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I´ve been reading a bit off japanese history lately. There is a lot of fun ATL material in the time when the portugese arrive to Japan. First of all, the outcome of the power struggle between different Daimyos may vary, and the religious culture of Japan is seemingly open for change. Of course...

How could this happen? Anyway, it seems plausible to me in some ways. Jutland isn´t very easy to defend from Germany, and the kings that ruled Jutland at that time weren´t that powerful. The islands would probably not be invaded I guess. In any case it would affect the viking-era a lot. Huge...

I "I had a dream. I was walking in an empty and dark city. It seemed abandoned for a long time" The oracle nodded. "Tell me what the city looked like" "Broken columns, I heard wolves howling and in the moonlight I recognized the buildings" the young aristocrat responded. "Ah, so you recognized...

Well sort of;) We´re always getting up these threads about the roman empire taking over the world once in a while. And some TL´s and books are ok though ASBish. Anyway, I´m reading Gibbon´s decline and fall right now and it inspired me. It seems to be his sentiment that from the start the...

Some leaders may have been great but never dealt with a crisis or never had a chance to see their reforms through. But what leaders landed in a leadership position during the 20th century and before, and ended up being lauded as great in historybooks, despite not actually being the accomplishers?

WI Christianity gets an early hold of Scandinavia. Similar to the way Armenians and Goths converted. My idea for the POD would be a more succesful roman campaigns in Germany, going further north and even putting bases into south norway and sweden. Then later on they lose Germany but keep these...

This is something I didn´t know about. Currently I´m living in the small town Frederikstad a few km from Oslo. It´s a beautiful town with an old town from 17th century. (A danish fortress). It seems to have had an importance in the past as a trading post. Anyway in 1999 apparently they built...

In 2000 Joe Liebermann could have accidentally have become the vice president of Bush due to electoral college laws. If Cheney had not changed his voting registration from Texas to Delaware this might have actually occurred. Now imagine if that had happened. It´s a bit ASB-ish but certainly...

Yes. We have had a thread of the best book never written, and the best film never made. But what would be such a bad book that we can thank the gods it was never written? Note: ;) Has to be plausible. I mean some historical character that might be inclined to write a book, or possibly...

Yes. Avignon won´t do. Bremen is passable being quite close, but most points will be given for Hedeby;) Several popes could be fun, but the centre of catholic religion must move north. Good luck

Well, it´s easy if it´s 2000. But look, he went again 2008, was a bit old, but president Johnson 2080 was much older. (Although of course medicine had improved since then I admit). Anyway, to make this a challenge, how can McCain become the pres nominee of the GOP with a POD no earlier than...

I was just reading about Beowulf and it seems it survived only on one script and that script nearly was lost in a fire mid 18th century. So without Beowulf being translated to modern english or even known of, how does English literature evolve and how do we consider the dark ages today? I´m...

What if Portugal goes westwards instead of eastwards. Their major breakthrough is to discover America instead of sailing south of Africa? How would Spain react, and Portugal be able to conquer similar areas as Spain did OTL and keep it? The reason I ponder this, is because I'm working on a...

I'd like to open up here a discussion, a hypothetical one about the beliefs of native americans and how they might have developed. I was reading about the Hopi the other day and they strike me as being fairly monotheistic, although some argue this is due to christian influences. I think the...

Preface From someone reading from our timeline it may seem implausible that vikings would discover the mainland of America before actually discovering our timeline´s Greenland. However one should not underestimate the power of chance. The discovery of Iceland and Greenland were by chance. The...

I´m starting this thread to post a list on what books one should read to do enhance one´s knowledge to do AH: Economically speaking it´s nice to have read or be familiar with: Adam´s Smiths Wealth of nations and Karl Marx´s Communist manifesto. The bible and the Koran are nice readings for...

WI Ireland had not converted during the fourth age? No celtic christianism, no irish missionaries all over Europe. How would this halter christianity's development. I dare say it would slow it down although it'd probably eventually convert all of Europe at some point. Take note that England is...

Once upon a time when I was a member that wrote more than one comment a month I posted a thread on a rather complicated subject that I at the time was unable to answer and had practically no responses to said thread. Now today, while I am unable to fall a sleep said idea came back to me and...

So, obviously a number of WI spring to mind.

Prologue: Poor young Al-Amin, orphaned at an early age, the son of Abdu´llah ibn Abdu´l-Muttalib did not live to his ninth year. The boy was a good sheperd and his uncle loved him dearly. I was convinced that the boy would make a fine, fine merchant. He had lots of charisma and a good ability...