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If Gavrilo Princip did not assassinate Archduke Ferdinand, what else, if anything, would likely have sparked WWI instead? On a separate tangent from OTL, if Hitler were killed in WWI, what else, if anything, would likely have led to WWII instead? Though I'm not exactly a noob, I apologize in...

We all know that the Allies' campaign against the Axis in WWII, while ultimately successful, was fraught with numerous problems resulting from strategic (edit: and/or tactical) errors and misjudgments on the part of the Allied command. Looking back on the war as we can with our 20/20 hindsight...

After substantial discussion over the last few months on this board and several overhauls, I've come up with a revised outline for a timeline that's been in the works since 2007. The goal of the TL was (and still is) to show what the world could have been like if Christian European civilization...

Has anyone on this board (or elsewhere) ever expanded on Robert Silverberg's The Gate of Worlds and its pseudo-sequel Beyond the Gate of Worlds? The search function didn't turn anything up. Granted, the premise of the story involved a substantial amount of handwaving, but I found the modern...

Suppose the city of Rome is never founded. The Roman Kingdom, Republic, and Empire which grew from this are butterflied out of existence. What results from this? Which civilization(s) rise to dominate in place of Rome? How does this affect overall social and technological progress? What might...

I'm working on a timeline which illustrates the potential results of a collapse of European civilization prior to the period of extensive overseas European exploration. (This is a revision of my original idea involving a deadlier plague strain.) My foremost goal is to ensure that this timeline...

The premise: European civilization is in ruins. The population of Europe has not necessarily been entirely wiped out, but virtually all of the former organized governments in geographic Europe have collapsed. (This may have been due to disease or a natural disaster or foreign conquerors or any...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to propose a realistic, plausible means by which European society collapses prior to Columbus's 1492 voyage to the New World. Your proposal should begin with a single POD some time prior to 1492 but after the collapse of the Western Roman...

For a couple years now, I've been trying to devise a reasonable ATL stemming from a POD in which the Black Death is even deadlier than it is in OTL. (Yes, I know this has been done before, but I didn't know that when I first came up with the idea sometime back in 2007.) My attempts to develop...

Introduction For those of you interested in the "what-ifs" of baseball history, presented here is an alternate history of the major leagues stemming from a point of divergence in 1892. (I originally posted this on Baseball Fever, but it received a rather lukewarm reception there, so I thought...

Suppose the following: Not long after the Japanese surrender in WWII, something sets off a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. What might be a plausible trigger? What would this continued WWII be like? How long would the fighting last? Who would come out victorious? My thoughts...