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How likely was it that someone would unite the mongol tribes and go on a conquest like Genghis Khan? Is a mongol invasion something all TL´s that don´t have a POD regarding the mongols have to deal with, or could Genghis Khan be butterflyed away? (He came close to dying several times as a...

I suppose most of you call him Canute, but I first heard of him as Knútur Hinn Ríki. Could a Norway-Denmark-England remain united? What if Harthacanute had been a more mild and nicer ruler. Someone that could be called: Knut the second. Surviving longer, maybe having a different heir than...

Damn this, Ireland was making so much progress, finally they held elections and threw off the celtic league. And the economy was doing well, after the 18 years of civil war, stability. And now what? The IRA (supposedly a puppet force in the hands of France) kidnapped two British soldiers and...

There were a lot of socialist ideas, Marx works gained most popularity. We could have had communists taking over in Finland, Germany or France which would have been different from USSR, but they´d base their theories and methods on Marx. But WI Marx just gets caught by local authorities in...

In OTL economical reforms in India started in the year 1991. For most of the cold war India had sided with USSR while Pakistan sided with USA. (To a certain extent, India did put emphasis on neutrality early on, and it was never, I think, a dedicated ally). Anyway, what if India had started...

An AH Challenge: Can someone come up with a viable realistic POD which makes the Irish and Scottish not make a revolution in 1848? I know it´s possible to make them be beaten back, you just need the catholic nations, France and Spain not support them but I don´t know if that´s possible. Maybe if...

Hello comrades. I´m trying to make the most of my internet rationing time so pardon me for the spellling errosr. The internet closes down after 5 in Reykjavvík. Anyway, I have an ATL challenge. Can sommone make a timeline where capitalism works or lasts at least 50 years longer? ANd I´m not...

I felt like starting a thread about the indian caste system. I´ve been trying to find books to read about India at my local libraries, but have found very few things. Anyway, some say that without the caste system India could have really amounted to something. (Not that they didn´t amount to...

Uhm, I just read a thread about Jews as pirates and got this idea, and I´m wondering wether you think it´s complete bullsh*t. Anyway it goes something like this: The Jews flee from Egypt and end up on the coast of Israel instead of the inland. Gradually they become traders instead of farmers...

You saw the question. This is not so unlikely, all of his four best friends from school died and he must have come close at some point in time. What would fantasy fiction be like without the Hobbit and Lord of the rings?

I´ve been thinking lately a bit about Japan and their doomed dreams of an empire. Not able to get any oil because of the USA and not able to defeat the USA. (It seems unquestioned, and I agree that Japan was never any match for a USA willing to fight). But one thing crossed my mind then. There...

Alright. The goal of this challenge is to get the countries in Scandinavia to be united and under a fascist dictatorship. You get 10 points for a soviet scandinavia, but 20 points if you get a right wing dictatorship. If you manage to make Finland a part of this fascist state you get 10 points...

It is a minor change, but the effects could be quite dramatic. In the year 870 Harald Luva starts his campaign to unite Norway. Those who flee from Norway during that period aren´t an insignificant number. 100 years later it´s believed that Iceland had a population of 40,000 which must mean that...

I´ve managed to put alternative history into all of my current schoolwork.:D First of I´m writing an essay on what theatre would be like now, if Axis had won the Allies WWII. And the project we´re working on this week is a microplay about Iceland in an ATL where a different capital is chosen...

What a great guy. Pharaoh Akhenaten installed his religion, built a new capital, broke artistic traditions that were thousand years old (he made artist depict him realistically and unflatteringly) and changed the world´s history. Maybe he even started monotheism. It could be that Jews were...

I challenge you all to propose an alternate timeline prediction: After the first Gulf war, President Bush hinted he might support a revolt against Saddam in Iraq by giving weapons and assistance. It turned out he didn´t do it, because he was afraid it might lead to a new Iran, fundamentalist...

In the year 1000 Iceland is christened. That same year Thorfinn Karlsefni, a nordic seafarer attempts to settle somewhere on the coast of Newfoundland, or what the Vikings call Wineland. 1020: By the year 1020, several more colonisers have settled on the shore of newfoundland. The trade with...

I´ve noticed that nearly all threads around here are about military history, and nearly always politicial. So I thought it would be a nice change to put in an alternative timeline with arts. In the beginning of the twentieth century the Futurists, become very popular. Their idealogy becomes...