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  1. Proposal: a collaborative TL about Song Dynasty industrialization

    I've concluded that there is substantial interest but no timelines which actually revolve around the premise of Song industrialization. Therefore I have taken it upon myself to propose a collaborative TL where the Song Dynasty brings a full Industrial Revolution to China and becomes the behemoth...

  2. What would be the world reaction to a Soviet nuclear strike on Iran, 1985?

    In 1985, Hezbollah took four staff at the Soviet embassy in Beirut hostage. After one of the hostages were killed, a KGB officer sent to handle the situation threatened (without official permission) to Hezbollah that a missile might somehow find its way to the Iranian city of Qom if the...

  3. AHC: one person as Khan and Caliph?

    How would it be possible to have one man to be widely recognized as being both a Mongol Khan, of the Borjigin line, as well as an Islamic Caliph, related to the Prophet Muhammad? This man would be directly descended from both Genghis Khan and the Prophet Muhammad. This person can also be...

  4. Plausibility Check: Personal union of Scotland and England without Stuarts

    With a point of divergence after the failure of the Rough Wooing, what would be most plausible way for a personal union between Scotland and England without having to resort to the Stuarts? It seems to me that the easy way in terms of succession law would be for Elizabeth I to marry James...

  5. Great and Lasting Brightness: Tales of a Surviving Ming

    I hadn't really thought I would begin a new timeline. As I was researching about the Southern Ming, I was reading on one of the Ming imperial claimants, the Prince of Fu, and I came across how he narrowly escaped death after Li Zicheng took Luoyang. As I was reading about that, I came across how...

  6. Conquest: an exposition on a Code Geass world

    I have decided to make my own Code Geass world, but in a way that at least pays lip service to plausibility, even if it doesn't go into that area. Thus, I've decided to make a Code Geass timeline that attempts to be slightly more realistic, though I also have decided to discard the bits and...

  7. How could a Western Japanese Shogunate come about?

    The three main Shogunates in Japanese history were based at Kamakura in the east, Kyoto in roughly the center of Japan, and Edo in the east. What would be the easiest and most plausible way for a shogunate to be established in the west of Japan? I'm not sure what the definition of Western Japan...

  8. Soviet faction installed in North Korea from the beginning?

    In a situation where Josef Stalin chooses Soviet faction leaders, either Ho Kai (Alexei Hegay) or Pak Chang-ok, from the very beginning, how would North Korea's history change? Assume in this situation that Kim Il-sung and Kim Tubong are still around, but the Soviet faction is supported by the...

  9. Most distant successions, historical and possible

    So, as I was looking at my other thread (about who would be the king Bourbon King of France if basically all lines of the family except the descendants of Philip V of Spain died out), I realized how distant the line of succession would be. That made me think: what is the most distant succession...

  10. Succession question regarding the French Bourbons.

    In a scenario where the French Revolution wipes out the French Bourbons, who would be the monarch in the case of a restoration? Let's say everybody who died in the French Revolution dies as was the case historically. Next, the revolutionaries kill not just Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans, but...

  11. Stronger Communist movement in NATO countries during the Cold War?

    Looking at Cold War history and present, it seems that Communist parties were only strong in several NATO countries, such as France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, and perhaps a few that I haven't named. I don't think it's realistic for the USA to have a viable Communist Party, but is there...

  12. Idea: Longer Chinese North-South Division

    China's Northern and Southern Dynasties period ended in 589 when the Sui Dynasty conquered the Chen Dynasty, but I think that China's reunification could still be delayed. My suggestions for keeping China divided longer: First, Northern Qi survives as an independent state, instead of being...

  13. Alternate Family Trees Thread

    We have threads for people to post maps of alternate worlds and flags of alternate countries, even alternate sports and billboard charts. I suggest that a thread exclusively for family trees for alternate families. I will start with this family tree that I made for an alternate Tang Dynasty in...

  14. Sweet Dew: A Tang China Timeline

    So, almost one year after my failed previous attempt at a timeline, I've decided to try again. This time, the POD is the Sweet Dew Incident in 835 during China's Tang Dynasty. I haven't fully fleshed out the ideas: I was seized by inspiration today, and I finished my initial ideas about...

  15. Idea: Coup of 1461 succeeds, eunuchs take over China

    In 1461, the eunuch Cao Jixiang attempted a coup to replace the Tianshun Emperor with the crown prince, but failed. This would be the first and last time in the Ming Dynasty that eunuchs tried to take over the government by force. But what if Cao and his son (Cao Qin, the Wikipedia article on...

  16. WI: Anti-Soviet PRC from the very beginning or an earlier Sino-Soviet split?

    After realizing that there have been too many threads trying to avoid a Sino-Soviet split, I decided to ask the opposite: what if the PRC was anti-Soviet from its inception? What would it take to drive a wedge between the CCP and CCCP before 1949, yet still see the People's Republic of China...

  17. Where else could organized crime build a Vegas?

    I am aware that organized crime was not the only reason that Las Vegas became a global gambling center, but it was certainly a major reason. No, where else could organized crime groups, of any nationality, create a gambling mecca from scratch and dominate it? Macau doesn't work: it already had...

  18. Favorite Japanese ruling clan?

    Looking at families and clans that ruled Japan for decent periods of time, which clan did so best? The options: The Imperial Family: They ruled a unified Japan first, so they count. Who were they originally? Who knows? The Soga Clan: They literally invented the use of puppet rulers in Japan...

  19. How would a Taisho period Japanese Empire look today?

    Imagine a world where Japan's territories remain roughly or exactly the same as they did during the Taisho period, so about 1912 to 1926. This would include Korea, Taiwan, parts of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, many Pacific islands, and so forth, but does not include Manchuria or the WW2...

  20. Alternate Angola: How else could things go?

    Regarding the Angolan Civil War, what alternate possibilities are there? How would things look if the MPLA didn't manage to win? Would the FNLA be more likely to win out in the struggle or would it be UNITA? Given how things played out historically, I'm assuming the FNLA might have better...
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