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This is a sort of random and quite specific question. I know that disease and Spanish rule decimated the populations of the Cuba, Hispaniola and the other Carribean islands that the Spanish settled very early in their New World adventures, to the point that pretty much all the native ethnicities...

A thread in Non-Political Chat about the Garamantes made me think: how do we keep the Sahara "green"? I know this is a geographic POD, but I don't think it's necessarily ASB. I know nothing about meteorology, so obviously any POD would have effects on the rest of the world, but lets ignore those...

Let's say the Roman Empire never really gets off the ground for whatever reason, and never expands beyond Italy. Obviously, this results in massive butterflies. However, I think the Germanic peoples will still expand out of their homeland in Scandinavia. What happens to their expansion with no...

The Vivaldi Brothers were explorers from Genoa who left for India in 1291. They passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and were never seen again. Let's assume that they tried to sail directly across the Atlantic, believing that they could reach India this way, just as Columbus tried later. If...

I've always been interested in timelines like Lands of Red and Gold and Mississippi Rice, which involve alternate agriculture and such. Since California is such an agricultural area now, it seems plausible that agriculture could have taken root there. In fact, I'm surprised that maize and other...

I was thinking about how much of a problem usurpers were for the Roman Empire. Then I remebered that in 260 AD, during the Crisis of the Third Century, the Empire fractured into three parts, the Gallic Empire in Gaul and Britannia (and Hispania for a while I think) and the Palmyrene Empire in...

This is kind of a weird idea that just came to me. I've read that the Viking age was caused by the population of Scandinavia growing too large for the climate and geography of the area. Therefore, Viking men took to the sea to settle elswhere or bring wealth back to their homes. But WI instead...

I know this has been discussed before, but the search engine hasn't been working for me for the past couple of days, so I got fed up and decided to make a new topic. Basically, I'm working on a TL where Spain doesn't get tons of American gold shipped over during the 16th-17th centuries. What...

This is something I was working on several months ago. I put it aside for a while, but Xwarq's TL inspired me to post it. It uses the same basic POD, but with much different butterflies. Here is the first bit: Part One: Into Africa Alaric's Goths had been fighting and travelling since 395...

Inspired by the thread "Western Islam" further down the page, what would Islam look like if the Byzantine Empire was conquered during the first wave of the Islamic invasions? Let's assume that Persia loses Mesopotamia but manages to survive behind the Zagros mountains. I'm not looking for the...

Ok, so I want to get "Sumer" to survive for as long as I can. By Sumer, I mean a state ruled by and mainly populated by ethnic Sumerians, speaking the Sumerian language. Basically, I'm thinking of having an earlier Sargon of Akkad who unites Mesopotamia under a Sumerian dynasty. I'm having a...

WI instead of allying with the Hurons, Algonquins, and Montagnais against the Iroquois, Champlain instead helps the Iroquois? In OTL, the Iroquois fought quite successfully against the French and their Indian allies for the next hundred years or so. WI the French are allied with the most...

I'm writing a TL right now where the Incas are not conquered by the Spaniards (at least not right away). I'm about 60% sure what's going to happen within Tawantinsuyu, but I'm not sure what the effects will be on Spain. So I'm asking you at AH.com. If I understand correctly, the majority of...

I'm sure this has been discussed here before, but the search wont work for me so I decided to make a new topic. WI Juana's supporters win the War of the Castilian Succession? My knowledge of European politics of the time period is terrible, so I thought I'd ask you guys to help me out. It...

Theres tons of threads about Vladimir of Kiev converting to a religion other than Orthodoxy, so how about something else to switch it up: WI Boris I of Bulgaria converts to Catholicism?

I love the idea of a surviving Inca Empire. I've been researching it for a while now on and off, reading as much as I can about the subject. While it is easy to speculate on a pre-Pizarro POD (the Inca discover how to create steel, Huayna Capac doesn't die, etc), I think a more interesting and...

Inspired by a game of Medieval 2: Total War I was playing as Venice. WI Pietro II Orseolo dies never becomes Doge of Venice for whatever reason? He expanded Venice eastward into Dalmatia, conquering the Paganians who were known for their piracy. What would the Adriatic be like ITTL? What...

We have a lot of alternate colony threads (WI the Vikings colonized America, etc) but none, that I've seen anyway, about ancient colonies. So, what kinds of ancient colonization PODs might we see? Greeks colonizing north Africa instead of Phoenicians? Maybe the Egyptians or Lydians or someone...

In 779, the Uyghur khagan Bogu wanted to invade China, but was opposed by his general Tun Bagha Tarqan, who eventually killed and overthrew him. If Tun Bagha Tarqan never challenges the Khagan or Bogu Qaghan manages to defeat him, could the Uyghurs have lead a successful invasion of China? If...

WI the Jomon people are capable of either resisting the Yayoi advance completely, or at least containing them in Kyushu (which is where the Yayoi first appeared in Japan, IIRC)? Basically, how would Japan evolve culturally and politically if it remains dominated by the Jomon culture. For one...