hawai'i

1. How could Islam successfully spread to the Island chain? 2. What (predominately) Muslim group would have the best chances of reaching the islands? 3. When could this occur? 4. What affects would this have on Hawaiian culture, both prior to and after being annexed by the U.S.(or any other...

The challenge is this: With a POD between 1774/76 until 1920, you must unify North America (including Greenland, St. Pierre & Miquelon and Bermuda, Hawaii), Central America (including Panama and the St. Andrew Archipelago), the Caribbean (including Curaçao, Aruba and Trinidad & Tobago) into one...

From a thread about Spanish Hawaii: So if something like this were to happen, how would it affect history? (As for the POD, 17th century is fine, but 16th century would work too if it's at all plausible.) Would Hawaii retain Spanish as a spoken language, a Spanish-Hawaiian Creole, or perhaps...

With any POD, make it so that a creole forms between Portuguese and Hawaiian on the Hawaiian islands. How might this language look? Maybe something like Papiamentu, but with Hawaiian influence instead of Dutch, and influence from East Asian languages like Japanese and Mandarin? How would the...

What if in the 16th (or maybe 17th) century Spanish ships, on their way between New Spain and the Philippines, were blown off course and landed on the Hawaiian islands? Let's say the people on board end up stranded on the islands, completely cut off from New Spain. How might they adapt to life...

What if Captain James Cook and his other marines would have taken Hawaii by force instead of kidnapping Kalaniʻōpuʻu as a ransom for his stolen longboat? Would Hawaii be grouped together with some of the other Micronesian Islands and would it still be a British colony to this day?