Points of divergence related to economic and trade developments throughout history.
Plausibility check: Industrialization without liberalism ?
Plausibility check: Non-industrializing Westernization
Mercantilism or Free Trade for Industrialization ?
Alternate Sites of Industry and the Resources Required
Where would the industrial centres of an independant Confederate States of America be located ?
Challenge: Nuclear energy for developing/rural areas
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More countries using Imperial measurements ?
WI the Metric system was duodecimal ?
Challenge/WI: Two separate Prime Meridians
Challenge: Esperanto as Air Traffic and Aviation Language
The British develop the Intermodel Container between the world wars
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Pre-industrial human impact on greenhouse effect and global temperature ?
Spain without an ounce of silver
Ramifications of a sudden decline of the sugar cane industry after the 1740s
The effects of the boll weevil infestation on the agriculture and economy of an independent CSA
WI: Higher oil prices from 1950s
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Roman Semaphore Lines and Horse Drawn Cars
Earliest possible Suez Canal ?
Challenge: Suez Canal built 200 years earlier than in OTL
How early can you feasibly dig a canal at the site of the OTL Suez Canal ?
Large construction projects wank
Alternatives to Heathrow Airport
WI the Atlantropa dams were built ?
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The late Roman republic founds the first professional banks
WI Britain doesn't return to the Gold Standard in the 1920s
Plausibility check: How early can we get paper money ?
Paper money in the Ancien Regime lasting
Plausibility check: Early French Central bank ?
Effect on US banks if the Central Powers win WWI ?
Accounting PODs and alternate accounting
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Challenge: Avoid Black slavery
WI No African Slave trade in the New World
Plausibility check: Earlier artic trade between Russia and Europe ?
WI London held firm on the Stamp Act ?
WI: A Canadian car company (with a POD between 1900 and 1960)
Challenge: No Great Depression
Recovery from the Great Depression without WWII ?
More "Economic Tigers" (with a POD between 1945 and 1975)
Challenge: More Economic Miracles in the Third World
WI the British were the world's best project managers ?
Challenge: Prevent the Great Recession
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Challenge: The Chinese Envoy reaches Rome in 97 AD
How hard was trade in the HRE ?
Contact between the Aztecs and the Incas
Challenge: A seafaring culture like the Vikings in southern Chile
WI No African Slave trade in the New World
Plausibility check: Japan and Korea - Attractiveness to Europeans
Plausibility check: Earlier arctic trade between Russia and Europe ?
WI: Earlier Discovery of the North-West Passage
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Challenge: Maintain the Mediterranean economic core
Why wasn't EFTA that "successful" ?
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WI the DuMont television network had survived ?
Challenge:Tim Hortons as the no. 1 fast food restaurant in America
Non-American multinational fast-food and similar chains
Challenge: An Asian-themed fast food chain is as big as McDonald's or Burger King
Challenge: Three major present day airliner manufacturers instead of two
Could the jetliner duopoly be avoided ?
More Successful Auto Companies
North American aerospace/defense companies making cars ?
Challenge: Studebaker survives the 1960s
WI: The Delorean Motor Company is successful ?
DeLorean moved to Ford, Chrysler or AMC ?
General Motors alternate history
WI Ford and Chrysler had merged in the 1980s ?
Bain Capital buys Ford in 1987
WI Sony did not buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment ?
WI: Apple goes under in the 1990s
Challenge: Oldsmobile survives
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American cities that could have been more prominent
Challenge: A "Singapore of the Caribbean"
ASBs reverse standards of living in countries
Challenge: Native Americans "pull an Iwakura"
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Points of Divergence : Agriculture
Points of Divergence : Alternate Colonization
Points of Divergence : Arts, Architecture and Monuments
Points of Divergence : Industrial Revolution
Points of Divergence : Scientific Discoveries and Inventions