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The title says it all. What if Henry II of our OTL, and his younger brothers, all die during their youths; this is during the English Anarchy, when their mother Matilda (daughter of the dead Henry I) and Stephen of Blois (son of Henry I's sister, Matilda's cousin) vied for the throne of England...

So, dealing with the plethora of Alexander the Great POD's in my head, here's another one (the last! I promise!). If Alexander the Great survives to live another twenty or thirty years and sends his fleets after Carthage and his armies after Rome, can you envision an alliance between the...

So this post is more of a what-if than my earlier ones; I've been humbled by my apparent lack of knowledge in certain subjects! What If Hephaestion survives his sickness? Let's assume that he really had typhus, as some postulate, and that overeating (meaning just a small-average meal for a...

So while making a different post, in a different forum, I made the comment: "[Someone] thinks of him as a vile toad; the thing is, though, most toads don't decide on the future of our Res Publica." So I got to thinking, What if some great man of Rome actually tripped on/was startled by a...

What if the Romans caught word of Pyrrhus's elephants, and coincidentally had a sort of expert nearby, or at least somebody with experience in dealing with war elephants (perhaps a veteran of the Wars of the Diadochi)? So the Battle of Heraclea turns from a Pyrrhic Victory for Pyrrhus to a...

What if Alexander, in his early youth, has a bastard son by a Macedonian woman who ends up being a late teen at his father's death, assuming that Alexander's illness/poisoning isn't butterflied away. Let's say this son has a startling resemblance to Alexander, ascertaining that Alexander will...

***I know the POD is pre-1900, but the majority of the action is post-1900*** So, uh, this is my first post on the forums, and my first attempt at a "full", thought-out timeline. TL Due to a slightly stronger anti-jingoism in the North German Confederation's Reichstag, the new German...