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  1. Boer war (shorten or cheapen)

    BTW It was not a White Mans War. https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/role-black-people-south-african-war There were also a big Indian supporting component. The war as probably won by the 80000 Africans put in concentration camps by the British and used as labour to build blockhouses and...

  2. Boer war (shorten or cheapen)

    Sack Milner and Chamberlain. They actively seeked war. The Boer republics were well on the way to becoming Anglophone clients of the Empire(Smuts ,Botha and most Afrikaners up to the forties- Smuts got the biggest victory in SA history in the 1943 election. Without an external threat Kruger...

  3. What revolutionary technologies did OTL miss?

    Vine rubber from Africa (Sudan closest) could have been available since pharaonic times

  4. Sixes and Snake eyes Rommel's luck in an alternate 1942 desert war

    I meant maybe kilojoules?

  5. Sixes and Snake eyes Rommel's luck in an alternate 1942 desert war

    Ok

  6. Second Boer war delayed until world war 1

  7. Medieval rubber

    African vine latex rubber was a major source before plantations as ten million dead Congolese can attest. It was actually discovered in Ethiopia in late 1800s so was potentially available from early Egyptian history Sudan was a major producer

  8. Simple discoveries that would radically change ancient times or middle ages?

    What about discovery and use of african vine rubber widely available in Kush

  9. British don't use concentration camps to end the Boer War

    Few points 1. Boers were hardly all blonde- widely accepted as having lot of mixed blood- I am very proud of my African and Asian slave ancestors 2. When English in SA before the WWII talked about "The Racial Question" it was about Afrikaners- Blacks, Coloureds and Indians dis not even count 3...

  10. WI: Bikes invented 100 years earlier

    Military Bicycles Boer War First extensive use (by horsemen)- severely downplayed http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol041dm.html Animal footpaths in pastural/wild landscapes are millions of miles of superb cycle paths, compacted over centuries or millennia Lettow-Vorbeck used tireless bicycles...

  11. WI: Romans invent the printing press in 80 BC

    Look at Vindolanda tablets. A cheap printing medium existed
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