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Inspired by this entry in the AH Title Game. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with a scenario where Russia & China enter a duel monarchy (like Austria-Hungary) with each other. POD has to be sometime... during or after the time of Ivan the Terrible.

Occasionally people of colour managed to make it to the top levels of 18th century European societies: Abram Gannibal in Russia, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas in France, James Forten in the USA, etc. So could it be possible to get a citation where a black man becomes one of USA's Founding Fathers...

If Normans never conquer the British Islands would the islands develop an isolationist policy similar to Japanese Sakoku? Under what other conditions could "British Sakoku" arise?

So, what would be the effects on the Islamic world if their 2 holiest cities were under control of 2 different nations? Now no single nation could claim the title of "protector & caretaker of Mecca & Medina". Also, what 2 nations are most likely to divide the 2 cities between themselves?

With a POD after the Iranian Revolution, have Saddam's Iraq & Iran either ally or cooperate with each other. Bonus points if the alliance takes place after the Iran-Iraq War.

So occasionally I see threads pop up on the site asking "WI: 9/11 was carried out by communist radicals?". I always found these threads silly because they never really answear "which group would carry it out?" and "why would they do it?". But recently I learned about the Japanese Red Army...

What if the Pope, after hearing some exaggerated tales from some Spanish about the wanton cruelties of the Mesoamerican pagans, authorized a crusade against the Amerindians? Could we see the various conquistadors set up Crusader states like the Teutons did back in the day?

So here is an interesting question I haven't seen discussed here before: what if Russian empress Catherine the Great never abolishes the Zaporozhian Hetmonate and its control over the Sich territory? What if the territory remains a mostly-autonomous part of the Russian Empire like the Grand...

The 19th century anarchist philosopher Bakunin wanted to see Siberia seperate from Russian Empire, ally with/become part of USA and than "spread democracy" from the East to West. So here is a challenge based on this: with a POD after 1800 AD, have USA and Russia enter a union by the year 2014...

Yes, I know there are more than 3 Abrahamic religions out there but I think you know what I mean: instead of having Church of England as just another branch of Christianity have it become, as viewed by its own members and ousiders, a seperate Abrahamic religion like Chrisianity, Islam and...

As the title says. Have Russia's Fort Ross survive, a bastion of Slavdom in a sea of Anglo-America, and become an independent city-state like Monaco or Andorra.

Basically, do you think there is any way to prevent the formation and rise of collective farms in USSR and other communist nations? If so, what impacts do you think it will have on these nations?

Inspired by the recent Hong Kong protests against mainland China. Your challenge is, with a post 1900 POD, to have Britain return Hong Kong to China in 1997 but then years later move in and re-annex it back from the Chinese (similar to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine).

Inspired by the recent Ukraine thread. In 1991 Boris Yeltsin sent a letter to NATO officials "[raising] a question of Russia's membership in NATO": http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/21/world/soviet-disarray-yeltsin-says-russia-seeks-to-join-nato.html So what if NATO decides to let Russia...

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/linked-historically-vodka-autocracy/505940.html So what if the Bolsheviks or Stalin go all-out and enforce prohibition? Or at the very least ban hard liquor like vodka? I think the Bolsheviks are ruthless enough to potentially rid Eastern...

So as I'm sure many of you know, it is theorized that at one point the Jews were polytheistic or at least henotheistic. The Hebrew Bible is apparently littered with references to "other gods": http://jewishatheist.blogspot.ca/2008/05/repost-ancient-judaism-was-polytheistic.html?m=1 Now...

I've read a few times that Russian Empire had plans to grant Poland independence post-WW1. Lets say Russia avoids the revolution & stands victorious alongside UK, France, etc. at Versailles. The tzar grants Poland independence -- who would be in charge of the new nation? Would it be a...

I was inspired by this thread to come up with something marginally more challenging: Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a European country where the majority ethnic group is originally from the Indian Subcontinent. Note: Indo-European and Indo-Aryan migrations into...

So as we all know, the small Caucasus region is home to a very large number of ethnic groups & peoples with deep-seeded grudges and conflicts with one another. Your challenge is, starting with a post-1900 pod, have the region become the posterchild for interethnic cooperation and...

For better or for worse, the Twilight books & movies brought vampires back to the forefront of popular consciousness and made them the buzz of tenage girls. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to have dragons reach the same popularity in pop culture (not necessary among teenage...