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  1. AHC: Better 14th Century for Byzantines

    Not long after the period of restoration under Michael VIII, the Eastern Roman Empire of OTL underwent a final period of decline; when the father of the last would-be emperor took power in 1391, it was very much a shell of its former self, unable to do much on its own to to slow the expansion of...

  2. AHC and WI: Angevin Empire Survives (2024 ed)

    Since it’s been nearly six years since we last had a general discussion on this, I figured it was worth revisiting. First thing we’d need is an effective PoD, which can be as early as the Third Crusade (since I brought up that possibility in a different thread), though I expect most of our ideas...

  3. WI Apartheid Isolated and/or Falls in 1970’s

    What if, starting in 1973, the leading western nations -- the US in particular -- took a hardline stance against the white dominated regimes in the southern third of Africa (so against Apartheid South Africa, but also Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies)? As far as I can tell, this board hasn’t...

  4. WI Mao Dies 1963 (2023 ed)

    I’d make another point of comparison between this scenario and having Mao die circa 1956 - - that being the later comes before the “Hundred Flowers” and subsequent “Anti-Rightist Campaign”. Now, said repressions were walked back following Mao’s death OTL during the Boulan Fenzheng period, with...

  5. AHC: Deny Ukraine's Bread Basket to Russia

    What if the fertile fields of Ukraine were never absorbed into the Russia Empire? First of all, what is the latest PoD by which this might be achieved (preferably after 1400)? And second, how does this, by itself, change the course of European history? For example, can the Russian Empire ever...

  6. PC: Earlier ( Paper + Blast Furnace ) in Europe = Earlier Printing Press?

    Both paper and pig iron were invented very early in China, circa the Second Century CE, but were unknown in Europe until the High Middle Ages (earliest indications being the 11th and 12th centuries, respectively); it was after a few centuries of having both these things, and seeing them spread...

  7. WI Britain gets Florida circa 1713

    OTL, they got it for a time after the Seven Years War (in 1763); but what if they got it 50 years earlier, after the War of Spanish Succession? I asked something like this a few years ago, but didn’t get much response: What do you guys think?

  8. USA w/ Napoleonic Europe

    How would you say the Fall of Napoleon has affected the historic course of the young republic of the United States specifically? Assuming a late 1809 PoD,* how is North American history altered? To start, I imagine there won’t be a War of 1812 TTL; how does the republic deal with issues in the...

  9. Proposed 9th Century Scenario

    So I'd been thinking about a few 9th Century scenarios, and have been talking about them in various threads -- only, in the back of my mind, I generally saw them as being part of the same ATL. So I figured it was worth looking into how, if at all, these might play off each other: PoD #1 --...

  10. AHC: Worst 9th Century for Byzantine Empire

    With no PoDs prior the Leo V the Armenian resuming Iconoclasm in 814, and preferably starting sometime before the death of Theophilos (the last Iconoclast Emperor) in early 842 -- how can the "Roman" Empire have as hard a time as possible in the century following said PoD? We're basically...

  11. AHC: Henry VIII's Great Matter is Moot

    How can, with no PoDs prior to 1521, you have a scenario where (1) Katherine does not become pregnant again (she didn’t OTL), (2) Henry VIII still joins the League of Cognac as OTL, (3) the Church of England does not break with Rome (at least not under Henry), (4) Cardinal Wolsey does not fall...

  12. AHC: Carolingian Empire Endures (2023 ed)

    With no PoDs prior to the death of Charlemagne, how can his empire still be around a century later? What are the latest PoDs we'd need for (1) West and East Francia to be united around this time (circa 913), and (2) are still ruled by a Carolingian? Bonus points if the growth in learning, the...

  13. WI Frederick Barbarossa doesn’t drown (2023 ed)

    So if I'm reading this right -- general consensus is, if Frederick Barbarossa doesn't die, then the Crusaders retake Jerusalem and Saladin fails to create the Ayubid Empire. Am I right? Let’s see if we can work go short term to longer term with this: to start, assuming that the travels of...

  14. R: Christendom spent most of its history…

    Short version -- in the Fourth Century, Christianity gained legal, official, and majority status in the Roman Empire, while converting a number of other peoples and kingdoms (Armenia, Ethiopia, the Germans, etc); then in the Fifth Century, the Western Roman Empire underwent civilization...

  15. AHC: Better 13th Century for the Crusader States

    With no PoDs prior to 1216 (and preferably by 1251), how can the Crusader States be in the healthiest position for the latter 13th Century, and going into the 14th? Bonus points if Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor is still King of Jerusalem. CONSOLIDATE: My own PoD suggestion - - Frederick...

  16. PC: An Alternate Principate

    So here’s what I’m thinking - - when TTL gets to its fourth Roman Emperor, clear precedent has been established on two key points: (1) every emperor has both an heir and an heir to the heir (and, in the case of Drusus before Germanicus died, a back-up to the heir to the heir), such that it is...

  17. Anglo-Saxon England in 7th Century

    So technically this is a thread discussing a No Islam TL (with a 632 PoD), but the focus of the discussion may or may not have need to make any mention of it -- the reason being, I’d like us to talk about Anglo-Saxon England in the 7th Century specifically, about its Christianization during said...

  18. Christianity in a World w/ Stronger Sol Invictus

    So a couple of weeks ago, I put together a post outlining a basic TL concept, with some commentary on how I was unsure how to develop it further: However, now that I think about it a bit, I realize something -- in this scenario, where Roman government in the six decades following reunification...

  19. History of Rome in 25 "What If" Questions

    For my own reference as much as anything; could also write a little something for each of the five categories (that has been on my mind) later on. Did Rome have to rise? What if Regulus took Carthage? (255 BC) What if Hannibal caught the Romans at the Battle of Metaurus? (207 BC) What if...

  20. WI Justinian Flees Nika Riots (2023 ed)

    So we all here know the story of the Nika Riots in January of 532 in Constantinople; we all know how Emperor Justinian was preparing the flee the city with his retinue, when his wife the Empress Theodora proclaimed she would die royalty rather than live a fugitive. The royal couple stayed, the...
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