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  1. Fruit of the Thorns: The Domestication of Mesquite

    The idea of this TL is based on a series of posts I made in the Cool Potential Domestications thread, laying out the possibility of domesticating mesquite trees as a food crop in the Desert Southwest of North America: I will be reworking these posts as part of the TL, but they should lay out...

  2. Concrete not lost after the fall of Rome

    In Europe, the techniques to make concrete were lost after the fall of Rome, up until the 17th century. What if the formula had not been lost? How would this have affected architecture and technology? I imagine it would have had quite a few applications for both of the iconic structures of...

  3. The Pale Horseman Rides Early

    Chapter 1: Patient Zero Douala, (former) German Kamerun, September 28 1914 George Eastland, ensign assigned to His Majesty's Ship the Cumberland, was fucking. He was, quite obviously, not the first human to ever fuck nor would he be the last. What merits attention about this particular...

  4. CSA victory 1864: what happens to the freed slaves?

    CSA victory after Gettysburg: what happens to the freed slaves? Suppose the common POD of a Confederate win at Gettysburg, followed by French and British armtwisting ensures the CSA's independence. What I haven't seen on this site is any discussion as to what happens next. Sherman is sitting...

  5. Pilgrims land on Manhattan

    It's been repeated often that the Pilgrims were supposed to go to Virginia, and ended up in New England because they went off course. People think, 'oh, they must mean Jamestown', but that's not really true - the Pilgrims actually intended to settle in the Hudson River area; Virginia's borders...

  6. Domesticable elephant?

    Everyone knows how cool elephants are. Unfortunately, as a weapon of war they are rather subpar. Elephants tend to be skittish, and easily frightened. They're also slow to mature, and need to be captured and tamed, unlike horses, which are truly domesticable. Because of these downsides the use...

  7. Breaking up Indonesia

    For my timline I'm planning on having Indonesia's independence movement splinter and result in several different states coming to be based on ethnic and religious lines. The problem is, Indonesia has approximately 6,000,000,000 ethnic groups so I'm not sure how the breakdown would go. This...

  8. VFAU: THIS IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE

    I just spun around fast three times and now everything looks different! Including this forum! My question is: where are all the VFAU threads! Now we've got people discussing things like the Russian Civil War and WW2 instead of trying to guess whether posters are from the Third Napoleonic Space...

  9. Franz Ferdinand Had a Much Better Day: a TL

    After several abortive attempts in the past, I've decided to start my first full timeline. I'm using a narrative style instead of a historical one because a) I write it better and b) it's easier :D Anyway, read on! ----------- 28 June, 1914 Leopold Lojka was not enjoying himself. Oh, yes...

  10. Surviving Sarmatians

    What would it take to get the Sarmatians, or another Iranic steppe people, to survive as a cohesive ethnicity to the present day?

  11. Finnish SSR

    What if the USSR had annexed Finland after WW2 outright? How would this change the power dynamic in Northern Europe? Would Sweden join NATO?

  12. WI no alcohol?

    That would suck, and I would not be typing this.

  13. No Turks

    Just like it says - for whatever reason, the Turkic tribes never come about or are absorbed into someone else before they can migrate anywhere, so no Turkic ethnic groups exist. What are the effects on China? Russia? Who takes their place in Central Asia? What are the ramifications of no...

  14. Baltic language wank

    How could it happen that the Baltic languages spread and become major world languages? Could a strong Lithuanian empire do it?

  15. Christian Suicide Bombings?

    How could one get a TL where suicide bombing are routinely perpetrated by Christian groups in certain countries? IE, suicide boming as a tactic of Christian terrorists. What would the scriptural justification for it look like? I can think of a few things: *The story of Samson killing himself...

  16. Reagan's Alzheimer's accelerates

    Reagan developed Alzheimers fairly soon after he left office. What if it had onset sooner, around the start of his second term in office? How would the US deal with a president with Alzheimers? Would he be forced to resign?

  17. DBWI: Revolution of 1938 never happens

    As we sit on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Red Revolution of 1938, comrades, I as a good, alternate historian, must ask: what if it had been delayed? The Proletarian revolution was inevitable of course, but the course of events that woke the People never had to turn the way they did...

  18. DBWI: Roman Empire partitioned

    I read in my history class that back around the fourth century the Romans considered partitioning the empire into east and west. The emperor who wanted to do it died before he could, but his successor never carried it out. So, how would a divided Rome look? Would it have more resources to...

  19. Huayna Capac goes home

    In OTL, the main reason the Spaniards were able to conquer the Incas was the civil war sparked by the death of the previous Inca, Huayna Capac, through plague. The Spaniards kidnapped Atahualpa and managed to install an heir of his opponent in the civil war, Huascar (who had already been killed...

  20. WI the Soviets had modern computers?

    I'm not sure if this should go in here or ASB, but anyway.... What if the Soviets had modern computers? They would be tremendous assets to managing any centrally planned economy. Would they have managed to keep it going for longer? Possibly even survive permanently?
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