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  1. Consistere contra adversa fata: Pertinax and the Praetorians 2.0

    Long ago, I read about the year of the 5 Emperors, and was intrigued by the preliminary Emperor, Pertinax, a man who had had a long successful military career, and seemed to have his head in the right place, increasing silver content in the currency, and planning agricultural reform. However, he...

  2. Ottoman Vienna-- Ottoman Italy?

    A nebulous PoD for this idea, which has been fluttering around in my head for a while, is that the rains in Bulgaria, and along Suleiman's route in 1529, are significantly less heavy than IOTL, and with a result, less of his artillery is lost, and fewer of his draft camels die. Additionally...

  3. AHC: Father/Son Ticket For US President

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, would be to plausibly arrange for a successful father/son presidential ticket within a recognizable, plausible 'democratic,' United States, with a PoD of 1800 or later. Bonus points if the son is running for president while the father is running...

  4. AHC: Large, Majority Native American City in United States

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, would be to come up with a reasonable alternate United States of America with a majority Native American large city (of above a million people) with a PoD of 1800. Bonus points if you can achieve this with a PoD of 1850 or later.

  5. Earliest Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople?

    How early can the Ottoman Empire, or a similarly Anatolian-based, Muslim, Turkic state sustainably conquer, and hold Constantinople (presumably as a capital). The reason I've been asking is due to the innumerable "how can we save the Byzantine" threads. While the discussion within is in the...

  6. AHC: Eliminate the Nuclear Family in the West

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, would be to butterfly away the development of the nuclear, or elementary, family within Western Europe, with a point of divergence no earlier than the year 1600, as plausibly as conceivably possible.

  7. Keeping a Mauryan Legacy?

    How can we, with a PoD of 185 BCE or later, (the historical fall of the Mauryan dynasty) maintain a legacy of either a united India and a Buddhist India? Both of these are perhaps the Mauryan's most famous contributions to Indian history– they were not merely the first empire to come close...

  8. AHC: Preserve the Han Dynasty

    This is for one of my TLs I'm thinking of rebooting. Butterflies would be minimal to China, given that it's Rome-centric, but I want to be able to at least show the rest of the world on the maps. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, would be to maintain a strong and influential...

  9. Desaix and Kléber Live?

    What if at the Battle of Marengo, General Desaix is not mortally wounded following his crucial, battle-winning reinforcement? Other than this, nothing is changed about the battle. Given Napoleon's friendship with him, and his talent as a commander- his exploits in Upper Egypt were far more...

  10. The Triumph of the New City (A Victorious Carthage TL)

    The Triumph of the New City: A Victorious Carthage TL PoD/Stage Setting: Prologue: The Second Sicilian War It has been seventy long years since Himera shattered Carthaginian hopes for Sicilian hegemony. With the fall of the alliance, contemporary to that had bound the cities of the Greeks...

  11. AHC: Preserve the Omani Empire

    How can the empire of Oman be preserved until the modern day? Any PoD can be used after 1748. Perhaps avoiding the partition of 1861, might help, though I'm not sure about that, being rather deficient in that area of history.

  12. WI: Russia "in" the American War For Independence?

    I was recently reading a biography of Catherine the Great, and it mentioned, off hand, that George III, in 1775, requested twenty thousand Russian troops for use in quelling discontent in the Americas. He offered to pay for these troops, and to otherwise maintain them, but in the end, Catherine...

  13. Redirecting the ERE under Justinian?

    I was thinking about Justinian's reconquest of much of the Western Mediterranean, and how it gained the Empire little in the long run but prestige, and a scenario came to mind. What if/Can Justinian redirect the resources deployed in the African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns towards...

  14. AHC: Largest Texas Possible?

    Inspired by this thread. How large can 'Texas' become, either as an independent nation, or even as a part of the US or Mexico?

  15. AHC: Keep the Indo-Greek Kingdoms Alive

    How can we keep those pesky Yavanas/Javanas/Yonas/Greeks alive and well in northwest India/Central Asia? I know that we might want to divert the nomadic incursions, but how long will that keep them there? Are there any other ways to keep them there, and how might they evolve should they have...

  16. William Henry Harrison Wears a Coat?

    IOTL, during his inauguration speech, William Henry Harrison refused to don a coat, largely due to his wishes to appear like the "hero of Tippecanoe," rather than the oldest president elected thus far (and until Ronald Reagan.) What if he bows to practicality, and wears an overcoat, and...

  17. Development of Religion Without Islam?

    From this thread. I'm wondering how would a lack of Islam affect the development of religion. For instance, without Islam, what happens to Christianity- how does it evolve without a significant enemy, except, arguably, Zoroastrianism, which seemed to be propped up by the Sassanid State by...

  18. AHC: Optimal Spanish Administration of Mexico, and Results?

    I've been under the impression (And this is as someone who knows little to nothing about colonial Mexico) that Mexico never really got to as good a position as the United States due to two factors, one being the US, and the other being the colonial administration that Spain set up did not lend...

  19. When is UK/France most likely to recognize the CSA?

    I was recently at the Antietam site, and the movie that played there claimed largely that if the Union strategically as well as tactically lost Antietam, Britain and France were likely to attempt to mediate the American conflict, and recognize the CSA, giving the South its independence. How...

  20. Timur Spares the Golden Horde

    https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=2086635#post2086635 Continued from the above link. What do y'all think could happen as a result? With, as someone in that thread posited, a shattered Ottomans early, what takes over in the Balkans?
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