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  1. AHC : Lesser or No Warsaw Pact with a WWII PoD

    It's possible some other Warsaw pact members do not get/end up in with an ATL, reduced 'frontiers'.. maybe countries like Bulgaria could not end in USSR or Czechoslovakia... Staline was quite lucky, he could have overstretched the power of the USSR's armies and political influences, had some...
  2. 300 Persians

    Would a Persian-Ottoman war scenario after fall of Constantinople work? no idea which war would offer a battle as this...
  3. A major prophet 600 years after Mohammed?

    The first Sikh guru may count?
  4. What If: No Scientific Revolution

    The language of science can be said to be universal. HOW it is interpreted and acted upon by local cultures, however...
  5. AHC: The Exodus of the Britons.

    AND technicaly and around the same time or perhaps a bit before, it's how Bretagne and the Bretons came to be - brythonic peoples went to the sea, and settled Armorica.
  6. Dutch/Portuguese alliance

    I wonder what would be the consquences then for France, by example. How alliances may shift?
  7. What If: No Scientific Revolution

    Peoples often forgive that while Europe went far ahead later with that Revolution indeed, there was not just occidental savants... The contributions of the indian, chinese, muslim, etc savants was important... and with heavy butterflies, who know, science may have later flourished somewhere else...
  8. What if feudal Japan wasnt isolationist.

    There was some converting at start amongst southern lords, and even some daimyos apparently - up to when the persecutions started. Heck, some form of 'crypto-christianism' survived discretely.
  9. Greek language in a Re-unified Roman Empire?

    What would be BTW the name for a group of 'Neogreek' languages, as the Romances to Latin? Hellenistic?
  10. Could France be better ruled under a different King?

    You forget the important aspect of Richelieu's successor, Mazarrin, a figure of french history quite overlooked perhaps. This guy was one who faced the Fronde was key to perhaps finally make the Roy rule over the nobles. He was also an important figure for the maturing boy who would be Louis XIV.
  11. AHC: Samiwank

    Not completly, related cultures and languages perhaps yes, but they may predate Finns actually.. maybe.. or the reverse... Finns's closer parents are karelians, Estonians(?) and those fading smaller groups in Russia close by St. Petersburg, I believe. They speak of one a language (with...
  12. Could the Boers Win?

    One may make analogies with the Reconstruction of the South after American Civil War, perhaps..
  13. Sailing Towards The Promised Land:The Great Pirate Exodus

    Dang man, I know the feeling there... My first PCs eitheir where old wimps or with problems, and I had some.. frustrating.. blue screens of death and fatal crashes...
  14. Could the Boers Win?

    How about (ASB surely) a sort of alliiance with the USA? Albeit how to make the UK-USA relations so bad as to do such things...
  15. Could France be better ruled under a different King?

    Would a different 'Alt Louis XV' be the key then? or even an 'alt Louis XIV'? Because the roots of Revolution to me may have started distantly by the Sun King's decisions, like how a mid Ming dynasty emperor (who I forgot the name.. Kongmin?) may have been the POD for their downfall...
  16. Cool and Interesting Alternate Migrations

    (Proto-) Tamils/related groups to coastal, southern modern Burma/Thailand?
  17. AHC: Samiwank

    The Sami peoples are spread also north of Finland and Russia (Permian Peninsula?), so maybe you have other options there... 'Crusade to the Karelians'?
  18. Which is most likely: Taiwanesque Russia

    Harbin and it's area may be too close...
  19. No mongols effect on Russia

    Different ethnical compositions of the large 'Ex-USSR' area, perhaps some turkish states as the Crimean Tatar Khanate butterflied away?
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