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  1. 1323-28 Flemish revolt succeeds--what next for the rebels?

    Recently I read through a short book on the 1323-28 Flemish revolt, considered the longest peasant revolt before the Reformation. The peasants were well-organised and had substantial urban support (especially from the city of Bruges). Flanders is in a unique position for Northern Europe since it...

  2. Could global cooling have ever become an actual threat to society?

    In the 1970s, the idea of "global cooling" appeared in scientific publications whose influence was magnified through bad science journalism and pop science publications and programming. It was never a scientific concensus and by the early 80s had largely been discarded in favour of the competing...

  3. WI: Tea cultivation introduced to India in medieval times

    Despite modern India being one of the largest producers of tea and tea serving as a huge source of income for the British Empire, tea was hardly cultivated in India before the 19th century. Only in a few regions was tea known, and even then it was only wild relatives of tea. Tea itself was a...

  4. WI: Crusader success early 14th century thanks to alliance with the Ilkhanate/Tenth Crusade

    This seems to be an overlooked POD, but one with potentially significant consequences in Europe and the Middle East given the players involved. Basically, after the Fall of Acre in 1291, there was still a great deal of people who wanted a new crusade. I suppose this was an idealistic thing in...

  5. Pacific islands in early East Asian colonialism scenario

    Let us assume that for whatever reason, the East Asian nations be it Japan, a Chinese state, Korea, Vietnam, etc. end up reaching outward to spread their influence and defend mercentile interests. And let us assume this "East Asian Age of Discovery" begins sometime between 1200 and 1600. I'm not...

  6. WI: Mongol India around 1300/Early Mughals

    The Chagatai ruler Duwa launched numerous attacks on Punjab and Delhi regions in the 1290s and 1300s, ending only with his death. It appears to have been a major preoccupation of his rule, compared to his weaker predecessors who followed the powerful general Kaidu in warring with Yuan China over...

  7. WI: Go-Daigo becomes shogun instead of crown prince

    In the later Kamakura period, there was a tendency for the shogun to be members of one of two lineages in the Imperial Court. Let us say that the alternating lines of succession, through death, agreements, etc. ends up with the Daikakuji line providing the shogun sometime around 1301 (perhaps...

  8. Post-1279 Song Dynasty restoration/survival?

    The Song Dynasty of China, despite its many achievements culturally, economically, and technologically, had a troubled history with invaders from the north. They were evicted from northern China by the Jurchens of the Jin Dynasty in the early 12th century, and then a century later lasted through...

  9. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    -Prologue- Shikanoshima (志賀島), Hakata Bay, June 30, 1281 Kim Bang-gyeong stood at the head of the table his makeshift war council stood around, the air still thick with smoke from the gunpowder that burnt corpses and ships alike. It was a familiar sight, bringing up painful memories of the...

  10. WI: Hunno-Germanic Empire

    The Huns under Attila were among the most notorious of the barbarian invaders from the steppe who threatened the Roman Empire during the 5th century. They formed a large empire that stretched from modern Hungary to the Rhine, exerting power through a number of Germanic (and other "barbarian")...

  11. WI: Aquaculture in early modern Northern/Eastern Europe with introduced wetland crop(s)

    Cultivation of wetlands and flooded fields was rare in Europe before the late Middle Ages when rice production became common in parts of Mediterranean. While rice was not unknown in Antiquity, adoption of Moorish techniques and tastes led to the popularity of rice cultivation in parts of Spain...

  12. Volga Finn buffer state between Tatars/Russians?

    With a POD of the Mongol Invasion of Volga Bulgaria, is it possible to get a Volga Finn state (or more?) to appear in areas between Volga Bulgaria and eastern Russian principalities like Vladimir, Ryazan, and Murom? This area OTL was a borderland between the Russians and Tatars in later times...

  13. WI/AHC: Battleship equivalent of a "seventy-four"

    In the 18th century, the dominant capital ship type was the third-rate "seventy-four" (named for its 74 guns) ship of the line with two decks which balanced speed, manuevering, cost, and firepower. Larger second-rate and first-rate ships with three decks were mostly used as command ships due to...

  14. WI: Passamaquoddy Tidal Project built in Maine/Early Tidal Power

    In the 1920s and 30s, the United States built numerous works of incredible engineering on the rivers in the country such as the dams of the TVA or the Columbia Basin. These dams enabled cheap power for millions of households and are still used to this day. Dam projects like the Hoover Dam...

  15. Effects on the Jews and antisemitism in a region with a dominant Gnostic faith

    Gnosticism emerged in the 1st century from a mixture of Hellenistic ideas, Judaism, and early Christianity. A common thread of beliefs in Gnostic sects is that the material world is a prison created by a lesser god, the Demiurge, out of ignorance or malevolence, and that this prison keeps us...

  16. Effects of early Japanese rule of Hokkaido?

    Hokkaido (or Ezo), the northernmost of modern Japan's four islands, is by far the least densely populated--over 3x less densely populated than Shikoku. This can be attributed to both its climate--harsher for rice agriculture and especially the late date of settlement, as Japanese settlement only...

  17. Ideal "Norwegian" style small country navy

    Let's say we have a sparsely populated country with a long, rugged coastline similar to Norway or Alaska. Their land borders with potential rivals are sparsely populated and utterly rugged which leads the top military officials to belief in the strength of the navy. Although they have a...

  18. Domesticated seagulls?

    Seagulls are a common sight anywhere where humans live in large numbers. They congregate in large numbers to eat bread or other food thrown by people, and also notoriously gather at landfills and other garbage dumps to eat the remains of human garbage. Gulls can be found far inland, feeding on...

  19. WI: Vinlandic rats and cats--Vikings spread rats and cats to the Americas

    From the late 10th century until perhaps the early 15th century and final collapse of Norse Greenland, the Norse were in sporadic contact with North America, exemplified by the expeditions to Vinland by Leif Erikson and Thorfinn Karlsefni, although the Norse of Greenland periodically sailed to...

  20. WI: Ancient/medieval pykrete?

    Pykrete (or pycrete) is a mixture of ice and wood pulp which produces a substance which when frozen is as strong as concrete and melts much slower than regular ice. It was proposed by Geoffrey Pyke during WWII and became most famous as the material the massive Project Habakkuk carrier/floating...
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