Weirdest AH ideas?

yoyo

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Ill post some ideas:
1. Muslims are restricted to Yemen and Arabia, and become the vikings of the indian ocean.
2. Have a culture in which solipsism is ingrained in daily living.
3. A giant peasant mob overruns all the european kingdom's armies and forms a pan-european empire based on mob rule
4. After battle of talas arab army gets lost in kazakhstan, migrates north and take north asian wives, forming a small arab islamic emirate in siberia.
5. A fanatically anti-natalist country
6. A country where creepiness and cringeness is considered honorable and respectful
Any other ideas.
 

yoyo

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7. The inuit attempt an invasion of the HRE
8. A gigantic dance mob emerges along the silk road, topping the the Tang dynasty and the Sassanid empire.
(quite possible) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
9. The roman empire collapses after augustus caesar due to mass hysteria
10. The british empire collapses in india due to mass diarrhea due to spicy food.
11. The war of the bucket turns into a major european war.
12. The sovereign military order of malta attempts a coup of the kingdom of italy
13. Walker becomes the most common surname in honduras because... of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)
14. Upon witnessing the galapagos tortoises, Charles Darwin attempts to revive the spanish inquisition.
15. The Kingdom of Hawaii attempts to invade the aleutian islands
16. In ww2, japanese get scared of the papuans and surrender unconditionally
 

yoyo

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17. Muslim expansion fails due to Khalid bin walid getting diarrhea from eating bad falafel at the wrong time
 

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Maori sail across the seas to the Incan Empire and become a sizable minority in present day Peru/Bolivia. (This is based off an old map game)
 
1) Druidism or something Druidic based becomes a major faith.

2) The war of Confederate Independence seen through the eyes of Cleburne! The Musical. Or alternatively the otl American civil war through the eyes of an alt version of the same musical.

It has a lot of asides about the evolution of artistic trends in the Confederacy. But basically alt history of Jazz, Rock, Country and Folk, rather their alt historical equivalents.

3) ATL The 1976 Winter Olympics in Denver and the 1936 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Similarly I'd like to write about South Vietnam winning its only Olympic medal, a gold, in Montreal, on the day of or after or before the country ceases to exist.

4) The Saga of Raund the Strong. OTL he bravely died fighting Olaf Tryggvason. ATL he defeats Tryggvason. ASB version he dies and then leads an army out of Valhalla against him.

5) One of the American Founding Fathers is captured and raised by Indians or by the French Canadians. I approve of kidnapping fictional small children and raising them in different circumstances generally. I wish Indian style kidnapping and adoption were more common across cultures.

One person/people who would be fun to do this to is have Guthrum raise Alfred the Great's kids and his daughter Athelflead in particular in a Norse pagan setting.

6) A tl where psychology arises in a culture where hallucigens, vision quests, and shamanically induced altered states are mainstream practices and become scientifically documented treatment methods.

Edit: added the Alfred/Guthrum bit and the 1976 Montreal bit.
 
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A successful 1745 Jacobite rebellion that overtakes Britain leads to the house of Hanover attempting to unify Germany after having their claim to the British throne be dethroned
 
Julius Caesar survives the assasination attempt, having most of the senate killed under criminal charges. His siezures become worse, and he literally becomes a puppet to Cleopatra, preserving the republic but leading a cessesion (with most the resources of the republic) of the new Caesarian Egyptian dynasty.
 
A world where ALL theories of others than Colombus finding America are true and they all set up succesful colonies, we hace Norse Newfoundland, Irish & Basque colonies on the east coast, Malian colonies in Brazil, Chinese in California, Japanese in New Mexico (somehow), Polynesians in Chile, Phoenecians in the mid-west and a bunch of others as well.
 
Any AH idea of OTL problems and fears that are projected to the past or preindustrial societies.
Any sort of terrorism in the early modern age would be amazing - maybe aztec "jihadis" in the americas resisting spanish colonsits through bombings and covert operations?
 
Are we talking about normal-sized insects or giant insects?

Giant insects.

Although we would probably require a higher atmospheric concentration of Oxygen for this to be possible. In the Carboniferous period, around 300 million years ago, there was a giant species of dragonfly that had a wingspan of nearly a metre. Representatives of the extinct dragonfly-like order Meganisoptera (also known as griffinflies) such as the Carboniferous Meganeura monyi and the Permian Meganeuropsis permiana are the largest insect species ever known. These creatures had a wingspan of some 75 cm (30 in) and an estimated body weight of over 1 pound (450 g).
 
I've always found a race of intelligent insects founding a civilisation to be an interesting, if somewhat bizarre, concept.

I once wrote a D&D setting where Corvids were covertly herding/guiding humans into building cities with plenty of open sewers/garbage pits/encouraging sky burials and the manufacture of shiny baubles.
 
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