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Points of Divergence : Alternate Colonization
Points of divergence dealing with alternate developments of colonisation, colonies and colonialism. The following POD lists are all arranged as chronologically as possible.
Thematic Topics
Various Topics
WI: No Indoeuropeans in Europe
The Indo-Europeans of North Africa
WI: Polynesia never settled by humans in prehistory and antiquity
Weirdest plausible European migrations ?
WI: Mycenean Colonies in Britain
Black majority state in Europe
WI Ancient Greeks colonize the southern coasts and inlands of Russia ?
Roman and/or Greek Colonization of Macaronesia during Classical Antiquity
Balts become dominant in Eastern Europe instead of the Slavs
WI the Hunnic Empire stays unified ?
Challenge: Make Europe as Germanic as possible
Challenge: Make the Goths more succesful
Challenge: Other ethnicities "survive" like the Jewish people
Challenge: Latin-speaking Germany
Pre-Columbian New World naval powers: When, who, where, and how ?
Central European kingdom with a non-Indoeuropean language and ruling ethnicity (other than Hungary)
In regards to Slavic migrations
Challenge: Slavic Jutland or Britain
Challenge: Slavic domination of the Euarasian steppe
Challenge: Survival of Slavic peoples around the Elbe until the present
Bolgars don't stick around in the Balkans
Challenge: Have a Muslim power participate in the Age of Exploration
A potential Romani/Gypsy homeland ?
WI England never lost America, Portugal never lost Brazil, etc.
How many (particularly non-insular) colonies could stay in colonial hands ?
Plausibility check: Tuareg/Berber people as Mongol-esque conquerors
Challenge: Eastern European colonies
Who else could have colonized Siberia ?
Alternate colonizers of Siberia
Challenge: Bigger Russian population base in Siberia
Plausibility check: India as a colonial power
Challenge: An African colony in Europe with a POD after 1700 AD
Challenge: Make Ireland the "Portugal of the North"
Which Pacific Islands could the Netherlands colonise ?
The world without the British Empire
WI The British Empire becomes India and her little buddies
Irish or German-dominated Argentina instead of Italian
Plausibility check: Deutsche California ?
The butterfly effect of a succesful Vinland colony on Europe ?
Alternate post-colonial states ?
Plausibility check: German Confederation Congo ?
Challenge: Give the UK a remaining overseas territory with a status similar to that of French Guiana
Challenge: More colonies that integrate with their colonizer
Challenge: Have Irish dissidents take control of a British colony
Plausibility check: Romanian Colonial Empire (with a POD after 1780)
Why were the natives exterminated in some regions, but not in others ?
Challenge: Non-enforced mass emigration from Africa
Challenge : Make decolonisation stop by 1960
Latest possible uncharted island
Global population without decolonization ?
What would Africa and India look like without European imperialism ?
Best possible post-colonial divisions of Africa ?
State of Africa if colonies never gained independence
More colonies retained by colonial powers after WWII
How many colonies could stay in colonial hands ?
Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.
See Also
Points of Divergence : Agriculture
Points of Divergence : Economy and Trade
Points of Divergence : Industrial Revolution
Points of Divergence : Scientific Discoveries and Inventions