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What if the fishermen who hit the future Alii Nui of the Hawaiian Islands Kamekameha I while he was campaigning in Puna with a paddle had instead decided to kill him, with the Kingdom of Hawaii stillborn, and the various chiefdoms of the islands remaining disunited? How would European influence...

Now I want you to imagine the coolest weapon ever. Got it? Okay well, it's not the coolest weapon ever, It's actually a coconut bomb. I was just watching videos, but then I found a video about how to open a coconut without any tools. Which is here Then I kept watching other videos about tools...

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...