====== Points of Divergence : Scotland ======

Points of Divergence concerning Scotland, both as an independent polity and as a constituent country of first [[offtopic:Great Britain]] and then [[offtopic:the United Kingdom]].
==== Prehistory ====

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==== Antiquity ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255491|Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=272032|Plausibility check: Survival of the Picts ?]]** 

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=285043|Challenge: Balkanised Scotland (with a POD no later than 1500 AD)]]**

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==== The Middle Ages ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=285043|Challenge: Balkanised Scotland (with a POD no later than 1500 AD)]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=306519|If Scotland had remained completely Gaelic-speaking]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259375|Challenge : A Scandinavian Scotland]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260010|Challenge: French-speaking Scotland (with a POD after 1200)]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=336782|Challenge: Roxburgh remains the capital of Scotland or one of its chief cities]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=346897|Alexander III. of Scotland avoids death in 1286. Ramifications ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=304702|No need for a maid of Norway]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258178|What if the Scottish nobles that supported William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk did better ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=128447|Plausibility check: A Scottish dominated England]]**

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==== Early Modern history ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=140681|Is it possible to have a proper Scottish Empire ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=355167|WI James, Duke of Rothesay son of James V survives]]**

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==== 18th and 19th century ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260126|WI: No Acts of Union and Scotland staying independent]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267502|No Acts of Union in 1707]]**

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==== 20th century ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258230|Plausibility check : A Union of Celtic Socialist Republics ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=285508|DBWI: The Scottish Rebellion of 1917 never occurred]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13984|Plausibility check: An independent Scotland and its oil reserves]]** 

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=42759|Challenge:Scottish Aircraft Carriers]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=193363|Challenge: Save Tory Scotland]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=188790|Challenge: Break the Old Firm's (Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers) dominance in Scottish football]]**

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==== 21st century ====

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==== ASB / ISOT / Geological ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=133421|Avalonia Alone]]** - This one concerns how civilisation would have developed if Avalonia did not break up and remained a separate island in the middle of the Atlantic.

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==== See Also ====

**[[offtopic:Scotland]]**

**[[offtopic:Britain]]**

**[[offtopic:The United Kingdom]]**

**[[timelines:Britain|British Timelines and Scenarios]]**

**[[pods:Britain|British Points of Divergence]]**

**[[pods:Wales|Welsh Points of Divergence]]**

**[[resources:The UK|Useful Resources about The United Kingdom]]**

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