Recent content by Iudeus Rex britannicus

  1. Linguistic alt histories

    What if in the new world you had Creoles emerge between Spanish and regional native languages and become the dominant dialects of their respective regions, producing languages in Latin America with a relationship to Castilian similar to that between Haitian Creole and French.
  2. WI: African china

    how could you have an African equivalent of china, meaning a relatively continuous, large literate culture that survived into modernity and what would be the effects.
  3. Cool Potential Domestications

    How about the capybara, largest rodent on earth, not much for a beast of burden but herd herbivores can be a very easily accessible form of meat.
  4. Different ways of defining race/ethnicity

    Well, in the case of the United States, racially categories are reflective of the social vestiges of the colonial era, so this might require a POD during the days of the Atlantic Slave trade. it is is feasible for example to have various European ethnic groups, such as the Irish, Germans and...
  5. Cool Potential Domestications

    Rhinos, leopards, extensive monkey and ape domestication, dodos, crocodiles(for prestige and meat) mold, wasps, foxes, wild dogs, lemurs, African elephants, hippos, turtles and tortoises, dolphin, nimphs, bears, raccoons, ferets, wolverines, seals
  6. WI: divided India

    What if the indian subcontinent, after independence, splintered into more than just India Pakistan and west Pakistan (Bangladesh) along ethnic lines. Independent princedoms, kashmir etcetera. How would this come to pass, what would be the geopolitical effects.
  7. WI:larger Greece

    What if Greece was able to annex ethnically Greek territories on the Anatolian peninsula after World War I
  8. WI: U.S. Annexation of Okinawa or Vietnam

    These two questions might be completely unrelated but, what if the U.S. Annexed Okinawa at the end of the Second World War, could this set a precedent of overt U.S. imperialism in Asia, what would be the international ramifications. If the us won in Vietnam is it possible that it would annex...
  9. AHC: soviet territory outside of Eurasia

    Can you have it so that by 1970, the Soviet Union has territory outside of the Eurasian landmass.
  10. AHC: Buddhism in India

    See if you can make it so that India still is majority Buddhist or at least has a large Buddhist population up until at least the time of OTL Mughal empire. What effects would this have on the surrounding area, both religiously and politically.
  11. Earlier genocide of Jews?

    Well, while jews where blamed during the Black Death for the pestilence, it was because of pre-existing prejudice, as opposed to the cause of widespread anti-semitism. "Retribution" against the Jews might be harsher though. As horrible as it is to contemplate, Tsarist Russia would be a pretty...
  12. WI: No Aryan invasion

    How would be the effects on India, Central Asia and Asia in general if Indo-European speakers did not migrate into the Indian subcontinent?
  13. AHC: Jewish state by 1800

    Can you make a jewish sovereign state, or a territory devoted towards the settlement of the Jews, in the Maghreb, the near east or the Americas by 1800.
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