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See title. The Maccabean Revolt and the surrounding cultural clash between Judaism and Hellenization pretty much changed the face of Judaism forever (and by extension, those faiths that derived from Judaism). So, what do you think would have happened had the revolt not taken place? Had the...

This thread serves two purposes. The first is for those of us who come up with interesting AH scenarios, but do not have the time or energy (or knowledge about a particular area of history) to make a new TL or story about them. This thread gives us a chance to post these concepts for others to...

I am offering an improbably challenge. The idea is to give out an extremely unlikely (but not impossible) scenario, and then try to find the most realistic way to get it to work. So, here goes. The challenge is to make Islam the dominant religion in Scandinavia by 1300, without causing a...

... and I love it! It's a lot of fun, and I'm playing as Germany in the 1936 campaign, as per Zyzzyva's suggestion. However, I have a few questions: 1: How do I speed up production times for units? 2: How do you increase the odds of countries joining your alliance? I'm on good terms...

Alrighty. This is a pretty simple challenge. Make South America into a major theatre of war for WWII. By major, I mean that I want multiple countries on each side (not just Argentina vs everyone, or anything like that), the war must start between 1939 and 1942, and the fighting must keep...

I know that I might get banned for even mentioning this, but I thought it would be a good question. We all know of Mohandas Gandhi, a man often considered the most evil man of the 20th Century. What I'd like to ask is, what if he adopted pacifism instead? Would he have become a hero, or would...

I just saw online that Hearts of Iron II is available for Mac OSX. I really like strategy games, but I'd like to know if it would be worth the money. It's only for 20 dollars, so if I don't like it, it won't be too much of a loss. What I need to know: is it a very slow-paced game? I...

Just a thought that I had. What if the thirteen colonies that became the United States decided not to become one country? What if each colony became a sovereign state on its own? Just some food for thought, there. Virginia, because of its size and population, would probably be the most...

Alright, so the first known major outbreak of the bubonic plague was during the reign of Justinian during the sixth century. What would the consequences on modern history be had the plague simply not happened (the bacteria never mutated into the correct form, or it killed off all of its hosts...

One thought that I've been going over lately is about what the British Isles (not to mention the British Empire, if it would even exist) would have been like had Elizabeth I not done that whole virgin queen shtick and chosen to get hitched. Who would be likely candidates? Would she marry an...

I was coming up with unrealistic AH ideas the other day, and came up with a fun scenario to radically change 20th Century history: a stable military alliance between the empire where the sun never sets and the land of the rising sun. In other words, Britain and Japan. The rules for this...

I found this story on the web, illustrated with Medieval II: Total War. While certainly what they would call 'wank', it is nonetheless highly entertaining. Note that I didn't make this, this was archived from the somethingawful forums. http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Scotsman/

I was bored today, and decided to make an alternate history-themed game of Civilization, complete with screenshots to post online. It didn't work out too well, because my computer was being stupid and took forever to load the map size I was using. I may try this again sometime, but for now, I...

I, as a student, am about to read Ayn Rand's ''Anthem'' for one of my classes. Rand has a bad reputation from most of my other online hangouts, so this has given me a preconceived notion of what this book is going to be like. I thought I'd write out my thoughts on the book as I read it here...

We all know about Mexico's alliance with Germany during the Great War, and its catastrophic defeat by the United States shortly afterward. What if Mexico had chosen to remain outside of the war? Without the damages and reparations that it was forced to pay afterward, I predict that Mexico's...

I've seen a couple AHs that have Cuba annexed into the United States. This raises an interesting question: could Castro have become the president in a timeline like this? Keep in mind that I know very little about his family history, when his family emigrated to Cuba, etc. Is this possible...