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This question comes from the perspective for various proposals and TLs where we see the Aztecs or the Inca or the Iroquois reverse engineering or making use of European technology they capture from failed attempts by the Europeans to conquer them. Say how easy would it be for the Aztecs or Inca...

My attempts at Japanese colonization of the Americas thwarted I find myself turning back to my "Land of Salmon and Totems" TL which I still enjoy. Thus I've decided to update it again but before I do several thoughts have come to me. For one, I have been too conservative in my portyal of...

Since the Ainu settled Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands along with other related indigenous groups what if a group of Ainu discovered and settled in the Aleutian Islands? Trading with Yakuts and Alaskan natives? Eventually the Matsunae Clan come north in the 17th Century and following the Ainu...

Just an interest I have been thinking on lately. What if the dispute over the Oregon Territory had been stalled longer? Eventually the US would have went into the Mexican War and gained an increased amount of territory. Would this have affected negotiations over Oregon/Columbia District? Could...

Reading "Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy" by Richard Current. There are two sections talking about Unionist efforts in Tennessee and North Carolina. The Tennessee section primarily talks about East Tennessee, desertion and prominent Tennesseans bush-whacking or...

I'm interested in the plausible butterflies of a Soviet victory at the Battle of Warsaw. In Poland at least it is regarded as an important victory that prevented the Soviet Union from sweeping into Central Europe and supporting nascent Communist uprisings. So, what if the Soviets had managed...

Chinese Colonization being one of the most hotly debated topics in AH. I figure I would take a swing at a similar strain. Primarily, Japanese Colonization. In my initial thoughts on this we run around the issue of the actual discovery of the West Coast of the Americas as the Spanish have...

https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/28-999/Kingsway-West-1 Well, just picked up the first copy and it is interesting to say the least. Definitely a western, gunslinger feel to it with weird magic in the mix. Story so far aside there are some interesting polities. 1 Golden Mountain Empire: A...

I am looking through the "Medieval Maritime Warfare" book by Charles Stanton so I will be coming up with several maritime based PODs in short order..: This is in question of the Second Crusade. At the time Roger of Sicily had a large fleet of well over 200 ships and offered to Louis VII of...

it has been postulated that the policies of William "The Good" of Sicily lead to the downfall of not only Norman Sicily but also any attempt at blocking the cities of the western-Italian city states like Genoa and Pisa from interfering in Med. Politics. Had Sicily managed to keep itself...

By the time of the Islamic Conquests the Byzantine Empire was undoubtedly a naval empire at this point and as such Egypt and its North African holdings were key to feeding the military forces it used to keep its empire together on sea and land. What if the Byzantines were able to retain Egypt or...

Just a thought which I am sure has been explored before but what if the Fall of the Soviet Union had been much worse? If the coup against Gorbachev had been much closer and had led to the Soviet Union sliding into Civil War?

Just a thought I had, but how would the settlement of North America look like if attempts to settle the Eastern Seaboard for one reason or another failed? The Native Confederacies were able to boot out the settlers, the settlers starved, other colonial powers massacred each other, etcetc. That...

What if Sigsmund dies just before he can screw up placing at least one of his sons in Russia?

What would a "Northern Dutch Brazil" have looked like if say during the siege of Salvador the Dutch relief fleet had managed to arrive early and beat off the Spanish-Portuguese fleet and theDutch manage to at least hold onto everything in Brazil from Bahia to the north. More than likely a few...

Well, we all know the Emperors but not a lot of light is shed on the Pre-Imperial Romans. Less drama I suppose. Anyway, who are the most influencial or famous Republican Roman figures in Roman History? Marius and his reforms I would put forward forwmost for he revolutionized the Roman army...

How could France have been better prepared for World War 2? I should say a POD after 1918 at the earliest. No direct POD on Germany or other power without originating in France somehow.

Considering Virginia *Cough Claiborne Cough* interests in the region what would have happened if the Calverts had never set up in Maryland either going south or not getting the charter? Would they have tried to foster it someone else? Would Parliamentarian Virginians got into more Shenanigans...

I am reading "History of Iran" by Axworthy and he really does not like Mani. Without Mani the teachings of St Augustine would have been very different, if anything at all with things like Original Sin and such may not have made it in such an influential and doctrinal form into the Catholic...

The Sea Peoples Migration was like a wave of destruction, leading to the downfall of the Hittites and ravaging of the Levant. The only major power to check their advance was Egypt. Now what if they had not been able to defeat the Sea Peoples and they were conquered? Could they be conquered...