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  1. 2nd Mexican-American War or the War of 1869...

    I'm sorry but launching an invasion after the Civil War would be tantamount to sticking your Johnson in a blender. Way, way too many experienced commanders and veterans.

  2. Make south America as industral as North America

    Not to be too un-PC here, but wouldn't any potential colonizer of Latin America result in a class of haves and have nots, given that (unlike then underpopulated Anglo America) there are simply too many natives to asssimilate / exterminate/ shuffle off to tiny reservations / etc..., which would...

  3. Challenge: West-wank?

    I think that European immigration to the Americas could be ramped up somewhat without stretching credulity overmuch which then might have some interesting butterfly effects on the rest of the world. E.g. Larger scale European immigration to the Spanish holdings in the 1500's.

  4. The Federal States of America, the north secedes from the Union

    Assuming, as per the OP, that New England breaks away and the rest of the states north of the Ohio and the Potomac decide to break away I just can't really see the rest of the USA (more like CSA) trying to stop them. Unlike the Northern states, the Southern have less of an economic interest...

  5. Gothia, Gothany, Gothland, etc....

    Assuming either of the Ostrogoths or Visigoths establish stable long-lasting domains what are the chances that the areas we now know as Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and Italy might aquire a nomeclature reflecting their late-classical Germanic overlords a la England (Angles), France (Franks), and...

  6. Challenge: Turn Mangazeya Into a Siberian Singapore

    I would think that fears of foreign penetration would be somewhat overblown (parts of the route apparently involved portage) but I can definitely see where the czars would prefer to have the furs coming in overland so as maintain their slice of the profits so there might have to be some...

  7. Challenge: Turn Mangazeya Into a Siberian Singapore

    Have any of you guys ever heard of this town? I hadn't and came across it completely randomly while researching the Northeast Passage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangazeya http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/mangazeya.htm At any rate, I don't have a proper POD relating to it but the...

  8. More Napoleons

    What about Andrew Jackson? I could see him as a Napolean analog.

  9. Al-Angalia: The Islamic Kingdom of England

    Nice TL! Some fresh ideas here.

  10. DBWI ARW

    More loyalists head north? Georgia and British Carolina might not develop as fast. Louisiana and Tejas would suffer too without so many disgruntled and dispossesed Quebecois. The Free Port of Orleans would probably see a lot more commerce in the 19th Century as well if the United States...

  11. American frontiersmen use longbows as well as muskets/rifles

    I think that one of the primary advantages of the musket in this era (along with cheapness and ease of use) is its ability to function as calvary deterrent in a pinch. A longbow on the other hand is less than worthless at close range. A body of archers without pike support that isn't dug-in...

  12. Particularly implausible (think "Stars & Stripes" level) episodes in OTL history

    Yeah, pushing into the boondocks of the Persian Empire was a big part of it certainly, but it's my understanding that Bactria was one of the more integral parts of the Empire and it enjoyed a relatively high level of civilization.

  13. Particularly implausible (think "Stars & Stripes" level) episodes in OTL history

    1. Christianity (from the perspective of a no-Jesus TL, this would be a pretty "out-there" ATL) 2. Alexander the Great (absolutely improbable, IMO - not that you couldn't make the same argument for most any conqueror but I think Alexander's conquest was one of the most unlikely of all) 3...

  14. Alternate Calendar Eras

    I don't see the Columbian exchange as too American-centric as it revolutionized food production and trade across the entire globe. I would argue that it is "the" most important single "event" in human history since the break-out from Africa into Eurasia back 70,000 years ago or thereabouts.

  15. Particularly implausible (think "Stars & Stripes" level) episodes in OTL history

    I'm sure this has been done before, but what would you consider as some of the more ridiculous and implausible moments in OTL history? That is, events that would be relentlessly mocked if proposed as potential POD's in an ATL where they didn't take place?

  16. Fighting with 2 swords

    I think you would need a biological POD way, way back in pre-history (no left-handed-ness, righ-handed-ness) for this one - D&D and World of Warcraft aside (and even these fantasy games impose a hefty "miss" penalty in their rule sets), fighting with two weapons just demands too much...

  17. Alternate Calendar Eras

    Assuming secularism runs amock in any given given ATL and there is a push for an alternate calendar era that neither presupposes a belief in Christ (AD/BC) nor otherwise acknowledges the signifigance of his birth (CE/BCE) what would be a good non-religious OTL date for dividing history? Some...

  18. Kit Carson fights for the CSA

    Having just read "Blood and Thunder" (Which should have been subtitled something like, "Kit Carson: American Badass" lol) I can't imagine it would hurt, but conquering the Southwest seems like a pretty tall order for the Confederacy even with Mr. Carson's considerable talents. I don't think...

  19. Challenge: Hapsburg France

    Didn't Charles V actually capture the King of France at one point? Perhaps a POD relating to that episode?

  20. Some Ideas I have been throwing around...

    2. I was too lazy to make up my own alt-religion, but I kept thinking that a band of "Mormons" that were driven westward into the wilderness in the 1750's as opposed to the 1850's might germinate into something continent spanning. 5. Your guess is as good as mine. I was kinda thinking to...
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