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For some time I've had an interest in the development of immigrant communities/ethnic enclaves in the United States (Little Italy, Chinatown, Little Havana, etc), and when I was reading about the Dust Bowl I came across a footnote about how migrants from the affected areas set up their own...

I'm thinking about starting a timeline in which Islam spreads through island SE Asia earlier, and keeps going... Macassan traders are thought to have visited Arnhem Land in Australia for sea slugs, so what if the Australian Aborigines they traded with embraced Islam and the Indonesian way of...

I'm in need of some help for my Native America timeline... It's getting to the point where the Old World will have to come across the Americas, and I'm wondering how Europe and the rest of the world will have developed without the Americas. The plot goes that calculations are correct, and no...

I was reading about how the Scotch-Irish settlers in the American colonies were a feircly independent people with a strong hatred for the English, which is what drove them to settle far away from the coast, in the backcountry, becoming some of the earlier American frontiersmen. What if they...

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How could we have the ancient Olympic games, or rather the entire Panhellenic games, survive through AD 394? Perhaps they could be Christianized in the same way that Christmas and Easter traditions were, and expanded upon so that rather than ethnic Greeks be the only participants, athletes from...

Hello, I'm new around here. Lately I've been trying to develop an alternative history supposing that somehow, Columbus never stumbles upon the New World and the Native Americans are left free to continue advancing on their own without European innovention. It's still in the rough stages and it...