early modern period

I don't think I've ever seen this one done before. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who circumnavigated the world ... in service of Spain. His history in Portugal became rather turbulent: For the sake of this scenario, let's suppose Magellan and Manuel don't have a falling-out...

Heya! I've been trying to find a way for the Moors to set up their own state after the collapse of Granada in 1492, when they effectively lost statehood. IOTL, I've found two attempts at the establishment of a Morisco/Mudéjar state: The Morisco Revolt from 1568-71. The Moors rallied after...

Random as it may sound, I would find it very interesting to toy around with the idea of Myanmar/Burma converting to Islam. In our modern day, Myanmar is considered to be a Buddhist stronghold, but back in the day, the circumstances for it to adopt Islam were certainly there: To its west were the...

So as I was contemplating life and philosophy, I suddenly came upon a random althistory idea that I felt the need to explore: What if the fates of the Southern (Belgium) and Northern ("Holland") Netherlands were to be reversed? As in, the Spanish successfully reconquer the Northern Netherlands...

Unblighted Americas This is an alternate history scenario where England doesn’t colonize the (mainland) Americas, mainly focusing on North America. The name is a pun on blighty, a nickname for Britain, and unblighted, a word meaning to not have a negative effect on. This is because, without the...

"For he, Harri Tudur, the plucky gallant Welshman, under God's blessing, was destined to become King of England and Lord of Ireland on that faithful Year of Our Lord 1483." — Supposed Line from Henry VII (1593), George Shakespeare (1564 – 1634) [1] Hello dear reader, and welcome to my grand AH...

This AHC is for sharing your ideas on how to achieve alternate (that is, non-Ottoman) empires in the mediterranean basin and associated lands that are large or powerful. Earliest POD would be somewhere between late 1300s and early 1400s (to butterfly the Ottoman domination of course), but not so...

Basically between 1603 to 1625 James I otl tried to unify the English and Scottish churches and while he came close, he didn't manage to unify the Church of England and Scotland. How could James I accomplish this? What would be the repercussions of this? What would be the effects of it in Ireland?

Triumph of the House of Orange An alternate Dutch War of Independence Table of Contents Teaser - ¡Retirada! Part 0 - Setting the Stage (1363-1574) Chapter 1 - Legacy of the Bold Dukes (1363-1506) Chapter II - The Netherlands under Charles V (1506-1559) Chapter III - Warning Signs, The...

Since at least the mid-to-late 1800s, the most popular historical era in Western popular culture has been the Middle Ages, specifically the High Middle Ages from about 1000 to 1300. You know, swords and armor, knights, crusades, castles, kings, etc. Sometimes earlier things (like Arthurian...

What could've been an earlier date in European History when an Industrial Revolution could have occurred? For example, I remember reading that some French Monasteries, and the Venetian Arsenal have been getting close by the early 1200s towards a standardized proto-assembly line kind of...

So, as we all know, Central and Eastern Europe (e.g Hungary, the areas along the Danube, Poland, Belarus, and Western Ukraine) in the early modern period was eventually dominated by either the Ottomans, the Russians, or the subject of this thread, the Habsburgs. But it didn't have to turn out...

So I've lost interest in my other two timelines, so what else to do but start a new one? So, during the Anglo-French War of 1627-29, English privateer David Kirke captured the French colony of Québec. However, it just happened to be after the end of the war, so the colony was returned in the...

I'm not talking about Unitarian Universalism, but the more traditional Protestant religion developed in Transylvania in the 16th and 17th centuries. The main beliefs of Unitarians are: -God is the sole, indivisible creator and master of the Universe. He/she is perfect, omnipotent and...

János Arany, 19th century Hungarian poet wrote a trilogy of epic poems about the 14th century Hungarian knight, Miklós Toldi. The last part of the trilogy, Toldi Estéje "Toldi's Night" takes place at the very end of the 14th century, the titular character is an old man, months before his death...

I didn't think much about this topic before, but I remember reading a Back to the Future fanfic some years ago that takes place in 1666 London during the Great Fire. The blacksmith in the story (who is a Tannen ancestor by the way, but isn't evil like his future relatives), explains to one of...