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  1. Greek wine/herbal become part of Christian "Blood and Body of Christ"

    I was reading The Road to Eleusis by R. Gordan Wasserman and Albert Hofmann. In it, they argue that the secret behind the Eleusian Mysteries was a psychotropic cocktail along with ritual framing to put the experiencer into a mindset for a revelatory experience. He makes a good argument that...

  2. Canidates for Earliest PoD Leading to Our Extinction

    Disclaimer: Some of the answers might go into prehistory, though probably only within the existence of Homo Sapiens thus not touching on evolution. Therefore, I strongly believe this is the right place for this. One or two answers might surprise me. My suggestion is to treat this question like...

  3. How long can settlement of the Americas be delayed?

    First off this is prehistoric rather than evolutionary, with fully modern humans making desicions. That's why it's here. I realize others may disagree including moderators. Also, the original Paleo Indians seem to have been a very small group, as in under a hundred. So, if a few people drown...

  4. How Right is Jared Diamond

    Jared Diamond is a name sometimes talked about with contempt on these boards. Yet his thinking is never completely dismissed and often arguments are made in Diamondian terms I e. Geography is destiny etc. My personal take is more people who dislike him hate the idea that they are out of their...

  5. What Makes a "Reasonable" Alternate Technology

    Solar powered trains, more psychoactive drugs like LSD being used in medical treatment, no polyester, but a coat woven from the shedding of a woolly mammoth fur. The development of more wind power during the industrial revolution, more clockwork, and flechette guns over gunpowder. What makes a...

  6. Top Tier Losing Generals/Leaders

    Lets face it History has some great generals and some opponents who were nearly as great and others who are merely the opponent who faced the great guy. To get at what I mean, nobody thinks Darius the 3rd was in the same league as Alexander. But Hannibal and Scipio Africanus are closer to...

  7. German Culture without Prussian Influence?

    German culture and my (limited) experience with it comes off as rigid. I've also heard from multiple sources that that rigidity comes from the Prussian Influence on the larger culture, particularly through the schools and came across the idea that the Germans were relatively free wheeling before...

  8. Wessex falls, long term consequences

    Let's assume that Guthrum gets his wish and is able to visit Alfred for the holidays at Chippenham. The meeting is followed by a pious religious ceremony in which Alfred particpates in a manner similar to the Kings of Northumbria and East Anglia, after which nothing is heard of him again. His...

  9. AHC: Shut Someone Up About Your Moral Failings Skillfully

    One of my side ideas for a Confederate TL is to make the Irish born Patrick Cleburne Ambassador to the U.K. How critical can you be of a system to a man who fled your system to keep from starving. The challenge is to come up with examples of when you can skillfully mute moral criticism (even if...

  10. AHC:How to get to a different moralities and PoD on how we get to them

    Suggest a different morality, I mean we have very different blind spots and how we got them. They have to have some upsides compared to otl but also some wtf. For example-- Toxic pollutors are put to death. Think about the cost in slave labor and the damage to agriculture. Confederacy with some...

  11. What are the Deep PoD for a Sustainable Civilization

    Let's face it, most people acknowledge it is quite possible we are headed toward our own extinction or at least a collapse. I'll save the odds for a thread in current events. My question is what deep values/and technology could be different that would put an industrialized society in a better...

  12. Scenarios where killing the commander/command staff early in a battle would be beneficial

    This is inspired by the anniversary of the Battle of Midway which is obviously post 1900. However, most cases of this pre-1900, so that's why it's here. Here is the thread that inspired this and below is the relevant example-- My question, what are other examples of killing the commanding...

  13. Esotoric Traditions in a Non Christian Europe

    This is directly inspired by the "Europe without Christianity" thread but I thought this was separate enough to warrant its own thread. Basically, I'm thinking of how there seemed to be whole sets of proto martial arts traditions, meditation techniques and Shamanism that seemed to be developing...

  14. Charlamagne dies in the winter of 771-2

    Let's say Charlamagne dies close to the time his brother and rival Carloman dies. Both have very small sons. Unfortunately, Charles (won't be called Charlamagne)'s is Pippin but his wife is pregnant with a second son. With no adult head of the Kingdom of the Franks, what happens long term...

  15. AHC Varania Howell Lincoln and Mary Todd Davis

    It is what it says on the tin. Switch the spouses of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and apply the knock off effects.

  16. AHC: A Different Pharmacology

    We live in a society in which 90% of us are addicted to caffeine. One notable thing was that the Age of Reason coincided with the first coffee houses in Europe and the crowd that raided the Bastille gathered at a coffee house. Until recently Nicotine was a popular drug and tobacco cultivation...

  17. Ex Civil War Generals in the Boshin War

    Lets say the Tokugawa Shogunate and the forces of Satsuma/Choshu are looking for military advisors in 1865 and they recruit several American Civil War officers. Lets also say that the POD allows for 1-2 someone who died after July of 64 to survive but not effect the ACW. Maybe they meet a...

  18. Plausiblity Check: Seperate Low and High German Nations?

    What would it take for low German speakers or old Saxon/middle low german speakers to develop a separate identity national consiousness, think of themselves seperate from high german speakers?

  19. A Durable Technological World Broad Strokes

    I am putting this in Pre 1900 and I because the PoD changes needed have to be older than 1900. I think this the best fit, but the Moderators may disagree. The question is built on a meta question. We live in a world where, since 1945, have had the means to bring about our own extinction and...

  20. Demographic/Economic Effects of a Successful Vinland on Greenland/Iceland

    This is a spin off of the Pagan Vinland thread that can be referenced here. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/if-vinland-succeeds-can-norse-paganism-also-succeed.493157/ Suffice it to say, there were wildly divergent opinions and I'm sure many of us thought the other person's...
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