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So what are the tropes or even clichés of AH that you simply can't resist despite your better judgement? Mine are: Deseret Japanese Hawaii Walker's Nicaragua The Riograndense and Juliana Republics A CSA with a Republic of New Afrika insurgency Surviving Boer and Griqua Republics...

Hey guys. How do you think history would have been different if Kaiser Wilhelm II hadn't been assassinated in 1905? How would the European powers have reacted to the various subsequent crises if Wilhelm had been on the German throne?

The challenge is to exchange the broad strokes of Australia and Argentina's economic and political histories during the 20th century (oversimplification incoming: ie. stability and prosperity for Argentina, turmoil and frustration for Australia). From the Armenian Genocide: "During the...

King Kalakaua of Hawaii once traveled to Japan and proposed a marriage between Princess Kaiulani and Prince Yorihito of the Fushimi-no-miya branch of the Imperial family in the hopes of creating an alliance between Japan and Hawaii. The often cited reason is that Prince Yorihito was already...

OTL the Hungarian Soviet Republic lasted 133 days and attempted to set up the neighbouring Sovak Soviet Republic before the Romanians occupied Hungary and Kun was toppled. The challenge is a surviving Hungarian Soviet Republic. Have at it!

King Kalakaua of Hawaii had a pretty hair-brained idea to create a Polynesian confederation, or the Federated Empire of Oceania. It didn't work. He succeeded in getting the King of Samoa to begrudgingly sign up, though that appears to have been from desperation as he was in the middle of a...

The challenge is to create the conditions to bring an Anglo-Japanese alliance into being in the 1880s. Give a target for the alliance, eg. Russia, the US, Germany. Give potential flashpoints, eg. the Samoan Civil War. Give a catalyst, eg. Spain being selling its possessions to Germany (but you...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have a Japanese superpower post-1800. Show your work. No WWII ass-pulls and no sudden, unexplained interest in far flung colonies in the Pacific in the 19th century where there was none historically.

The challenge is the creation of a 'Fenian' Newfoundland in the 19th century. Open-ended POD. The Fenians can be the American proxy kind, a concentration or Irish-born nationalists, a concentration of radicalised Irish-Canadians, or some mixture thereof. OTL, most Irish-Canadians felt...

Imagine France keeps Acadia during the Seven Years' War. If you want a specific scenario as to how this happens, go with Anaxagoras' 'God is a Frenchman' with French victory in that war in general and in the North American theatre in particular. Anyway, what is Acadia's subsequent development...

Self-explanatory. His other sons die or aren't born. What happens to the Hunnic Empire and subsequent history?

The challenge is to create a nation founded and populated by Germans, Italians and anyone else who left Europe in response to 1848. Secession (eg. southern Brazil) or takeover of an already existing nation (eg. Uruguay) is possible. But there must be easily pinpointed historical events, not...

The challenge is to make Britain a pro-slavery (you can interpret that term however you like) nation at least until the *ACW. You can choose the POD, but the US must still experience a North-South civil war mostly over the issue of slavery. Good luck.

I'm contemplating a scenario where Britain fails to liberalise after George III and where a radicalised Chartist movement only continues to gather steam after 1848. Britain eventually goes to war against the US during the ACW in support of the CSA; a war it 'wins', but which only serves to...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is for a Western country to explicitly adopt East Asian Neomercantilism and the Developmental State, as demonstrated in Japan or the Asian Tigers, either as the policy of a governing political party or a bipartisan consensus. For the purposes of...

As a hypothetical, what do you think would have happened if Dom Pedro I had tried to remain King of Portugal in 1826 and Emperor of Brazil (in 1831 or otherwise) regardless of the circumstances? I'm not trying to get an ongoing unified Portuguese-Brazilian Empire; just tell me what you...

What is the world like without William Wilberforce? How is the history of abolitionism altered?

"In 1786, George III learns that his eldest son George, Prince of Wales, has secretly married a Catholic, Lady Fitzherbert. The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 is expanded to state that if the heir to the throne marries in secret and to a Catholic, he or she is removed from the line of succession...

Considering the ways a Trent War might be fought, I've sometimes wondered if a war might trigger an early alternate version of or events similar to the Red River Rebellion or intersect with the latter part of the Sioux Wars, with groups like the Sioux and their allies and the Métis used as...

What would happen in subsequent south African history if there had been no Great Trek? I'm invoking handwavium and saying the reason is slavery is not abolished in the Cape Colony until the mid-1860s. I'll save discussions on whether that's ASB for another thread, please. Who would populate the...