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  1. AHC/What If: End the Atlantic Slave Trade earlier

    That's exactly the idea. It's so powerful that it could an 'If I can't have it no one will' if someone is forcibly evicted from the club with the support of the remaining powers. IMO the easiest candidates are either Spain or France being fucked by Britain and the other. A power that's been cut...

  2. AHC/What If: End the Atlantic Slave Trade earlier

    Have one of the major slaver powers overseeing transport get locked out of the slave trade entirely and abruptly. No transport, no slave exploitation, not even selling goods that are traded for slaves to other Europeans. They must have been a major player in the slave trade prior. Once locked...

  3. Spanish conquest of the Pampas

    I agree with you completely but will play devil's advocate on this one caveat; it'd be like a port in Bordeaux to export Polish goods if Bordeaux was by far the easiest place to transport Polish goods for export(downriver). There's no reason to conquer more land that you're not going to make use...

  4. What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    An Old World power playing Islamic Revolution Iran-style games in the New World with other powers' colonies resulting in a domino effect and a complete collapse of most colonial extraction models. Make it unprofitable enough and be willing to enrage every major colonial power enough, and...

  5. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Anyone have any ideas on how to recreate a stable de facto late Eastern/Western Roman Empire split, better yet de jure? I was imaging that a wildly successful Franco-Ottoman alliance that has reached the point of constant coordination and clear delineations of spheres of influence could reach...

  6. WI: Christian Somalia

    This is a really cool idea OP. I can't help but imagine (baselessly) that this OTL Somalia would be akin to the Manchu were to China; conquering their way into being subsumed by the larger, older, more prestigious entity(Ethiopia). There's so many butterflies that who can really say how things...

  7. If Europeans discover the Americas later what is the maximum extent of the Aztec and Inca empire

    In order: 1. I think the Cuzco elite are screwed, heads will roll, and many families that are nobles through lineage association with past Inca Emperors and their mummies are about to eat soooo much shit. The mummy system is an albatross around the Inca state and I think Atahualpa will be aware...

  8. If Europeans discover the Americas later what is the maximum extent of the Aztec and Inca empire

    I don't think it's impossible, but I'm also very unfamiliar with the Muisca outside of a high level overview. Let's go with the civil war ending exactly as OTL as a starting point, except no Spaniards show up. 1) Victor or not, Atahualpa is the start of something new in the Inca system in that...

  9. AHC: A surviving Aztec or Inca Empire invades the Spanish mainland

    I'll grant you the iron but that's less than 0% of the world's known reserves of coal at 112 million tonnes. Ease of access, abundance, and low cost of energy is pivotal for industrial development IMO and I don't think Peru has that in its favor at all. There is plenty of coal in Colombia at...

  10. AHC: A surviving Aztec or Inca Empire invades the Spanish mainland

    I don't think it's feasible nor can I think of a good cause for this to happen any sooner than the industrial revolution at the absolute earliest. I place the Inca or a successor state to them as the more likely candidate to be politically organized for such an invasion. But conversely, the Inca...

  11. AHC: Bulgarian-Byzantine Empire with an Ottoman Dynasty

    This sounds incredible

  12. Balkanization - how did the US avoid it?

    Too much money and momentum behind American capitalism by the time of the Civil War IMO, there was too much socioeconomic glue after the Union victory

  13. Could Charles V's forces win in the Algiers Expedition?

    I agree with the idea that it could succeed, but it'd also be a holding that'd be easily lost and difficult to control. Just another thing for the Hapsburgs to lose control of when their star starts to dim

  14. Custodians of the World: Ottoman Grand Viziers of the Third Constitutional Era

    IIRC? A lot of the original topic starters tended to dip their toes into easy potholes for Turkish exceptionalism/nationalist apologism given enough time to argue a politically charged topic. Or wanted to take an extended break from this forum

  15. Custodians of the World: Ottoman Grand Viziers of the Third Constitutional Era

    Pretty cool start, I'll be following along

  16. The New Order: A Successful Selim III

    I agree, the biggest L here is that the Ottoman Sultans are the southern equivalent of the Czars as far as European Western liberals are concerned for the next half century at a minimum. The Ottomans are liable to take an L of their own as a result if ex. Britain or France are governed by people...

  17. WI: Had there been no Inca civil war, could the empire have survived the first wave of Spanish invasion?

    It's perfectly plausible. Half the Empire was tentatively collaborating with Pizarro's usurpation of Atahualpa. Throw out the idea of 'rebellious oppressed natives' leading the charge akin to the Aztecs. If anything I think the idea gets horribly overhyped. In fact, let's play with labels the...

  18. Save the Spanish Empire

    Not sure about how, but I think the Bourbon reforms need to go far harder in enforcing the destruction of trade barriers between colonies, and an expansion of intercolonial infrastructure to enable economic interdependence among the entire entity. Unlike the British Empire, it's largely all in...

  19. Unique scenarios for Latin America

    Tupac Amaru II is a good one because it's almost concurrent with the American Revolutionary War. You could have them happen simultaneously, bleed into each other, etc. It also sets the stage for a drastically different Latin America going forwards even 20 years from the PoD. Likely to see a lot...

  20. Túpac Amaru escaped the Spanish?

    I missed your post at first And I don't think so. They'd fear that exact scenario and would likely continue to allocate resources to securing the city to deny the possibility of another Quechua revolt
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