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  1. WI: France gets all of Hispaniola

    Probably San Dominique or something like that, similar to the former name of the Dominican Republic.
  2. During the Colonial Era, which non-European nation would be most likely to set up a New World colony?

    The Pacific is *much* larger then the Atlantic, so an asian colonisation is not very likely, except for Alaska, but they can simply go to Siberia instead. Its probably easier to go from Japan to Europe then from Japan to Chile. What I can see is some African colonisation, like Morrocan or Mali...
  3. How does the situation in Israel/Palestine play out with no WW2/Holocaust?

    Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Lithuania were all very antisemitic, and Hungary wasn't a fun place either. Zionism was on the rise all across Europe, so you have a much greater pool of settlers. 10% of seven million is still greater then 90% of 600,000....
  4. How does the situation in Israel/Palestine play out with no WW2/Holocaust?

    Because Europe was not a good place to live in, even before the war. Every country east of France was an anti-Semitic dictatorship, and even France wasn't that good in that regard.. Without the war you don't have anti-Semitism discredited and Jews will want to move to a country of their own.
  5. WI: Syria and Lebanon never separated?

    It would be called Syria, as that was the most prestigious name.
  6. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    No one will let Italy to take back Trieste. If you let it happen, then whats next? Germany will push for Silesia? Poland will push for Levov? It will cause too many problems, so Italy will just have to forget anout it.
  7. The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America

    I am doing a research on the origin of Zionism and what caused people to join the movement, and let me tell you, its sadder then you think. Alot of times jewish socialists were trying to get their comrades to help against the pogroms, but they answered that as jews they deserved it. Zionism was...
  8. Hasmonean revolt crushed by Greeks, Second Temple destroyed

    Well, but they *did* gained enough support and gave the greeks enough trouble... But the greeks weren't able to defeat them. If the greeks deafet the rebellion and convert the temple to a greek one, you might simply have another revolt as the Romans advance in Asia and the temple is restored...
  9. WI: Jews expelled to New Spain

    It will be a death sentence, just like when Portugal sent Jewish kids to Sao Tome and Principe and waited for them to die.
  10. WI: Heraclea Pontica wank/Achaemenids restored?

    Maybe they could allie with the Celts and use their manpower to conquer Anatolia?
  11. The vanguards of the sovereign peoples: A Cold War thread.

    What....? You should really improve your knowledge of Israel... Stern was rightist and nationalist, but jewish nazi?? What the actual fuck? He was no different than Shamir and Begin and such, you really don't know this guy if you think he was a nazi. And also, Elohim means God, it's not a given...
  12. Question, oldest language to still have native speakers

    Modern Hebrew speakers can understand biblical Hebrew with no real challenge, it's not that different, I'm sure that reading Shakespeare is much harder for modern English speakers.
  13. Ancient Kohen Gadol elected by the priestly caste

    Well this early it will still be almost hereditary because they must be from the tribe of Levi, so you will get someone else from the same extended family. Even if you have elections they will probably elect the son of the previous Kohen most of the times. But an interesting change might be that...
  14. Other colonial power colonize South Africa, what would the Dutch colonize instead?

    They can colonize other parts ot south africa, like Zululand or Namibia if they can't just refull at the cape, or if you want something different they can take Madagascar.
  15. The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America

    Can someone please tell me what are the changes from the real International and this one?
  16. AHC/WI: What if Austria colonized Australia

    But the Dutch will feel very threatened by having the Austrians both in Belgium and Australia, thus they can threaten their hold on Indonesia, so that might create an incentive to at least take north Australia.
  17. AHC/WI: What if Austria colonized Australia

    Are we sure it won't lead to a divided Australia? It is not set in stone that the hole continent is united, and I don't think Austria will be strong enough to inforce it. So maybe we have an Austrian West coast, British east coast, and a Dutch North, as other countries won't want to see the...
  18. WI/AHC: Great Depression Causes Countless American Churches to Begin a "Kibbutz Program/Movement"

    No, the kibbutzim were always idealistic communist communes. The religious kiubbutz movement is a later and fringe movement, in which they kept the socialist lifestyle but droped the secularism.
  19. WI/AHC: Great Depression Causes Countless American Churches to Begin a "Kibbutz Program/Movement"

    But the Kibbutzim are mostly strictly secular and based upon communist ideology. So what ever they will create, it will not be a kibbutz at all..
  20. Did the Arab Kingdom of Syria ever have a chance to control all the lands it claimed?

    I thought I wrote it but apparently forgot.. the Negev desert is given to this Syria, so they have the port of Gaza and a land connection with Egypt. I imagine that giving them Alexandretta is another possibility. And I am pretty sure that weakening the nationalist forces is a good thing in the...
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