americas

This is a question designed to help me write my timeline (it is called When the Tlingit Embraced the Seas, and you can read it if you want to). What I want to know is this: If Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest had better seafaring technology and more advanced technology in general...

The idea is basically to make a pod or mini pod whose objective is to create the best case scenario (realistically speaking) possible for Brazil Note: the pod can be made from the colonial era and have a limit data to modern days Note/2:english isn't my first language so i ask for your pardon...

I made this for school a while back, and i think it might be worth posting here. Obviously it has it's issues, but it's a start The Western Empire Survives BACKGROUND Before I dive into this story, I must disclaim that this is not a real analysis of “What if the Western Roman Empire...

First of all, this post covers a lot of stuff I think, so dont feel the need to address absolutely everything, I just feel theres a lot to speculate about here. Theres three different beasts being tackled here the way I reckon: The French losing their holdings in the 7 year war, the British...

What is the most likely scenario where one European country ends up controlling all of the Americas until at least the late 1700s. How do two entire continents under one flag develop from there? The first part of this scenario is the challenge I pose, and it can be done by any means. The second...

Let's suppose Portugal manages to enter a personal union with Leon instead of what happened in OTL. I won't discuss how plausible this scenario is. I'm more curious to know about what would happen specifically during the Age of Discovery and the colonization of America. Here is a map to what I...

When the Castilians permanently established contact between the old and new worlds, the inhabitants of the americas had several inherent disadvantages, perhaps the most notable being a lack of immunity to old war diseases. But, also of note was their lack of access to horses and livestock...

How would you picture alternate colonial empires in the Americas, from the 16th and 17th centuries onward? Either Italian, German, etc. Cristopher Columbus, for example, asked for financing from Genoa and Venice for his trip before going to Castile. Klein-Venedig (Welserland) was a German...

As we know, the Norse were great seafarers, sailing from the Baltic to the North Sea, all the way to Greenland. They also made it to Americas, mostly around modern Newfoundland, or as they possibly called it, Vinland. However, this didn't last long, as Norse settlement disappeared, possibly due...

Starting in 1492, what PODs could result in Spain colonizing less of the Americas? You can have some Native civilizations surviving, though due to disease it is likely that some regions would still be colonized as IOTL.

Alfonso IV of Portugal encouraged trade and exploration from 1325 to 1357. This led to the discovery of the Canary Islands (which Genoa already knew of), but Castile claim the islands as their’s. Assuming Alfonso IV was more passionate and aggressive in seafare exploration could this mean the...

Greetings, everyone. This thread is a replacement for the apparently concluded thread started in 2019 by Tempered Zen. I intend this thread to be a continuation of that earlier discussion, but in a forum with more impact and with greater longevity. Things to discuss in this thread (friendly...

I've read online that Cristopher Columbus sought financing for his project of reaching Asia in Genoa and Venice before going to Castille. Do you think the Genoese and the Venetians could have had conquered part of the Americas? Can you picture Italian colonial empires in both continents?

The first wave of European colonisation - or the Second Viking Age in North Europe - began with the Norwegian re-settlement of Vinland in the late 14th century. When King Håkon VI of Norway received a request to send a new bishop to Greenland in 1379, he decided to send an expedition to survey...

Jesus isn't born in 4 B.C.. Spain is still ruled by the Visigoths (not sure if still Germanic or nativized into Romanism) and the silk road is controlled by the Khans. Without the Christian-Muslim rivalry, would Western Europe have the same obsession with finding an alternative route they did...

The Spanish colonization of the Americas, including the conquests of the Inca, Aztecs and other natives brought great wealth and power to the Spanish Empire. However, that wealth was also a disadvantage, as all that silver caused economic inflation in the Spanish Empire. So what if, Spanish...

Hi there, long time lurker, first time poster. Even though I'm not a professional historian, work as a developer at the Google Collective, I've always liked to count myself as an avid history enthusiast and liked to think about how everything would've changed if some important event in...

We all know that Germany was united only in 1871 and after that it accumulated a fair-sized colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific. However, what if one or more German state pre-1871 successfully gained a colonial empire in the Americas. If the Netherlands, Denmark, and even Sweden were able...

As colonialism in the New World faded, most of the newly independent nations became monarchies, as in the Old World. There were notable exceptions, of course, but monarchism by and large carried the day. But what if most of the New World's states were republics?

Your challenge is to come up with a scenario where there's a country in the Americas with a mostly Muslim population. Bonus points if you can do it with a POD after 1492.