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For much of modern history, the world was/is dominated by the nations of western Europe. The civilization built on western Christianity, and a fusion of old Latin and Germanic cultures among others grew to dominate the world economically, politically, culturally, technologically, and militarily...

I know this is a pretty popular thread about having the Netherlands being inherited by someone other than Phillip II. However, as is often pointed out one of the more likely candidates for this is Charles's daughter Maria of Austria and by extension her husband Maximillian II, the son of...

Imagine that if either Catherine had given Henry VIII a son that reaches maturity, or Arthur Tudor survives his illness and does the same, or some other variant. Basically, no need for anyone to break with Rome for over divorce, confiscate church land, appoint their own bishops, invite...

As it says in the title. What would be the fate of Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty, Rome, and the rest of history had the last pharaoh been born as a boy? Let's call him Cleopatros, and say that his personality is mostly the same as his IOTL counterpart. Let's also say that he might get into a feud...

Say in a world where Manzikert is never fought nor any other major battles between the Byzantines and Seljuks that result in the loss of Roman Anatolia. Instead, the Seljuks go after their original target, the Fatimids of Egypt. So how does the Turkic empire fare against the Shia Caliphate...

In another 1492 where Columbus never sails the ocean blue, what would we call the two western continents? For the sake of simplicity lets say that Vespucci has no involvement here either and that no voyages like Colombus's happen. Simply put, North America is discovered via New England around...

Alright so for this topic the basis is that blackpowder is never discovered in 11th century Song China. No one else in China is able to find or properly record it for quite some time, and when they do it just doesn't spread to the west. Now assuming first that the Mongols show up on schedule...

Greetings all, for this thread I'll be asking about the enormous effects of a nonhellenized Judaism. To make things easy the POD is simply no Alexandrian conquests of the Persian empire. Any later or alternative Greek conquests are nowhere near as lucky, and just make it across Anatolia. That...

Deinonychus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Often known as the "Terrible Claw" and even more often confused for its smaller Mongolian cousin Velociraptor, it was the one to kickstart the...

Hello all, there has been plenty of no Ottoman/Osmani screw timelines, and all involve clouds of butterflies. So I was wondering what would be the specific effects on the Habsburg dynasty and the Holy Roman Empire as a whole? I don't think that the specifics are too important. Whether...

Good evening. As it says on the title what would the Middle East look like if the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 is avoided? For starters either the crusaders avoid Constantinople, and also avoid sacking Zara or at least stay on good terms with the Pope somehow. Regardless the don't get...

So assuming that for whatever reason the industrial revolution (and all of its consequences) never occurs. Furthermore, all of the events leading up to it such as the European Agricultural revolution, are minimized or negated. So how do the weapons and strategies of war develop without...

Alright here goes. So the Central Powers can seize victory in 1917/1918, likely during either the Spring offensive or one of the French mutinies. So what becomes of American foreign and domestic policy? On the foreign front, the US will have to share the globe with: the rebuilding but...

So it's 1563 and the efforts of Coligny are not in vain, the colony has survived and will continue to do so. So let's just say that Spain either ignores them for now, or the colonists fend them with with superior leadership and skill. Now the challenge is growth and expansion for Charlestown...

Hello again, as the title says what would happen to Bulgaria, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans if the allies had won the Great War a year or two early? For this TL I'm going to actually be using the one where Rossevelt wins the 1912 election and uses the Invasion of Belgium...

Let's address the elephant in the room first. Suppose that for whichever reason you prefer the Roman empire never Christianizes. Maybe the persecutions are harsher, the religion itself isn't as evangelical or at least is more elitist, so Christianity just remains a small Jewish offshoot in the...

Hey all, looking back I'm glad my first thread on this topic went well. Anyways, now I'll ask how a 'No Islam scenario would affect Africa', immensely I imagine. For a POD, once again Mohammed either never begins his teachings, or he just dies early. Whatever works. So here are some of my...

Hello once again. What would be the results if the ancestors of the Afro Asiatic languages were to die off early on, or at least never expand as far as they did? As you can imagine this POD goes back LONG ways (18,000 years according to some). Thus it will have a lot of changes later on. Just...

Hello all I was curious about how a region like Europe that was largely seperate from the Muslim world would develop over the coming centuries? For a POD I'm going to assume that Mohammed simply doesn't start preaching this 'new' religion and lives out a regular life,(or maybe he's never...