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With a PoD at around 1750, could an independent Greek state gain independence, modernize significantly, and have the demand to establish overseas colonies in an alternate New Imperialism (even if small and few), or is this completely implausible? If it can happen, then where? Also, a bonus...

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed countless times, but I'd like to ask what other possible "Meiji" alternatives there are. By this, I mean non-European countries undergoing a transformation from more traditional forms of economy to economic powers, be they regional or great. Certain...

With a PoD no earlier than the Perry Expedition, could Japan ever realistically acquire some land in the Scramble for Africa? Something to the extent of Britain, France, or even Germany or Italy would be highly unlikely, but could the Japanese pull something off like what the Cossacks attempted...

As sort of a follow up to a thread I posted a couple days ago, it is intriguing that the Polynesians settled from the Solomon Islands to Hawaii to perhaps South America, bringing the sweet potato all across Polynesia. Yet, as modern archaeology attests, the Polynesians never made contact with...

How could the German ultimatum from the Pig War have been avoided (or how else could true war erupt), and how would this war play out? Would Austria-Hungary be more able to stand their own ground in this war, and this is before the Italo-Turkish War, so would Italy likely join this war on the...

There are theories that in the early 1000's-millennium the Polynesians made contact with the indigenous peoples of South Americas, on grounds that the sweet potato is a native of South America but also present in Polynesian cooking, and that the Proto-Polynesian word for sweet potato, *kumala...

What is the best PoD after the War of 1812 that would result in a high likelihood of a Northern secession from the United States? Preferably something bigger than New England that includes the Midatlantic region and perhaps the Midwest, like Ohio or Michigan.

If New England became a country with whatever PoD (before 1830, of course), would there be an incentive for overseas colonization? What made me think about this was the geographic setting of New England. It's small, and has little land for large farming, and has a northern Continental...

I've always doubted the plausibility of this equation. Even if the Germans didn't invade Belgium, wouldn't the British have joined later, given the fact that this war was not just on a continental European scale, but a colonial one as well?

What would happen in the 1930's and around OTL WWII if the Anglo-Japanese alliance never ended?

What would be the latest but best possible PoD for a union between Sweden and Prussia, not including Brandenburg?

Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, Francisco Franco promised unconditional military support for Nazi Germany and Italy in the event of war. After all, they helped him get into power, and he owed them, many believed. This promise continued until the summer of 1940 when Spain launched its...

During the late 1600's, Brandenburg-Prussia possessed a few small islands in the Caribbean such as Saint Thomas, Tortola, and Vieques (a part of modern day Puerto Rico). What if Brandenburg-Prussia retained these islands instead of returning them to Denmark? Also if Prussia kept them until and...

What if Engelbert Dollfuss avoided assassination in 1934 and there was continued persecution of Austrian Nazis?

What would happen if, somehow, Napoleon III successfully established the Second Mexican Empire, but still went to war with Prussia in 1870, and still lost, but avoided capture?

What would have happened if there were no Russo-Japanese war of 1904?

What are the weirdest plausible firearm designs that could have been created, or weren't popular but could have been?

What if Frederick III and Alexander III lived into the 1900's, at the same time, in the same ATL??

The challenge is to make economic relations between the US and the UK farther apart by 1900. Only condition is no Trent Affair PoD.

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed many times before, but what if the Republicans won the Spanish Civil War? Would this have an effect on World War II?