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    Earlier adoption of sugar beet

    In OTL, sugar beet production in Europe never occurred until 180. This is despite it being discovered back in 1575 that you can make sugar from red beetroot. Although, at that particular time it was discovered to not be as nice as the already available crystalised cane sugar. But what if, the...
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    AHC: More half-timbered houses around the world

    I am admittedly bias towards half-timbered houses. As much as I understand the disadvantages, I still love the look of them. So what would it take to have more of them built outside of Europe. I often thought it strange that more didn't appear in the world. I presumed that there would've been...
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    No Mongol invasion of Khwarazmia

    So I was reading another thread about the Mongols here and it got me thinking about how they got started on their central Asia adventures. It started when the Mongols sent a large caravan to Khwarazmia and a local Khwarazmian governor confiscated all the goods and killed everyone on board...
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    WI: China doesn't annex Tibet.

    After doing some reading, I found out today that China originally had a puppet (for lack of a better term) government ruling over Tibet for them until 1959. After 1956 Tibetan militias started fighting the government and by 1959, the Dalai Lama left Tibet and repudiated the Seventeen Point...
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    WI: Prussia doesn't expand into Germany?

    When Prussia became Prussia and married into the Hohenzollern family, it became Brandenburg-Prussia and thus it was set on a path that involved the rest of Germany. (or Germany as we know it now at least) But with a different path, could Prussia become its own state in the East, separate from...
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    Papal Relocation

    I was reading about the Avignon Papacy and I was wandering if it was possible to have the Pope and his state permanently relocate outside of Rome. I was thinking maybe if the Reformation is even more popular and Protestant troops permanently took Rome instead of just sacking Rome. Or maybe the...
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    Tales From Mega London

    Hello all. This was inspired by a twitter conversation with a youtuber about London and the consequences of many decisions which did and didn't get made. I intend to keep the POD ambiguous and hopefully light hearted to the very end if there really is one. Either way, I hope you enjoy these...
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    AHC/WI Singapore of the Caribbean

    I'm curious, is it possible that with the right leadership, one of the Caribbean islands/ nations or central America gets a variant of Singapore or Hong Kong. By that I mean, a highly populated city, rich and very developed while maintaining some sort of independence.
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    AHC: More Chinese majority countries

    Considering there are Chinese communities in almost every country nowadays. Is it possible with a per 1900 POD that we can have some countries (or at least regions) become Chinese majority by modern times? Singapore alreayd has a Chinese majority. Malaysia's Chinese community makes about 20%...
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    WI: Britain got their share of Thailand after WW2?

    During WW2 Britain remained hostile to Thailand until the very et. Despite the Americans treating Thailand as a neutral. It was believed Britain wanted to put Thailand in an impossible position so they could take as much as much as they wanted. But ther Americans went to great lengths to stop...
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    WI: Rhamkhamheang doesn't invent Thai alphabet.

    In 1283 Rhamkhamheang is credited with creating the Thai alphabet (actually it is an ambugida) which he based off the Khmer script. But what if instead he decides to be more radical and decides to adopt the Chinese script or the script of another neighbouring state which isn't Khmer.
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    AHC: Continue the Russian golden age of literature.

    The challenge is to continue the Russian golden age of literature into the 20th century. Long enough to have Russians stereotyped as romantic and sentimental.:)
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    AHC: Tibetan Dynasty

    The challenge if you choose to accept is to have a Chinese dynasty founded by Tibetans, much like the Yuan was founded by Mongolians and the Qing was founded by Manchurians. The later the POD, the better.
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    AHC: England humiliated in 100 years war.

    The challenge if you choose to accept it, is to have the first part of the 100 years war go so badly for England that France occupies decent chunks of England by the time the first truce comes about.
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    AHC: Neapolitan Wank.

    The challenge is to wank the Kingdom Of Naples as much as possible. Give them independence, wealth, a colonial empire and all with the capital remaining at Naples. The POD must be after the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282.:)
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    AHC: Iceland part of Great Britain

    The challenge is make Iceland part of Great Britain with a POD no earlier than 1500AD. Bonus points if the inhabitants consider themselves British first and Icelandic second.
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    WI no Sunday schools

    The Sunday Schools in the UK were the first to ever bring literacy to the lower classes and helped bring about the idea of universal education. But when they first came about many in the government (both conservative and liberal) felt that they should be shut down and that the lower classes...
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    AHC: Prime Minister Nigel Farage

    The challenge is to make Nigel FArage Prime Minister of the UK with UKIP. Bonus points if Robert Kilroy Silk is deputy prime minister.
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    AHC: Transmanche region

    The challenge is to make this Daily Mail conspiracy theory from 2006 a reality.
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    Korean Dynasty

    I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) that Korea made a claim to the be the next Chinese Emperors just after the Ming fell. Would such a thing be possible?
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