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  1. MittleGittle

    The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    Rome seems to migrate in some maps
  2. ByzantineCaesar

    WI: No Arab and Transatlantic Slave Trades

    The colonization of the Americas is significantly retarded, as is therefore the evolution of capitalism and the industrial revolution. Without the slave trade, you have a very restricted productivity of cash crops and plantations that rely on indentured servitude and indigenous enslavement, both...
  3. How long could Nazi Germany delay its defeat?

    Post WW2, the Western Allies were more than happy enough to work with some leading Nazi figures, such as rocket scientists, and to let others such as Albert Speer rehabilitate themselves. (Although Speer did have to serve some time in prison first.) If some of the Nazis depose Hitler and...
  4. WI Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons against coalition forces during the Gulf War?

    Nato policy was A Gas is A Germ is a Nuclear Bomb and the response is as if a Nuke was used. If a Chemical weapon is used then somewhere in Iraq is going to glow in the dark.
  5. What if the Mark 71 8"/55 gun wasn't cancelled?

    From what I understand the push to reactivate the Iowa's had little to do with the ships naval gunfire support capability. It was apparently overwhelmingly about the missiles (primarily the Tomahawks but the Harpoons were also nice). At the time they hadn't created VLS capable Tomahawks or...
  6. BELFAST

    What if NAZI Germany didn’t build battleships?

    Germans were nowhere close to victory in 1941 or 1942 in the Soviet Union. In 1941 the Germans came close to collapse and lost most of their aircraft on the eastern front and came close to collapse and left the troops too far froward to supply with winter clothing or enough fuel etc. 1942 was...
  7. Nicholas II refuses to publish the October Manifesto, the 1905 Revolution gets worse.

    Due to the defeat in the Russo-Japanese war and the general living situation of those within the Russian Empire, the 1905 Revolution was started and headed by Viktor Chernov and Leon Trotsky in order to demand political reform from the Russian state. The October Manifesto was published by the...
  8. WI: No Arab and Transatlantic Slave Trades

    If African rulers find something else to trade with, wouldn't they be using plenty of slavery themselves? Sugar production, gold, etc. is labor intensive no matter where it is and in Africa will use slaves. Meaning a state that's getting rich off selling this to Europeans is no doubt buying...
  9. AHC: Make Canada more heavily populated

    Is there anyway that the Irish are granted cheap land in Canada to mitigate the deaths from the potato famine?
  10. How far could industrialisation go without large population surpluses?

    Yes, I was basing the idea on historical principles, I just think it will be significantly more amplified. Russia however, had significantly more in the way of land and so its population could continue to grow much more effectively on a low-productivity agricultural base. European writers in...
  11. WI Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons against coalition forces during the Gulf War?

    Yeah.. I like to think the US / Coalition response would also have been somewhat based on how many causalities the chemical attack caused. I'm not totally convinced chemical weapons use by Iraq automatically equaled US / Coalition usage of nuclear weapons, but I wouldn't rule it out either...
  12. Man-Made Hell: The History of the Great War and Beyond

    Nah, don't delude me. We all know how rearing Sao Paulo is for more wars to expand the sphere it surveys. I am really in a quandary right now whether not taking Ireland first is a blunder on their part; on one hand, it would have provided a really good base to conduct a simultaneous amphibious...
  13. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    i think the matter of death would impact the story Christianity was based on premise that should have failed in the jewish and greco roman world something as minor as chaining Jesus death could mean that Christianity dies off early on or never catches even early converts
  14. wcv215

    at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    Turns out it was New Hampshure, not New Jersey. I had forgotten which of the two it was. And I don’t know their specific objections right off hand. But, at the Constitutional Convention New York pointed out that imposing a direct tax on the states was never going to happen (which it didn’t) so...
  15. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    Bluntly, it doesn't particularly matter. The gospel writers will just quote different pieces of scripture or downplay the ones that say those things. Jesus was supposed to be a descendant of David, too, and, sure, they provided a genealogy...two genealogies, one in Luke and one in Matthew, that...
  16. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    that and most historians agree that the earliest mention of him is an ecclesiastical creed dated to at max 41 Ad with most historians putting it at 5 years after his death so extremely early material that says he died and claims he appeared to his followers which is one of the thigns that...
  17. traveller76

    The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

    Will we see some sort of economic cooperation between the three powers on civilian goods?
  18. Andrew Boyd: Duke of Dank

    Top Locomotives Never Built

    The reach Richmond and DC via the Bridge-Tunnel built in my TL's 1911 by the Newport News Rail Company, which shuttles FEC freight across the bay with third-rail electric engines to Newport News. Later, the company helps expand it for Amtrak HSR too.
  19. SlyDessertFox

    WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    There is virtually no disagreement among historians dealing in this topic that a dude named Yeshua preaching in 1st century Judea existed and was probably executed by the Romans around the time Pilate was there. 1st century Judea was absolutely full to the brim with apocalyptic preachers, that...
  20. Top Locomotives Never Built

    Sweet, and then they trade off to the PRR/NW and off to Washington and New York?
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