the Aleuts or something?
That might result in eventual Ainu states of approximately daimyo-level power, but what would keep them from being eventual Japanese/Russian satellites?
Sure, but even with an unskilled Spaniard, there's the helpful fact that he's got connections in Cuba and knows Spanish, meaning that even if he can't teach you to make steel he can help you buy some and train you to use it.
Perhaps if the Spanish were scattered, they could be used as engineers and advisors to Mesoamerican lords, who could then plot to use Western technology to fight against Aztec rule.
Judging by their use of steam power, I doubt they would get very far with the stuff.
How about Archimedes survives the Roman capture of Syracuse, and uses sulfur from Etna to make gunpowder bombs for the Roman fleets? Then, hilarity can ensue!
As someone from Virginia, I can tell you that the southern accent doesn't exist outside of the boonies, like in Gloucester or Tangier Island or something. Being upper-class types, they probably all spoke with northern accents.
Have Muslim invasions skip most of Byzantium and target China, creating religious bonds out of necessity with other anti-Muslim powers.
Have Eastern Orthodoxy, through Axum, become the dominant trader's religion for a few hundred years. China eventually makes it the national religion.
Have...