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Suppose that the Slavs never were able to pass the Danube or didn't left a strong impront there. How is History altered? And, for make the story more interesting, what if the Bulgars still settled in the Balkans, but don't lose their original Turkic language? What is the most likely POD, by the...

What could be changed if the Beast of Gevaudan appeared in other country instead of France? What about Britain? Germany? Italy? Russia? Turkey? Spain? Any of the American colonies?

How can have Persia this borders in 1930, with a POD not earlier than 1810?

This isn't as popular as Mexico winning the Mexican-American War but I think that Santa Anna was in a better position to win this war than the other. I must say that I don't know many things about this period in American history, but if I'm not wrong the main battles of the Goliad campaign...

The challenge is to have a new fight between the northern and southern states between 1880 and 1920, with a POD not earlier than 1865. Thoughs?

Suppose that the predictions about the collapse of the island of La Palma after a big eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano are correct. But, instead of tomorrow, the catastrophe occurs in 1777. Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Britain and most of the American colonies are hit by a giant...

Suppose for a second that the world is like in the movie The Illusionist, but without any Eisenheim. So, instead of Crown Prince Rudolf there is a Crown Prince Leopold making a coup against Franz Joseph by 1890. There is also an Hungarian Empress that hate her husband and a former police...

Let's suppose that Napoleon III scapes Sedan but many of his soldiers are captured by the Prussians. - Is he going to continue the war against the Germans or ask for peace soon? Would he accept the loss of some border towns in Alsace-Lorraine (in OTL the provisional government rejected this...

1) Suppose that in 1918 Germany wins in the continent and made an armistice with Britain, the US and Japan, renouncing to her colonies in Asia. Is likely a closer German/Chinese relation opposed to Japanese expansionism? 2)In an Axis victory in WW2, What would happen to Pu-Yi? Ruler of...

WI instead of Stalin a Volgan or Baltic German becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party and then leader of the Soviet Union in the 20s? Do you think that the nazis would have the same relation with the USSR as OTL or it would be a bit changed?

In 1862 the then unknown Henry Morton Stanley enlisted in the Confederate Army, was taken as prisoner by Union forces and changed sides in order to avoid long detention. What if, instead of being captured, he was killed?

So, WI Yuan Shikai sides with the Emperor and surprises both Ronglu and Cixi attacking their forces before they could be prepared? Can the Boxer Rebellion be avoided? Has the 100 Days Reform a chance to success or it's doomed from beginning? I know that Yuan Shikai's army looks quite small...

One day I heard a rumor about Jurassic Park. Apparently, one of the first projects to make a film about the novel was a gore action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Alan "Kickthefuckingdinosaurs" Grant. However, Spielberg got the rights before and made his all-family film with Mesozoic...

I suppose that excluding Zorro and the rest of fictional characters, the story of former Spanish "Dons" discovering gold in California and trying to use it to buy the independence of the region from Mexico in 1841 can be considered Alternate History. Do you think that Santa Anna would agree to...

Some days ago, I made two maps in a moment of inspiration and improvised a story in wich the Caliphate of Cordoba fell around 20 years earlier, but the son of Al-Mansur, Abd al-Malick, was able to survive -in OTL he died in 1008- and rise to power in one of the Taifa Kingdoms that followed the...

The Polish won the major part of the battles against the soviets during the first part of the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921), but in the summer of 1920 the communists made a great counter-attack that not only retook the Soviet lands lost, but also all Poland east of the Vistula. By August, the...

What would be the role of a surviving, united and strongest Poland in the Napoleonic Wars? And in World War I (if it is not butterflied)? And, obviusly... What would be the POD able to take Russia, Prussia and Austria out Poland? Experts on Polish History, you are welcome!

This is a very weird idea, but according to Canadian diplomat James K. Bartleman in his book Roller Coaster, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Brian Tobin wanted to turn the 1995 "turbot war" between Canada and the Spanish sailors in a real war, even after Spain and the EU accepted most of the...

In 1071, the (then) small county of Portugal rebelled against the Kingdom of León but was defeated and its autonomy was de facto suppresed. 20 years later, the county was recreated as a gift to the Count Henry of Burgundy, who helped the King of León in some important battles against the Moors...

In a distopic world when the US converted in a fascist dictadure one year of the 20th century, what will be the best candidate to became an American fürher? -Huey Long -Charles Coughlin -William Dudley Pelley -Fritz Kuhn -George Rockwell -Charles Lindbergh -Other (Who?)