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How would this change history? The three biggest changes that I can see are: Native American depopulation from European diseases happens circ. 1000 CE, centuries before OTL European colonization of the Americas happens, which enables the native Americans to rebound and better resist those...

Suppose Operation Felix happened, either because Franco was more willing to join the war or because Canaris wasn't working against the Nazis. Could this have led to the Axis taking Gibraltar? If they did, how would that have hurt the British and Allied war effort?

It's pretty well understood by scholars that modern Judaism and Christianity both emerged from the same sectarian theological-political mess that was 2nd Temple Judaism under Roman occupation. Both come from the same roots. And in different ways, both were heavily influenced by Hellenistic and...

If General Richard Montgomery doesn't die and wins the Battle of Quebec in 1775, then a few major changes happen: Francophone, Catholic Quebec likely becomes part of the early independent colonies. Would they be an independent state? Would they become part of the new Union? Would they be...

How could a Kurdish state form in the Middle East as a result of British and French decolonization? How would its formation change Mashriqi politics? PoD any date after the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)

Islam and Judaism are very theologically similar. There are only a handful of differences: Islam asserts that Muhammad is the last prophet, but Judaism claims that the age of prophets had ended with the Temple's destruction and would not resume until the Messianic Age; Muhammad proclaimed a new...

What could possibly have happened if the CCP won the civil war in the 1940s? The geopolitical repercussions would certainly be massive, not the least that the Truman-Chiang "Containment" strategy probably wouldn't have worked at all. Two massive Marxist-Leninist totalitarian regimes dominating...

OTL there is only one self-identified non-Arab nation-state, Israel, in Levant today (defined here as the lands between Anatolia in Turkey, the Suez Canal in Egypt, the Iranian Plateau, and the Arabian Peninsula). The challenge is to figure out how to maximize the number of non-Arab...

Proto-horses went extinct in North America about 12000 years ago - approximately the same time humans arrived on the continent. How would history have been different if the American horse hadn't gone extinct?

By Jerusalem I mean the Old City. OTL Jordan conquered it and expelled all the Jews, destroyed Jewish graves on Mt Olives, and razed many synagogues. Could Israel take it in 1948? How? And how would the conflict change as a result?

Any POD that doesn't butterfly Christianity is fair game. Bonus points if the POD is after 325 C.E.

What's the best point in the last century at which the EU could have become the democratic "United States of Europe" that it's original proponents claimed it would become?

What's the earliest POD (after 962) to get a Frenchman crowned Emperor? Extra points if that HRE includes Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement?wprov=sfla1 Could that have happened? How? What would have happened after?

What needs to change for this to happen? Another "Great Awakening"?

I'm pretty sure the whole Protectorate structure would have collapsed sooner rather than later. Without a clear king at the center of the British government, the whole balance of powers is thrown off-kilter. Parliament might even have gotten a real chance to abolish the monarchy for real and...

What needs to happen for Carthage to completely control, even for only a short time, the Mediterranean basin instead of Rome? Is that even possible? I read a bunch of "Carthage wins" TLs and they all seem to conclude that Carthage, at best, will only dominate the Western Med. Which seems...

What would the Jews even call a Levantine Jewish state. Judea?