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  1. French Demographic Collapse: Why did it occur and how do we avoid it?

    Its fairly well known that had France grown in population similarly to the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century; they would very well have 100 to 150 million people inside the 1789 borders. Many blame the revolutionary war; Napoleon abandoning salic law; the lack of industrialization...

  2. The March of Albion: A British Empire TL

    I’ve been working on this timeline since late 2008 and I’ve finally finished Book One. I’ll be posting one update a week while I continue to write Book Two. Book One covers the world from 1743-1774. The Point of divergence is during the Battle of Dettingen, in which the French are victorious...

  3. Alternate Architecture from TLs

    Does anybody have any conceptions of alternate buildings and architecture from any established TLs? I know that in LTTW, the Houses of Parliament of Westminster was rebuilt after the French Invasion of 1807. It was rebuilt in the neo-classical style instead of the neo-gothic form that was...

  4. The March of Albion: A TL (Part 1)

    Okay, so I've been working on this TL for quite some time and I have decided to split it up into managable projects becuase I cannot write indefinitely in the same detail Thande does. So this part of the TL will cover the POD (1743) to the year 1785. Then Part two will be forthcoming, hopefully...

  5. How did the stans get formed?

    I've been working on a Tl and i got to wondering how the borders of the current stans were formed. I know it was during early soviet times but was it based solely on ethics groupings at the time or was it more or less arbitrary than that? Also, what separates an ASSR from of Soviet Republic...

  6. 1620: Nurchai dies... Who replaces the Ming Dynasty?

    WI the first Manchu Emperor dies while he is still a child? The Mancus wouldn't be as united or might not even become a lasting dynasty. If the Manchus don't invade when they do, would the Ming survive or would it be replaced, if so by who? Also, in twenty years when the Russians go west...

  7. Plausibility Check: British Philippenes?

    In 1763, the British captured Manila as apart of thier advances in the Seven Years War. Now, is there any way that Spain would be forced to give up the Philippenes to the British? If there was one place the British lacked bases in the eighteenth century, it was the Pacific. They would...

  8. WI Napoleon founds Israel?

    Like in the title, what if Napoleon wins the seige of Acre and declares a Jewish state in Palestine during his invasion of the Ottoman Empire? Will it get destroyed by the British or do you think if Napoleon wins at Acre, he has enough momentum to permanently cripple the Ottomans? How does...

  9. French Revolution=British System of government?

    As per the thread, how could an alt-french revolution happen so that ultimately a British style parliamentary system is set up which retains the king but eliminates much of his powers? What kind of POD would need to happen? What would be the consequences?

  10. Washington kidnaps William IV????

    I was browsing the Armenian Genocide and came across this little tidbit: What would've happened had Washington captured the prince? Could he have been used as a bargaining chip to have the British leave New York or something? How does this affect the greater Revolutionary War?

  11. Is Meiji inevitable?

    Ok, so I've been wikipediaing it up and I found this. I think its interesting that probably opening up japan up to foriegn contact earlier would've been worse for the nation. According to this it seems thier success in the Meiji reforms was to continue isolation but beginning in 1720 copy and...

  12. Speeding up the industrial revolution?

    As per the above question, what circumstances; politically, socially or culturally that could speed up the first and also the second industrial revolutions? What inventions need to come into existence in order for it to speed up tech advances for like 50 years or so?

  13. The Empire State: A TL

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 8th 1791 Alexander Hamilton walked through the dark streets of Philadelphia, with street lamps illuminating his path. That morning, he had spoken with a lovely young woman named Maria Reynolds. She told him that her husband had abandoned her and her daughter...

  14. WI No Hundred Days?

    Let's say Napoleon was unable to escape from Elbe and begin his hundred days return to power. What would an 1814 defeat for nappy look like? Would Tallyrand be able to negotiate a much stronger france into the 1820's and 1830's?

  15. A port in Far northern Canada?

    I've been wondering if the southernmost part of the hudson bay could support a port of fairly large magnitude. The town/village I see on there is fort albany which I'm guessing isn't that populous and it's probably becuase the St. Lawrence handles any and all traffic going through canada. So...

  16. TLC2: An Orange World

    (The POD for this timeline is that Luther becomes a mediocre lawyer instead of a becoming a monk and leading the Protestant Reformation. Anyways, here goes.) An Orange World: A TL The Renaissance in Europe officially ended in 1492, with the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus...

  17. The Colossus : A Timeline

    Taken from “The History of South Africa” Edited by Lord Timothy Breech Cape Town Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa; Copyright 2018 Used with permission… …much has been said about Cecil Rhodes. To many he is the founder of South Africa and De Beers, serving as the first prime minister of...

  18. World War Z

    I know this is an ASB, but it is also a book. Just got it and read the whole thing. I've seen every zombie flick so i thought, on biggie another zombie story. I was wrong. The personal nature of it, it's you are talking to the people. Thier scenario is chillingly real, it feels like you are...

  19. No ARW... but not a Brit-Wank!

    OK, so there have been quite a few theads lately talking about the consequences of a failed ARW. But most of them devolve into a "British Rule The Entire World and All Is Better" nOObish TL. But I think that since the ARW and it's effects on history are so important, it should be presented in a...

  20. Tibet: a stonger Mongolia?

    Before Tibet renounced violence and became a pacifist Buddhist state, they were just as formidable as mongols. They were bent on raiding and destoying china, india, and the Arab world. If a POD were to elimate Buddhism from taking root in Tibet, could we see a Tibetan Empire stretching from...
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