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As the title says; what if the Vandals would not have invaded North Africa in 430 or afterwards, and would have remained in southern Spain? How would the Western Roman Empire fare now that Geiseric's sack of Rome has been averted, and now that it remains in control of Roman Africa?

Here's the challenge: make sure that there is a significant war between Byzantium and at least one of the Christian Spanish states. The only conditions are that the war should not be primairily fought in Byzantium's core territories (e.g. no 4th Crusade scenarios et al) and that no POD earlier...

Occasionally, the idea of an independant Coptic state pops up in debates around here. However, one thing I've been wondering is; exactly what would such a Coptic state look like? If a successful Coptic rebellion would overthrow Byzantine or Umayyad rule, then what kind of government would...

Suppose the Abbassids would have been successful in killing off all of the Umayyads, or that none of the surviving Umayyads never makes it to al-Andalus for some reason, what would the effect be on Europe and the Muslim world? Without the Caliphate of Cordoba, would the presence of the Muslims...

Here's a little idea just came up with: in a scenario in which Mantzikert has been averted and where the Byzantines have remained in control of Anatolia, what would happen if the Mongols invade, defeat the Byzantines, and directly conquer Anatolia? And how would such a succesful Mongol conquest...

What if Ismail Safavi somehow failed to gain power in Azerbaijan? How likely would the rise of a new Persian empire be without the Safavids? And how different would the situation in the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire be if no powerful Twelver Shi'ite empire arises in Persia?

Basically a WI about two questions: how could Justinian's invasion of Ostrogothic Italy be averted? And how would the survival of Ostrogothic Italy affect Europe?

I was just wondering: would it be possible to have a modern world in which there are territories (aside from Antarctica) that are permanently neutral and unclaimed, and are not claimed or officially governed by any nation? And if that would be possible, then what kind of POD would it take to...

An idea that was actually inspired by a dream: what if the Fatimids, instead of going for Egypt in the late 10th century, made a serious attempt at conquering Italy? Could they have held on to at least southern and central Italy for a considerable amount of time, and if they could, then what...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create an independant Arab Christian state or principality that lasts at least a century. The Arab Christian state has to be at least a free city-state, and it may not be a semi-independant vassal of a Muslim state. However, it can be a...

(Abdul and Midgard are gonna hate me for this... :D) That's right - instead of preserving Eastern Christian civilisation and Chalcedonian Orthodoxy (in other words, the Byzantine Empire), the sole purpose of this challenge is to create a more or less plausible Latin Empire that: 1) takes out...

Inspired by the "Corrupt a Wank"-thread. ;) Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a Dutch colonial empire that is: - bigger than the OTL Dutch colonial empire - of which the largest part (75% at least) lasts into the 20th century - in the event of decolonisation, the...

Quite simple: create a scenario in which the POD results in the survival of a species (this can be any kind of species, wether it's a plant, animal or fungus doesn't matter) that is currently declared extinct in OTL. The POD can be before or after 1900. The only limit is that making...

Looking at most AH scenario's and timelines, it strikes me that if there is a Turkish Muslim nation/empire in Anatolia, then it is either the Seljuk Rum Sultanate or the Ottoman Empire, or occasionally something that's just called the Seljuk Empire... Now then, both the Great Seljuk Empire as...

Inspired by the "Create a Rogue State"-challenge. The challenge, should you accept it, is relatively simple: create an AH scenario about a ruthless/insane/delusional/whatever tyrant like Nero or Caligula. You are absolutely free to choose from which background this tyrant comes and in which...

Inspired by the recently resurrected thread about carving up China and Siberia. .. The question is quite simple: what if the Russian Empire for some reason had never expanded much beyond the Ural (let's say that it never gains a territory in Asia that is bigger than European Russia at most)...

Instead of creating that type of strong, unified Japan that we see quite often in scenario's and TL's, this challenge is about creating a Japan that is divided into several different yet stable independant nations by the year 1850. The POD is to be no earlier then the beginning of the Kamakura...

Something I've been wondering for a while (it has to do with a few scenario's I'm working on): How would Europe (and particularly the Balkans) have developed if the Ottoman Empire would never have expanded into Europe? ...and I'm thinking of a scenario without an expanding Byzantine Empire...

Between 824 and 960, the island of Crete was controlled by Saracens and was a (semi-)independant emirate during those years. In 960, it came under Byzantine control again, until it was conquered by the Venetians in 1204, after which the Venetians held it until 1669, when the Ottomans took the...

One of Leo's careful explanations of the priviliges and great religious authority (i.e. the ceasaropapism) of the Byzantine Emperors incidentally reminded me to this somewhat peculiar event in history... In the early 17th century, the Greek theologian and patriarch within the Greek Orthodox...