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 ?

Restrict the Metric System

WI the Metric system was duodecimal ?

Alternative dating systems

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

WI: No lead gasoline

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Roman Semaphore Lines and Horse Drawn Cars

Earlier American canals

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 ?

A Trans-Atlantic Tunnel ?

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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 ?

ATL offshore tax havens

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)

More "Economic Tigers"

Challenge: More Economic Miracles in the Third World

WI the British were the world's best project managers ?

Challenge: Prevent the Great Recession

Great Recession PODs ?

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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: No fast food chains

WI: No McDonalds (1)

WI: No McDonalds (2)

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

Keep Nokia competitive

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American cities that could have been more prominent

ASBs reverse standards of living in countries

Challenge: Native Americans "pull an Iwakura"

Challenge: Make Africa the most developed and stable region in the world (with a POD in the 16th century at the earliest)

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