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During Antiquity, Alexander the Great sweeped across the Persian Empire, reaching all the way to the Indus. In the following centuries, the region became hellenized in ways similar to Egypt, until the Arab conquests brought Islam to the region and reshaped the cultural landscape. Is it possible...

How plausible would it be for the Socialist Revolutionaries to successfully win the Russian Revolution, while the Bolsheviks, while beaten, are not decisively destroyed amd entrench themselves on Ukraine or Belarus or another important but not quite central piece of the former Russian Empire?

How plausible would it be for the Australian Aboriginals to succeed in rising up against the European colonists and either reach acceptable demands for representation, or even defeat them and kick them out of the continent? POD starting since the moment colonization in Australia started.

How plausible would it be to have an independent Jamaica during the times of the Atlantic Revolutions (1770's to 1820's), successfully defeating Britain (most definitely with help) and establishing itself as Independent? POD can go as far back as the War of Austrian Succession.

I'm not referring to Germany being the one to colonize Alaska. Rather, I mean that Russia, taking advantage of the influx of German immigrants, sends at least some of them over to Alaska. What if Catherine the Great decided that she had further use for the Germans settling in her Empire? What...

Here's a question I've had for a while... What if the French Revolution had erupted during the US Revolutionary War instead of six (8 if we count Yorktown as it's informal end) years afterwards. Is it possible? What ramifications can it have? Will this help or hinder the efforts of the...

Today's challenge is... To make the War of Austrian Succession go completely awry, perhaps dragging as many countries and opening as many fronts as possible. Examples: - Another colonial front with the Spanish and Dutch fighting each other (on Guyana/Suriname for example). - The Netherlands...

Is there a way to make the Yiddishist movement take root in Central and Eastern Europe earlier than OTL's mid-to-late XIX century? I'm personally interested in it rising early enough to see it clash more solidly against the Haskalah. Any ideas or suggestions?

Today's challenge. With a PoD in the mid-1700, have Oregon be colonized by the Dutch. Bonus points if they get cut off from the VoC or the Dutch mainland and develop their own "trekboer" culture, or even "Amerikaaner Republiks". Extra bonus if you get at least a few actual Boers into the colony...

I had an idea with two great friends of mine for a complete victory for Napoleon, including the following achievements: 1) Break up Austria-Hungary into... Well, Österreich and Hungary. 2) Don't seek to take over Moscow. Just focus on liberating the Baltics, Poland and emancipating the...

As the challenge implies. Between 1750 to 1850, which is the best place in time for Jamaica to be retaken by the Spaniards from the British?

As the title implies, how possible can it be for either East or West Florida (or both) to join the Patriot's side?

As the title says... How it's be possible to have Arianism (or other nontrinitarian views of Christology) to have a widespread "revival" during the XVIII or XIX centuries? Bonus point if it develops in the New World and influences the course of the soon-to-be created American republics'...

With a POD after the end of the Kalmar Union (for example, the XVIII Century), how possible can it be for Scandinavian countries to unite into a single banner?

How possible can it be for the Dutch and the Spanish to directly come to blows on the 1740's? Furthermore, what are the military capacities of both countries at the time? Could they have the ability to project their power to attack and/or seize, however temporarily, their respective colonies...

As the challenge says: Have portions of the US Navy join the CSA is their crusade for keeping the South's "peculiar institution". POD can be anywhere post-Independence.

What needs to happen for the Ashkenazi Jews to be seen as a sort of "sub-race" of Germanic peoples (like Scandinavians/Nordic, Rhenish, Anglo-Saxons, etc) by the so-called "scientific racism" of XIX century Europe? They have, after all, similar ethnic and linguistic backgrounds (Ashkenazi Jews...

As the title says... What's the earliest possible timeframe for Eli Whitney to invent the Cotton Gin? What would be the consequences of E.W. to have made his most infamous invention before OTL? Before maybe even the Constitutional Convention?

What if the Texas revolution had resulted in the US getting more directly involved, sparking a war with Mexico. Who'd win in this scenario? Would the US, led likely by Andrew Jackson at this point in time, achieve the total humiliation of Mexico as Polk did OTL? Or can the Aztec nation at...

I just KNOW I'm likely going into ASB territory, but... How possible can it be for the European (Specifically Azkenazi/Germanic) Jewry to create their own state in the mess that was pre-Unification Germany? The PoD can be the Napoleonic wars or earlier if preferred. But before the rise of...