A Pet Pre-1900 Scenario You Would Do If You were Smart Enough

John Tyler renominated by the Democrats in 1863. Or, Polk decided to go for a second term.

A (reasonably realistic dystopian) conservativewank timeline which starts way back with Grant deciding to run for the third time leading to progressives in office at the time of the Great Depression. Of course, I don't have the knowledge of the time, the Congress, Grant, or anyone really to write it.

A (reasonably realistic dystopian) progressivewank timeline which starts when a far worse Great Depression results in a slew of third-party candidates and split tickets in 1932 the end result of which sends Hoover back to the White House for a second term until he is assassinated shortly after inauguration, Charles Curtis dies of a heart attack earlier then OTL, and, well... I don't have the knowledge of the time, the Congress, or Stimson for it.
 

Artaxerxes

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Leonardo publishes his anatomy work with the aid of Marcantonio della Torre (Della Torre died of the plague OTL)


I don't know nearly enough about the history of medicine to work out the implications.
 
Theodora is born a boy (thanks to c
Carp for the suggestion) and inherits the Empire after basil dies. By the end of his rwign the Empire has consolidated the Bulgar Slayers borders and additionally regained Sicily and Africa (conquered as a result of discharging aggressive Normans against an acceptable and suitably weak target) just in time for the investiture controversy to pop up and let the Macedonians teach both pope and Kaiser who is the true heir to Rome.
 
That nutjob aurunzeb dies as a child. I think there'd be some fascinating consequences.

The Safavids remain rulers of Iran

Richard I has a legitimate son and is married to Alys of vexin
 
Well, right now I want to make a gothic scenario with the visigoths surviving and later taking over north africa and more centuries later colonizing america
 
This might have been done before, but I'be been toying with the idea of a timeline were the new world is discovered during the Middle Ages by West Africans (presumably Malians who have access with better sailing technology somehow).
 

missouribob

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Song Empire industrializes. I've always wanted to do such a timeline but I don't have the time to do the research needed. One day though, one day.
 
I have been thinking about a timeline where Thomas Jefferson dies during the American Revolution for a while now.
 
Also, English is a lingua Franca

It pretty much is one in OTL.

My own ideas:

  • Something involving a stronger Georgian nation, with a post-Mongol POD.
  • East Slavs don't make it as far into Finnic and Baltic lands, leading to stronger Norse influence in the region and the region becoming Catholic.
  • An counter to all the Byzantium-wanks, featuring one of the many sieges of Constantinople succeeding and Greece becoming Muslim.
 
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I actually started a thread of a proto-Polynesian civilization developing in NW Papua while keeping up contacts with their ancestors in the Philippines and Taiwan, with the end result being a long, slow trans-Pacific trade that includes the Andean states and China, leading to Chinese colonization of the Americas relatively early (under the Song?) and a true Polynesian writing system. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or knowledge to write such a TL, and I saw a Papua TL recently anyway, but someday, somehow, I want to write this.
 
I would love to do just about anything pre-contact New World. In particular, having centralized states evolve in the territories of the US and Canada as they did in Central and South America. (Not unlike what someone said on the first page of this thread.) The Mississippians and other mound-builders are obvious candidates, though an *Haudenosaunee might be fun to try to pull off. Probably too recent, though. And then have all of the Americas develop enough that they could at least have half a chance against the Europeans. That would have to be one hell of a POD, though, and there is of course the problem that records are non-existent.
 
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I would love to do just about anything pre-contact New World. In particular, having centralized states evolve in the territories of the US and Canada as they did in Central and South America. (Not unlike what someone said on the first page of this thread.) The Mississippians and other mound-builders are obvious candidates, though an *Haudenosaunee might be fun to try to pull off. Probably too recent, though. And then have all of the Americas develop enough that they could at least have half a chance against the Europeans. That would have to be one hell of a POD, though, and there is of course the problem that records are non-existent.

Just have a greater Norse contact than OTL to spread diseases and you're set in terms of Natives doing better against the Europeans.
 
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