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  1. Winds & currents for India-Australia or Indonesia-Australia Trade

    I've been recently thinking about contact between South Indians and Australia and Papua during the expansion of Indian/Hindu culture to Southeast Asia, roughly around the 5th century onward. I was wondering if winds and currents prevented them from further exploring south and east to Australia...
  2. What if the Spanish traded with Tawantinsuyu after Pizarro fails?

    I was thinking about a scenario where Tawantinsuyu survives conquest and becomes analagous to China as a lucrative place for trade. So, perhaps Pizarro's conquest of Peru is a big failure and the Huáscar-Atahualpa civil war is either quickly resolved or never occurs, and the elites realize that...
  3. National Parks / World Heritage Sites to International Parks?

    Since World Heritage sites forbid activities like mineral extraction, land exploitation or other forms of intensive land use, would it be possible for countries to concede cherished national parks that are also world heritage sites to the UN as caretakers? I'm thinking this would prevent...
  4. Private Use of Automobiles Illegal in Some Parts of the World

    Is it imaginable that some states in the east bar citizens from driving for personal use, and instead, implement a system of transportation that maximizes public transport along with taxis? There would still be roads, for the taxis of course, but also for shipping goods and delivery of...
  5. Dravidian Reconquest

    I've been fairly comfortable just reading discussions on this forum for all the scenarios I could think of, but one scenario that I haven't found is a reconquest of the Indian subcontinent by the Dravidians similar to the Europeans in Iberia. I was inspired by the depiction of the early caste...
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