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Your challenge is pretty much exactly what the title says: prevent the Kingdom of Tungning from getting annexed by the Qing dynasty or another power for as long as you can.

The domestication of the ostrich, first by the bantu of the Nile River Basin and later among |kung tribes in the Kigala region [OTL Botswana] is generally regarded as a turning point for humans, with its eggs, flesh, and flexible diet allowing for a high-yield domesticate that allowed the...

Within a century of the death of Muhammad, the newly Islamized Arabs had managed to conquer vast territories. In the process, they had destroyed the Sasanian Empire, and if they'd been slightly luckier, they could very well have done the same to the Byzantine Empire. Now, of course, there are...

Your challenge is simple: with any POD after the establishment of Liberia in 1847, make it considerably more successful than it was IOTL.

Pretty much exactly what the title says: make Indonesia much more powerful and prominent than it was IOTL. Bonus points for colonies.

So Fascist Russia has been talked about quite a bit, and sometimes it has been said that it would be substantially weaker than the USSR and not exactly the powerhouse that people would think it is. Basically the challenge today is to make it so that not only Russia goes fascist but also that it...

In this Alternative history challenge what is require to change so that nuclear power battleship can come into existent? Any country could build it and it could only be one of it kind but it have to be built. For all I know it could be ineffective when it was built whether through country...

Just as the tin says, make American football, as in the NFL, a regular sport in the Olympics. Extra points if you get this to happen post-1970 NFL-AFL merger.

Much like the Greeks, the Phoenicians left an indelible mark on the ancient world, and their influence has continued to the present day. The most prominent example of this is in the words we type, which had their roots in the Phoenician alphabet. But while Greek culture survives today (albeit in...

Due to a multitude of factors surrounding their environment, australian aborigines never domesticated any fauna or flora outside of dingoes (not that this degrades their cultures in anyway), but the goal of this thread to have at least one tribe domesticate any species of animal, whether spider...

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create as the tin states, that is to construct a sedentary civilization wherein the ruler of a nation at least in terms of title is an object or construction. Possible objects/constructs that would be accepted for this challenge: -A statue -A...

You may or may not have heard of English as She Is Spoke, a notoriously bad Portuguese phrasebook (which can be read here) written by a man named Pedro Carolino but falsely credited to another one named José da Fonseca, who wrote a more more accurate phrasebook. The book contains gems like "I...

What would it take for Cyrix Corporation, a CPU manufacturer, to survive to the present day or at least the 2010s?

In general today, most democracies in in the Americas use a presidential system, while most European countries use a parliamentary system. There are some notable exceptions, but that is the general trend. What could be changed in history that would reverse this, causing most American countries...

The goal of this thread is to wank history (or at least western history) so that rabbits are viewed as disgusting animals, and calling someone a rabbit or hare is to basically call them evil and treacherous; likewise, make it so that snakes are viewed as cute creatures often kept as pets...

In this AHC how much things is needed to change in order for Japanese empire to be an Allied power in world war 2? They still have to be their imperial Japan self with militarist in charge and their war crimes have to still happen. Can this happen through non ASB change in history?

Find a way for Germany to join the USSR, or at least for as much of Germany as possible to become a part of it. POD could be before or after WW2. How does this benefit them and not benefit them? How does the rest of the world react to this? What would the Cold War look like, if it does happen...

With a POD after 1900, your challenge is for the swastika, instead of being seen as a symbol of fascism (or to be more precise, Nazism), is adopted by communists as their symbol and be identified with communism. Bonus points if you get the swastika fill the role of the hammer and sickle is IOTL...

Bonus points if you have Central Powers America in the alt ww1

The republic of Lanfang was a state established by Chinese miners on the island of Borneo. It was one of, if not the first republic in East Asia and possibly the first modern democratic republic in the world. OTL Lanfang was conquered by the Dutch in 1884. Can you keep them independent for...