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  1. Was Agriculture Inevitable?

    Agriculture developed independently at several locations around the world, within the same time frame of several thousand years, relatively close together chronologically when you consider our species' timeframe of hundreds of thousands of years. Does this mean that agriculture is inevitable for...

  2. Blue Remembered Earth

    Just finished it. Fantastic. Say what you will about the likeliness of the setting or the tech, but this was one of the most optimistic and inspiring sci-fi novels I've ever read. It made me look into a future where things turn out okay, and still presented a gripping and ultimately touching...

  3. No Wig Phase

    How do we get Europeans through the Early Modern Era without going through that centuries long fashion phase where everyone important wore wigs, even if their own hair would have been perfectly serviceable? Was the threat of lice that serious? If so, why did the wig start to get abandoned before...

  4. Dualistic Rival Faiths?

    Is it possible for there to be a situation in which there are two religions from the same source, each worshiping a certain deity while considering the deity the other religion worships to literally be the source of evil? Maybe a schism between two prophets? No, Satanism doesn't really count...

  5. ISOT Bronze Age Tribe Names.

    I was sure someone had to have noticed this before, and then TvTropes confirmed it, but: Fiernan Boghuli = Fir Bolg Iraiina = Aryan I don't give Stirling enough credit sometimes.

  6. Re-Reading Peshawar Lancers: Pashtuns.

    Okay, re-reading Peshawar Lancers, it is way more hostile to the Pashtun Afghans than I remember. Sure the Imperials hate those hill-folk, but nothing in the narrative shows the Pashtuns as being less worse than all the horrible things the protagonists say about their culture. I'm going to keep...

  7. Timelines of Space Ages

    Do you think it is possible that there are timelines where humanity has already been in space for a while as of this year? Worlds where the tech has advanced to the point where terraforming efforts on Mars are underway, there are Space Elevators, etc.?

  8. New Planetocopia Planet: Capsica

    Our friend over at Planetocopia has a new world out, this one an experiment of a hot-but-livable world. Read it now before he ruins the experience with pictures of furry-women.

  9. Planetocopia: Thoughts?

    So I'm assuming most of you have at least heard of this, right? If not, you need to look it up, really great material for ASB alternate history. However, I really, really wish he would shut up about the goddamn Furries, who are incidentally almost always nubile females in his drawings. Anyone...

  10. Cumbric Celts survive to modern day.

    How do we give England yet another Brythonic people to overshadow?

  11. The Diamond Age

    Not alternate history, but what do you all think of it? I just finished it. Stephenson is my favorite author, and I like this book. It did end a little abruptly, and I can only imagine that the Celestial Kingdom will (deservedly, for its xenophobic massacres) fall if the Drummers do not...

  12. Avoid the Myth of the Dark Ages

    As many of us know, the idea of the Dark Ages was in many cases exaggerated by Renaissance scholars constructing an artificial clean break. How can we avoid this creation of history, and have the Dark Ages be considered merely the collapse of Rome, not the entire millennia afterwords?

  13. Portugal's Return

    What is the general likelyhood of the return of Portugal to independence from the Iberian Union? Is it almost inevitable, or one of those easily butterflied events that really shouldn't show up in every timeline?

  14. Anglophone Mestizos

    Or Metis, or whatever term you want. What are the ways one could get Anglophone North America to be like Latin America, with a major component of its people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.

  15. Surviving Latin Empire: Romance Language?

    So let's say the Latin Empire survives to the present, or at least the nation does even if it turns into a Republic or whatever. Is it possible for them to end up speaking a Romance language, or will there be a bunch of Catholic Greeks instead? If they do speak a Romance language, will it be in...

  16. Culture of Anglo-Dutch Union?

    Let's say Queen Mary II's reproductive organs don't fail at their biological function and good ol' William and Mary end up with a lovely and healthy baby boy. Now what? This may mean a continuation of the personal union between England (possibly soon to be formed with Scotland into Britain) and...

  17. Ethnicity of Crusade States

    Say that the Crusades successfully establish control over the Holy Land. Centuries later, who lives there?

  18. Lutheran England

    Can this be done, or does the political and economic situation at the time make it impossible?

  19. Substantial Ottoman Immigration to the US.

    How can we get this to occur, so that they are a fairly sizeable minority today? They can be from anywhere in the empire. They can be Turks, Arabs, Jews, Armenians, Caucasians, Albanians, Greeks, Bosniaks, you name it. Extra points for non-Christians.

  20. Orthodox Scandinavia?

    Is it possible to turn the North Germanic and Finnic peoples to Orthodoxy, or does the spread of Catholicism have a geographic advantage?
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