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  1. WI: Military takeover preempts the Third Reich

    I've been re-reading Richard Evans' Third Reich trilogy and was once again struck by this passage from the conclusion of the first volume: It's not hard to come up with a variety of PODs that could have set off a decline in Nazi fortunes. One I've been mulling over is the possibility of...

  2. AHC/WI: Habsburg Germany

    Like the title says, with a POD in the 19th century, what would be the most likely way for us to see a unified German Empire with a Habsburg Monarch, and what would that state look like? How would it differ from the Prussian Germany of OTL? How do international relations shake out given that...

  3. WI: Peter III is not a poorly-adjusted prussophile?

    So, what if Peter III grows up to be a smart and energetic ruler who is actually concerned with the lives of his own people and the success of his own empire and not a socially awkward Fredrick the Great fanboy? The Seven Years War obviously goes very differently, but what else? Does Russia...

  4. WI: Anna Komnene Inherits Without Incident

    Let's posit a scenario in which Anna Komnene is the only surviving child of Alexios at the time of his death and is thus the undoubted heir apparent. Do we know enough about her to make some predictions about how her reign would have differed from her brother's? Obviously she would have to share...

  5. WI: Russian Serfs Emancipated with Private Property

    When the Serfs were emancipated in 1861 the land that they had traditionally farmed was given into the hands of the local peasant communes instead of to individual peasants as private property. In addition, the peasants were forced to pay their former Landlords for the land over a period of...

  6. AHC: Non-Spanish Reconquista

    Your challenge is to find a way for a people (preferably christian, though it's not absolutely necessary), conquered by the early caliphates, to lead a successful rebellion and eventually expel the invaders from the area it claims as its own in a manner somewhat similar to the Spanish during the...

  7. WI: Alexius gets exactly what he wants

    IOTL, Alexius's call to the west for expert knights to help fight the Seljuks was answered with a huge unruly crusader army, what happens if, instead, he gets exactly what he hoped for? Long-term the crusades eventually doomed the Byzantine empire but without the massive distraction to the...

  8. DBWI: Velikiy Knyaz Yaroslavl Threatens War with Persia

    This from the Caernarfon Times: Well, it looks like things haven't cooled down after all, we may well be about to enter the first large war of the 21st century. It seems to me that if Persia remains alone, it should be defeated with some speed, but if it manages to drag Delhi in, and maybe...

  9. How big can Russian America get?

    As the title says, how much territory in the Americas can Russia control? How might Russian relationships with the natives differ from those of other european powers? Might some loyal tribes be turned into "cossacks of the americas?" Your thoughts please!

  10. AHC: Coptic Kingdom of Egypt

    Is there any way that a successful Coptic Egyptian Kingdom could exist for a reasonable amount of time, and have some credible power.

  11. Latest possible succession crisis

    Many of the wars of the 18th century were fought over succession rights, but by the 19th century these tended not to happen. The closest thing to a succession crisis was the Franco-Prussian war, but what would be the latest date at which a full-blown "war of Austrian Succession" style event take...

  12. Die Wacht Am Rhein

    I've made an attempt at writing an TL based on speculations in several threads about the results of a Successful Austria in the Austro-Prussian war. Nineteenth century warfare is not my area of expertise, and if I've messed anything up, I would be more than happy to fix it. Die Wacht Am Rhein...

  13. WI Haile Selasie never deposed?

    As it says in the title, what if the Ethiopian Emperor is never deposed, and the country never goes communist?

  14. Peace treaty for successful Austria

    Assuming that Austria wins the Austro-Prussian war, what it the peace treaty likely to look like? I've read that the Austrians expected to get Silesia if they were successful, but what about the other German States. Could Saxony regain part of its old territories? And what is to become of Venetia?

  15. WI: Catholic Sweden

    Sweden was the first country to become Protestant. What if it remained Catholic? How might this affect the Protestant revolution, and European politics?

  16. Lasting Dominion of Soissons?

    Is there any way this could be possible? What would the effects be if it were possible?

  17. WI: Church Independant of State?

    Many early Christian Theologians were highly opposed to the idea of the Church becoming too closely tied to Secular powers. What if their view had won out, and the Church refused to allow itself to become a state religion of anywhere, and instead worked by itself with the people?

  18. Lasting Mexican Empire

    What POD would be needed to cause either the first or second Mexican empire to last to the present day without becoming a republic? Bonus points if the empire retains or regains its original borders. Muchos bonus points if the empire is more powerful than the US.

  19. Latest Possible Catholic/Orthodox Reunification

    This is a simple question: When is the latest time that these two Churches could achieve full reunification. Not merely a partial unification like with the Byzantine Catholic church, but a fairly universally acknowledged unification.

  20. Justinian III Holy Roman Emperor

    This is a heavily revised addition of my early TL Holy Roman Emperor Justinian III and his Crusades. And by heavily revised I mean that it has the same POD, and some early similarities, but will get very different very fast. And so I give you: Part 1: The reign of Leo IV and the Rise of...
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