development

First some context: The eradication of diseases has been one of the triumphs of the modern era, and as humanity progresses attention has turned to various tropical diseases as future targets for elimination. Compared to diseases like HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis; neglected tropical diseases...

Paladin Wulfen Productions presents... Elysium..., to Roman America. A production that will try to last as long as the support it receives. Although this production uses recycled material from a previously made one, it is focused with greater dedication and exploration apart from a greater use...

Could South Asia rival East Asian economies if it had played it's cards right? Much of South Asia did have a well established system of governance and good transportation systems relative to much of Asia. Burma and Sri Lanka were better off than South Korea in the 1950s, but all this changed due...

Chapter 1: The Fall of An Empire *** Chapter 8 of Last Empire of Europe: The Soviet Union by Alexei Trymoshenko “The reporters and officials of Moscow gathered at Vnukovo airport after the end of the August Coup in the early hours of August 22 to welcome the president on his return from his...

Russia Resurgent Chapter 1: 1996 Russian Elections Russia and the World held their breath as on 3rd July, the results of the 1996 elections came in. Many people today even wonder why Yeltsin even tried. Under him Russia had become the butt of all Western Country’s jokes and corruption, crime...

Is it possible for example for an OTL-like timeline to develop VHS, but never develop DVD? Develop audio cassettes, but never develop mp3?

This question is more complex than the title makes it sound. On one hand, there are many people who have said over the years that Russia is nothing but forest and tundra. This certainly wasn't true of the Russian Empire, which controlled the breadbasket of Ukraine and territories as diverse as...

As we all know the French created a Vietnamese rural proletariat in Indochina through the fish salt tax. This was equivalent to the 18th and 19th century enclosures in the UK. To a certain extent the Vietnamese revolution was chartism writ large complete with Guardian buying liberals cheating it...

Excluding the ethnicities from the discussion, what would the ideal borders for various European countries be? What interests me is having most of Europe as developed as it's possible. What would the optimal borders be? What about natural resources? How much of the land would they need to make...

Would it be possible for Poland, or any other Eastern European state, really, to have an area equivalent to Western Europe's highly urbanized area, full of manufacturies, in, say, High Middle Ages and beyond? How would it look like? Where would it be located? Pommerania, Prussia? What about...

Hello fellow alt-historians, You might have seen my post regarding the Holy Britannian Empire in my World of Nightrise project. On this map, I have depicted london as it was in the County of London (OTL 1889-1965; TTL 1869-present*), however, given that the "modern day" year in which the world...

Hello, random reader. You might've heard of the name "Nightrise" on this forum before. Or you've seen one of my Greater Germany maps and have somehow stumbled upon this. I've been posting some maps regarding Nightrise over the year to remind people that the project is still alive. I've been...

Going through my foreign relations class, we were told to make an essay over an article mentioning China. A comparison, postulated by sinologist Joseph Needham, between China and Europe, in questions of technology, resources, and development. In short, why did China not expand into a hegemonic...

With a POD no later than 1900, how effective could Russian Empire/Soviet Union (whichever one works for the scenario) agriculture become? With what reforms? What maximum population could be supported by a Soviet Union with highly developed agriculture? What should have changed to prevent the...

What would it take for this to happen? And will it really make a difference once Europeans come along in the 1820s? Try to make the scenario as interesting as possible, please.