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First change: an avanced and seafaring civilization should develop in the OTL US Eastern seaboard or Quebec / Ontario....other regions are unfavorable to the contact with Europe (Caribbean islands too small to support a civilization with ocean-crossing skills, Eastern South America too far and...

Agree.....how many nations would result from the dissolution of the former Portuguese colony? Other possible POD....Dom Pedro dies or is severly incapacitated before September 1822

Maybe the Incas reaching OTL Southeastern Brazil is a bit too far but IMHO reaching the pampas from OTL Northern Argentina could be possible if the Incas had more time before the European arrival.....the pampas are a open and free environment inhabited by much more primitive tribes than the...

POD in South America An very interesting POD for a pre-columbian South America would be a further and sooner spread of the Incan Empire across the continent, especially in OTL Brazilian territory (the Incans had trade links called peabirus to the Guarani tribes of Southerneast Brazil)...I...

Challenge: Balkanize OTL Brazil in several states with a POD no latter than 1889 (Republic)....let's suppose that Brazil goes the same way of the Spanish Colonies in Latin America...

Ok, let's change the What If to a Challenge....make Alexander reach China, anyhow....

What would be the implications if Alexander the Great had reached Western or Southern China? Would Alexander try to invade China or return home after discovering that the World did not ended 600 miles from Indus river?

Question: a modern Spanish republic after 1975 would survive or the old wounds of the Civil War and separatism would sink the country?

What if Spain adopted a republican form of government just after Franco death in 1975 (suppose that Juan Carlos or other Bourbon never is crowned)

Pls search for Charles "bebe" Rebozo.....:)

What if the rumored Nixon gay affair is in fact true and disclosed to the general public during his presidency?

Galilee was part of the Kingdom of Israel since David's time, so even hellenized, that area had Jewish cultural influences for more than 8 centuries...as for the Khazars, there are disputes regarding the actual numbers of conversions and if those happened for religious or only political purposes.

Well, in the first case (Hasmonean) the mass conversions happened in Judea, so those non-believers were already exposed to a somewhat Jewish cultural context that surely helped the conversions to happen. For the second case, we are talking of a tribe converted by a rabbi, not a country or...

If Judaism is kept as a ethnically based religion (without mass conversions) a Jewish Roman Empire is close to ABS, as mass conversions are necessary to spread the religion like Christianity during the decline of the Western Roman Empire or Islam during the Arab expansionism in the Middle East...

IMHO we would see a diversity of political systems developing in Latin America: Brazil: Without republicanism, would remained a monarchy until today, developing a real constitutional monarchy from late 1890's onwards. Rio de la Plata (OTL Argentina and Uruguay): Land of the triunvirates...

Uruguay and Argentina were in path to become rich welfare state in the begging of 20th. Century....maybe those countries could remained in that path without the internal chaos of the 30s in both countries.

Let's accept in this challenge a bisexual majority where homosexual relationships are preferred...

IMHO a Totalian one state is close to ABS butba coalition of military or fascist countries like Latin America during the 70s is a possibility