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Points of Divergence : Sweden
Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Sweden.
Prehistory
What kind of Mesolithic POD would be needed to create advanced civilization in Northern Europe ?
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Antiquity
Plausibility check: North European civilization as a contemporary of Greek cultures ?
Plausibility Check: A Sápmi state ?
Challenge: Scandinavian microstates
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The Middle Ages
Plausibility check: A Sápmi state ?
Challenge: Scandinavian microstates
Plausibility check: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden do not convert to Christianity
Challenge: Orthodox Christian Sweden (with a POD after 999 AD)
Plausibility check: A "Holmgard Union" (Sweden–Novgorod union) ?
Plausibility check: Surviving Kalmar Union
Challenge: Keep Scandinavia United
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Early Modern history
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18th and 19th century
Challenge: Make Sweden into a global power with a post-1700 POD
Challenge: Have a Swedish colony surviving by 1750
Could Sweden win the Northern Wars ?
If Sweden won the Great Northern War
Challenge:Sweden under the House of Bourbon-Parma
A surviving Kingdom of Sweden-Finland
Plausibility check: Denmark absorbed by Sweden based on an alternate Treaty of Kiel
WI the Swedes participated in the Crimean War
Challenge: Scandinavian microstates
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20th century
WI Sweden joined the Central Powers in WWI ?
Sweden and Italy on Central Powers side
Sweden intervenes in Finland in 1917
Sweden in WWII (first discussion)
Sweden in WWII (second discussion)
Sweden in WWII (third discussion)
Sweden in WWII (fourth discussion)
Sweden in WWII (but this time, it's in a DBWI format)
Spain, Sweden, and Turkey join the Axis
WI Sweden invaded as part of Operation Weserübung ?
WI Sweden interveens in WWII during the final days
Swedish atomic bomb programme developments
Challenge: Saab Viggen - NATO's Thunderbolt
Challenge: Have the Saab 37 Viggen as the West’s main fighter
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21st century
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Miscellaneous
Challenge: Orthodox Christian Sweden with a POD between 900-1900 AD
Challenge: Keep Sweden a European power with a POD after 1500 AD
Challenge: The Baltic Sea as somebody's Mare Nostrum
Sweden's neutrality or lack thereof and its influence on the Swedish military industry and exports
DBWI: WI the Nordic Union was never formed
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ASB / ISOT / Geological
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