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    AHC: Sinicized Dynasty in Iran

    How can we make a Sinicized dynasty ie Western Liao rule in Iran? This includes being considered a “Chinese dynasty”, using all elements of a Chinese state ie writing system, seals, use of titles, introduction of Chinese culture and products, and not being Islamic.
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    United States Constitution based on Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776?

    WI the Constitution of the United States was based on the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776? This would provide the following major differences: Unicameral Legislature with one term membership Directorial executive system headed by a President and a Vice-President with each member of the...
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    Urban Development WIs

    Just a thread to discuss random WIs surrounding the growth and development of cities and their architecture as well. Ill begin with two different ones. During the early 1900s Los Angeles had a major spat over both water rights and the location of their major port. City officials were split...
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    Utah without Mormons?

    The state and surrounding mountain valleys are the OTL center of Mormonism, and because of the early settlement will probably stay the center of Mormonism, but what if the Mormons settled somewhere else ie. Canada, Mexico, etc and the Salt Lake Valley and the surrounding valleys werent Mormon...
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    1862 Greek head of state referendum/Alt-Greek Kings?

    In 1862 Otto of Greece was deposed and the Greeks looked for a new monarch for diplomatic purposes. The Greek National Assembly held a referendum to vote for a new King. The vote numbers can be disregarded, but the Greeks overwhelmingly voted for Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as King, but didnt...
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    WI: Swedish Jutland?

    Hear me out... during the Second Northern War, Sweden completely and totally defeated Denmark-Norway by entering from Jutland and crossing the frozen Little Belt/Great Belt, in the resulting peace treaty Denmark-Norway gave up Scania, Bohuslan, Trondheim, and Bornholm. I know from a geographic...
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    WI: Charles II of Spain dies years earlier

    OTL Charles II of Spain died in 1700 launching the War of Spanish Succession. Charles II realistically could have died years earlier with his variety of mental and physical disabilities. How would his succession pay out if he had died at the age of 10 in 1671 instead of dying later?
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    Alt-Washington DC locations

    Article I, Section 8 Clause 17 of the US Constitution permits Congress to create a federal district outside state structure to be governed by Congress as the nation's seat of government. As we know in 1790 Congress passed the Residency Act as part of the Compromise of 1790, moving the seat of...
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    WI: John Nance Garner elected president in 1932.

    What if John Nance Garner somehow won the Democratic Convention, assuming in a FDR dies TL, and wins the presidency. Pretty much any person put up by the Democrats would have won against Hoover that year. What policies would he put in place and how bad would the socioeconomic state of America be...
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    WI: Yorkist Castille?

    The Castillian Civil War pitted Peter I of Castille, the last male member of the house of Ivrea, against his illegitimate half-brother Henry II, founder of the house of Trastamara. The war was essentially spillover of the Hundred Year's War, as Peter was supported by the English and Henry the...
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    Make more scripts/alphabets be in use

    OTL in Europe there is the Latin script, Greek, and Cyrillic, but in the past Glagolithic, Runes, the Gothic script, Hungarian runes, and the Permic script were all in use at one point. How can we make these scripts survive till the modern day? I know that Glagolithic was predominately used by...
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    Make the Western Schism permanent

    From 1387-1417 there was a spilt among the Catholic Church resulting in 2-3 popes with varying political affiliations, essentially coalitions surrounding the french led Avignon pope and the pope of Rome. How would a schismed western christianity effect the rising proto-Protestant movement, any...
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    “AH” Russian History on Chinese Wikipedia

    https://lithub.com/a-chinese-borges-wrote-millions-of-words-of-fake-russian-history-on-wikipedia-for-a-decade
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    Byzantine/Roman reconquista of Spania?

    During the period before the Macedonian dynasty and after the Islamic expansions, the Byzantine/Roman Empire was essentially a thalasocracy, with Anatolia, coastal portions of the Balkans, and the exarchy of Ravenna/Italy. Caliph Mu’awiyya immediately realised the importance of a navy to fight...
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    the Eagle and the Crescent: A Different Collapse of Rome

    I've been working on a map series for the last month or so. I was very inspired by @KillEmAll1989 's excellent Gothic Empire timeline, which I personally think is the best timeline ive read in a bit. Overall the main POD was originally a semi-surviving Carthaginian Empire, but I realized a...
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    WI: Jonglei Canal completed
    Threadmarks: sudan

    the Jonglei Canal was an attempt to redirect the White Nile around the impassible Sudd swamp to allow for more water to pass to water fields in Sudan and Egypt. The Sudanese government completed 2/3rds of the canal (which can be seen on Google Maps) before South Sudanese rebels put an end to...
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    WI: George Washington dies at the Battle of the Mononghalea

    During the French and Indian War, a British Colonial army column of around 1500 hundred men led by General Braddock marched in attempt to seize Fort Duquense. Along the way they were ambushed by a small group of around 750 French and Native soldiers. In the insuing battle, 500 Of the original...
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    Collaborative Realistic Worldbuilding, Part ?

    Y'all now the deal. Fill an "Earth" map with landmasses, do elevations, climates and other stuff collaboratively. After that fauna/flora, and then create human cultures and go through history. Stake a claim if you're going to do something Just for example's sake, here are some of the other...
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    WI: No Post-Credits in Iron Man 1

    What if Samuel L Jackson or Nick Fury never appeared in Iron Man announcing the Avengers Initiative? Would the MCU as we know it never exist? Would the modern concept of the Cinematic Universe never come up? How would the movie business be like nowadays?
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    WI: Franz Ferdinand shot but not killed

    What if Gavrilo Principe in his assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot yet not killed? What would have been Austria-Hungary's reaction? Would The events that caused WW1 still occur ie July Crisis, Ultimatum, etc?
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