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  1. Cross & Crescent

    Old discussion thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=79645

  2. Turtledove: Great Author, or the Greatest Author?

    Well? What have you, scurvy knaves!?

  3. Earliest Smallpox Eradication

    What is the earliest date at which the smallpox virus can be eradicated?

  4. AH Challenge: Industrial Revolution in Italy

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have the industrial revolution occur in Magna Italia, with a POD no later than 1000. Bonus poinsts if it starts in Sicily or Southern Italy. Double extra super bonus points if it involves the Hauteville family somehow. Execution by hanging from...

  5. More Equitable Division of New World Goodies

    IOTL, the Spanish colonized between 1500 and 1700 a.d. the areas in Central America and the Andes that were very rich in gold and silver. WI this wealth had not been concentrated solely in the hands of one power, but among several? What would this do to the subsequent economic history of Europe...

  6. Chinese Tech in Medieval Europe

    A question to the Sinophiles (Hendryk, Faeelin et al) of the Board: If Egypt was conquered by Europeans (say, Normans ;)) around perhaps 1083, what technologies (and how soon) could be transported from China. IIRC, the Song had quite some successes in engineering and such, and has ships go as...

  7. AH Challenge Poland-...

    ...ARMENIA!!! Bonus points if it includes everything between Magdeburg and Ryazan, and from Helsinki to Baghdad.

  8. Norman Union

    Alrighty, I leave you with a Norman WI: Instead of being married off to Emperor Henry V, Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, is married to Roger II, Count (future King) of Sicily. Let's have brother William shuffle loose the mortal coil before his father as IOTL, leaving Matilda the only...

  9. AH Challenge: Italy and France Exchange Places by Early Modern Era

    With a POD after 1000, have the situation of France and Italy by the end of the 17th century be swapped. Italy is a united (albeit with significant regional differences), absolute Catholic monarchy, with a dominant role in Europe, and an active foreign policy when it comes to colonization...

  10. AH Challenge: Earlier Eurpean Printing Press

    By 1250, how could we get a fully-functioning printing press in Europe? IIRC something similar was in China round that time, but fell out of disuse due to the massive number of symbols/characters present in the language. Perhaps a merchant or traveler sees plans for one of these, and brings...

  11. Norman Egypt

    I found in the deep archives of SHWI a thread discussing the possibility of a Norman Egypt. My interest was piqued, so I started writing. Note: This is in mixed format, with some fake accounts, some third person narratives, and some just plain TL. The Chancellor’s and Holy Man’s father was...

  12. Challenge: Vietnam-Like War in Africa

    Specifically I was thinking of the Congo, during one of its civil wars immediately post independence. Perhaps with Patrice Lumumba (PM) supported by the Soviets, and Joseph Kasavubu (President) supported by the US. Thoughts?

  13. WI: Ealier Irish Potato Famine

    Say we have a comparable event in Irish history around a decade before the Revolutionary War. Would they still go to America, or somewhere else? If so, how would that effect the War of Independence? Or is this even possible? I certainly don't know enough about botany and agriculture to say so...

  14. DBWI: France Represented on the Union Jack

    Am I alone in finding it ridiculous that France is left out of the flag, even though it composes well over a quarter of the Angevin Empire's population? How would a a flag that actually represents our nation look like?

  15. Italy-Wank at the Congress of Vienna?

    So, how might the Italians come out of the Congress significantly better than they did OTL? Sardinians gaining Corsica? Venetians keeping their independance? Even Territorial gains besides that?

  16. India Granted Perm UNSC Seat

    (Inspired by the thread in the FH forum concerning United Nations Security Council reform, and by reading the Wikipedia page concerning such) In 1953, Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, rejected a US offer for a Permanent seat on the Security Council. WI he accepted and India was...

  17. Nestorian Tibet

    Back in the middle ages there was quite a large Christian community. What if the rulers and people of Tibet adopted the Assyrian Church of the East as their religion, instead of Buddhism?

  18. The Hauteville Empire 2.0

    Okay, revised version of the timeline: 1105: Simon, Count of Sicily, does not die. Instead he marries a Greek noblewoman named Maria Doukaina. They have two girls (Helena and Irene). 1108: Maria dies of smallpox. Simon is devastated and turns to the church to help him. 1111: Simon abdicates...

  19. The Hauteville Empire

    Okay, basically this is an attempted resurrection of my previous (failed) attempt at a Siciliwank titled ‘A de Hauteville Pope’ (cause of death: no one giving a shit) Prologue 1090: Aleth of Clairvaux dies in childbirth, along with her son (OTL St. Bernard of Clairvaux. With out him Innocent...

  20. A Hauteville Pope

    Okay, time for a Southern Italy WI. This is a rough draft, mind you. The de Hautevilles At one time, during the 12th and 13th centuries, Sicily was one of the most powerful states in Catholic Europe. This was due to the military and political caliber of the Norman ‘de Hauteville’ nobles that...
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