Highly underused PODs with great potential
- Thread starter vultan
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I have two
A progressive Russia where in the late 17th hundred's it goes through a huge modernization phase and inwardly and outwardly it becomes a more diverse and stable empire to live in.
Also the mongolian empire survive until modern day.
A progressive Africa like the great african power's keeping on par with western european states and eventually battling it out.
A progressive Russia where in the late 17th hundred's it goes through a huge modernization phase and inwardly and outwardly it becomes a more diverse and stable empire to live in.
Also the mongolian empire survive until modern day.
A progressive Africa like the great african power's keeping on par with western european states and eventually battling it out.
Dr. Strangelove
Banned
Joan of Arc is not captured, ends using her army to rebel against the Church and start a Reformation in France 90 years ahead of schedule.
Thande
Donor
Bit late of me but the story you're thinking of is called "Counting Potsherds". The conceit is that the Persian eunuch has been sent there by Xerxes IV to find out the details of how his ancestor Xerxes I conquered the Greeks in order to organise a commemorative celebration. The eunuch and some hired Greeks go around reading inscriptions from the ruins of Athens and are confused that they can't find the name of the King who Xerxes' army defeated, just all these references to democracy which they fail to understand.
Diego Silang's revolt not (luckily or unluckily, it depends on whom you ask) coinciding with the Seven Years' War.
A non-Spanish Philippines in the first place.
A non-Spanish Philippines in the first place.
Cuāuhtemōc
Banned
That's what I meant.
Probably a smaller but much more stable and lasting Macedonian Empire.
Abu Dhabi would still be the capitol, it is still the largest Emirate...
Perhaps no federating at all???
Or, better yet, British Philippines after the Seven Years War.
Or, a world where Magellan was never killed by Lapu-Lapu's forces on Mactan Island.
Snake Featherston
Banned
Some American history PODs:
1) Andrew Jackson is killed in the 1830s. If the assassination attempt where both guns misfired has one or the other fire and actually kill Jackson, then once the Nullification Crisis happens John C. Calhoun is President.
2)This next set lists Civil War generals killed IOTL battles whose survivals could change things as opposed to the cliche Stonewall Jackson:
John Reynolds
John Sedgwick
Patrick Cleburne (if he survives into Reconstruction given he advocated use of black Confederate troops)....
William Quantrill
3) A POD where William Henry Harrison's attack on Prophetstown miscarries due to say, a freak rainstorm or something and hence by the War of 1812 Tecumseh's coalition of Indian tribes is all together and united under a single leader much as was possible.
4) Zachary Taylor lives for his full term.
5) Huey Long is not assassinated.
6) Either MLK or Malcolm X die of old age instead of by gunshot.
7) One or the other of the GI Congressmen of the post-WWII elections is killed in WWII.
8) For the last one, a TL where William McKinley finishes both his terms.
1) Andrew Jackson is killed in the 1830s. If the assassination attempt where both guns misfired has one or the other fire and actually kill Jackson, then once the Nullification Crisis happens John C. Calhoun is President.
2)This next set lists Civil War generals killed IOTL battles whose survivals could change things as opposed to the cliche Stonewall Jackson:
John Reynolds
John Sedgwick
Patrick Cleburne (if he survives into Reconstruction given he advocated use of black Confederate troops)....
William Quantrill
3) A POD where William Henry Harrison's attack on Prophetstown miscarries due to say, a freak rainstorm or something and hence by the War of 1812 Tecumseh's coalition of Indian tribes is all together and united under a single leader much as was possible.
4) Zachary Taylor lives for his full term.
5) Huey Long is not assassinated.
6) Either MLK or Malcolm X die of old age instead of by gunshot.
7) One or the other of the GI Congressmen of the post-WWII elections is killed in WWII.
8) For the last one, a TL where William McKinley finishes both his terms.
Snake Featherston
Banned
A POD where it's defeated in the Yom Kippur War is far more interesting. In this case Soviet proxies and equipment defeat a US ally in a proxy war as the Vietnam War is winding down and the post-Vietnam Malaise is setting in. A victory for Egypt and Syria would have much more than regional consequences.
Cuāuhtemōc
Banned
One good one involves the proposed marriage between Richard the Lionheart's sister and Saladin's brother.
Snake Featherston
Banned
Or alternately what if Churchill was killed during *his* time on the Western Front?
Things turning out better for Sweden in the 18th Century:
1. Different outcome of the Great Northern War, Charles XII maintains most of the empire he inherited
2. Different outcome of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788.
The Italian Wars:
1. France wins a decisive victory and controls the Italian Peninsula outside of the Papal States.
2. Venice defeats France at the battle of Agnadello, and continues to hold the Ottomans in the Eastern Mediterranean
3. Swiss again defeat the French at Marignano, and Liguria enters the Swiss Federation, making the Confederation a power to be reckoned with.
1. Different outcome of the Great Northern War, Charles XII maintains most of the empire he inherited
2. Different outcome of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788.
The Italian Wars:
1. France wins a decisive victory and controls the Italian Peninsula outside of the Papal States.
2. Venice defeats France at the battle of Agnadello, and continues to hold the Ottomans in the Eastern Mediterranean
3. Swiss again defeat the French at Marignano, and Liguria enters the Swiss Federation, making the Confederation a power to be reckoned with.
Someone actually did that one. Ultimately, socialism catches on like wildfire and the U.S. goes Red without TR and his progressives introducing reforms as they did in OTL.
