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The Conch Republic A tiny micro-nation that succeeded from the USA. (POD: This was intended as a tongue-in-cheek protest against the US for creating a border crossing north of the Keys, but was mistaken by the US as a real succession. The US therefore cut all political ties to the tiny...

Really the only way I see this happening is to downsize the young fledgling Christianity in its early centuries, say around 200 or 300 CE.

Lets see, political ramifications of no prohibition... Joe Kennedy, never having to anticipate the end of prohibition (which in this TL never happened), never stockpiled a large inventory of alcohol thus never making a FORTUNE on the sale of his inventory. One would assume that his three sons...

Modern paganism is based in large part on the ancient religions of our forebares. Many villages, hamlets, towns, etc. believed that their own god/dess was theirs and theirs alone. They were chosen by him/her. Outside Europe, however, in another matter intirely. Take the Isis cult side thread...

In that case, the wheel...

The main problem with most pagan religions is that they abound with a plethora of local deities. Besides, most pagans pride themselves on the fact that we are NOT a proselytizing religion. While we will explain our beliefs to others, the discussion is usually initiated by the other party.

the question remains: what political or social change occurred to alter the fact that blacks became slaves? It would most likely have to occur within Africa and the blacks themselves because the first blacks were sold to Europeans by blacks. It was an old system between African tribes to take...

I beg to differ...Jimmy Buffett just gets better with age. He's still pumping out great tunes at 60.

small, isolated groups are acceptable...but not revival cultures I suppose by "Aztec" I mean non-Mayan Mesoamerican

What if, in 1492, Columbus landed on the Yukatan instead of Hispanola? Contact established before Cortez. What effect would that have?

Although not AH perse (more like post-apocalyptic Earth colony type-thing) read the Homecomming Series by Orson Scott Card. Full blown civ without the wheel.

The Aztec culture...

Alright, I'll go about this a new way. I want the Aztecs to last until present day. I don't care how this is done short of ASB's.

Zhū Dì, The Yongle Emperor, China, 1421

Alright...WI a hurricane turned Cortes' ships into kindling? One way or another, the Aztec's will survive....

But think of all the Jewish scientists and great thinkers that would've lived...how would they have changed the world? And with no Holocaust, no Auschwitz and therefore no Mangele...where would medicine be without this madman? Don't get me wrong, his methods were atrocious, but he did advance...

alright then...let's assume that Cortez arrives in 1520.

There is a problem with that scinario...Cortes had his men burn the ships when they landed.

I disagree. The distance was too great to risk another failure. The suppossed (the Spanish didn't know if it existed or not) gold in the New World wasn't a big enough lure to draw them away from the European front.

POD: 332 BCE, Alexander the Great recovers from his fever, goes on to conquor the Mediterranean and North Africa. His forces follow the Nile southward settling more and more Alexandrias. By this time, Alexander is tired and passes the reigns to his son, Alexander III. Young Alexander takes the...