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  1. WI the English lose the battle of Kinsale

    What if the English are defeated at the battle of kinsale in 1601. Can the Spanish-Irish alliance expell the English from Ireland? If not, how much, if anything, can they take? For more information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kinsale

  2. On the adoption of horses by certain Native American peoples in both North and South America

    IOTL, after the arrival or Europeans, horses eventualy dispersed and became feral in several areas of the New World. These horses were domesticated and adopted by native peoples in both North America (mostly in Western United States and the Great Plains) and South America (in the Pampas, in...

  3. "Russian" culture, society and history without Mongol conquest

    Let't say Genghis Khan never unites the Mongols. The Mongol continue being a menace to China and Central Asia, but they never reach the territory of the successor states of Kievan Rus, let alone conquer them. No Mongo empire is ever created, at least non as huge as the one IOTL. ITTL...

  4. WI Spain, instead of ceding the Philippines to the US in 1898, unilateraly accepts their inependence

    The Philippines had declared their independence in 1898. WI Spain, after loosing the war with the US in mid 1898, instead of negotiating the treaty that ceded them (as well as Guam and Puerto Rico) to the US in 1898, quits the negotiating table and unilateraly declares Puerto Rico, Cuba and the...

  5. AHC: Strong cultural ties between the UK and the Southern Cone throughout the whole XX century

    Watching British media such as BBC, there seems to be information about India, other parts of Asia, Africa (mainly English-speaking Africa) and the Middle East. There isn't much about Latin America, except when there are really serious problems in a given country (as it is happening now in...

  6. Fate of the Highlands' clans under an independent Scotland

    If Scotland had remained independent, that is, if there had never been a personal union with England, nor any act of union, what would the fat of the clans be? Would a Scottish government based in Edimbourgh eventualy clash with the clansmen? Would the clans eventually loose strengh on their...

  7. WI a French Siam in the late XVII century?

    In the 1680ies, the French Siam was allied with France. Louis XIV sent more than 1000 soldiers to he kindom's capital. The idea was to turn Siam into a French protectorate, but the pro French monarch was deposed by a coup d'etat. What if the French had succeeded? Was this attainable? For...

  8. Consequences of a larger French army strike in 1917

    What if the french authorities had chosen not to negotiate nor do any sort of concessions to the large nombers of French soldiers who went on strike in 1917? Let's say General Nivelle, soldiers are judged under martial law and futile offensives continue. Might this have led to a civil war...

  9. AHC: a Muslim dominated India till the end of the XX century

    A long time ago, I started a thread asking wether a much earlier Mongol conquest of India might have led to an Hindu dominated India, or if the Mongols would have invevitably assimilated into the Muslim elite. What I'd like to know now is if there is any way in which, with a POD after, let's...

  10. Why was Protestant strong in SOUTHERN France?

    I had made the wrong assumption that Protestantism would have been strong in Northern France, while Sothern France would be a Catholic stronghold. But I have found recently that it was the other way round. Why did it happened? Was it because Southern France was farther away from Paris and the...

  11. WI Mayans in Cuba

    Yucatan is the part of Central America closer to Cuba, at least on the map, and the Mayans were living there at least at the XI century AD if I am not mistaken. They had built a temple in Cozumel. Couldn't they have reached and colonized Cuba, and maybe, from there, the Caribean? It was...

  12. AHC: Change the way the army is viewed nowadays in Chile and Argentina

    I am watching a Chilenean TV series about the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). It's not a documentary, but a recreation of the war, with fictional and historical characters. In a way, it remained me of American productions, as Chilenean soldiers are depicted as heroes, and the army is exalted...

  13. AHC: a seafaring culture like the Vikings in Southern Chile

    I have been watching the TV series Vikings, and could help to notice the similarities between Norwegian landscapes and those of Southern Chile and western Argentine Patagonia. Both have fiords, forests, lakes and the weather is rather cold. Could a seafaring culture have develope there before...

  14. WI widespread religion fanatism in Latin America?

    Latin America is, on averege, far more religious than Europe and, depending on the country, as, less or more religious than the US. However, unlike the US, Latin America has had, for more of its history (300 years) only ONE accepted religion: Roman Catholicism. During the late XVI and early...

  15. Latin America in a war between Great Britain and the US

    Every now and then we get therads about how we can get Latin American nations more involved in one of both world wars. IOTL, as we know, there wasn't much fighting here in any of both wars, so it's natural for those interested in aH to ask how we can change this. The problem is that Latin...

  16. how important was modern science for European world hegemony?

    Assuming we understand by "modern science" what Galileo called "scientia nuova" (however that is spelled in Italian). That is, the science that was born in the late XVI or early XVII centuries in Europe and which was based on observation and repeated experimentation, on collecting lots of...

  17. WI a different sort of Argentine nationalism?

    While there are indeed many sorts of Argentine "nationalism", the one that prevailed from 1930 till well advance the XX century was the one that was formed in the 1920ies, and was the one that could be carachterized as militaristic, pro-Hispanic, ultra-Catholic, anti-liberal, anti-Communist...

  18. Who won the Cisplatine war/the war against Brazil (1825-1828)?

    (Because there are far too many threads about who won the war of 1812:rolleyes:) So, Spanich and Portugal had been fighting for what's no Uruguay since the begining of the colonial days, a dispute that was ingerited by Brazil and Argentina. The place was under Spanish/*Argentinean control most...

  19. WI more Amerindians had fought the Spanish as succesfully as the Mapuche IOTL?

    which leads as to another question: why where the Mapuche so succesfull? They not only resisted very serious Spanish attemps to conquer them, but they adopted many of their tecniques, such as horse riding, and eventually expanded their culture and language way farther than they home territory in...

  20. How exceptional were the Ancient Greeks?

    At secondary school (from when you are 13 to when you are 17 years old) I had a very "Classical" formation (Secular, humanistic, non religiuos and deeply Eurocentrical). At history we learnt about the Ancient Egyptians and Messopotamiams, the Phoenitians, the Israelis, the Greek, the Romans...
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