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  1. What if longbowman auxiliaries were implement during the American War of Independance?

    Longbowmen could have been useful in specific situations during the American War of Independence, particularly in guerilla warfare or hit-and-run tactics in forested areas. Their competitively high rate of loosing and near- silent arrows would have been valuable for harassment and ambushes...

  2. What impact would the printing press have had on Imperial Rome?

    I've heard there are very few surviving classical roman works. I can imagine more classical knowledge not being lost into the early middle ages.

  3. What impact would the printing press have had on Imperial Rome?

    Could papyrus have not been used with printing blocks? Would the invention of such a device have perhaps spurred the romans to look for alternatives to papyrus? The chinese are believed to have used paper as early as the 1st century CE.

  4. What impact would the printing press have had on Imperial Rome?

    To start, was there anything about Gutenberg's printing press that made it technologically impossible for an equivalent to it to have been invented during Roman times? Moving forward, what impact might the printed word have had in Imperial Rome? The Roman Empire was more interconnected than...

  5. Can you have European style colonialism without Gunpowder?

    What was the preferred method to deal with mounted horse warriors prior to gunpowder? I've seen it said it wasn't until the advent of the colt revolver itself, that US forces got an edge on Comanche horsemen.

  6. Can you have European style colonialism without Gunpowder?

    We often hear about how the "big 3" of guns, germs, and steel played their roles in European colonialism. But how crucial were guns in that formula? If gunpowder had proliferated much later to Europe than it did IOTL and gunpowder was still little used by the dawn of the 16th century, could the...

  7. Does a Song China industrialization halt the rise of Europe?

    Many have said that Song China was right on the cusp of Industrialization or at least as close anyone got before British Industrializing. If they did reach industrialization would medieval Europe have been left behind even more so when than it was prior when comparing stages of development. Or...

  8. How does a proto-NATO vs USSR war go in 1948?

    Could bases in Alaska have hit any relevant targets in the Russian east?

  9. How does a proto-NATO vs USSR war go in 1948?

    Suppose Stalin, recognizing the fleeting vulnerability of Western Europe as it recovers from World War II, decides to expand Soviet territory further into Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and potentially Germany. During this period, only the United States possesses the atomic bomb, but there is no...

  10. WI the Philippines turned communist in the 1960s?

    If this scenario happened do you think it'd have been dubbed the Philippine-American 2 or perhaps the 2nd Philippines insurrection?

  11. WI the Philippines turned communist in the 1960s?

    Had the Philippines risked turning communist in the 1960s what kind of US military intervention would have been seen? The Philippines had a much more significant historical and emotional connection to the US than Vietnam ever did with being an actual US colony at one point. The US had over half...

  12. Could the Nazis have turned the WAllies western front advance into a stalemate more similar to WW1?

    Following the D-Day landings what could the Germans have done to slow or halt the western forces advances through France and the low countries in a way that approximated the bogged down, trench filled slog in the first world war? Obviously, the main difference was the Germans fighting a...

  13. What if a populist peoples religion/cult had emerged in Rome prior to the spread of Christianity?

    I've heard of the cult of Isis but I guess if it checked all the right boxes why did it stay a literal mystery to most people in Rome while Christianity grew exponentially even prior to Constantine? I guess either Christianity's message was true or it had the right elements to be quite popular.

  14. What if a populist peoples religion/cult had emerged in Rome prior to the spread of Christianity?

    One of the claims for the appeal and rapid growth of Christianity throughout the Roman world was its inclusion of populist elements. It promised, at the very least, an equal resting place for souls in the afterworld, regardless of social class. This aspect held strong appeal for those on the...

  15. What if the Emancipation Proclamation had never been issued during the American Civil War?

    What impact of the actual war effort did the emancipation proclamation have and was that much a factor in it being issued in the first place? What would have been the impact of the civil war ending with slavery still very much in place legally in the nation?

  16. WI China remained fragmented among rival kingdoms as Europe was?

    An argument often presented for why Europe, which was more or less a backwater compared to Imperial China throughout the Middle Ages, pulled ahead of China in terms of technological and exploratory development into the early modern age, is that there had not been a unified continental empire to...

  17. If the Indigenous of the Americas had stronger immunity to European diseases how would colonization have proceeded?

    If, instead of the 80-90% death rate experienced by the indigenous population, as attributed to foreign diseases, the death rate was closer to the 30-60% seen in Europe from the Black Death, which itself impacted by an eastern-originated disease. With a much larger surviving indigenous...

  18. Could an expansion-minded post-Civil War United States have been able to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire by 1900?

    US militarism has never been that tied to a 'WASP identity.' There were several Union regiments of Irish Catholics in the Civil War. Additionally, the Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1924 Immigration Act were passed during times of a very weak federal military. I think those Italians, Hungarians...

  19. Could an expansion-minded post-Civil War United States have been able to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire by 1900?

    After the Civil War, the federal army was relatively quickly disbanded and downsized. The main focus of the military shifted to pacifying the remaining Native American tribes on the plains and southwest, which did not consume too many resources. What if the U.S. perspective shifted to wanting...

  20. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    Inspired by this passage I came across: Is there a factual basis to this argument? Instead of the empire of Spain being the harbinger of modern colonialism and empire building it was instead the last vestige of the old style empire?
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