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So, your alternate history challenge is to create a plausible ATL in which the concept of 'Europe' is effectively destroyed, and resigned to the dustbin of ancient history; one in which the European peninsula is universally acknowledged as being merely part of the larger continent of Eurasia...

For this alternate history challenge, you're tasked with coming up with a plausible TL in which the maritime powers of South-East Asia go forth to exert their colonial dominion over the rest of the world, to much the same extent as the maritime powers of Europe did IOTL. Any ideas?

First, some background about the build-up to the Makonde Rebellion, and the rebellion itself, since it's relatively obscure and many people won't have heard of it. The largest and most destabilising armed confrontations in Portuguese East Africa during WW1 were not between Europeans working...

Inspired to create this thread after reading about Vy Vato Sakelika, the nationalist secret society formed in Madagascar in 1913 by Hova Merina elites to inspire rebellion against French colonial rule on the island. So, WI the VVS or its successors had succeeded in liberating Madagascar from...

As stated- what would happen if Boeing's X-32 had won the Joint Strike Fighter competition over the Lockheed Martin X-35, and had made it into production as the F-32 (or F-24)? How much less expensive would it have been? Would there have been any of these aircraft already in service by the...

Milestone Comics was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers (namely Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle) who believed that minorities were severely underrepresented in American comics, and wished to attempt to correct this imbalance...

AHC: Make Monogamy Illegal So, for this Alternate History Challenge, I want you to try and create a scenario in which, by the present-day, the world's attitudes towards monogamy ITTL are comparable to OTL's attitudes towards polygamy, and vice-versa, with the practice of marriage exclusively...

First, a bit of background knowledge- IOTL, Maritime Southeast Asia appears to have been the only part of the Old World which was completely unaffected by the main Black Death epidemics. Unlike in Sub-Saharan Africa, where we now have a great deal of evidence that the Black Death swept across...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with an ATL in which the views of popular society, with regards to clothing and the lack thereof respectively, are reversed; an ATL in which, for the vast majority of the world's population, being fully clothed is more stigmatized...

The first and only Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters, IOTL, the production team decided early on not to connect the film to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and to set it in a stand-alone universe instead. But what if they hadn't- what if the decision had been made for them...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create an ATL scenario in which the London Underground is still the largest rapid transit system in the world to the present day, in at least one of these aspects: a) Total system length, b) Total number of stations, and c) Annual ridership...

At it says in the title- what could have led to Nazi Germany's leadership fragmenting along factional lines, vying against one another to determine Germany's future, and sending Nazi Germany into outright civil war (prior to the outbreak of WW2)? And what would the results be- for the Nazi Party...

First, a bit of background info- in 1944, a small number of copper coins with Arabic inscriptions were discovered on a beach in Jensen Bay on Marchinbar Island, part of the Wessel Islands of the Northern Territory of Australia. These coins were later identified as from the Kilwa Sultanate...

I know this has been done a few times already, but I'm proposing a new twist. IOTL, Spain procrastinated until late 1802 in executing the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso to transfer Louisiana to France- and initially, one of the key components in Napoleon's planned treaty was the additional...

As it says in the title: how profound would the changes have been if gunpowder warfare had been introduced to the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa far earlier than it was IOTL- at roughly the same time that it was introduced to Europe (in the early to mid-13th century)? The POD I've got in mind...

The Man from U.N.C.L.E series (and forthcoming film adaptation, scheduled for release in August) centers on a two-man troubleshooting team working for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement): American Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), and Georgian (Georgia-USSR) Illya Kuryakin...

In the DC Universe, the Suicide Squad is an anti-hero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences. The group operates out of Belle Reve Penitentiary, under the...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have a TL where the domain of the Ainu people, Ainu Moshir (encompassing Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) is established as a single self-governing nation, and retains (or regains) its unified independence to the present day. What...

Your challenge is to come up with an AH scenario in which all of the 'Celtic Nations' (Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, Cornwall and the Isle of Man) are united under a single pan-Celtic government by the present day. This Celtic Nation must also exclude England (or the majority thereof); and...

First, some background information: the Brhaspati Sutra (ca. 600BC) which was the primary text of the Cārvāka school of heterodox Hinduism- now lost, but recompiled to an extent from secondary sources. This school of thought was originally known as Lokāyata, and there's been considerable...