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I'm not sure if this should be here or in the "After 1900"-section, but anyway. It is no secret that the French are known as cowards when it comes to war, which is ironic, since before the World Wars, France was probably the militarily strongest country in the World (correct me if I'm wrong)...

Well, enough about WRE for now. Now i'd like to talk about another cliche: Gunpowder Rome In other words, a civilization creates a new technology of some kind and survives because of it. It is easy to see, why this won't work nearly as well as believed, but the question is, how should it play...

Speaking of Heather, according to him the beginning of the "chain reaction", that eventually led to the fall of the original Roman Empire was the rise of the Sassanids, especially the monetary drain brought by the Roman-Sassanid conflict. It was less about economy collapsing and more about money...

Good to know. Good point. Well, I used a comment from the original pre-1900 cliches thread and I guess I got it quite abridged. The original cliche was about Roman Empire surviving without germanic and vandal invasions and one of the points of this not working was a weak economic base and...

Yeah, but it happened during the Indian campaign. The point is that Alexander's body and men can be broken, but not his mind. He's too stubborn (and mad) to accept defeat. If he loses a battle and lives, he would just return with a new army (or at least attempt to).

First of all, thank you for your contributions. Now comes the next phase: reversal and reasoning. The intent is to now avert or reverse the available cliches and explain, how it would be plausible. I give a few examples. First one for huns: ERE falls Before WRE/ Huns use a different...

We have all seen our share of alternate (and otl) history cliches and I for one think it would be refreshing to create a timeline without them. Basically the idea is to first tally up all possible cliches related to the classical era alternate history and either avert or reverse them, with...

To tell the truth all three are the actual POD's. But the major one is most likely the crowning of the King of New England, which happens somewhere around the 17th and the 18th century. All I can say is that it happens long before 1750s Having a Monarch in the Thirteen colonies will change the...

I'm changing the subject here a bit, but I would like to check out the historical plausibilities of these parts, which I was considering about how HBE was founded: 1. Britain takes the policy of crowning members of the Royal Family (Either Stuarts or Hanovers) and their close relatives as...

Here https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8170

I'll keep that in mind. And yes, do check the DoD Thread, though I must warn you, it's very (VERY) long. I personally like it because it's purpose was to create a realistic "Draka" equivalent, and *USA succeeds in becoming a powerful state without any kind of Wank. It even loses wars

First of all thank you for Libertad for introducing me to this project. Second I would like to know about what I can actually contribute? This is a very long thread and there has been many great ideas written. So I would like to know, if there is anything (or everything) in these timelines...

Beans, huh? Actually it's not that crazy when you think about it. After all rice was an economic standard at least in Japan, and Josiah Warren used corn as a standard in Cincinnati Time Store. Although it's use in the North is still a bit open, but at least we have the South covered (unless...

Yeah, I guess middle ages is the wrong word to use. more of an evolved form of Native American Civilization(s) Anyways, those bisons and peccaries sound good, but for some reason aren't considered domesticable (which depends of course on how domesticable auroch was compared to a bison), so...

All right then. In other words I have all this time thought there were TWO disease outbreaks, pre-columbian and post-columbian. Okay, now that this disease problem is out of the way, let us concentrate again on the more important matter: pondering the american equivalent of middle ages...

Okay, I may have yet again made a mistake of putting everyone to the same place, but some were falling (like Mayas) or fallen (Cahokia) Not to be rude or anything, but didn't you give me this reply earlier, when we were talking about the reasons for the lack of discovered advanced...

Yeah, it was new diseases that sealed the coffin, but we have all come to the conclusion that the Native Americans all across the continent were already past their prime, when the Europeans arrived. Also I would like to remind that this thread is about pondering the Native American...

I checked out both of the two books (general information from wikipedia and other web pages, I don't have any actual access to them.) and I just had to ask "Why didn't I do so earlier"? Anyhow, I think it's best to start another recap. So, considering that diseases (pre-columbian and...

I guess there is no hiding it. Yeah, I don't know much about pre-columbian America. When I first heard about the existence of Cahokia, I was surprised. I tried to use logic and comparison to Eurasia (and yes I know they aren't that compatible) as a replacement, but I guess it wasn't sufficient...

There is a difference between a massive influx of foreign diseases to a natural plague. Unless Native Americans had naturally weaker immune systems than Europeans did, their civilization should had survived their plagues similarly how europeans survived the black death.