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  1. Was gender equality a historical fluke?

    Was gender equality a historical fluke? You'd think there'd be a lot of times in history at which people sat down and thought to themselves "hey, maybe women are more or less capable of doing the exact same things as men", even if the whole risky and time-consuming but essential reproducing...

  2. How bad would ecological damage be with no industrial revolution?

    The Netherlands was pretty agriculturally productive and densely populated, but despite being one of the birthplaces of capitalism it failed to be a birthplace of industrialisation. China is called an example of something called a "high level equilibrium trap" in which things are going alright...

  3. Getting AIDs from a cat?

    A lot of good timelines on this site have alternate epidemics/diseases and they do shape history by killing millions of people, so even though it's more of a biological question it seems fair to post on a what-if site primarily focused on history: Could cats have given people AIDs? Why didn't...

  4. Stagnant/failed/half-baked industrial revolution

    A few months ago I made a thread on India industrialising in the Gupta Era (a lot of key inventions would have been missing at the time, so yes it would require a lot of handwaving and an early POD to achieve). Somebody replied to this thread saying that it would be hard to do in part because...

  5. How long could 1984 have lasted before collapsing?

    If you believe Goldstein's book, the world of 1984 is three big superstates going at it in a state of constant warfare. The war is fought by a surprisingly small and professional army though, with most of the superstates' populations living far away from the conflict (unless you count the odd...

  6. Carlos II's wife cheats on him and has a kid

    Studies have shown that it is reasonably common for a woman to have a kid with somebody other than the supposed father and have nobody notice. Millions of people who are walking around, sleeping or at work as you are reading this don't even suspect the real nature of their paternity, and it's...

  7. AHC: Al-Capone leads troops for the US Federal Government during a Second US Civil War

    So I was reading about Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović on Wikipedia recently, and it seems to me from him along with a few other people whose names elude me right now that, when the rubber hit the road and the situation in Yugoslavia degenerated into civil war, a fair few former criminals ended up...

  8. How racist would a victorious central powers Germany be?

    People like to say the German Empire was better than Nazi Germany, and while that's definitely true the German Empire was not a shining example of humanitarian good will and racial tolerance. Before the Russo-Japanese War, Willy II egged on the Tsar of Russia by making speeches and sending him...

  9. AHC: Beria in charge of the USSR

    I was reading the Wikipedia page on Lavrentiy Beria (I'm not going to pretend to be knowledgeable on the USSR here because it's not warranted) and found it hilarious that he was such a terrible person. Apparently he was a serial rapist, and if his victims resisted they would be buried in his...

  10. Crops suited for Tierra del Fuego

    I've been looking at Tierra del Fuego on Google's street view for the past fifteen minutes out of boredom. It's quite a beautiful place. It's also decently-sized as well - with a land area of nearly 48 thousand square kilometres, it's about the size of two New Jerseys or New Hampshires combined...

  11. WI: Islam allows usury

    I was listening to an English-language reading of the Quran out of curiosity and it very plainly tells you that usury isn't allowed. As far as I'm aware, the Islamic Caliphates phased out interest in the territories they conquered, and the Islamic world only really began allowing interest again...

  12. AHC: Guarani Emirate

    Just popped into my head, go nuts. Make a Guarani Emirate (or some other form of Islamic Guarani government) exist at any point in history.

  13. AHC: Non-Chalcedonian Early Medeival Britain

    Exactly what it says on the tin. Have the British Isles, or at least Great Britain, end up converting to a Non-Chalcedonian form of Christianity during the early medieval period instead of converting to mainstream Chalcedonian Christianity. Any form of Non-Chalcedonian Christianity is okay, from...

  14. AHC: Nuclear weapons not taboo in warfare

    What it says on the tin. Make nukes not a taboo thing to use in modern warfare; it doesn't matter how much they're being used (if at all), just remove the taboo against using them. Is this hard to do because of how destructive nuclear weapons are, or is the taboo against using nuclear weapons...

  15. Industrialised Gupta Empire?

    This is probably ASB, but let's pretend it's not ASB for a second and just highly unlikely. Is there a way to get classical-era India, preferably under the Gupta Empire at its height, to industrialise? I'm not very knowledgeable on the subject of classical-era India, but seeing as most early...
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