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  1. Cuāuhtemōc

    Keraunos does not assassinate Seleucus

    I'm just pitching an idea that I might one day explore in my spare time. and asking for criticisms whether it's good enough to even turn into a TL. In the Wikipedia article for Ptolemy Keraunos, he strikes me as a fairly interesting personality with some AH potential. He was Ptolemy I's eldest...
  2. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC: Preserving Roman Identity in the West

    I understand the gist that while the Western Empire collapsed, there's some semblance of Roman identity that lingered for a while before being subsumed by the post-Roman barbarian states, not to mention the cultural and linguistic legacy left behind? I know that as recent as the 20th century...
  3. Cuāuhtemōc

    Abbasid Restoration in Egypt

    After the Mongols had sacked Baghdad, the remaining Abbasids had holed themselves up in Egypt where they remained only as religious authorities as opposed to the secular power held by the Mamelukes. How is it possible for the Abbasids' authority to resurge to a point where the Caliph can usurp...
  4. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC: Spread the use of native surnames in the Americas

    Brazil seems to be one of the few, if only country in the Americas where quite a few old-stock colonial families decided to abandon their Portuguese surnames and take on last names derived from the indigenous language ie Tupi (locations, pre-Columbian tribes, fruits, prominent native chiefs...
  5. Cuāuhtemōc

    Silly little idea: Hellenistic Egyptian republic

    In my readings of Ptolemaic Egypt, I'm sensing there was this weird, undefined relationship between the king and the de jure Greek cities in Egypt: Alexandria, Naucratis and Ptolemais. Egypt was considered the property of the pharaoh, administered by royal bureaucrats and yet the cities seemed...
  6. Cuāuhtemōc

    Timur in Europe

    The Ottoman Empire suffered a catastrophic defeat at Ankara in 1402 by Timur. It was due to the intervention of Venetian and Genovese ships that the remnants of the Ottoman army could escape across the Dardanelles and arrive in Europe. What if the Italian ships decide to not give sanctuary to...
  7. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC: Abbasid restoration in Egypt

    With any POD from 1261 onwards, have the Abbasid Caliphs in Cairo somehow have a resurgence in power and usurp control from the Mamelukes.
  8. Cuāuhtemōc

    Neoliberal Democrats, Populist Republicans

    With a point of divergence between the 1940s and now, you need to make the Democrats completely embracing neoliberalism, and increasingly viewed as very socially conscious but pro-market and the Republicans as the party of the socially conservative working stiff.
  9. Cuāuhtemōc

    Hatuey unites native Cubans against Spanish

    IOTL he failed to rally the native peoples to his cause and he was captured and executed. What if he had persuaded the native Cubans into joining his cause in expelling the Spanish from the island, killing Diego Velazquez in the process? Cuba was a springboard for later conquistadors like Juan...
  10. Cuāuhtemōc

    Maya/Mesoamerican Colonization of the Caribbean

    There's strong evidence to believe that the Taino societies and the Mesoamericans (Maya especially) had some degree of cultural and goods exchange during pre-Columbian times. With a undetermined POD, preferably around the Classic Maya Collapse in the 8th to 9th centuries, is it possible for...
  11. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC: YUGE(r) Filipino diaspora

    In OTL, there are more than 10 million Filipinos and their descendants living outside of the Philippines in multiple countries around the world. How can we increase this to 40-60 million people? Any pre-1900 POD is acceptable here and extra points to anyone who can plausibly explain how the...
  12. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC: Latin American Spanish dialects recognized as separate languages

    It seems odd that after 524 years of Spanish being in the New World, the language hasn't drifted into multiple new languages? One would figure that geography, politics, and influence from the native languages would've encouraged the development of daughter languages or creoles. You have...
  13. Cuāuhtemōc

    Scenario: Seleucus conquers Macedon; Celts invade overextended empire

    So I was dreaming... What happens next? How would this affect world history?
  14. Cuāuhtemōc

    Julian the Apostate resettles Salian Franks in Britain

    Considering that the Franks surrendered in Roman terms, what if Julian the Apostate decides to send the survivors to boost up Roman defenses in the island? Perhaps along the Saxon Shore or in Hadrian's Wall?
  15. Cuāuhtemōc

    WI: Successful Celtic conquest of the Balkans

    The fourth and third centuries BCE was a time of great migration and movement of Celtic peoples, especially towards the east in the Balkans. The political situation was ideal for Celtic invasion with Alexander's empire being torn into pieces by his officers and the Macedonian core left weak and...
  16. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC: Latin American country predominately made up of Arab descendants

    It's no exaggeration that there's a yuge Arab diaspora in Latin America numbering in the millions. There's no greater success story amongst immigrant communities than them. With a POD in the 1820s, have an Latin American country(ies) attract enough Arab immigration that combined full or partial...
  17. Cuāuhtemōc

    Condoleezza Rice & George Bush married

    I was thinking about Rice's little Freudian slip when she accidentally referred to George W. Bush as her husband and wondered what would happen if Bush and Condi Rice had married. In such a timeline, would George Bush even be involved in politics while married to a African American woman? How...
  18. Cuāuhtemōc

    Post-Roman Punic language

    Assuming that Islam doesn't come to be and the Arabs remain divided into warring tribes in the Arabian peninsula, what are the chances that the Punic language survives under an unstable E. Roman government ruling North Africa? There's mention of people do using the language around Augustine's...
  19. Cuāuhtemōc

    Alternate Country Names

    No country's name is set in stone. In another timeline, the OTL country France could've been named as Gaul or Neustria or Romania being named as Dacia or Caparthia. What names are plausible enough to be used to refer to countries?
  20. Cuāuhtemōc

    AHC:Irish-like situation for Greece

    With a POD starting in 1453, make it so that the Greek language is spoken only by a small minority (10-15%) of Greek people by TTL 2016. Bonus points if Greece still manages to become independent from Ottoman Turkey and despite all attempts to revive Greek, Turkish becomes the de facto language.
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