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  1. No Islam - What about Slavery?

    Big Question regarding a long period affected by a swarm of butterflies. But it's something I've pondered about before. The first type of slavery in the Islamic world that comes to popular imagination would be that of harems/concubines full of women from many places. Whether something like this...

  2. Surviving Sadducees

    Or rather is there any sort of way without altering history too drastically to get some sort of Hellenistic Judaism to survive the first century AD? It’s generally seem that modern Rabbinic Judaism evolved out of the Pharisees traditions, so I was wondering if another branch coming from the...

  3. Etruscan Roman linguistics

    Or alternatively, an empire based in Veii or another city. In a scenario where a militant Republican city in central Italy expands across first the peninsula, and then the whole Mediterranean, how would this affect the languages of the conquered regions? IOTL, when Rome conquered Italy it took...

  4. Greco Roman Syncratism with Germans and Slavs

    Say that Jesus is never born, or that Christianity remains a relatively small subset of Judaism(Say Paul doesn't show up). Regardless, the Mediterranean world remains pagan (I kinda doubt any other monotheist cult filled the roles that Christianity did but that's beside the point), with pockets...

  5. Culture and Technology without WW2

    So. As I stated in a previous post, this will assume that Hitler never comes to power and no major war in Europe occurs, not counting regional conflicts. As for the Pacific/Asia? I'm not entirely sure tbh. So onto the topic. It seems that some technologies that progressed during the war would...

  6. Japan without the Nazis

    Scenario: a world where Hitler died in the trenches, the Nazi party never took off, and Germany never started a major war. I'm also going to assume that Stalin stays put and that while there are regional wars and military buildups, no massive conflict occurs. Meanwhile, by the late 30s, China...

  7. AHC: Reverse the fates of the Turkic and Mongolic languages

    Today most Mongolic languages are found in and around Mongolia proper, with the one major exception being Kalmyk with a few others. In total, they have roughly 7 million speakers. The Turkic languages are spread out as far west as Thrace, as far west as central China, and even stretching north...

  8. Non Nazi Germany and Nuclear Science

    In the event that Hitler was killed during WW1 and the Nazi party never rose to power in Germany, most likely seeing a "traditional" fascist regime take charge, would Germany be more willing to invest research and funds into Nuclear energy and weapons? Many of the scientists that developed the A...

  9. When did English become a (fairly) relveant language?

    Hey all, I know this isn't really AH but its a topic I've been thinking about a lot lately. Here I mean when did English become a language worth learning for one born outside England or her colonies? Not necessarily the ultimate global lingua franca it is today, but certainly, a tonuge to...

  10. AHC Domestication of Animals, but no crops

    Is there any way for humans to become pastoral nomads without the invention of agriculture? Herding sheep and goats occurred around the same time as the first cereal domestications IIRC, so is it possible for this to occur and continue without any settled permanent farmers? Similarly, will...

  11. AHQ Without a 4th Crusade what happens to Bulgaria?

    Like it says, if the 4th crusade or at least the 1204 sack of Constantinople and the subsequent partitioning of the East Roman Empire never occurred, what would happen with Bulgaria and the Balkans as a whole? Bulgaria had recently broken away from Byzantine control, declaring its second empire...

  12. WRE survives: What happens in Germania?

    Say that the West Roman Empire managed to survive the perils of the 5th century, and at least lasts several more centuries. Rome also IDEALLY manages to keep her borders on the Danube and Rhine in Europe, or at least keeps a similar shape. So it can’t just be the Byzantine heartland with half of...

  13. No Sassanids/Zoroastrian revival

    As it says on the lid, this AHQ is a two-parter. The first question if what if the house of Sassan was never founded, or was struck down during their initial rise to take over the lands of the Parthians. Who would replace them? Some other noble dynasty out of Persia seems most likely, but are...

  14. Non-Western Writings on Western History

    There are many books and articles from Western/European historians on the histories of other countries and their own history and mythologies. Thus finding a western lens on the Islamic World, Africa, India, and East Asia is easy to find. However, I was wondering if the reverse was also true? Are...

  15. Dystopian Pre Industrial Societies/States

    As it says on the tin. Dystopias tend to be an almost exclusively post-industrial topic when brought up in history, politics, and fiction. Share some examples of what you think are the most dystopic premodern states, societies, and regimes. If you'd care to, provide some examples of possible...

  16. Earliest Possible Ottoman Collapse

    The House of Osman managed to survive and thrive for a remarkably long time. Lasting from 1299 to 1923, and ruling from Algeria to Iraq, and Hungary to Yemen at its peak. Of course like all empires they eventually went into stagnation and then decline in the 18th and 19th centuries. However...

  17. Earlier Chinese Gunpowder

    Around here Roman or Greek gunpowder threads are an irregular but popular subject. But what if the nation that invented black powder had managed to do so several centuries earlier? Specifically, I was thinking during the 3rd or 4th centuries after the collapse of the Han, the warring kingdoms...

  18. No Dutch Portuguese War

    How would Portugal and her colonies develop without this conflict? For a POD I can think of two immediately that work. 1. No Iberian Union, either Sebastian does not perish in a war with Morocco, or someone other than Phillip manages to inherit the kingdom. 2. The Netherlands is not inherited...

  19. When did Western Europe become truly dominant?

    For much of modern history, the world was/is dominated by the nations of western Europe. The civilization built on western Christianity, and a fusion of old Latin and Germanic cultures among others grew to dominate the world economically, politically, culturally, technologically, and militarily...

  20. Alternate Netherlands after Charles V

    I know this is a pretty popular thread about having the Netherlands being inherited by someone other than Phillip II. However, as is often pointed out one of the more likely candidates for this is Charles's daughter Maria of Austria and by extension her husband Maximillian II, the son of...
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