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  1. AHC: General Joe Johnston

    Find the best use of his talents possible within the Confederate army. POD may be at any point between his assignment to the Army of the Shenandoah and taking command of the Army of Tennessee.

  2. AHC: OTL the best case scenario for the Native Americans

    With a POD after Columbus started asking for backers, make a world where the present day OTL represents the best possible outcome. This may include a more repressive government in general, assimilation that leaves as little left of their languages as Cornish, or any other plausible disaster.

  3. Thoughts on the HRE as a potentially "united" state

    I've been doing some reading on the HRE lately, and the following thoughts are coming out of it. Note, this is all for post-Investiture Controversy PODs. Focusing on the Staufen because they're the dynasty that OTL could have made it - a What If the Welfs Do is different. Henry VI seems to...

  4. ACW What if: Rosecrans dawdles in the summer of '63

    As it says on the tin. Rosecrans OTL delayed his advance almost unreasonably long as it was. What if he took another month to be ready? Would it make any difference to the Confederate situation for him to advance in late July instead of late June?

  5. What Muslim (but non-Ayyubid) leader could take over Egypt after the 3rd Crusade?

    As says on the tin. I'm not looking for a Fatamid restoration or anything, just musing on how the Levant would look if the Ayyubids failed to (re)establish control in Egypt and were nothing more than a disunited collection of princedoms (emirates?) in Syria. Is this even feasible? I don't...

  6. What happens to "Occitania" if the crusades fail?

    Just as it says. The area isn't secured by the Northern French, and people like Count Raymond remain in/regain power. It seems there was only a finite level of enthusiasm for doing it - sure if it was easy and profitable, people leaped on it, but it wasn't worth so much as to generate endless...

  7. AHC: Modernization not Westernization

    With a POD after Charlemagne, make it so that becoming part of "the modern world" as we know it - more or less - is not based on emulating Western Europe. Western European nations may be included as examples of modern, advanced nations, but they must not be the standard by which progress and...

  8. Egyptian Crusader Kingdom

    Assuming the crusaders can take Egypt in the first place, how long could it last (if it is taken by the Fourth Crusade or later)? Louis IX establishing something lasting might be different than the Fourth Crusade being as large as expected and going where it intended, for instance, so if that...

  9. Could the Third Reich have been more successful than OTL?

    Assuming minimal changes to the other powers (including Italy and Japan) - responses made in response to different German policies from '33 on are one thing, but "Churchill turns into a beef eating surrender monkey" is not. This is looking mostly at the issue of logistics and production, as...

  10. No Mamluk Sultanate

    What plausible, noncontrived, scenario could lead to the Ayyubids succeeded by a nonMamluk dynasty, with the Mamluks never rising to be a sultanate (in Egypt/Syria, at least)? Saying noncontrived because I'm looking for how it could happen without going out of one's way to eliminate the...

  11. Surviving Al-Andalus: Ways, means, chances.

    Inspired by this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=215558 and based on my thread earlier on "What exactly would it take for the HRE to be centralized and united in the Staufen era?", this is for Al-Andalus (A Muslim, Iberian-based polity) post-1200. What would...

  12. AHC: Germany never unites as one nation

    With a POD after 1250, make it so that there is no one German nation. There may be a large region of what is OTL Germany (defined by its current borders) controlled by a given kingdom, but it must be divided into at least two kingdoms. A continued HRE does not count as "no Germany". Whether...

  13. Of Reds and Romans: Discussion thread

    Based on this: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=5126498&postcount=26 and running with the list of reasons given by wormyguy's link on how the Communists and Capitalists destroyed the Roman Empire. The Romans are the capitalists, who are destroyed by the evil...

  14. If the Capets die out early...

    Specifically, if Philip Augustus dies young (between 1190 and 1200 or so), and ill fortunate leads to the main line of the Capets dying out about the time the Hohenstaufens did OTL (1254, as Conradin never amounted to anything but a vain hope). Would France return to elective monarchy to...

  15. The Eagle of the Bosporus

    This timeline is basically the same as the one below, but owing to some research and discussion since the original thread was posted, it is being restarted. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=192188 Credit goes to the same people as originally. Were it not for their...

  16. How successful could a Muslim Spain be? (POD after 1200)

    As it says on the tin. There are several old threads discussing the subject, but none of them seem to satisfactorily address the following two issues (particularly the second): 1) How well could it actually do? That is, how much of Iberia can it really gain control of and for how long? 2) To...

  17. If the 3rd Crusade recaptures Jerusalem...

    How are future crusades impacted, and how does it effect enthusiasm (or lack of it) for crusading over the course of the 13th century? OTL, sometime between the middle and the end of the 13th century, the precarious situation of the surviving Crusader states seems to have been more and more...

  18. What would happen to the Abbassid Caliphate if the Mongols don't destroy it?

    Not just the city of Baghdad, but the Caliphate. Assuming that Timur is butterflied. Would it be able to regain any of its former power over time (the Ilkhanate didn't last very long, after all)? Would the dynasty die out or be replaced? It seems like it was recovering in the 1200s, though on...

  19. On the Butterfly, or "How much does it matter if we have this discussion or not?"

    Obviously the consequences of this discussion are going to be in the Post-1900 forum, if there are any. But on to business. Because this is an issue that has a huge impact on our understanding of the writing of alt-history, it probably bears discussion - though hopefully more in the way of...

  20. Hohenstaufen Centralization of the HRE: What exactly does this take?

    As it says on the tin. There are some old threads on the subject, but none of them really address the basic question here. What exactly would the Hohenstaufen Emperors have to do to address the problems with imposing imperial authority? Henry VI succeeds at making the crown hereditary and say...
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