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  1. A Real Dark Age: suggested PODs or general changes?

    The idea that the Dark Ages were properly dark is of course suspect, after all we still have most of the works of Aristotle and many of Plato's, and a great deal of technology did survive until the renaissance. In other words, the Dark Age was a wimpy Dark Age. I want a proper Dark Ages, I...

  2. Best Case Scenario for Italian gains following WW1?

    Obviously the Treaty of Versailles was a big disappointment for Italy, not having gotten the colonial possessions they were looking for or more importantly much of their desired gains in Croatia, Slovenia, etc. What is the most realistic scenario if we're looking for a bit of an Italy wank?

  3. Philosophy without Fascism or Cross-European War

    Let's say Fascism didn't appear, Mussolini just blew it really early on or is otherwise put down, the major left and centre-left parties are able to beat whichever far right groups emerge in Germany into submission, Spain may or may not be a military dictatorship. You can have a major war if...

  4. If Hitler had died in 1939 could there have been successful German-Soviet Axis talks?

    In the fall of 1940 there were talks of the Soviets joining the Axis, many seemed to be fairly optimistic about the possibility, however Hitler had already decided in the summer of 1940 that he would eventually end up invading the USSR and had start some small preparations. If Hitler had died...

  5. AHC: Gorbachev is a second Khrushchev

    A major theme of Khrushchev's time in charge of the USSR was reform (de-Stalinization) but culminating in a loosened grip on Eastern Europe and thus the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which Khrushchev then had to put down to ensure the stability of their hold on all of their satellites. Is it...

  6. WI: New Economic Policy goes on into the Great Depression

    Is it possible for the State Capitalism that existed under Lenin to continue following his demise? Stalin initially supported something but reversed that decision once he got into power and implemented the first Five Year Plan. If the NEP or another State Capitalist system had continued...

  7. AHC: Most Distant Possible War in Ancient Times

    It is hard to describe what I'm aiming for in a simple title, basically have a war between two (or more I guess) sides, an actual war with actual fighting, that are as far apart as possible from each other. Bring forth your most outlandish possible enemies! The more it is a logistical...

  8. When was the last chance to stop the destruction of the USSR?

    I'm thinking about an ASB story at the moment, and I as a side note I'm thinking about the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and when was the last chance to turn back from Perestroika. I have very little feeling for the 1900s (I'm an ancient times guy), in fact I think I've only posted in After...

  9. 2014 Turtledove Awards: Continuing Ancient Period

    Please read before voting This is approval voting, so vote for what you like and for many options if you prefer, the nominees are: The Weighted Scales: The World of an Aborted Rome by Errnge After Actium: Two Caesar's Are Not Enough by Velasco The Realm of Millions of Years by NikoZnate...

  10. 2014 Turtledove Awards: New Ancient Period

    Please read before voting This is approval voting, so vote for what you like and for many options if you prefer, the nominees are: For A Fistful of Amphorae (or; These oath gods will destroy you) by Daeres Is Rome Worth One Man's Life? 2.0-A Roman TL by slydessertfox FOR WANT OF THE HAMMER by...

  11. AHC: Keep the Canadian Right Wing Disunited to the Current Day

    With the Progressive Conservative Party's fracture with the Bloc Quebecois starting as a member of the Conservatives and the Reform Party taking control in the west, followed by the Canadian Alliance the Conservative right in Canada was for a period extremely fractured, the Liberals seemed to...

  12. WI: Poland loses the Polish-Soviet War entirely

    What would happen if during the Polish-Soviet War, the Soviets managed to defeat Poland and occupy the territory. They would now have a border with Germany leading up to WW2, and they would have direct contact with Germany, perhaps meaning that they could influence the Weimar Republic towards...

  13. The Revenge of Remus - A Derailed Rome

    Chapter 1 - The Calm before the Storm Part 1 - The World Tomorrow When the lecturer looked at the hall that laid out before him he was surprised by the luxury it carried, it shouldn’t have came as such as surprise but he had never taught in an institution such as the ones in the city of...

  14. North African Phoenician Cities other than Carthage?

    In our timeline and many ATLs on this site covering the period, Phoenician power in North Africa is an all-or-nothing affair. It is either an empire or republic based on the city of Carthage. But there is so many other cities founded by Phoenicians along the North African and Spanish Coast...

  15. WI/AHC: The Western/Eastern Roman Empires, and Persian Empire collapse

    Is it possible to create a complete vacuum of power in the entire Middle East and the Mediterranean by destroying these empires? If this did happen and Islam had been previously butterflied could any new civilization have tried to dominate the region and where would that civilization come from?

  16. WI/Plausibility Check: Sealion goes ahead and fails?

    It seems consensus that Operation Sealion would have failed if it went forward, but could Operation Sealion have gotten to the stage where the soldiers were on the boats and heading across the channel to their deaths? I am not that much into 20th century history so I'm interested to learn a...

  17. AHC: Longest Possible Phoney War

    For a period of several months after the invasion of Poland and the declaration of war by the Allies neither the Axis or the Allies made any large scale attempt to attack the other side. As well as phoney war it has been called "sitzkrieg", and the "Twilight War". It of course ended when using...

  18. AHC: Christian Objectivist Movement

    Although many on the religious right and libertarian end of the spectrum identify with objectivist thought, many will avoid calling themselves objectivists because it is a secular, explicitly atheistic, philosophy. Paul Ryan is an example, when his objectivist views came under the spot light he...

  19. Timeline Notes Other People Might Find Useful

    A lot of people write concepts that they never actually use, pilot episodes for a concept that just fails to completely form. Everyone I think most people has some research notes about some complexity of their timeline, details about culture, how to make their people sound, what might happen...

  20. Latest possible PoD resulting in no European Superpower Status?

    What is the latest possible Point of Divergence when the Europeans could be screwed enough that they couldn't have spread their power to the extent that they did OTL. Could it be later than 1500? Or would it need to be earlier.
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