Changes circa 3000 B.C.E.

Hello, my name is Jacob Cook and I have been working on an english research paper that deals with changing history. In this case I have done research into the change I made and I would love to have feed back. I will link my timelines as well. Thank You!

I am still not entirely sure how to work this site so I will be trying to make more posts with my timelines and paper.
 

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With a point of divergence in 3000 BCE, the existence of the Roman Empire, let alone England, seems pretty unlikely.
 
Changes in the IVth millenium BC most probably prevents events happening as they did after a period of time.

It's called "butterflying" there, named after butterfly theory. Basically, by changing history, you change their historical (In Our Time Line) consequences, with new consequences (In an Alternate Time Line) appearing.
Roman hegemony

Now, that's mostly for plausibility issues : AH.com is known to hold these standards far more importantly than more regular, litterary AlternateHistory whom the point is less to describe the new world than using it as a background or litterrary pretext.

But since your point is

This paper addresses the fragility of the human race and the importance of decision
that people make.

I don't think you show that at all, as events that shouldn't happen because historical decisions were made differently centuries or millenias ago still happen.

If you're too unfamiliar with the period and/or don't have enough time to deal with what would be an huge work (estimating what would be the long-range cosequences of a 3000 BCE Point of Divergence (PoD) would take a good deal of time indeed), I'll suggest you to rather focus on a more close period or an era you know enough to make assumption on the AlternateTimeLine.
 
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I just took a look at your Chronology Causality paper and wish to echo what LSCatilina said. By the 22nd Century BCE the nation-states and the ruling elites of those nation-states will be completely from OTL due to hundreds of years of years of butterflies. An Assyrian or Babylonian may arise in an alt-history. However, as Cyrus the great won't exist in this world, neither will Alexander the Great, because long before the 4th century BCE Greece would indeed be affected by the change in the timeline.

What you say in your paper it spot on, "Our world is one of cause and effect. Our lives are molded by the events of the past, and our futures are only a reaction to the present, which is always changing. Even the smallest change in the past could have enormous repercussions in the present.

For example, in 1866 a 9 year old boy suffered a fractured skull in a carriage accident. He wasn't expected to survive, but he did. Imagine if young William Howard Taft had died in that accident.

Or this, which I've used in a TL, imagine the change to history resulting from Karl and Wilhelmine von Bismarck conceiving a child hours/days (minutes?) earlier or later than OTL and then, 40 weeks later (more or less) welcoming into the world their daughter Ottilia.
 
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