What are some areas or peoples with great AH potential that are always ignored?

Japan's actually pretty underrepresented, at least on this site.
Depends on the period. Anytime pre-Sengoku? Sure. Even most of the Tokugawa.

19th century on, not so much (especially 1931-45).

But compared to, say, Southeast Asia or Transoxania (to pick two places with lots of potential and not much coverage)?
 
The Tamils. The Balts. The Kushans. The Scythians, Sarmatians, and Saka. The Silk Road. The Arawaks. The Nubians. Anatolians before the Turks and Byzantines. The Yoruba. The Tarascans. The Somalis. The Wolof. The Caucasus.

All of these. The Caucasus struck me in particular - how many timelines are there of alternate paths for Georgia or Armenia? I'd love to see a timeline where these groups and others, such as the Circassians, Chechens, and Ossetians, resisted Russian domination. Or a different religious mix - Muslim Armenia for example, or large parts of Dagestan and the North Caucasus retaining their ancient religions into modern times. Maybe a different pattern of migration - instead of Caucasian Turkic groups like the Karachay-Balkars and the Nogai, perhaps Uralic-speaking peoples migrate into the region. Or keep Azerbaijan Iranian-speaking and Zoroastrian, rather than Turkic and Muslim.

I'd also like to see more timelines based on Native North America (my field of study as a linguist). There's a lot of discussion on how the Natives could have resisted European domination, from various starting points, but not many scenarios have been expanded into timelines. Two ideas I had that I'd like to explore (whenever I finally finish my dissertation and thus earn back my free time) is a unified Native state in California or the Pacific Northwest successfully resisting white settlement, and a large-scale Native uprising in the United States during World War I.
 
Sigurd Jonsson, he had a chance to be elected king of Norway in the 1440s. This might have been the last drop that would have made Sweden and Norway rip free from Denmark in the 1440s.
 
Nothing ever happens with Switzerland. Never mind that it was a significant regional power in the late middle ages. Or the frequent religious and ethnic conflicts that could have led to it's breakup. It's just an eternally neutral blob in the middle of Europe.
 
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