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Based on the Solutrean hypothesis (which is wrong) but could a european population cross the atlantic? Starting point would be the area of modern Spain, they arrive in the area of modern South Carolina and then start to spread over all of America, parts of north america would already be...

is it possible to create a repeating crossbow, that still has atleast the strenght of a regular bow? It doesnt have to be as strong as crossbow and pierce through heavy armor, but it atleast should be able to pierce through chainmail easily. I know the chinese invented a repeating crossbow, but...

This is something i thought for quite a while. Basically i Need a spain that manages to survive as a dictatorship in Europe, maybe not north Korea esque, but something like China. I am not sure how we could do something like this and if it is even possible to. so what are your thoughts?

would it be possible to have a ethnicity that has relativly dark Skin (light Brown - dark Brown). normally you expect such an ethnicity to have black hair and black eyes. however this ethnicity has various hair colours, Brown, blonde and black also, but Brown is most common, lets say 50%, black...

In our modern timeline we have LEDs, Plasma and recently also OLEDs. But what would other tv Technologies be ? How about Laser TVs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_video_display Since i am no expert in this Kind of stuff, what other Technologies would be possible?

Humans do already have quite diverse eye colours, ranging from brown, to blue, green to gray. amber, hazel etc but could it be possible, that humans (maybe due to a mutation) can get orange or yellow eyes. from what i know, blue eyes didnt exist naturally within humans, its rather a mutation...

would it be possible with a POD that would be perhaps in the time before Indo European migration. that a culture emerges from the region aroun modern Scandinavia and developes to a dominating culture ? or is scandinavia simply too cold, not populous enough and not fertile enough for this ?

herodot said, the thracians are the msot numerous people aside from Indians. so how much thracians were there in total ? And how closely related are Dacians and Thracians ? Some say, dacian is just a thracian dialect, others think its a seperatre language.

i am asking because a federation between Thracians/Dacians and Slavs decides to go crazy in 100 AD and etablishes a strong empire to shatter the Romans. After the roman empire feel in a crisis because of a civil war, it breaks apart. Now the Dacians, dont want to see a strong Rome happen again...

some questions i have: 1. how long does it take for a culture to form a new mythology/religon, so if in said culture a new prophet raises which teaches them a new religion and the prophet himself, is viewed as God or rather a divine being, son of the God. not a true God, but not a normal human...

how could one make a italy that is dominated by the Oscans and not Latins. The Oscans should also form a empire on their own like Rome did OTL. too bad, we know so few about those extinct languages, they are quite fascinating. And now the challenge, the etruscan language was replaced by...

I wasnt sure how to word this, but would it be possible that perhaps under roman leadership ? or with a even earlier POD. there could be a huge European country, comprising of almost all of southern europe and central europe. domitated by one culture for example latin and lasting. i mean look at...

Could you get a Europe with 1,5 Billion people with a 100 AD POD. or is this just impossible to achieve ?

lets say domician stays emperor, and dacia never gets conquered, meaning that a roman attack on dacia ends in a Tragedy for the romans. The Dacians under decabalus leadership even manage to conquer Pannonia and Moesia. Rome is gone, due to bad leadership, losing many wars and resulting...

What if the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth would have been dominated by the Lithuanian Language ? How big could the Commonwealth be ? could it be possible that Lithuania conquers the Russian Lands ? Lithuania should be a mahjor great power in this timeline.

I think it would be possible to make corsica being totally vandal. corsica is sparesly populated even today, so the vandals who numbered about 80.000 could easily assimilate the native corsican population. same with sardinia, it might take some time, but they could assimilate them.

If rome breaks apart in 200 AD, would the latin alphabet ever became as popular as in OTL, or would every country use their own alphabets ?

Is it possible to achieve a europe in which skyscrapers like you see in the USA, or variouis asian countries are more common, especially in urban centres ? however tere should still be historical core cities, only the newer city parts would been modern with skyscrapers and lot of neon lights.

would it be possible that france becomes slavic ? atleast southern france ?

Would it be possible to have a big realm in the caucasus which is speaking georgian. Religion should be christian. Around a 200 AD POD.