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Points of Divergence : The Philippines
Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of the Philippines.
Prehistory
General Precolonial Philippines Ideas Thread
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Antiquity
General Precolonial Philippines Ideas Thread
WI: The Wheel brought to the Philippines before the Era of Exploration
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The Middle Ages
General Precolonial Philippines Ideas Thread
What if the Kingdom of Tondo survived to the present
Challenge: Indigenous Christian Philippines
WI: The Wheel brought to the Philippines before the Era of Exploration
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Early Modern history
WI: Only the central Philippines get colonized
Bolkiah of Brunei fails to conquer Manila. - Used in kasumigenx's timeline Terraces and Pagodas.
WI the Dutch colonize Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Indonesia
Koxinga invades Spanish Manila instead of Dutch Taiwan
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18th and 19th century
Challenge: Make Spanish the official language of the Philippines with a POD no earlier than 1850
The Philippines under Hohenzollern Spain
WI Spain still owned her colonies in the Pacific in 1941
Plausibility check: 1894 - Japan buys the Philippines
Japan defeats Spain and takes its Pacific colonies
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20th century
Japan defeats Spain and takes its Pacific colonies
Discussion about an earlier (pre-WWII) independence for The Philippines
WI Spain still owned her colonies in the Pacific in 1941
Philippine national language based on Chavacano de Ermita/Ermiteño language
Plausibility check: The Philippines becoming a US state ?
More "Economic Tigers" (with a POD between 1945 and 1975)
Challenge: Ferdinand Marcos loses in 1965
WI the Bojinka Plot was succesful ?
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21st century
2013 Lahad Datu incident/standoff PODs
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ASB / ISOT / Geological
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