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  1. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    A technologically stagnant Europe with no gunpowder would be a necessity. The main method of defence against the Barbary Corsairs was to bombard the North African ports that sponsored them.

  2. AHC - have more "Basque-like" Languages. Linguistic Survival

    Gaulish might have survived as late as the 9th or 10th centuries in the Swiss Alps. If this is correct, it wouldn't be too difficult for small numbers of isolated Gaulish speakers to get over the hurdle of the Late Mediaeval period and survive into modernity.

  3. English Language and Culture in a Surviving North Sea Empire?

    The Scandinavian influence on English wouldn't that much greater than OTL. The Anglo-Danes were largely assimilated by the 11th century and it's unlikely there will be further waves of Scandinavian settlers. And unlike William the Bastard, Canute wasn't against appointing Englishmen to high...

  4. American and British English less mutually intelligible

    No modern mass-communications technology and continuing Anglo-American hostility would be an excellent start. But you could go further. Victorian visitors to America noted that Americans would avoid using potential 'taboo' words through replacing them with then obscure words, such as 'rooster'...

  5. AHC: Make America Anglophobic

    The War of 1812 might be the best starting point for this. If the Americans do something dramatic during the war, like occupy Upper Canada or openly ally with Napoleon (providing Napoleon doesn’t play games as he did in OTL), Britain will be forced to commit more resources to North America...

  6. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser and their existence present an interesting scenario as there aren't too many changes compared to OTL. The differences would be mainly academic and debates about his character and life (such as whether he was exaggerating his exploits). - The...

  7. Legendary Battles that never happened.

    The aftermath of a successful Parthian campaign by Trajan would be the best opportunity as the Chinese were also expanding into Central Asia at the same time. In OTL at this time, Roman and Chinese armies were only a few days march away from each other. Although, any battles between Rome and...

  8. AHC: make Britain reconquer the United States by military means

    The War of 1812 is the best opportunity for this. A British minister suggested sending General Rowland Hill and 100,000 troops to the United States in 1815. There was also the possibility of sending the Iron Duke himself to North America as well. Napoleon's escape from Elba and Wellington's...

  9. WI Oliver Cromwell Lives Longer (to 1675)?

    One small consequence if Cromwell had lived longer might be a reduction in the number of Barbary corsair raids in the 17th century. In spite of Robert Blake's successful raid on Tunisia in 1655, the corsairs would eventually return to attack English shipping and the British Isles (as they did in...

  10. TL-191: After the End

    Is there anything analogous to Brexit in this timeline?

  11. Wessex falls, long term consequences

    The use of Old English as a written vernacular in England would be greatly reduced in this timeline. Old English would have more Norse in it and possibly the elite vocabulary would be Norse in origin. Unlike in OTL when we had to wait until the Middle English period to see most of the Norse...

  12. WI: No Norman England, no centralised French Kingdom

    I doubt England would face another '1066' scenario soon. 1066 was unique mainly because strong and stable foreign realms existed (Normandy and Norway) who could press their claims. Those foreign realms could easily collapse into civil war by the time Harold dies. Normandy in particular often...

  13. WI: No James Bond

    If George Macdonald Fraser still writes his Flashman series of novels in this world, they might fill the gap somewhat. There might be more films about Flashman and hopefully better than Royal Flash (1975) which was rather disappointing. Though, I imagine post-war Hollywood wouldn't be terribly...

  14. What are the biggest mysteries of the Dark Ages?

    It's a reasonable hypothesis. Olive trees only grew around the Mediterranean at this time. You have to ask yourself why would Muhammad, if he lived in the Hejaz, discuss things that his audience might be unfamiliar with (olive trees and the growing of grapes)? Archaeological and pre-Islamic...

  15. What are the biggest mysteries of the Dark Ages?

    Did Muhammad and his contemporaries actually live further north in Arabia - possibly in a location closer to the classical empires? In one verse of the Qur'an, it is mentioned Allah caused 'the grain to grow, and grapes and green fodder, and olive-trees and palm-trees, and garden-closes of...

  16. AHC/WI: US joins the Napoleonic Wars on Britain's side

    A conflict between Britain and America in this period is quite hard to avoid. The main issue is the American employment of British sailors. American merchants expanded their fleets to take over the trade between the various European colonies whose homelands were occupied by the French. In order...

  17. WI: Nobody wins the 1066 Invasions

    The Norman forces which are left in England after the death of William the Bastard are destroyed as a fighting force. Duke William's adventure was very risky and many of his troops were pessimistic about the chances of success. William didn't bring any winter provisions with his army so the...

  18. WI America lost the Revolutionary War?

    I doubt the British would punish the colonists in any extreme way. Most Americans were fellow English-speaking Protestants and not Irish Catholics or godless heathens. The reprisals after the Restoration of the Stuarts in Britain would be an example of how the British would react; the leaders...

  19. AHC/WI: worst possible scenario for Christianity after 476

    The Plague of Justinian strikes earlier and harder. The Mediterranean is devastated by it. Trade is even worse than OTL. The Eastern Romans nearly collapse. The large post-Roman Germanic states like the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania and the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa descend into civil war...

  20. No Great Rapprochement after the Civil War

    The Venezuelan Crisis of 1895 is a good opportunity as later flashpoints would have the British be distracted by the Boer War. Lord Salisbury could respond to American threats of war over the Venezuelan dispute with his own bellicose rhetoric, or perhaps, the British are keen to take all of the...
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