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  1. What if a populist peoples religion/cult had emerged in Rome prior to the spread of Christianity?

    One of the claims for the appeal and rapid growth of Christianity throughout the Roman world was its inclusion of populist elements. It promised, at the very least, an equal resting place for souls in the afterworld, regardless of social class. This aspect held strong appeal for those on the...

  2. What if the Emancipation Proclamation had never been issued during the American Civil War?

    What impact of the actual war effort did the emancipation proclamation have and was that much a factor in it being issued in the first place? What would have been the impact of the civil war ending with slavery still very much in place legally in the nation?

  3. WI China remained fragmented among rival kingdoms as Europe was?

    An argument often presented for why Europe, which was more or less a backwater compared to Imperial China throughout the Middle Ages, pulled ahead of China in terms of technological and exploratory development into the early modern age, is that there had not been a unified continental empire to...

  4. If the Indigenous of the Americas had stronger immunity to European diseases how would colonization have proceeded?

    If, instead of the 80-90% death rate experienced by the indigenous population, as attributed to foreign diseases, the death rate was closer to the 30-60% seen in Europe from the Black Death, which itself impacted by an eastern-originated disease. With a much larger surviving indigenous...

  5. Could an expansion-minded post-Civil War United States have been able to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire by 1900?

    After the Civil War, the federal army was relatively quickly disbanded and downsized. The main focus of the military shifted to pacifying the remaining Native American tribes on the plains and southwest, which did not consume too many resources. What if the U.S. perspective shifted to wanting...

  6. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    Inspired by this passage I came across: Is there a factual basis to this argument? Instead of the empire of Spain being the harbinger of modern colonialism and empire building it was instead the last vestige of the old style empire?

  7. What if China invaded and reclaimed Hong Kong by force in the early 1980s?

    Similar to Argentina's invasion of the Falklands, what if an increasingly nationalistic China decided to forcefully capture Hong Kong instead of waiting for the lease to expire at the end of the century? At that time, China was not as economically or militarily powerful as it is today. However...

  8. Was the fighting more intense and brutal on the Western Front during World War I or the Eastern Front during World War II?

    Based on the conditions, which do you think was the worse environment for the average soldier? Neither of them was a day at the zoo, but if you had to choose to be a conscript in either scenario, which "meat grinder" would you have picked to be thrown into?

  9. Military impact of tactical nuclear weapons used during the Vietnam war

    This was apparently requested by admiral Harry D. Felt and was actually considered by McNamara, more details can be seen here. I can only imagine the social and political ramifications, however what would have been the actual miliary impacts in deploying tactical nukes to fight the NVA? I have...

  10. Could there have been an equivalent to the western front stalemate in the American Civil War?

    Could the fight between the Union and the South have become bogged down in a similar stalemate as the Western Front in World War I did? Complete with heavy emphasis on trench warfare. Not that trench warfare did not occur in the American Civil War IOTL, however, not to the extent it did in World...

  11. Had the radical Republicans had more control over reconstruction would we have seen a "de-confederation" akin to Denazification?

    The reconstruction period following the Civil War is generally acknowledged to have fallen short. Aside from the additional 90 years of Jim Crow laws, there had been a continued reverence for the Confederacy and its generals by a large subset the white population. What if the approach to the...

  12. Could a 1943 D-Day have conversely lead to an atomic bombed Germany?

    It has been argued here quite extensively that an Operation Sledgehammer launched in 1943 would likely have been successfully repelled by the Germans. This would have made the Allies more hesitant to launch a second invasion so soon in 1944. Consequently, we can assume that the war in Europe...

  13. Colonization of Australia with a Maori dominated Australia

    What would have happened if, in the centuries before European colonisation, the Maoris or another similar Polynesian warrior culture had come to rule Australia over the indigenous aboriginal populations? Given that they mounted a more effective military resistance to European encroachment than...

  14. Most feasible way the Nazis could have attacked US territory?

    Japan to Hawaii is about as far a distance as Germany to the continental US. As the Japanese attacked US territory, what were some potential American targets the Nazis could have launched attacks on? A more rational Hitler may have rightfully concluded the US would at some point come to fight...

  15. AHC a Southern Hemisphere superpower

    With a POD of 1500, how can you get a southern hemisphere nation to be a superpower on par with the US and USSR by the mid 20th century? This would be defined as a nation with the majority of its contiguous territory south of the equator. -edit- changed entirety to majority under definition

  16. The feasibility of Patriot free states west of the Allegheny mountains

    Early in the American Revolutionary war there were a number of periods where the situation appeared dire for the Patriot/rebel cause and I believe there were actual considerations of the Patriots (including Washington) fleeing west across the Allegheny mountains to hideout and regroup among the...

  17. If Japan was firebombed to near oblivion would that have been viewed as more moral to the public than the atom bombs?

    To this day the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is viewed controversially. I'm not here to start a debate on if it was ethical to or not. But if it wasn't the A bombs that were deployed, it would have been likely that the US/Allies would have just continued their...

  18. Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    I read somewhere that at the time of the revolutionary period there was a subset of Loyalist who wanted to stay in the Empire not to be subservient to England, but figured due to its much bigger geographic size and faster growing population it was inevitable it would replace England as the...

  19. Could European colonialism have existed without gunpowder?

    The famous guns, germs and steel, but just how important were the guns to that equation? Yes, if the development/spread of gunpowder was delayed by several centuries the OTL 15th-16th centuries age of exploration may not have occurred at the exact time. However, was there anything that was done...

  20. How could France have done better to secure its domain of North America?

    France was a much larger country than England/Great Britain in the 18th century, both in terms of population and geography. In 1700 the population of France was well over 22 million to approximately 9 million for England (this is including Scotland, Ireland and Wales). Yet they ended up losing...
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