culture

There are many timelines dedicated to the victory of the Reds in the Cold War. All of them assess the fate of the world and humanity in different ways, but they all missed an important part of people's lives - culture (in the broadest sense of the word). In fact, many omit the "soul" of a...

The fan application to the timeline - To Ourselves, To New Paganism As you probably know in the eighth-ninth centuries Ab urbe condita (using Roman chronology to avoid confusion), the process of mixing and philosophical rethinking of old religions began. In essence, a modern religious...

Obviously you couldn't have all of India and Iran have the same culture, it's simply not possible, but it should be possible for their cultures to remain much more united than OTL, right?

Why did many ancient cultures have a cult of immortality. I mean the Britons had naked warriors who would run out to battle wearing nothing but shorts. The Dacians and Thracians had Falx and Rhomphilia warriors who would run out wearing nothing but pants. I've read that Gauls, Berbers, Iranians...

Shoegazing is a derivate genre of rock music whose distinct characteristics are: -echoey, word-stretching vocals -distorted guitars with long riffs and feedback, which combine with the vocals to create a "mixed, melty" sound. The term was coined by british music critics to ridicule the bands...

Basically the objective of this challenge is to make Italy a germanic region by the 21st century, independent of which government or country that holds the peninsula, the PoD is the lombard conquest of italy Just a reminder, from wikipedia: "Over time, the Lombards gradually adopted Roman...

One of the most enduring and effective weapons of human history is the bow and arrow. The oldest archaeological evidence of this weapon is 10,000 years ago. That's a pretty young date compared to Out of Africa, which varies between 125,000 and 50,000 years ago. By then, the only projectile...

So in another thread I put forward the idea of a Roman Empire that survived 1204, and then maintained/built upon their Ayyubid alliance to reclaim Cilicia and then Anatolia. This was then followed up with the possibility of the Roman Empire becoming the Mediterranean equivalent of Moscovy - a...

A little question based on pop culture and culture overall. In a world without Hitler and without an european WWII, what are your most confident thoughts for differences in TTL's culture, at least for a short time frame after Hitler's supposed death in prison or whatever? The ones i can mostly...

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was born kicking and screaming in a modestly-sized apartment in New York City on October 27, 1858. The ten-pound baby make the building quake, the nurse said. Otherwise it was an OK day. “Teddy” was a force to be reckoned with from the very beginning. His mother, Martha...

I've been writing a timeline that I'm making a story in for a while. The Point of Divergence is that a Mongol ruler who was not Genghis Khan came to power and made many different decisions, such as not conquering the Islamic Caliphate and putting all of their resources from China and Korea into...

(Skip the monster below, if you want to get to the actual question.) Sorry if I come off as anti English, but I often find the apologists for British imperialism as being insufferable, and I suspect that it's mostly Americans doing the apologistm. Even my school, which is mostly Mexican...

In real life, most Americans claim German heritage, which is most likely mixed with other ethnicities like Irish and English, but people seem to be reclaiming German heritage at the moment. Meanwhile, although Italian Americans are a large group at around 17 million, they don't seem to be as...

A "what if" question about the repercussions on this subject, what does happen when almost all the European Jews have been killed under Nazi Germany? Especially on the topics mentioned below: Zionism. Legitimised in a gradual sense towards the Orthodox Jewish populations since the 1920s, what...

So, i am here to admit something. I'm a brony-lite, which means that i like My Little Pony alongside other pop culture stuff such as Star Wars and... Well, this. Alternate history and cartography. So i've been imagining a different world. I've imagined a society with a "new" cultural group, the...

During the Great Depression, when it still looked like communism may indeed be a superior choice compared to market capitalism, thousands of Americans moved to the Soviet Union (can't find an exact figure; one article I found says that ~18 000 made the move in the 1930s). In time, these...

Everybody knows the stereotypic Chinese restaurant architecture, but this style represents at best Qing dynasty culture. How did Han dynasty buildings look like?