Best and or most underused pods pre 1900?

[El Terremoto]

A higher population in the Pacific Northwest based on fishing in the 3rd or so millennium BCE could lead to further development of NW trade routes and as such earlier contact with the southern cultures and peoples (better trade with California and eventually mesoamerica by proxy) and, perhaps more dramatically, better more sustained contact with Northeast Asia than irl.

A pod involving paleo-Eskimo migration might work?

 

[TheNerd_]

Italy is united by Charles the I of Anjou.

 

[GenericAltHistorian]

Queen Elizabeth I got married with Robert Dudley (this is pretty difficult to do since you will have to butterfly away the unhappy memories with Henry VIII's wives).

The Darien scheme succeeded and Scotland successfully colonized the Gulf of Darien.

The 1707 Act of Union failed miserably and the United Kingdom as we know it today would be butterflied.

 

[Wendell]

Mary Tudor, Queen of England, marries the other Philip.

 

[kasumigenx]

No one tries to wank the Bruneian Empire aside from me.

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

Alternate Irish and Scottish diasporic populations. Imagine a South Africa which receives 100,000 Irishmen. Or a Singapore which has a large population of Highland Scotts.

 

[ramones1986]

Or a Singapore which has a large population of Highland Scotts.

Or even Hong Kong actually

 

[Hvalrossen]

Some suggestions for rare scenarios and pods.

• Afroasiatic migration into Southern Africa instead of a Bantu one. Atleast along the eastern coast from Somalia and south toward South Africa. The Congo and south-central Africa is less likely to be settled by Afroasiatic speakers.
• No Hunnic migration into the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and/or failed Hunnic migration into the Pontic-Caspian steppe.
• Harald Hardrada does not become king of Norway.

 

[HammerofWar]

George washington dying from a disease right before his Presidency started.

 

[Eivind]

Avoid the Mongols moving towards Europe. As a result Kievan Rus survives. This could have an interesting effect on later development in Russia.

 

[Nikoloz]

Primogeniture rather than gavelkind among the Franks.

 

[Sean McKnight]

The Darien scheme succeeded and Scotland successfully colonized the Gulf of Darien.

 

[Oliveia]

• In 1861, soon-to-be Kaiser Wilhelm I was almost assassinated.
• Literally anything to do with the Seven Years' War.

 

[Byzantion]

What are some of the most underused and best underused pre 1900 pods?

What if Wulfila never developes the Gothic bible ?

 

[Koprulu Mustafa Pasha]

- Selim III acts against the Janissaries in 1807

- Peter III secures his throne from Catherine

- Las Navas de Tolosa avoided or won by the Moors

- Vienna won by the Ottomans

- Ismail killed in Chaldiran

 

[Koprulu Mustafa Pasha]

What if Spain is able to crush most of its colonial revolts? What if the Ottoman Empire faced their own (Turkish) version of the French revolution?

Good PoDs... Spain would still be a world power.

 

[Arcavia]

A surviving Jewish Himyar unites Arabia and forms a trade empire from Zanzibar to the Moluccas.

Protestant Poland (or Catholic Sweden) results in the Vasas forming a PU over both

Incan Empire resists the Conquistadors.

Russia takes advantage of the Continental System to industrialize without Britiah competition.

Better Roman governance of Judaea averts the Great Revolt.

 

[Byzantion]

What are some of the most underused and best underused pre 1900 pods?

What If Abe Lincoln tried a military carrier ? What If he successfully enlisted in West Point ?

 

[Wendell]

• In 1861, soon-to-be Kaiser Wilhelm I was almost assassinated.
• Literally anything to do with the Seven Years' War.

Prussia is utterly destroyed and dismantled, prompting much of its officer class and soldiery to resettle in British North America, which includes New France due to British victory there.

 

[Night Gaul]

Phocas never kills Maurice or seizes control of the Byzantine Empire.