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  1. KingOnTheEdge

    AHC/WI: Reverse Roll of West Francia and East Francia

    Your goal is to make Germany remain a united polity while West Francia/France/Gaul conquers Italy and becomes a hot mess of disorganized duchies and princedoms and whathaveyous Perhaps Louis The Pious only has two sons, so the German King gets the Netherlands and some of the west but the west...
  2. AHC: More Surviving Paleo-Hispanic languages

    Aside from Proto-Basque - which survives in the form of its descendant, Basque - all Paleo-Hispanic languages have gone extinct with no descendants. Your challenge is to have more of these languages survive, or at least have surviving descendants.
  3. AHC: Save a child/children in history

    Come up with a scenario when a notable child/children were killed or died, and make it so they don't die. What is the consequences of their survival
  4. AHC: Make children the top members of society.

    You read the title. Let's see what you can do. Just...nothing too dark, ok? I don't like children dying.
  5. DracoLazarus

    AHC : United Kingdom of the High Countries

    Since in after a fashion one can draw comparisons between the trio of Luxembourg-Belgium-Netherlands and Liechtenstein-Switzerland-Austria, your challenge is to, at some point, create an United Kingdom of the High Countries at some point after 1815. The required territorial assets are : OTL...
  6. KingOnTheEdge

    AHC: Create A Danish Colonial Empire Comparable to Benelux

    Otl, the scandinavian nations never really had colonial empires. Sweden I get considering it had a Russia and a PLC and a Prussia-- point being Sweden had its hands full as a land empire and didn't need to expand overseas. But Denmark-Norway? Their biggest threat was Sweden itself, as well as...
  7. JMT

    AHC: Charleston, South Carolina is the US's largest city

    As it says, your challenge is to make Charleston the US's largest city, around the size of OTL New York. The POD must be after 1781, and the country must remain unified after the Civil War.
  8. Aloha

    AHC: French-Russian-German Alliance

    Challenge here today is to make it so that these countries are allied or at least friendly towards each other by 1900 (I'm of course referring to the Russian Empire and German Empire when I mean Germany and Russia). Bonus points if you could get this to happen before or just after the...
  9. KingOnTheEdge

    AHC: A British "Charlemagne'

    Few kings have had as successsful a rule as Karl The Great of Francia. Conquering from Catalonia to Bavaria, inspiring a burst of literacy and trade. Father of France and Germany and the first of many Holy Roman Emperors. But there remained two parts of western europe that Karl didn't subsume...
  10. KingOnTheEdge

    AHC: Save The Ottoman Empire

    otl, the period after the Siege of Vienna up to 1918 was bad for the ottomans- repulsed by their catholic rivals, loss of the balkans, greece, and the whole of north africa (not in that order), finally breathing it's last in 1918 for Ataturk to come in and create the modern republic. Your...
  11. AHC: Less Corrupt Illinois

    (Inspired by this thread) Illinois is one of the most notoriously corrupt states in America, and had serious rot (such as electoral fraud) even before it became a state. Your challenge is to have Illinois be considerably less corrupt than IOTL.
  12. AHC: Less corrupt Louisiana

    Louisiana has long had a reputation as one of the most corrupt states in America, and not without reason. Your challenge is to have it be significantly less corrupt.
  13. AHC/WI: A Sedentary Civilisation on the Juan Fernández Islands

    For those not in the know, the Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited trio of islands 670 km off Chile, consisting of Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara. They weren't discovered until November 1574 by their namesake spanish explorer, and never had any indigenous people...
  14. Paolo Giusti

    AHC: post-1942 Luftwaffe 'sanity options'

    Redux edition of this https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-1935-42-luftwaffe-sanity-options.433685/ POD: You are at Udet's funeral, 17th of November 1941. During the wake, Hitler comes to you and ask "My Luftwaffe has been destroyed but these treacherous Generals! You are my most...
  15. AHC: Muslim Iberia, Christian Anatolia

    Your challenge is to have Iberia be mostly Muslim and Anatolia be mostly Christian, rather than the other way around as it is IOTL.
  16. AHC: Surviving Anatolian languages

    Your challenge is to have the Anatolian language family survive to the present day.
  17. AHC: Wank Sogdia

    Your challenge is to have Sogdia be considerably more successful than it was IOTL.
  18. AHC: Jain African Country

    Your challenge is to have a majority Jain country somewhere in Africa. And yes, I was inspired by this thread.
  19. Whiteshore

    AHC: Latin Empire conquered by Bulgaria

    Your challenge, with a POD after 1204, is to have the Latin Empire's fall be brought about not by the three remnants of the Byzantine Empire which arose after the Fourth Crusade (Nicaea, Epirus, or Trebizond) but by the Second Bulgarian Empire with a Bulgarian dynasty replacing the Latins as the...
  20. Hindustani Person

    AHC:Make one of the Chinese warlord states survive until today.

    The Warlord Period is probably my favourite period of history to research. The warlords themselves are interesting characters, and with a nationalist victory they could have survived a bit longer. So my challenge to you is to make the Warlord states survive (in some form or another) as...
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