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  1. water123

    Best Worldas of all time?

    Recently, I've been feeling a bit creatively constipated, and after taking several months off of anything with AH, I'm realizing that I have a graveyard of half, quarter, or eighth finished maps with very little to show for it. I realize that I get to areas that I have knowledge gaps in and give...
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    ASB ARE DEAD! (Or, your ideas aren't as dumb as you'd think) A manifesto

    Yo whatup mfs i am barely on this website anymore but I am on 400 mg of caffiene pills on a saturday and i am out of inspo for my own project so you get this instead. Anyway, the Alien Space Bats are dead. Or, your ideas honestly aren't as dumb as you think. PART 1: LORE Ah.com used to be a...
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    Petty Causality, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bushmeat (A Guide on Low-Level Worldbuilding in Radically Different Universes)

    Let's say you have an Alternate History world. You've spent a long time on this world, and you're pretty damn proud of it. It's your take on a Byzantine Victory, and you've done all the research you could. You've figured out the names, personalities, and level of inbreeding for each one of your...
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    Click consonants spread into Indo-European languages?

    I've often heard the anecdote that a lot of researchers that study languages that contain clicks quickly find that incorporating clicks into their day-to-day language feels natural, and indeed, clicks do have meanings in English, though they are not used as consonants and more of connectors...
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    AHC: Independent Jewish State in Medieval Western Europe/North Africa

    Your challenge is to figure out a way to have a lasting independent state with Judaism as it's official religion emerge somewhere west of the Bug River, Danube River and Libya between the years 800 and 1300. My first immediate thought is that a Jewish governor is appointed for a region of...
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    Thought Experiment: Grocery Stores in different timelines

    Okay, okay, hear me out on this one. Basically, it's honestly pretty weird that grocery stores supply the exact few foods that they mostly do in out world. Tomatoes were seen as poisonous, potatoes are the only non-poison parts of their respective plants, etc. Not to mention the variety of...
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    WI: Bantu migrate north instead of south?

    The Bantu migrations were one of the most important events in the history of Africa, with people originating from West Africa migrating south and east and replacing the native inhabitants of these region. However, at this time North Africa was not as desolate as today, and while the days of the...
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    Map Thread XIX

    The old map thread nearly has drawn to a close. Long live the new map thread. Link to the old thread. Also, for new folks wondering where and how to begin, im gonna post a link to my horrible Worlda tutorial. Here is a link to the Electoral Map thread too, for those inclined. Edit:
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    AHC/WI: The Philippines more integrated into the greater United States

    OTL, the American "misadventure" in the Philippines was an absolute clusterfuck, with the US not really knowing what to do with the islands and the whole archipelago being seen as a drain on the US since the Filipinos themselves didn't want to replace old Spanish colonial masters with Americans...
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    WI: The Delicious McDonalds Big Mac™ was never invented?

    What if the Delicious McDonalds Big Mac™, now available at your local McDonalds™ with warm fries and a cool refreshing Coca-Cola™ for only 5 dollars, was never invented? How would this change the fast food marketplace? I think that without the Delicious McDonalds Big Mac™, the landscape of fast...
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    AHC: Maximum number of Romance languages?

    OTL, there were large areas of the Roman Empire that could have supported Latin settlement, or developed their own Romance languages, but didn't. This includes broad areas like: England Northumbria/South Scotland/Between the Hadriatic and Antionne walls Vasconia Egypt Anatolia The Levant...
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    AHC: Olmec or Olmec Successor wank

    The Olmec Culture was the precursor culture of the Mesoamerican civilizations, reaching it's height around 900 BC. During that time, several powerful city-states dotted the land, with some having populations of several thousand. However, as time went on, the states in the Olmec heartland became...
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    TLIAD: Ecclesia: An Alternate History of the Modern Gnostic Church

    "There is the Son of Man and there is the son of the Son of Man. The Lord is the Son of Man, and the son of the Son of Man is he who creates through the Son of Man. The Son of Man received from God the capacity to create. He also has the ability to beget. He who has received the ability to...
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    Is Industrialization necessary for a society to progress?

    It seems like every other day, someone asks "what if XYZ nation or culture industrialized?" Industrialization in itself is a rather blanket and unspecific term, meaning in a vague sense the many technological innovations of the 18th century that allowed for a dramatic increase in the population...
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    AHC: Indonesia occupies the same role as Europe OTL

    Exactly what it says on the tin. I've heard a lot of talk about how India was rapidly gaining gunpowder weapons and that if something happened to knock Europe back a few decades, it's not implausible for India to occupy the same niche. However, I also have noticed Indonesia has a lot of the same...
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    So, you want to make a Worlda (Tutorial)

    CaptainAmerica.meme But in all seriousness, I've seen a lot of people on the board trying to figure out how the hell the Worlda maps on this board are made. I remember when I first joined the board, there was a bit of a learning curve because for your average new member it can sometimes be hard...
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    How would a surviving Latin Empire handle an alt-Protestant Reformation?

    Exactly what it says on the tin. How would a surviving Latin Empire handle an alternate Protestant Reformation that occurs around the 1500's. I honestly think that the Latin Empire actually would have a significant draw towards embracing a reformation. By the time any kind of reformation...
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    AHC: After 1000, have European Paganism survive as long as reasonably possible

    With a point of divergence after 1000, have European Paganism survive as long as it can. This is not really me area of expertise but is an interesting question whatsoever. My personal thought would be to perhaps have Lithuania remain a stronger power, along with a more centralized Baltic Pagan...
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    AHC: Get the Protestant Reformation to be as varied and weird as possible

    With a POD after 1500, get the Protestant Reformation to be as splintered, diverse, and radical as possible. I'm talking somehow get everything from Arianism to Nestorianism to Ethiopian Orthodoxy thrown on the table, alongside several new theories about Christianity, and getting those theories...
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    AHC/WI: Italy asks for/obtains Crimea after successful Barbarossa?

    Crimea had at one point been a territory of Genoa, an Italian city state that existed throughout the Medieval and Early Modern eras. It lost control of this territory in the late 1400's. However, lack of territorial claims didn't exactly halt German march in WWII. Italy contributed significant...
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