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  1. Could the Confederacy have survived as a nation?

    Getting someone other than Jefferson Davis as President probably would have done wonders.

  2. Wi: money was never invented?

    We actually have evidence of at least some Inca use of money, and we believe that it had both economic and ritual significance. The Highland regions didn't have much in the way of trade, but that was very much a function of their environment and doesn't preclude the possibility of symbolic...

  3. WI Napoleon lives to be 100?

    He was in really poor health by the end, and I seem to recall reading that poisoning or nutrient deficiency had at least some effect.

  4. WI Jews and Roma/gypsies switched places?

    I don't really know that this is possible. Consider also the effect of Jewish trading community contacts further east, the so-called Radhanites....

  5. WI: Earlier invention of photography

    What is most interesting is some of the associated technologies- I can't remember where I read it, but apparently electroplating built on some of the chemical advances made in photography.

  6. Effects of a British California on the Mexican American War

    Do you have a source on this sale, or the efforts toward it?

  7. Surviving Sultanate of Rum and Latin Empire

    Why all the way into the 1500s and not say, 1453? Honestly, the Byzantine Empire was on its last legs at the founding of the Latin Empire and it never really recovered. How would you envision the division of the territory between OTL's Latin Empire and OTL's Sultanate of Rum? I'm not sure how...

  8. AHC/WI: Monmouth's Rebellion Succeeds?

    A good place to start would be what he and his co-conspirators promised to do: The declaration of James Duke of Monmouth, & the noblemen, gentlemen & others, now in arms, for defence & vindication of the Protestant religion, & the laws, rights, & privilieges of England, from the invasion made...

  9. How large can vinland get

    Actually mentioned in the Sagas. Also, that wouldn't be stupid- the era was a time of ethnic flux in NA and there were very wide-spanning trade networks we probably underestimate if anything.

  10. How large can vinland get

    Disease is not a non-issue, as smallpox was only one of many diseases spread to the New World.

  11. Earliest cultivation of sugar beet

    I would give it a higher probability than early posters- while it was certainly the result of scientific breeding, scientific breeding is rather unique in having few prerequisites- you don't have to understand how it works to do it, and people often didn't. At the dawn of modern scientific...

  12. How large can vinland get

    Probably not that big. The Landnam in Iceland should give you an idea of how long it would take just to populate Newfoundland (~30 years or more) and after Newfoundland, they are likely to encounter more resistance from natives. (I'm fond of a 'slow drip' introduction of European diseases, which...

  13. What would a Bronze/Iron civilization arising in South Africa look like?

    The Xhosa are not indigenous- they are relatively recent arrivals. If they brought their Bantu crop package with them.... then their society would look like the Bantu societies just a hair north.

  14. What would a Bronze/Iron civilization arising in South Africa look like?

    Why not amaranth? It provided a large portion of the pre-Columbian diet, after all, and is still a useful crop in large parts of Southern Africa. (It is the Year of the Pulse, let's not forget) There is a species native to South Africa and a few edible species and varietals scattered across the...

  15. Bizarre moments in history .

    A Senator from Indiana lost his election and descended into drunkenness. Stabbed his brother-in-law in the neck in a row over his state of being. Former Senator and the county prosecutors that refused to convict him were run out of town (before dying, the brother-in-law had said not to convict...

  16. Challenge: Get a World Power to abolish slavery before 1800

    I had an idea for a stagnant Virginia colony being bought out by William Penn and a "Quaker cousinage". Having a large portion of the colonial elite belonging to a pretty fervent anti-slavery sect could see an earlier end to slavery, at least on the Continent.

  17. Is the Protestant Work Ethic mostly a Calvinist thing?

    The worldly asceticism of the Quakers is often cited for their relative prominence in business and low numbers in both America and England.

  18. AHC Increased Arab immergration to US

    Thing is, plenty of Arab Christians have/do pass as white.

  19. Chinese Dionysus

    Taoism is very Dionysian.

  20. Were the pre-Tsardom Russian states + 16th/17th century Russia viewed as European?

    Does the OP ask if Russia was Catholic? He also doesn't ask if Western Europeans thought Russians were Catholic. At an earlier period, they did (the Russians were similarly confused)
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