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Considering 90% of human civilization existed before the advent of gunpowder, what would it take for human society today to still remain technologically as it was centuries ago? What would be the latest POD for such a situation to be possible?

How would relations be between a nationalist China and the US ITTL's present day? Assuming the cold war ends with the Soviets collapsing by 1990 ITTL as well, would there still be significant military and economic friction between the 2 remaining global powers ITTL? The South China Sea I can see...

If China became a repressive and brutal Communist hermit state like North Korea, what would happen to HK? Would Britain defend HK at all costs, even with nukes?

In an ATL where nukes are delayed until around the late 1950s or early 60s due to screwups in the physics community, AND assuming history otherwise proceeds as OTL until 1945, how would a conventional world war iii turn out if the USSR decides to invade Western Europe? It must start around 1951...

If the US Civil War ended quickly after a Union Victory at Bull Run, might the US, decades down the road, be at a greater risk of collapse from something like akin to a Great Depression?

What if China, miraculously, had a more competent leadership in the late 19th century, allowing them to win the First Sino-Japanese War? Could That, combine with other strokes of good luck (Russians not attacking Manchuria, a string of competent administrators etc..) allow China to reach close...

How would Chiang Kai Shek living until 2000 (he'd be 113, so theoretically plausible) affect Taiwan and it's relation with the PRC? Even if he doesn't stay in power his whole life, assume that his mind is clear and working up until his death.

If the Nazi win and seize most of Conteinental Europe up to the Urals, while Mao wins the Chinese civil war as per OTL, how would rump USSR and PRC get along? The USSR would still be technologically more advanced, but being in a much weaker position, would it be much more dependent on China than...

Simplified Characters were introduced in an effort to make it easier to improve Chinese literacy rates. If China stuck to traditional characters, could China still achieve the literacy rates it has today by TTL's 2017?

Let's say in the late 1930s, America falls into a Second Civil War triggered by the Depression. As a result, it is powerless to stop the Axis powers and the Nazis and the Japanese go berserk. Nazis take over all of mainland Europe up to the Urals but Britain remains free. Japan conquers eastern...

Let's say in a TL in which Mao dies in the early 1950s, and the PRC is fortunate enough to have a Deng Xiaoping equivalent leader to kick start the OTL capitalist reforms in the mid 1950s instead of the 1980s as OTL, while sidelining the hardline Communists who would oppose such a scheme. If...

Post World War I, it seemed like most British leaders realized that Indian independence was inevitable, but that it must come slow and gradually. So it seemed like they realize decolonization was coming even without World War II. Given that, I'm curious as to how exactly British leaders planned...

Would Germany be able to invade the British Isles in TL191 in the Second Great War if Britain fights on long enough? Assume that the US doesn't get involved, since then it would be a German/US victory for sure.

As per the title, in an ATL without World War II, would there still be OTL levels of mass immigration to countries like Germany, France, and the UK? How much immigration do you guys think would take place without the second world war?

If WW2 never happened, and we assume gradual decolonization later than OTL, would there still be a superpower(s) like the OTL USA or USSR? Or would the world be more evenly divided into various regional powers? What would be the power status of the former colonial powers by the 21st centuries?

If the USA decides to annex all of the CSA and Canada after the First Great War, what do you think would be its implications? Will the US fall apart most likely, and how would this play into the 2nd Great War?

Is this possible? Can a more prosperous east Asia, most likely a TL in which China emerges as a global superpower, attract migrants from places like Africa, the Middle East, or India on the scale of immigration to the West?

A surviving British Empire transofmred into an Imperial Federation, something along the lines of Anaxgoras's Rule Britannia TL , would you guys think it be more or less racist than OTL UK?

What would Europe look like if the Nazi conquer all of Europe but implodes violently decades later? How long would it take for the continent to recover? How would countries like Switzerland, Spain, and the UK handle the inevitable refugee crisis?

How plausible/implausible do you think the Rumsfeldia was, to depict America turning into a right wing dictatorship followed by civil war? IMO, the timeline, while a great read, seem to have gone completely off the deep end and rivals Sealion in terms of plausibility.