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hey, all. while working on a map for my ASB ATL recently, i decided it would be easier to differentiate the Balkan states with their own colors rather than using the same Serbian dark blue (because they're supposed to be in an economic union with one another). that itself is beside the point...

hey, all. alot of you have probably noticed that most of my threads reference one of my two big TL projects--either my ASB ATL or the more plausible Anglo-American Rivalry--so some of you might have an inkling as to what some of each TL might look like now, for this thread, i wanted to ask what...

after a discussion about what could happen to the former Ottoman Empire if it was successfully partitioned, i got to thinking about it Turkey in general, and a thought occurred to me: what if, just to mix things up, the Ottoman Empire never comes to be and the Seljuk Empire persists instead...

hey, all. in relation to this old thread of mine, i've been thinking recently: what if some of the events that led to Egyptology as we know it never came to pass? what if, in its place, a different archaeological study--namely Assyriology (which encompasses Ancient Babylon and Sumeria as well as...

in addition to my Bulgaria thread, another thing that i've been wondering about is this: what if, in addition to being dissolved, the Ottoman Empire's territory was also given to some of the Allied powers, including some of its lands in Anatolia. what would be the most plausible way for this...

what it says on the tin, basically: how could Bulgaria join up with the Allies rather than with the Central Powers. i figured this would require a pre-1900 POD. any ideas?

hey, all. one thing i decided on a long time ago for my ASB ATL (which may extend to some of my other TL projects as well) is that WW1 as we know it does not occur (though a regional war in southeast Europe takes its place). however, this in turn brings up one complication: no WW1 as we know it...

a thought occurred to me recently: though Afghanistan has been invaded numerous times, it hasn't been (or has only rarely been) properly conquered. the Macedonians couldn't do it, the British couldn't do, the Soviets couldn't, and the Americans couldn't either (saying this as an American)...

hey, all. a new idea has been bouncing around in my head recently, concerning European colonization: Jamestown struggled historically, so what if the settlement ultimately failed? would there eventually be more successful colonies on the Eastern Seaboard, or would the Europeans more or less give...

hey, all. after independence, many US states were named after native tribes which lived in the area (the Dakotas after the Lakota, for instance) while some other states simply took on the names that their previous owners had given them (Florida, Texas, Alaska, etc.) however, i've come to...

hey, all. one big change i decided on a long time ago for my ASB ATL is that WW1 is much more limited than IOTL (to the point that it isn't a world war at all) and WW2 as pretty much entirely butterflied away (though a number of smaller conflicts take its place) anyway, before i completely lose...

hey, all. one political geographic change i've been considering lately is the possibility of Indian Territory being located a little further east than IOTL: more specifically, what if Indian Territory was comprised of OTL Arkansas and the proposed area of Sequoyah? in this case, it would require...

hey, all. i've been wondering lately about how California could be expanded in a given TL. one change that i've considered requires Las Vegas to be butterflied away as a major city, and entails the Arizona Strip and the areas directly west of it in OTL Nevada (forming a straight-line east-west...

since i've had Anglo-American Rivalry on the brain, lately--particularly the rise of the Republican Party and the outbreak of the Civil War--one thing i wanted to explore is the possibility of John C. Frémont being the first Republican President rather than Lincoln, and his presidency...

one thing i've more or less decided on recently for Anglo-American Rivalry pertains to the American Civil War. while the results of the war are largely the same as IOTL (though perhaps ending sooner and including Lincoln not being assassinated, though that's up in the air), i've decided two...

a little idea i've been bouncing around for a while is basically that, instead of being formed along full-on states, OTL's USA instead becomes a collection of numerous city-states (and satellite cities and rural regions of said city-states; the smaller cities in a city-state could be called...

hey, all. i just recalled that one change that i've decided to include in both of my TL projects is that the Crimean War ends with a Russian victory rather than an Allied one like IOTL (for the reasons of earlier Indian independence in my ASB ATL and for a persisting Russian Alaska in...

in recent times, i've taken an interest in the Mamelukes of Egypt, and have been wondering about a possible surviving Mameluke state persisting through to the 20th century as part of my ASB ATL rather than Anglo-American Rivalry (because of an event that i'll mention shortly). this led me to...

hey, all. i thought it would be interesting to explore some possibilities as to potential colonial powers in the 19th century (and perhaps the 20th, too) besides the different European powers or the United States. a number of different countries established colonial empires of some capacity...

i've more or less moved on from the Tudors as a driving force behind research as part of my ASB ATL, and have moved on to the colonial period for this TL. one interesting possibility that came to mind is the concept of slave-soldiers in use by European monarchies, at least for a brief period of...