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  1. Russia without Putin?

    Straight forward: where would Russia be today, if Putin had not succeeded Yeltsin back in 1999?

  2. Plausibility check: Japan keeps peace with US, declares war on Soviet Union in 1941

    Here is something interesting I have contemplated on: would it have been possible for the Japanese to keep peace with the United States in 1941 and instead declare war on the Soviet Union? How would this impact the cause of WWII? I suppose that this would have created a twofold effect: -...

  3. Ancient Geography Database

    One problem with ancient AH (which may contribute to it's relative unpopularity compared with other topics) is definitely the massive amount of research one has to do (along with dealing with immense butterflies). One aspect of research also involves ancient geography. I decided - partially in...

  4. Your place on tilted Earths...

    Since there has been a lot of attention to the tilted Earth's from the World Dream Bank lately, in particular due to Thande's Seapole World Map thread, I thought it might be interesting to ask this. What does your place look like on titlted Earths? In my case, things look like this...

  5. Non-Qin Unified China

    It's a well-known theme of AH to have disunited or differently united Germanies and Italies in the 19th century. However, I would like to ask a similar question for ancient China. In the 3rd century BC, the state of Qin one by one gulped up the other Chinese states one by one until in 221 BC...

  6. Was the German reunification inevitable after November 9th, 1989?

    I recently re-saw the news from November 9th, 1989 (the day the Berlin Wall fell), and I was wondering if the German reunification was inevitable past that point, or if there is any possibility by which the DDR could have lasted on? I for one am inclined to think that there is no real...

  7. In the absence of Rome, would there be a Migration Period?

    A while back, I asked about the fate of the Hellenistic states in the absence of Rome - ie, Rome met a sudden death (either at the hands of the Celts in in the early 4th century BC or the Carthaginians in the late 3rd century BC). Now, the next major question I'm asking here is wether the...

  8. 1848 succeeds: absence of the 1848ers in the US

    In OTL, there was a large number of people from Germany (dubbed the 1848ers) who emigrated from Germany following the failure of the 1848 revolution. Now, assuming the revolution succeeds, these people wouldn't have an incentive to emigrate to the United States. It should be noted that there was...

  9. Fate of the Hellenistic states in the absence of Rome

    In the absence of Rome (the POD that caused the sudden death of Rome is up to you, be it the Gauls or the Carthaginians sacking it), what would be the fate of the Hellenistic states founded by the Diadochi? Which one of them would have the longest chance of survival?

  10. AHC: Alternate chancellors of the FRG

    The challenge, should you accept it, is to have the following people chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Schumacher (1949-1953) Erich Ollenhauer (1953-1961) Willy Brandt (1961-1969) Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1969-1976) Helmut Kohl (first term, 1976-1980) Franz Joseph Strauss...

  11. AH Challenge: UN Armed Forces by present day

    A phenomenon I noticed, a fair number of anime films and series from the 1980s and 1990s, all set in OTL's near past to near future (broadly 1990s to 2030s) feature an interesting concept: UN armed forces. Did the Japanese imagine this as a way of circumvening their self-defense clause and...

  12. Hypothetical World War One WI: Britain and France on different sides

    I am well aware that this almost certainly requires a POD before 1900, however the question for a specific POD is only secondary here. The key issue that is necessary is that in a World War One (or WWI-equivalent conflict, more precisely, as it may have an altogether different trigger, but...

  13. "1984" written in an Axis victory TL

    This is something I have been wondering about: unless of course you go the silly path of the sea-mammal-that-must-not-be-mentioned or assume that he accidentally gets killed under some other circumstances, chances are that George Orwell would survive World War II even if the Axis wins. The best...

  14. What if Anne Boleyn's third pregnancy was successful?

    In OTL, Anne Boleyn had a third pregancy (after giving birth to Elizabeth, and after having a miscarriage in 1534) which resulted in the still birth of a four month old definitely male child in 1535. What if this had not been a still birth, and she had been able to produce the male heir...

  15. WI: France annexes Belgium after WWI

    During mid-WWI, the French (apparently, it seems) had plans to annex Belgium after WWI. How plausible would this have been to happen, and what would have been the repercussions?

  16. Challenge: WWII in the 1920s

    In the past, there have been a number of scenarios and threads about the possibility of a WWIII breaking out between the western Allies and the Soviet Union immediately upon or shortly after Germany's surrender in WWII. Now, here's a bit of a challenge: a conflict erupting in the 1920s between...

  17. OTL question: Celtization of the Atlantic region

    This is a question about OTL, essentially: inspired by the thread about a Europe/India without Indo-Europeans, I did stumble across a question (and a mystery of thoughts) which I couldn't exactly answer. In what timeframe was the Atlantic region Celticized? By the time we have historic accounts...

  18. Map challenge: more "sane" post-1945 borders of German states

    Here's a map challenge of sorts: the modern borders of several German states are (most notably North Rhine Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate)- for the greater part - quite arbitrarily and running criss/cross over traditional borders. So, the challenge, should you accept it, is to make a map of...

  19. DBWI: Odo the Great defeated at the Garonne?

    Many historians consider the Battle of at the Garonne one of the most decisive battles in history: In the year 732, the Franks under Odo the Great defeated the forces of the Umayyads at the river Garonne. The general consent amongst historians is that this stopped the expansion of Islam into...

  20. Alt-WWI: Consequences of obvious Entente "War Guilt"

    Note that this may perhaps require a POD before 1900, depending on what scenario you go for. Imagine a scenario of a slightly different WWI (or "Great War", given how the outcome/subsequent history may butterfly away WWII as we know it), which is undeniably started by the Entente powers (some...
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