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  1. AHQ: Industrialization of an Early Megali Greece

    The Parthenon not blowing up was mainly just a pretext to revive Classic Greek Romanticism, and while the Byzantine identity is still respected the Classical identity gains prevalence slowly through increased education and contact with Western Hellenophiles; this also serves to semi-hellenize...

  2. AHQ: Industrialization of an Early Megali Greece

    So the POD is the Parthenon doesn't get blown up by the Venetians in 1683, which inspires the founding of a Greece wide educational society, essentially merging the many attempts at founding private schools and academies into one big organization. This leads to a more unified, nationalist, and...

  3. AHQ: Industrialization of an Early Megali Greece

    Right now I'm working on a scenario where Greece becomes independent in 1807 and by 1854 is able to annex the lands of the Megali Idea, mainly through opportune moves during Russo-Turkish wars and then a Turkish civil war, and I was wondering how that would affect the industrialization of Greece...

  4. Without WWII happening, Germany beating France, and 'wounding' the USSR by invading it, the USSR would have been naturally set to rule over Europe

    One thing that has been glossed over so far is how the absence of WWII would affect the British and French attitudes towards decolonization, and thus their relations with the US as well as their broader economies. Do the UK and France still back down in an alt Suez Crisis? Does India...

  5. Without WWII happening, Germany beating France, and 'wounding' the USSR by invading it, the USSR would have been naturally set to rule over Europe

    In this scenario the Soviets could rule over Europe economically, assuming they are able to grow their economy like they did after WWII without having most of it destroyed beforehand. If the standard of living for the average Soviet citizen were to overtake that of the Western European powers...

  6. AHC: Native American Industrialization

    Let's say the colonization of North America goes differently, and instead of having one dominant colonial power on the East Coast of the US there are two or three (one creative scenario could be Basque Canada/New England [called New Navarre] and English Carolinas and Virginia with someone else...

  7. Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline

    I think Hungary's main issue is that anyone who could potentially benefit from a larger, friendly Hungary has sentimental reasons to oppose it; for example, Russia could use a friendly buffer state across the Carpathians, but Hungary's non-Orthodoxy and non-Slavicness offend Russian sentiments...

  8. Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline

    I'm just hoping the Hungarians get a port in Fiume, literally nobody on this site has written a Hungary that is even able to keep its borders let alone achieve minor strategic objectives in the region. Even in CP victory timelines Hungary still dissolves into ethnic states despite not having...

  9. How To Prevent The Narrative of Versailles Being Too Harsh From Spreading In Anglophone Countries?

    Communism happened. All of a sudden the primary boogeyman for the western powers, or at least Britain, switched from a monarchist Germany to a communist state which was both quantitatively stronger than Germany and far more aggressively anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist in order. British...

  10. WI: Ferdinand unites Hungary early then defeats Suleiman in battle

    Would holding all of Hungary from 1529 shift the center of Habsburg power away from Austria at all? I feel like the gradual assimilation of Hungary was necessary for German to gain dominance over Hungarian in the aristocracy and bureaucracy, whereas if the Habsburgs were to gain all of Hungary...

  11. Magyarization after a successful 1848 Hungarian Revolution

    After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867, the Kingdom of Hungary saw increasing adoption of the Hungarian (Magyar) identity by ethnic minorities, both voluntarily and as a result of policies enacted by the state. If the liberal Hungarian Revolution of 1848 succeeded, with either an...

  12. Possible "Step-Conquerors"

    I think part of the reason why it's so hard to imagine a "step-conquerer" is that most of the time these conquerors were not only talented but extremely megalomaniacal; less ego-driven men aren't remembered as widely because their successes tend to be less ambitious and more sustainable. For...

  13. Is the Reinsurance Treaty tenable? (Or, a Russo-German Entente by WW1)

    I think a long-term alliance between Russia and Germany is impossible; a Russia not "cut down to size" by Germany would eventually overtake it in military and economic might, which was completely against the strategic interests of Germany. Even with Germany gaining Austria in an alt-WWI, Russia...

  14. Benefits for Austria of implementing the Greek plan

    Perhaps an earlier Bulgarian-style Greek independence might work, with the southern part becoming independent and Macedonia/Epirus gaining internal autonomy a la OTL Eastern Rumelia. A Greece that has unified with Macedonia early, say 20-30 years after the independence war, would naturally be...

  15. AHC: Greek Southern Italy, post-1700 POD

    With a POD of no earlier than around 1700, have Greece own a portion of southern Italy, i.e. Magna Graecia, as a fully integrated part of the country. Bonus points if Greece ends up with Naples and/or Sicily.

  16. AHC: Modern Greek colonial empire

    I think a POD after 1830 makes Greece having a colonial empire difficult, because it was simply too weak to expand against the Ottomans without outside forces weakening the Turks. If Greece was able to obtain more territory in the war of independence it would have an easier time expanding...

  17. Most rapid industrial revolution possible

    Japan and Germany both industrialized pretty damn quick, although they were helped by having other industrialized powers to interact with. Idk if it really counts as industrialization, but Thomas Sankara was able to advance Burkina Faso by a large amount in just four years; his years in power...

  18. Industrialized Southern Italy?

    Would Naples and Sicily have a better shot of industrializing as part of a Greek state rather than an Italian one? The region has enough historical, linguistic and cultural ties that Greece could see it as desirable, and any parts of southern Italy that are a part of Greece immediately gain the...

  19. AHC/WI: Christian Socialist Greater Austria

    Asking how it would affect the Cold War is a bit of a silly question when it would affect WWI much more immediately; there would not be a Cold War as we know it with a strong, united Central Europe, but what form any Cold War takes depends on how badly Russia and, to a lesser extent, Britain are...

  20. Would an Anglo South America and a Latin North America swap OTL histories?

    For sure, the Mississippi is a huge breadbasket, but what makes it that much better than the drainage basin of the Rio de la Plata, i.e. the Parana, Uruguay, and Paraguay rivers? Most of the agriculture of Argentina and Brazil, not to mention all of Uruguay and Paraguay, are either part of or...
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