Unmentionable Sea Mamals pre-20th century.

  • Alexander conquering China.
  • Aforementioned Arab/Turkish conquest of Europe if not for Tours/Vienna
  • Hideyoshi conquering China.
  • Sweden wins at Poltava and negotiates peace in Moscow
  • French Louisiana post-1803 becoming a French-speaking superpower
If we're going for insanely implausible social/political events, then "CSA abolishes slavery within 10 years of the Civil War" belongs there too.

It's also worth noting that until the 1920's, "US invades Canada" scenarios necessarily become "US hands Britain commercial control of the Americas south of Mexico". Britain had the capacity to isolate the US, and would push to expand its informal Empire beyond the Southern Cone. It also requires the US to build up its pretty pathetic OTL army of 150k regulars into a force capable of conquering Canada and the British not noticing them doing this. At the time the British Army was 250k, without counting the small Canadian army and larger militia, or any colonial troops. This also discounts the Indian army, 140k served in Europe in WWI, though peace time strength was only 150k.

It is not ASB, exactly, but the US lightning attack on Canada requires exteme luck, British stupidity and a reckless disregard for the US's economic interests on the part of its leaders. It also requires the denial of every plausible continental port to the British with a few weeks, or the US will lose.

If the US is going to invade Canada, then they aren't going in with their post-ACW pre-WWII army. With US industrial capacity, by the 1890s the US could outbuild the British in all regards (Army, Navy, etc.). So I'd put this along the lines of China discovering and colonising America, in that it's technically possible and wouldn't really be a challenge, but no one has any reason to do so.

Confederate victory in the New Mexico campaign.

Implausible, but not as bad as "CSA conquers California".
 
I knew a guy who legit believed that had he not been stabbed up, Julius Caesar could have conquered all the way to Japan. He was upset when I said that Parthia would have bodied him.
 

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There are certain things that are the consensus here just because they are the consensus.

For example, the idea of Basques having discovered the New World before 1492. Everyone repeats this here, but has never posted a source.

Also, the idea of the Islamic expansions being predestined due to overpopulation in the Arabian Peninsula. Where is the evidence for this overpopulation?
 
Also, the idea of the Islamic expansions being predestined due to overpopulation in the Arabian Peninsula. Where is the evidence for this overpopulation?

I've never understood this claim myself, tbh. Most of Muhammad's Arabia was basically extended families of Bedouin grouped in loose confederations with cities like Ta'if, Khaybar, and Makkah being small spots of dense population. There's a reason why the Arab conquerors had to rely so heavily on converts and dhimmis to provide administrators for decades.
 
Hideyoshi conquering China.
If the conquest is a multi-generational process like the Manchu Conquest of China IOTL (Nurhaci started from an even lower population, tech and resource base than Hideyoshi), I'd say it would be somewhat plausible (or at least Barbarossa-level ASB)
 

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That Spanish guy in the 1560s successfully conquers China?

Alexander conquers the americas(I firmly believes he could conquer most of Eurasia though)
 

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If the US is going to invade Canada, then they aren't going in with their post-ACW pre-WWII army. With US industrial capacity, by the 1890s the US could outbuild the British in all regards (Army, Navy, etc.). So I'd put this along the lines of China discovering and colonising America, in that it's technically possible and wouldn't really be a challenge, but no one has any reason to do so.


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If they aren't doing it with their WWI army, then Britain would notice, fortify and make sure it cost too much to be tried. The problem with these scenarios is that they require British inaction. Britain had the advantage in population, resources and shipping. The US had the advantage (post 1890) in industrial capacity and location. The UK could and would defend the populated areas of Canada with near impenetrable fortifications, and theUS would be very vulnerable around the Great Lakes.
 
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Assumption that Czechs are going to turn into regional branch of German nation, same as Bavarians or Saxons, and their OTL survival as separate nation was mere fluke of history.

Generally, AH has no love for small nations.
 
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