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  1. AHC: Successful Québecois War of Independence pre-Cold War

    Alright, the challenge here is simple: a French-Canadien state created by a revolt, before the onset of the Cold War. The opportunities I see here are during or right after the French & Indian War, the Napoleonic Wars pre-1812, the Patriotes Rebellion, and WW1. Bonus points if supported by...

  2. 2 AHCs: Slavic ERE and Turkic ERE?

    In the 700s, a majority of the Byzantine Empire was either overrun or inhabited by Slavic speakers, including Greece, the heartland. Before this, the language of the emperor had changed from Latin to Greek (maybe later, if I am likely wrong). Your challenge is to change the language of the...

  3. Could Crete/Sicily work as Constantine's capital?

    I know alternate Constantinoples have been discussed before, but I think these two have the same benefits. As islands, they are protected from invasion, and aren't quite as developed as other cities, making it a blank slate, plus they are both in the middle of the empire, and the center of...

  4. How long can slavery last?

    In the US, slavery remained legal right up to the Emancipation Proclamation, and de jure speaking, right up until the Confederacy surrendered or you were occupied, not counting slavery among the Plains tribes. Without the civil war, how long can it last?

  5. WI: Wernher von Braun surrenders to Soviets

    OTL, the Soviets captured most of the rocket production facilities in Germany, but Wernher bon Braun, with his crew and documents, surrendered to the US. Let's say for one reason or another that he surrenders instead to the Soviet Union. How might this affect space exploration? Will the US ever...

  6. Aztec vs Inca: Who would be more likely to successfully resist?

    IMO the Tawantinsuyu are underrated; without the civil war they are almost certain to win. The worst of the smallpox had passed, they had numerical and local and supply advantages vs the Spaniards, they readily attempted, and in the case of the horse succeeded, to adopt Western technology even...

  7. AHC: No Catholics

    Ok, the title was an attention catcher, but it still make sense without the distinctions being Orthodox and Catholic (which mean the samething) instead of the Latin and Eastern Rites. With any POD, keep present-day Ecumenial Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Catholic Church together. Bonus...

  8. AHC: Stop decolonisation

    With a POD not involving WW2, the challenge is to keep as many colonies as you can in European hands. The focus is Africa and Asia, the priorities are the Dutch and Portuguese. Bonus points for keeping the British Empire intact.

  9. Question: What Indonesian spices grow well on the north coast of Australia?

    Inspired by my latest bout of reading through LORAG, I find it surprising that (ignoring the Makassans, who Jared said are unlikely to have visited before the Dutch) northern Australia wasn't discovered and settled by land-and-wealth hungry Indonesian merchants looking for an alternative route...

  10. Question: How difficult is it to change a European ruling dynasty after WWI?

    To be more specific, I noticed that UK/GB/England etc is ruled, and has been ruled for 301 years, by two German dynasties, Hanover and Windsor, before that a Scottish dynasty, and many French ones. In contrast, the Capetians and cadets have ruled many countries since 987 and still do. Is it...

  11. Is it ASB for an united Europe after Charlemagne?

    What it says on the tin.

  12. WI: Hitler actually died fighting

    He had been a decorated messenger some 30 years earlier, and although he was quite unfit in 1945, the fact he chose to kill himself in relative safety in his bunker over fighting with his last breath is testament in the eyes of many of his shame (or lack of sense of it) and cowardice. How would...

  13. AHC: Stateless nations

    The challenge is to make as many of these "stateless nations" states as you can. My dad having a Mohawk Tribal ID, bonus points for the Lakota, who are pretty much screwed at the time they're at their strongest. EDIT: They don't have to be the same TLs.

  14. Tale of an Egg: A Rapa Nui wank (99.9% ASB-free)

    Village of Orongo, seabird nesting season of 1539 CE Everyone held their breath as a head appeared over the cliff. The figure pulled himself above to ground. He reached for his headband, feeling for the egg. Time slowed as he ran to the ivi-attua [1] waiting at the front of the crowd, his...

  15. Question: Why didn't Marxism enjoy growth in the US like Europe did?

    Oops. Didn't mean to resubmit form. Ignore this.

  16. Question: Why didn't Marxism enjoy growth in the US like Europe did?

    Wuth a rapidly expanding industrial economy in the second half of the 19th century, why weren't there as many adherents to early Communist political ideals, if not more, than in Europe?

  17. Question: Who represented the clergy in the Estates-General

    Basically, what it says on the tin.

  18. WI: Khosrau II captures/executes/assassinates Mohammed

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrau_II#Muhammad.27s_letter_to_Khosrau_II Had Khosrau sent a sizable force, and Mohammed ended up dead, or somewhere far away (modern day Kazakhstan? China?), not only would the Persians, and subsequently Zoroastrianism, unknowingly avoid their destruction...

  19. WI: Hindu China?

    Let's say, that during the Warring States period, one of the larger states (not necessarily Chin) was visited by Hindu proselytizers and the ruling class subsequently converted. They unify China same time as OTL, and in a few generations the last folds and cracks of the peasantry have converted...

  20. WI: Catherine of Aragon's eldest son survives; no disagreement with the Pope

    So, in effect, what happens as England remains Roman Catholic? Other than that gag on Top Gear involving the stupid things Catholics often pray for, of course.
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