Hi everyone! This is my first post on this forum and I would like to ask your opinion about some of my ideas about timelines. Maybe they are way too improbable, or I fail to see some obvious facts that stand if the way in my hypothesis, or my oh-so-original TL idea was already written here a thousand times.
These are some timelines I have been thinking about during idle hours, and only did some vague research on them. So, please feel free to correct the hell out of me, or just give some advices that what events need to unfold differently to achieve the needed diversion from OTL
If you find any of these even mildly interesting, or you think it would be a good timeline to begin my AH career with, please say so.
1. Scenario. POD is 49BC, the outbreak of the Roman Civil War. Juilus Caesar crosses the Rubicon, but after early successes he finds a stronger resistance from the Optimates. He is forced to withdraw to Gallia, and set up his capital there. Without Caesar the Republic is facing a hard time dealing with Armenia/Pontus, and eventually they settle for a peace with Caesar, who becomes ruler of the Gallia. This could make for a unified, strong Charlemagne-esque France 1000 years earlier then OTL. Transition from antique to medieval may be easier in western europe. Caesars new kingdom may or may not have the possibility to survive the great migration period. A strong superpower in Gallia could change a lot, like the spread of christianity, the islamic expansion, not to mention the fate of neighbouring states.
2. Scenario. POD is around 1490. Matthias Corvinus manages to make a peace with Hapsburgs after holding Vienna for some years. As part of the peace deal, he receives the title King of Bohemia and his bastard son is reckognized as legal heir. Bohemia-Hungary would find Poland-Lithuania as a natural ally. Would it be possible that a Central European Federation forms, and would it be able to avoid being partitioned by Russia/Prussia/Hapsburgs/Ottomans? A strong alliance of Croatia, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland (+Ukraine) Lithuania (+Bielorus) would be a serious force. The Commonwealth is an elective monarcy, and OTL Hungarian rulers were also elected sometimes, if this happens in this ATL it might be possible to form a big confederation.
3. Scenario. POD is 1848 revolutions in the Hapsburg realms. Hungarian nobles swallow their pride and make a deal with minorities who would support the revolution in exchange of total territorial autonomy under the Holy Crown. Austrian forces are busy at Italia and Vienna and Prague is overrun with rebellion. With virtually no counterrevolutionary forces present (OTL during the first part of the revolution hungarians and croats and serbs and slowaks were fighting each other), could this revolution achive its goal before the Gendarme of Europe shows up? And if the Tsar shows up, could a new revolutionary Czech-Slowak-Hungarian-Croat state (OTL proposed name was Danube Confederation or something similar) fight them off? Could a successful revolution spread to Ruthenian, Polish, or even Kievan provinces so that Russia would find herself on the defensive? If Austria is stripped of her minorities this way, are there any chances that Großdeutchland wouldn't came to be soon? Would this also make the Italian unfication quicker due to no serious hapsburg power would remain in Lombardia?In the light of building Turko-Russian hotilities around the Crimea, would a successful rebel confederation be able to export revolution to the Balkan (Russian and Ottoman fiefs) by playing the two giants against each other? WWFGBD? (What Would France and Great Britain Do?
4. Scenario. POD is during the Pontic-Roman wars (the Mithridates Wars) What would happen if Pontus secures a victory so decisive that it could remain independent under the timeline of the Roman Empire? It must have pursued an expansionist policy too, just to be safe from Roman expansion, and probably gained territories such as Armenia, Hellas proper, Crimea, and whatever is left from the seleukids. But the more I think of it the more it looks like an early Byzantium in almost every aspect, and I am yet to find an outcome where it doesn't end up exactly just as the Eastern Roman Empire did.
Yes I'm aware that 2 and 3 are Central Europe wankjobs, but since I haven't read any of those, I might as well write them
These are some timelines I have been thinking about during idle hours, and only did some vague research on them. So, please feel free to correct the hell out of me, or just give some advices that what events need to unfold differently to achieve the needed diversion from OTL
If you find any of these even mildly interesting, or you think it would be a good timeline to begin my AH career with, please say so.
1. Scenario. POD is 49BC, the outbreak of the Roman Civil War. Juilus Caesar crosses the Rubicon, but after early successes he finds a stronger resistance from the Optimates. He is forced to withdraw to Gallia, and set up his capital there. Without Caesar the Republic is facing a hard time dealing with Armenia/Pontus, and eventually they settle for a peace with Caesar, who becomes ruler of the Gallia. This could make for a unified, strong Charlemagne-esque France 1000 years earlier then OTL. Transition from antique to medieval may be easier in western europe. Caesars new kingdom may or may not have the possibility to survive the great migration period. A strong superpower in Gallia could change a lot, like the spread of christianity, the islamic expansion, not to mention the fate of neighbouring states.
2. Scenario. POD is around 1490. Matthias Corvinus manages to make a peace with Hapsburgs after holding Vienna for some years. As part of the peace deal, he receives the title King of Bohemia and his bastard son is reckognized as legal heir. Bohemia-Hungary would find Poland-Lithuania as a natural ally. Would it be possible that a Central European Federation forms, and would it be able to avoid being partitioned by Russia/Prussia/Hapsburgs/Ottomans? A strong alliance of Croatia, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland (+Ukraine) Lithuania (+Bielorus) would be a serious force. The Commonwealth is an elective monarcy, and OTL Hungarian rulers were also elected sometimes, if this happens in this ATL it might be possible to form a big confederation.
3. Scenario. POD is 1848 revolutions in the Hapsburg realms. Hungarian nobles swallow their pride and make a deal with minorities who would support the revolution in exchange of total territorial autonomy under the Holy Crown. Austrian forces are busy at Italia and Vienna and Prague is overrun with rebellion. With virtually no counterrevolutionary forces present (OTL during the first part of the revolution hungarians and croats and serbs and slowaks were fighting each other), could this revolution achive its goal before the Gendarme of Europe shows up? And if the Tsar shows up, could a new revolutionary Czech-Slowak-Hungarian-Croat state (OTL proposed name was Danube Confederation or something similar) fight them off? Could a successful revolution spread to Ruthenian, Polish, or even Kievan provinces so that Russia would find herself on the defensive? If Austria is stripped of her minorities this way, are there any chances that Großdeutchland wouldn't came to be soon? Would this also make the Italian unfication quicker due to no serious hapsburg power would remain in Lombardia?In the light of building Turko-Russian hotilities around the Crimea, would a successful rebel confederation be able to export revolution to the Balkan (Russian and Ottoman fiefs) by playing the two giants against each other? WWFGBD? (What Would France and Great Britain Do?
4. Scenario. POD is during the Pontic-Roman wars (the Mithridates Wars) What would happen if Pontus secures a victory so decisive that it could remain independent under the timeline of the Roman Empire? It must have pursued an expansionist policy too, just to be safe from Roman expansion, and probably gained territories such as Armenia, Hellas proper, Crimea, and whatever is left from the seleukids. But the more I think of it the more it looks like an early Byzantium in almost every aspect, and I am yet to find an outcome where it doesn't end up exactly just as the Eastern Roman Empire did.
Yes I'm aware that 2 and 3 are Central Europe wankjobs, but since I haven't read any of those, I might as well write them