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  1. Successful Luso-Sundanese alliance

    Interestingly enough, despite this being an event of fairly well-known allohistorical potential that is frequently discussed as part of broader AH scenarios, we seem to never have made a dedicated thread about it. The Kingdom of Sunda was the last major Hindu-Buddhist power in Java, comprising...

  2. Portuguese North America from the Pacific

    I have recently become obsessed with exploring the possibility of some kind of Portuguese retaliation to Spanish claims on Southeast Asia following the Magellan expedition of 1519-1522. For most of the 1520s, Spain claimed the right to colonise the east indies because they had been able to...

  3. Reza Shah Pahlavi dies in 1931

    Reza Shah Pahlavi, the second to last monarch of Iran, was an interesting and colorful figure. His historical legacy is decidedly more positive than that of his son, and he is seem by some as an Ataturk-like figure for Iran, a great modernizer. However, in terms of practical long-term results...

  4. Dihya's Berber Kingdom after a victory against the Umayyads

    Dihya was a Berber queen from the Aurès mountains in modern Algeria who notably dealt the Umayyad Caliphate a harsh defeat at the Battle of Meskiana (698). After this, she apparently ruled the entire Mahgreb for about five years, but her decision to adopt scorched earth policies as prevention...

  5. Diogo de Teive discovers the Americas in the 1452

    Diogo de Teive was a Portuguese navigator who, in 1451/1452, embarked on an expedition to explore the Atlantic Ocean west of Terceira island. This resulted in the discovery of Corvo and Flores, the two westernmost of the Azorean islands. Some rumors also say that he may have sighted North...

  6. Portuguese conquest of the Incan Empire from the East

    I will preface this by saying that what I am about to propose is ASB, but only slightly more so than the actual OTL conquest of the Incas. One of my favourite historical curiosities is the fact that when Portugal and Spain divided the world between them, they forgot to account for the fact that...

  7. Republic of China under Chen Cheng

    In an epic 2017 thread that sadly didn't take off, forum legend David T (may he rest in Peace) discussed potential replacements for nationalist Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek were he to have died during a Japanese bombardment in Burma in 1942. Future Premier Chen Cheng seemed like one of...

  8. WI: Reversed Portuguese and Dutch East Indies

    Just a little idea that had been going around through my head. During the Dutch-Portuguese War of 1598-1663, the Dutch managed to replace the Portuguese in roughly half of the former State of India. What if they had taken roughly the other half instead? I think there is actually a surprisingly...

  9. Additional Portuguese and Spanish colonies without the treaty of Zaragoza

    Even though both Portugal and Spain were well aware that the earth was round when they the Treaty of Tordesillas, they somehow forgot to mention it, and that resulted in some... curious occurrences a few years down the line. In the 1520s, the so called "Moluccas issue" emerge when Spain claimed...

  10. Minimally restricted immigration to the U.S.

    So, I came across this (rather ideologically motivated and not particularly plausible but still rather interesting) AH write-up from a libertarian website that imagines a timeline where the US Supreme Court rules against immigration restrictions in the late 19th century: Now, IOTL the Chae...

  11. Australia settled by American loyalists and coolies

    In 1783, American loyalist James Matra petitioned to the British crown for the establishment of a colony in New South Wales, Australia. This of course, a mere 5 years before British colonization began IOTL, but what is interesting is that Matra's plan appeared to be very different from the form...

  12. WI: Portuguese merchant republic in 1385

    Ok, here's an idea that I have. Maybe it's not super-likely, but it is, at least, interesting. What if, after being acclaimed king by the Cortes of Coimbra and achieving a decisive victory against Castile at the battle of Aljubarrota, king John I of Portugal had died without heirs at some point...

  13. Japan under the Taira clan

    This a a fairly obvious divergence that for some reason doesn't get talked about much. What if the Tairan clan had managed to consolidate control over the Japanese government in the 12th century? The specific POD could be a Taira victory in the Genpei war or, alternatively, Kiyomori killing...

  14. AHC/WI: Centralized Japan

    There have been countless threads in this forum about the possibility of a much earlier expansionist (or at least non-isolationist )Japan. However, a frequent problem with most of these threads is that people always focus on the Sengoku and Edo periods (or in an hypothetical alternate shogunate...

  15. AHC: Maximum scientific and technological progress possible in the 20th century

    So, once in a while we get a thread about the possibilities and implications of certain scientific discoveries or technological developments happening earlier than IOTL. However, I feel that a significant draw back of these threads is that nothing in science exists in isolation, so by...

  16. AHC/WI: Stable Republic of China after 1912

    With a POD after its creation on January 1st 1912, make the Republic of China stabilise and maintain control over all territories held by the Qing at the time of the Xinhai revolution. Some questions to guide the discussion: Would getting rid of Yuan Shikai (say he has a heart attack shortly...

  17. WI: Yamato-Baekje at the battle of Baekgang

    In 660 the Three Kingdoms period of Korean history ended with the conquest of the kingdom of Baekje by the kingdom of Silla and their Tang Chinese allies. While king Uija was captured and taken to China, one of his sons, Buyeo Pung, managed to escape to allied Japan and returned three years...

  18. AHC: English written with Chinese characters

    After finding this interesting youtube video (btw, there are subtitles), I decided this might make a fun little AHC. With no POD restrictions whatsoever as long as you don't resort to ASB, make English (or some variety of it) be written with Chinese characters and adopt a large number of...

  19. AHC: More european-founded Asian colonies

    Once in a while we have discussions of how we could get (East) Asian countries such as China and Japan to establish colonies like the Europeans (without counting Japan's heavy handed and far too late attempts), but most often we run into the problem of lack of motivation. Here, I would like...

  20. WI: Buddhist and (partially?) sedentary Gokturks

    Founded by the Ashina clan of the Gokturks (or "Celestial Turks") the Second Turkic Khaghanate was a central (east) asian empire which coexisted with Tang Dynasty China. From what we know, the Gokturks of this period had a hum.... complicated relationship with the Tang, as they were adamant...
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