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  1. Was the Arab Expansion Inevitable, and Can It Happen Without A United Faith?

    Factor : - use of Camel as Desert logistics train. - proto Arab Agricultural Revolution which create - large population of Arabs - climatic factors that damage agricultural empires and push Arabs to expand - spread of Monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that replacing old...
  2. Basileus444

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    It also has to be added that there are several different versions of Urban's Clermont speech, none of which are written by eyewitnesses, and if I remember correctly were written months or even years later, possibly after the success of the First Crusade, which would naturally color the...
  3. Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    By 1919 Ho Chi Minh was already a Communist. When working with the Americans in WWII he underplayed his Marxist ideology. "You see I'm just a nationalist like George Washington, struggling for the independence of my people." At no time was he planning to be anything else then a Communist...
  4. Lascaris

    Fact Check Article: Prototype Nazi Nuclear Bombers Were Within a Few Months of Hitting New York

    My courses in nuclear reactor basics are nearly a quarter century old, but by the description of their "reactor" had that thing actually managed to go critical it was going straight for a meltdown. Throw chunks of cadmium in a bathtub of heavy water? Seriously now?
  5. Ivan's revenge : Soviets try to settle score with EGYpt

    Well, they could always start supporting Israel 🤣🤣
  6. Ivan's revenge : Soviets try to settle score with EGYpt

    WHat are the possible ways in which USSR can hurt the egyptian regime after it backstabbed the soviets , took their money and abused their expertise and switched sides in the cold war ?
  7. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    Not using all senior Nazi party members as live targets for tests of said tech and weapons.
  8. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    but even by barbarosa only like 200 are made if Pz I was fitted with even the 3.7 cm PAK AT gun , not as a tankgun but just mounted on the chassis as a tank destroyer it would have been a fairly decent vehicle by 1940 standards
  9. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    The Victor has a 66" turret ring. That's better than the 64" ring of the OTL Comet, but still shy of the 69" ring of the Sherman. Yes the Victor will be enough to win WW2, but it lacks the ability to be up-gunned in the future, should such be needed. You might not need a Centurion grade tank in...
  10. Fact Check Article: Prototype Nazi Nuclear Bombers Were Within a Few Months of Hitting New York

    Again this lie comes up. Hitler had no compunctions on using chemical agents in the death camps where the prisoners couldn't retaliate. He didn't give permission to use chemical agents because he was afraid of the consequences since the Western Allies would surely counter with their own chemical...
  11. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Im sure this has all been said before, but I'll give my thoughts. There are very few areas in the US where I think HSR could work. The Texas triangle happens to be one of them. The problem with a broader national system though is that by the time you drive into Indianapolis for example, park...
  12. SunKing105

    AHC: Rome without slavery

    If we reinterpret it as the city itself, or even just the sacred boundary of the city, and use a grammatical loophole to say that Rome specifically doesn't have to be a major power even if other nations have to be, then maybe it's possible if it never expands beyond Latium and becomes too poor...
  13. BELFAST

    AHC: Rome without slavery

    As far as I know, POWs were the main source of Slaves in the Roman empire. They could use convict labour. You could sell your sell into slavery to pay debts. If the Romans did not have slaves they would be one of the few countries without slavery at the time.
  14. Major Crimson

    Fear Nothing But God: A Graphical History

    Hey everyone thanks for the suggestions! I've started work on a big-ish update that should answer some questions re: TV/Movies/Food and should be a nice insight into life in the TL! :D Look out for that sometime in the next week or two as looking to be rather long so I have no clue how long...
  15. THeaven

    Bob Haney's Marvel Universe, A Comics Counterfactual

    Since Bob Haney is involved with Hulk and Submariner What would the Defenders look like? I could see him bring some of the Doom patrol members in the group (Robotman is a legacy character so can't be used)
  16. Napoleon, instead of invading Egypt to get to India, disembarks his troops onto Egypt and pays for some ships to get to India

    Scenario had been discussed in “Hajji Baba from Isfahan”. Shah’s reaction was “where my own troops are passing the grass is not growing for the next few years and you ask me to let the foreigners in ...”. So no cigars but a proposal has solid historic background. 😜
  17. Fernan3451

    WI: Second Russian Civil War

    But that is after the USSR's collapse. OP is referring to the period during the USSR's collapse.
  18. Was the Arab Expansion Inevitable, and Can It Happen Without A United Faith?

    I don't think anything in history is really inevitable. The course of history is incredibly path dependent, and even situations that favour particular results don't mandate them happening. I think we have a tendency to assume things are inevitable because the brain is a sense-making machine, and...
  19. What Do Most Professional Historians Think Of Alternate History?

    I really don't care what historiographers & historians think. I do get a sense they look down on AH, while at the same time wanting the right to do their own (calling it "counterfactual"), while not having to meet the AH community standards for credibility. I've seen "counterfactual" story...
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