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    Los Hijos del Pais v2: A rough outline of a Philippines TL I want to write
    Threadmarks: The beginning

    I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this, but heck, I may as well try to post one of the ideas I've so dearly wanted to write for so long. Also, IDK what the timeframe of a proper revolution would be, especially in a region so far from Spain. So, the first part of the prologue, the...
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    WI: Koxinga survives?

    So I was wondering: what would have happened had Zheng Chenggong survived his malaria and continued leading the fleet he had based in Taiwan? Would he have successfully been able to take Manila, and if so, would he have been able to keep it? Would he have been able to continue being a perennial...
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    Discussion: early Roman monotheism

    So, I find myself thinking about these threads flipping the destinies of the polytheistic Romans and monotheistic Jews: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-large-jewish-empire-oppressing-a-tiny-rome-by-ad-0.358905/...
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    WI: Shalmaneser III defeated and killed in the Battle of Qarqar

    So, this thread reignited my interest in the concept of an Israelite polytheism, and I thought that this would be best served by a triumphant Israel, especially under the Omrides, and I found this battle between a coalition of kings and the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, who incidentally was...
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    WI: Philippine Free State

    We all know Leopold II at this point, the king who brutalized the Congo to the point that Conrad was able to write Heart of Darkness. So, according to this article, the man also tried to get his hands on the Philippines, alongside many others who had their eyes on these isles. What would have...
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    WI: Britain keeps the Spanish East Indies

    So, during the Seven Years' War, the British were able to seize Manila and keep it for twenty months near the war's end. Coinciding with this was the uprising of the Ilocano Diego Silang, who contacted the British in Manila and came to an agreement which never materialized. So, what would it...
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    AHC: Look to the Uttermost West

    So, for all the vast empires the European kingdoms carved out during the early modern period, none of its royals ever seemed to have left the continent, let alone visited their colonies for any extended period of time. I know there are a lot of reasons for this, but I've always found it a bit...
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    AHC/WI: "Abrahamic" East Asia

    So, there have been a ton of threads on butterflying away Christianity and/or Islam on this forum. And these mostly result in the Mediterranean religious atmosphere becoming basically East Asia, with pagan cults for the masses and esoteric intellectual philosophy for the elite, bound together by...
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    Discussion: Catholic Northern Europe, alt-Protestant Southern Europe

    So, I know that the Protestant Reformation has its heart in the northern half of Europe, what with Martin Luther and Henry VIII and the cultural differences between the two halves of Western Christendom. And I know that the Papacy's main base being in the southern half of Europe and its distance...
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    WI: Governor-General Juan de Silva defeats the Dutchmen at the Moluccas?

    So, according to Readings in Philippine History by Horacio de la Costa, the early 17th century was a dire time for the Spanish East Indies. The Dutch East India Company's economic warfare, combined with Moro raids in the Visayas, had driven the Spaniards to Manila alone. Many feared that the...
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    Discussion: How to make a new nation into a great power in a century or less.

    So, I feel like I've made this type of thread before in my quest to think up a plausible timeline for the rise of the Philippines, and I know it would make more sense for me to look for actual references both online and in libraries, but... I want to know what the factors are in building a...
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    Discussion: Reform and revolution in 19th century China

    So, I'm contemplating the possibilities for a 19th century Asian PoD TL, and one of the major areas is naturally Qing China. My main questions are: At what point would reforming the Qing dynasty become impossible, and would it be possible to make a mid-19th century China, Qing or non-Qing...
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    Discussion: French Philippines

    So, is there a way for France to take the Spanish East Indies from the Spanish after the initial 16th century colonization and conversion, and if so, how would this happen and what would be the effects of this? I was thinking about the War of Spanish Succession as a PoD, but I'm not sure...
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    AHC/Discussion: Cesare Borgia becomes Pope

    So, would it be possible to keep Cesare Borgia on the ecclesiastic career track his father put him on, and if so, what would be happen because of it?
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    Discussion: Philippine Dictatorship in the 80s and beyond

    So, would it be feasible for Ferdinand Marcos (and his son) to maintain his dictatorship through the 80s and beyond? What would be needed to maintain such a thing? Would Marcos still have enough of a power base to retain control and restore a semblance of order in the Philippines if the EDSA...
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    Discussion: Alexander in Korea, the aftermath

    So, one of the weirdest and most interesting premises I've ever seen on this website is the one from years ago that proposed Alexander losing his empire in Persia and ending up a sellsword and nomadic warlord until he ended up in Korea where he built a kingdom of his own. I know it's long odds...
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    DBWI: Alexandros of Makedon was not betrayed?

    So, as we all know, the young king of Makedon Alexandros 'conquered' the empire of Pars, but was betrayed by a conspiracy of the Andragorid satraps who ended up forcing him to flee across the steppes with the few soldiers who remained loyal to him, as written in the Alexandriad (also known in...
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    WI: Cao Rui lives longer?

    So, reading up on the history of the Three Kingdoms period, one of the main reasons the Sima clan overthrew the Caos and established the Jin dynasty were the power plays between the regents of Cao Fang after the untimely death of Cao Rui, who were Cao Shuang, Empress Dowager Guo, and Sima Yi. In...
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    Discussion: Manifest Destiny in the 1830s

    So, I'm trying to figure out this timeline of mine, and I'm looking at the United States of the 19th century and wondering about a few things. Namely: 1. Is it possible to keep the United States from getting a Pacific coastline from the 1830s onward? 2. If so, how difficult would it be and...
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    Effects of 19th century Independent Philippines on Europe

    So, I have been contemplating writing this TL where the Philippines gains its independence alongside the rest of the Spanish empire during the 1820s Latin American wars of independence, and I'm wondering what the great powers of the west would do in such a case. An independent Catholic realm...
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