Points of divergence dealing with alternate developments of colonisation, colonies and colonialism. The following POD lists are all arranged as chronologically as possible.

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Different Discovery and Colonization of America PODs

Scramble for Africa PODs

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Plausibility check: Europe overran by Asiatic steppe peoples

WI: No Indoeuropeans in Europe (1)

WI: No Indoeuropeans in Europe (2)

The Indo-Europeans of North Africa

Challenge: Indo-European Arabia

Would history still be recognizable if there were no Indoeuropeans ?

WI: Polynesia never settled by humans in prehistory and antiquity

WI: No Polynesian expansion

Hindu Polynesia

Minoans colonize the entire Mediterranean

Weirdest plausible European migrations ?

Mycenaean/Dorian migration extremes

WI: Mycenean Colonies in Britain

Black majority state in Europe

Ancient Greeks in Ukraine

WI Ancient Greeks colonize the southern coasts and inlands of Russia ?

Alexandrian China

Roman and/or Greek Colonization of Macaronesia during Classical Antiquity

WI: Larger distribution of Basque/Aquitanian/Vasconic peoples

Balts become dominant in Eastern Europe instead of the Slavs

Challenge: Baltic Britain

Plausibility check: A large Panslavist state (rivaling that of the Han Chinese) by the 20th century ?

WI: Huns earlier in Europe

WI the Hunnic Empire stays unified ?

Challenge: Make Europe as Germanic as possible

Challenge: Make the Goths more succesful

Surviving Alans

Challenge: Other ethnicities "survive" like the Jewish people

Challenge: Latin-speaking Germany

Pre-Columbian New World naval powers: When, who, where, and how ?

Challenge: Pre-Columbian discovery of the Old World by the Native Americans

Central European kingdom with a non-Indoeuropean language and ruling ethnicity (other than Hungary)

In regards to Slavic migrations

Challenge: Slavic Germany

Challenge: Slavic Jutland or Britain

Challenge: Slavic France

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

The Magyars of the Po

Challenge: Have a Muslim power participate in the Age of Exploration

WI: Malagasy discover the Mascarenes and the Kerguelen Islands

A potential Romani/Gypsy homeland ?

Challenge: Romani state

Europe without Roma

WI England never lost America, Portugal never lost Brazil, etc.

How many (particularly non-insular) colonies could stay in colonial hands ?

WI: No Bantu Migrations

Challenge: Proto-Swahili City States in the Indosphere

Easter Island equivalent founded by natives in the Caribbean

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

Plausibility check: Irish emigrants, mercenaries and/or globetrotters founding a small overseas colony in the New World ?

Challenge: Make Ireland the "Portugal of the North"

Small nations colonizing ?

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

Hannoverian colonial empire

Plausibility check: Deutsche California ?

Alternatives to colonialism

Challenge : Slavic peoples settling around the Elbe and all the way into OTL Thuringia and staying there until nowadays

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

Multi-national penal colony

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

Alternate US expansions

The US becoming the owner of Greenland and parts of the Carribean instead of Alaska and Hawaii (with a pre-1900 POD)

Latest possible uncharted island

WI: Literal decolonization

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.

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Is Europe destined to rule the world ?

Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.

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