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  1. Last chance for a WW1, WW2, Korea or Vietnam veteran POTUS

    So in the 2010es many older people already ran for POTUS or had been in this particular office. The current incumbatant is over 80, his predessecor in his late 70es and wants to run again. Three incubatants had been born in 1946 and served within a timespan of 27 years. No president had been...
  2. New Zealand settled 65.000 years ago

    What if aboriginal settlers reached New Zealand this early instead of the island only settled by Austronesians about 1300 AD. What would happen to the Megafauna that historically persisted until ablut 1500 AD ? Would human settlement have the same devasting effect this early ? What would...
  3. Napoleon kidnapped by Babary Pirates

    So what if Napoleon as a boy somewhere in the 1770es/1780es had been kidnapped on the shores of Corsica by a raiding Babary Pirate vessel. In his Youth the North African Pirates of the Mediterranean had been still active. So what would theoretically happen if Napoleon somehow is kidnapped by...
  4. British Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha lives to WW1

    So the second oldest son of Queen Victoria, Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, had been German Prince. He died in 1900 OTL at only 56. In 1914 he would have been 70, in 1918 he would have been 74. Alfred drank heavily after his son commited suicide, the cancer might have been caused by it. So...
  5. Widukid converts to Islam

    So Widukid had been the resistant pagan leader of the Saxons staunchly fighting for the old gods rejecting Christianity brought by Franks. So we now the history of the massacre of 4000 Saxon nobles by Charlemagne and Widukid reverting to Christianity given the hopeless situation. Now imagine...
  6. Alternate Migrations general discussion

    So there had been a thread called,Cool potential migrations'. I can't find it and think that it might be inactive right now. So I find the general discussion quite interesting and think that there should be forum for ideas in a general context. So for example what if Britain was settled by...
  7. Soviet D-Day

    So what if the Soviets did a big amphibic assault on enemy coastal defensis or beaches in general roughly comparable in numbers and material of Western Allies Normandy ? So I was thinking maybe of an assault on the Baltic coasts of Nazi held territory or even core Reich areas or Black Sea. Maybe...
  8. Spanish Civil War 2 1970es factions, supporters and volunteers

    So basically a Civil War after Francos death after democratic reforms fail, Francos designated successor survives or a King getting autocratic. It is quite complicated to imagine how a Spanish Civil War 2 developes, which faction participate and who internationally will be involved. To what...
  9. A realistic , Dorne'

    So what if an equivalent of Dorne of the GOT series or ASOIAF novel existed and persisted in real history on the Iberian Peninsula ? So there are several examples of Moorish and Christian culture merged to some degrees and even transcultural transreligious marriages. So interesting eould be an...
  10. Orthodox Brotherhood

    So what if some kind of unity brotherhood existed in the early Medival age upward between National Orthodox churches? So my idea is that basically the Rus after converting, the Byzantines and the Abyssinians /Ethiopians act as three great pillars of Orthodoxy with others also aware. So even...
  11. Romance Nation in the Balkans.

    So the vulgar Latin of Illyro Roman's evolved into different dialects and these Romance languages originally had a strong ground between Croatia Dalmatia and Montenegro. historically. Despite being outnumbered by Slavic it took centuries for Romance languages to disappear late 19th Century...
  12. Civilized Tribes regional united power

    So what if the 5 Tribes before fatally being expelled had been a mirror US pulling a Mejei and becoming a regional military power on its own ? So if the Appalachian area had become barrier for Western settlement and already taken by a organized state army how would this influence the development...
  13. Napoleon marries a Bourbon

    What if goes down the route of claiming to try to compromise new Post Revolution France and old monarchial Catholic past France? So in this timeline he undoubtfully has to spare the live of this one Bourbon he had abducted and executioned OTL. So later engagement between Bourbon and Bonaparte...
  14. American Colonies Lutheran Evangelical Theocracy

    What if instead becoming a Federation of States under the Constitution the 13 Colonies became a strict pious Theocracy ? So a Pod until the earliest days of English settlement is allowed. The resulting independent Theocratic America is not an analoge of the current US. Can be still a Republic...
  15. Roman relations with Nubian peoples

    would be interested in the questions regarding Rome's relationship with Nubian and Kushite kingdoms. There had been a history of diplomatic relations and conflicts. This history is very seldom covered. Even though Nubian kingdoms apperently took Christianity over Pharaonic religion due to Roman...
  16. 21st Century Commercial Space Travel and human mentality/belief systems

    What if technology had progressed sofar that it is standard to travel to Space and back to Earth. What if significant progress leads to government and non government actors develope far more progressive technology than OTL. So by 2019 ATL several Nations are in Space, India, China, Russia, the...
  17. Islamic Basques

    What if the Basques as a distinct people had been converted to Islam in majority early ? What if they went from Paganism/ early Christianity to Muslim Religion ? Maybe as opponents of the Franks ? How could such a scenario be realistic? What would that mean for Christian Europe if the historic...
  18. Earlier Scandinavian sea raiders

    What If there had been an earlier ,Viking Age' ? Viking was a Verb and ment , raiding'. I'm not particular familiar with Scandinavian peoples during ancient times. Ship technology ist what Made the Viking raiders. Could the technology and mindset had been evented earlier ? Also the conditions...
  19. You are now Theologists -Describe an alternate religion

    Create a complex ATL religion, that appeals to become a larger/major ATL religion in history. You can take an extinct polytheistic faith and develope it into a more complex theologic construction. Invent a Holy Book, religious Codes, Saints, etc. and describe the history of said religion. Give...
  20. Romans had Greek Fire in Antique times

    What if the Romans had discovered the formula and developed Greek Fire as a weapon on the same level as the Byzantines ? Would they have had a strategic edge that allows them to continue ? Would their naval superiority be unchallenged ? Would Greek fire be useful on land ? Could they defend...
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