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  1. Rdformed Germanic paganism

    How might Germanic paganism look like if It reformed itself as an Axial Age religion?

  2. How much power can the Pope gain?

    In the Middle Ages the Papacy actually wielded significant temporal power but faced w backladh from secular power and its power stopped growing. Could the power of the Papacy keep growing to such an extent that the Catholic clergy becomes THE dominant political force in Europe and either makes...

  3. WI: Ahmed Ibn Hanbal becomes a rationalist

    IOTL Ibn Hanbal became a staunch orthodox Sunni. What if the Sunni orthodoxy simply did not resonate with him over the the course of his education and he became a Mutazilite instead? He would become an equivalent of Thomas Aquinas

  4. AHC: China-like india

    With a PoD in Antiquity, make India develop civilizationally in a China-like manner, with a large, stable, empire before 0 AD, a bureaucraf-official class and a dominancae of unity over disunity.

  5. WI: COVID 19 as deadly as Black Death

    What happens f the current epidemic was as lethal as the Black Death?

  6. AHC: a Gallo Italic Itsly

    With a PoD after 1000 AD make a Gallo Italic language the official language in Italy instead of It being Tuscan

  7. WI; Martin Luther King not killed

    What if he wasn't murdered? Assume as of 2020 he is still alive. Would African Americans be better off/

  8. DBWI; Britain a world empire?

    IOTL Spain became an uncontested colonial power in control of both Americas after the Spanish devastated and conquered England and later Ireland. Could England become a colonial power? It had a rather small population for it's size and it would have to compete with Spain and France. It sounds...

  9. WI: Jewish instead of Christian Europe

    For some reason Christianity never rises and the main religion of Europe becomes some preachy brand of Judaism at the same time as IOTl (4th century) Obviously there is no Catholic Church. Rather, there is a network of synagogues and yeshivas teaching the Torah in Hebrew in the Western Roman...

  10. WI: Paper and printing press invented in the Roman Empire?

    Let's say paper and movable type printing are both invented in Rome at some point between 0 and 100 AD, would they see wideapread use? Would there be an impact on society as a whole/

  11. DBWI: No Islamic Industrial Revolution

    IOTL the raise of science in the Islamic world in early 9th century led to exponential, ever accelerating progress that ultimately culminated in the beginning of Industrial Revolution around 1300. Actually first time when such a thing happened in history. What if it never happened? What if the...

  12. WI: A super-competent Nicholas II

    IOTL Nicholas II turned out to be a rather average ruler. What if he just happened to be at genius level when it comes to politics? Someone in the same league as Charlemagne, Elizabeth I or Otto von Bismarck a the least? So both someone with high levels of charisma and very competent.

  13. Fate of East Slavic languages if Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seizes Russia

    In 1612 Poland was actually quite close to conquering Russia. If it did manage to conquer Russia, what do you think will happen to East Slavic languages? Tsardom of Russia in early 1600s had already almost as many people as the entire Poland-Lithuania and Russian nobility would resist...

  14. AHC: Earliest possible scientific and industrial revolution

    After establishment of major civilizations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley) what do you think is the earliest possible moment when a scientific and industrial revolution could have taken place?

  15. WI: French Americas

    Lets say Columbus is funded by France instead of Spain. And both Aztecs and Inca are defeated and conquered by the French instead of Spaniards. France had several advantages over Spain. It had a population roughly twice that of Spain, a more modern economy as well as being the most centralized...

  16. WI: No Shia Islam

    What if for some reason,w Shiism simply never rose as a religion and Sunni Orthodoxy remained more or less the only form of Islam?

  17. WI: the Black Death in the Islamic World

    So a scenerio At the height of the Islamic Golden Age the Black Death hits the Islamic World instead of Europe So 1. I choose 1037 as the begininng to coincide with Ibn Sina's lifetime (just because) 1. Anywhere from Iran to Morocco between 30 and 50% of the population dies, aided by higher...

  18. No Kiev pocket

    What if Red Army managed to evacuate most of their trooos in time and Germans took less than 100k prisoners of war instead of 600k?

  19. Explain an AH photo

    45th President of the United States, William Sanford *Bill Nye the Science Guy* Nye on an official photo, 2016 https://ibb.co/L0zCQk3

  20. WI: Buddhism instead of Islam

    What if the areas of the world that are currently Muslim become Buddhist isntead? So, all countries from Morocco to Pakistan to Kazakhstan are majority Buddhist and India has a Buddhist minority rather than Muslim one.
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