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  1. Effects of a Successful 1st Persian Invasion of Greece?

    The title says it all: What would be the world look like if the Persians under Darius I had successfully conquered the Greek city-states and made Greece into a satrapy? Could this mean that the West (or what arises in Europe in its place) become overall and customarily more open to new ideas and...

  2. USSR Domestic & International Success

    Basically - with a POD no latter than the October Revolution itself, how could the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics not only win the Cold War, but also be an internal success - that is to say, much less corruption, world leader in innovation, and have the largest economy (except that it may...

  3. Sino-Soviet Alliance in an earlier WW2, w/out Stalin?

    The question is twofold but the latter leads into the former: WI, instead of Stalin, it was Zinov'ev and/or Kamyenyev who rise to power, saving the USSR from the formers' purges, tyranny, &c.; could Kamyenyev and/or Zinov'ev then be able to, or willing to, fight the fascist Imperial Japanese and...

  4. Revolutionary Nicaragua makes alliances with Non-Aligned Powers

    WI the FSLN during the Nicaraguan Revolution made more alliances with other countries in the Non-Aligned Movement, so as to be able to stop the Contras and resist foreign intervention? My thoughts: It seems unlikely that the PRC or the USSR would support the Sandinistas, given that Mao's death...

  5. WI: Seperate, Advanced and Unified Orinoco Civilization encountered by Conquistadors?

    What would the effects on world history be if a unified state with a culture similar to, say, the Tairona, as distinct from both the Andes and Mesoamerica as the latter two are from each other, was found in the Orinoco Basin and the far Northern Andes, with cities in the hundreds of thousands...

  6. Successful Soviet-Dominated World

    I'm sure this has come up countless times, but - not wanting to do thread necro - I thought it would be better for me to start a new thread on it; thus: With a POD no earlier than 1923 (right after the Russian Civil War), I was wondering how the USSR could "win" the Cold War, or even avoid it...

  7. Alternate energy sources in the Second Industrial Revolution?

    I was wondering what it would take for fossil fuel usage to become marginalized (at least as marginalized as hydro is today, better more so) in all significant energy sectors (like automobiles, power stations, factories, aircraft and so on) during the Second Industrial Revolution and/or Machine...

  8. My Indigenous New Guinean Civilization TL Brainstorm

    Hello everyone, I have recently decieded that it is about time I start my own TL where the main difference from OTL is that an early civilization developing in Ancient New Guinea. BTW, by early I mean between the foundation of OTL Shang China and the beginning of the Mature Harappan period for...

  9. Why didn't the Andean Civilizations enter the Iron Age?

    In a way it makes some sense that the Precolumbian Andean Civilizations never developed Ironworking - mainly, their isolation and their cultural view of metal as an artistic medium and a status symbol: See here and here for more information. But that is still not enough to explain why, given...

  10. Sucessful US Amerindian-African-American Alliance?

    Hey all, I was just thinking about a truly successful early 19th century "Second American Revolution" based on an alliance of various Amerindian nations (probably more than one) and African-Americans from slavery, wherein the colonists are expelled from the OTL Eastern USA or otherwise defeated...

  11. Thoughts about this Incomplete Inka TL?

    The point of divergence is when Tupaq Inka Yupanaqui not only follows up on his voyages but, after the same stalemate with the Mapuche at the Battle of Maule as in actual history, expands into Amazonia. By the time Wayna Qhapaq takes the throne, Tawantinsuyu is, as in actual history, the...

  12. WI: Hispanic America joined in Supranational Union after Wars of Independence?

    I will admit, I do not know a whole lot about the Spanish American Wars of Independence but please bare with me: What if, shortly after or during a more or less OTL path to independence in Spanish America, the liberated states remain tied together in something not too centralized, such as in a...

  13. How Could a Very Early (Old World Bronze Age) Civilization Rises in Amazonia

    I have been thinking for a while now about the lost potential of the Amazon Basin for a complex, centralized and very large state to arise, somewhat like China. It seems Amazonia is a very inviting place for a centralized complex society to rise and thrive, for the following reasons...

  14. Alternate Contemporary Architectural Design

    This could involve a POD before the dawn of the 20th century but I put it here as it deals with what architecture could be like from the last decade of the 2nd millenium to the first 2 decades of the 3rd millenium. What ways could housing, construction, urban planning, materials, form and...

  15. WI: A Successful Socialist Brazil

    Being that Brazil has been historically rather leftist, I do not see it as too far fetched for one of the following situations to take place, with the goal of getting a successful Brazilian socialist state of some sort; not the wicked and corrupt, Stalinist USSR or the genocidal Cambodia of Pol...

  16. WI: A Lasting Wari Empire

    Being that Wari were in many ways to the Inka like the Etruscans and Greeks were to the Romans, what would the effect of a Wari that was the/one of the main power(s) in the Andes when Pizarro came? I have been thinking a lot about the Wari lately for several reasons: They are in many ways...

  17. Civilizations in Lands of Plenty: California and the Haida

    This is to be my TL about an indigenous rise of civilization in California in Late or Classical Antiquity, sparked by Teotihuanaco and Mississippian traders, that develops into a unique superstate by the second millennium. Today I will focus on the Californians, as they will come before the...

  18. Urukagina's Empire

    This is an outgrowth of my earlier thread where I suggested what would happen if horses could not be domesticated; in this TL I will, at least for now, assume that horses are not domesticable (though this is open for discussion; see paragraph 3.) I could not think of an accurate title short...

  19. No Indo-European Expansion

    Hello all. This is not intended to be a TL (I am still learning the ropes here) but I just came up with the idea for POD for a discussion: No Indo-European expansion. The idea came to mind as I am currently studying the Sumerian Language, and thus the Bronze Age Middle East. Then I realized...

  20. WI: Srivijaya Dominates Australia (& Beyond)

    Hello all. This is my first attempt at a thread, so please offer suggestions for this, rather crude, timeline. The basic premise is that, WI, Srivijaya made contact with and established dominance over Australia in the 9th century. It seems perfectly possible, given Srivijaya was a huge...
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