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Points of Divergence : Scotland
Prehistory
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Antiquity
Challenge: Make wolves and bears survive as domestic wild species on the British Isles
Plausibility check: Survival of the Picts ?
Challenge: Balkanised Scotland (with a POD no later than 1500 AD)
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The Middle Ages
Challenge: Balkanised Scotland (with a POD no later than 1500 AD)
If Scotland had remained completely Gaelic-speaking
Challenge : A Scandinavian Scotland
What if Berwick was never permanently captured by the English, leaving Roxburgh in a favourable enough position to remain the capital of Scotland and not completely vanish as a city in the early 1600s ?
Challenge: French-speaking Scotland (with a POD after 1200)
What if the Scottish nobles that supported William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk did better ?
Plausibility check: A Scottish dominated England
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Early Modern history
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18th and 19th century
WI: No Acts of Union and Scotland staying independent
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20th century
Plausibility check : A Union of Celtic Socialist Republics ?
DBWI: The Scottish Rebellion of 1917 never occurred
Plausibility check: An independent Scotland and its oil reserves
Challenge: Break the Old Firm's (Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers) dominance in Scottish football
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ASB / ISOT / Geological
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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