John Fredrick Parker
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If there's a better thread or forum out there for this, I'll be glad to have this moved and/or deleted.
Anyway, I have a notebook with my thinking on various AH scenarios, starting w several questions, most of them unanswered on paper, but all with some idea in my head of how they'd go. And I figured, listing out the PoDs would be a fun thing to share here.
Some of these are multiple PoD. I realize some (or several) of these have TLs on this forum. (Also, I'm still trying to ideally place a PoD around 1700 and another in the 1830's that add some kind of variety.) Anyways, this is my list (more or less as written):
What if...
Athens won the Peloponnesian War?
Socrates was acquitted?
Pompey defeated Caesar at Pharsalus?
Gaius Caesar lived (and his choice for Jerusalem prefect pardoned Jesus)?
Cao Cao won the Battle of Red Bluff (and the Han Dynasty survived him)?
St Patrick didn't convert Ireland?
Ethiopia conquered Mecca in 570?
Irene of Athens married Charlemagne?
Diogenes and Alp Arsulan survived the aftermath of Manzikert?
Hulagu stayed in the west?
Chinese maritime exploration continued?
Columbus didn't sail?
Martin Luther wasn't struck by lightning (and Zwingli led the Reformation)?
Cortes declared his own independent nation?
Oda Nobunaga survived?
Dara Shikoh secured himself as heir to the Mughal throne?
__?__
Benedict Arnold sulked at Saratoga?
the United States tackled slavery earlier?
Louis XVI escaped to Austria after Varennes?
Napoleon better handled Haiti and Amiens?
the War of 1812 was averted?
there was no "Corrupt Bargain of 1825"?
__?__
Marx dies in 1848 (and Engels follows soon after)?
Japan isn't opened by the US?
Napoleon III triumphed geopolitically? (averting Crimean War PoD)
the Lost Orders weren't found (and the CSA won the war)?
the Lincoln assassination failed?
British manufacturing policies were stronger in the 1870's?
Bismarck chose a Russian alliance?
Britain did better at Berlin in 1884?
Tesla stayed with Edison?
Pedro Paule went public with his rocket engine in 1895?
Anyway, I have a notebook with my thinking on various AH scenarios, starting w several questions, most of them unanswered on paper, but all with some idea in my head of how they'd go. And I figured, listing out the PoDs would be a fun thing to share here.
Some of these are multiple PoD. I realize some (or several) of these have TLs on this forum. (Also, I'm still trying to ideally place a PoD around 1700 and another in the 1830's that add some kind of variety.) Anyways, this is my list (more or less as written):
What if...
Athens won the Peloponnesian War?
Socrates was acquitted?
Pompey defeated Caesar at Pharsalus?
Gaius Caesar lived (and his choice for Jerusalem prefect pardoned Jesus)?
Cao Cao won the Battle of Red Bluff (and the Han Dynasty survived him)?
St Patrick didn't convert Ireland?
Ethiopia conquered Mecca in 570?
Irene of Athens married Charlemagne?
Diogenes and Alp Arsulan survived the aftermath of Manzikert?
Hulagu stayed in the west?
Chinese maritime exploration continued?
Columbus didn't sail?
Martin Luther wasn't struck by lightning (and Zwingli led the Reformation)?
Cortes declared his own independent nation?
Oda Nobunaga survived?
Dara Shikoh secured himself as heir to the Mughal throne?
__?__
Benedict Arnold sulked at Saratoga?
the United States tackled slavery earlier?
Louis XVI escaped to Austria after Varennes?
Napoleon better handled Haiti and Amiens?
the War of 1812 was averted?
there was no "Corrupt Bargain of 1825"?
__?__
Marx dies in 1848 (and Engels follows soon after)?
Japan isn't opened by the US?
Napoleon III triumphed geopolitically? (averting Crimean War PoD)
the Lost Orders weren't found (and the CSA won the war)?
the Lincoln assassination failed?
British manufacturing policies were stronger in the 1870's?
Bismarck chose a Russian alliance?
Britain did better at Berlin in 1884?
Tesla stayed with Edison?
Pedro Paule went public with his rocket engine in 1895?