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  1. Weimar goes Communist

    Suppose that Adolf Hitler died in the Great War, whether by stray bullet, gas attack, piece of shrapnel, or the bird flu. Without him, the German far right lacks a strong unifying leader, and is unable to beat out the Communists. So, we have by, let us say, 1935, a Communist Germany. Does...

  2. Second American Revolutionary War

    What circumstances could lead to a successful rebellion in which at least 1/4 of the nation's population seceded, was able to retain independence, and formed a stable government? It's relatively easy to postulate a political division serious enough to lead to bloodshed, but harder to imagine...

  3. A Brief History of North Atlantis

    This isn't complete by any means; I just want to get some feedback before I go too far along. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Evidence regarding the first colonization of Atlantis (1) is highly inconclusive; tool-use sites have been carbon-dated to as much as 40,000 years BP, while...

  4. Successful Norse Colonization of Vinland

    I know it's been mentioned more than a time or two, but most of the ones I've seen looked like they were starting a bit late to be able to make the colony truly thrive. Skimming through Wikipedia's Norse history, I figured that the simplest point of departure that lets there be a strong...

  5. Challenge: Imperial India

    India, as a region, has often been quite wealthy and technologically advanced. Yet, for reasons to which I am not privy, it has seldom been a united power even on its own subcontinent, and never been the seat of an empire as have much less promising regions like northern Africa (Carthage) or...

  6. A Different Exodus

    In the spirit of Passover, I'll propose this question: what if the Promised Land lay, not in the Fertile Crescent east of Egypt, but in the Ethiopian highlands and the fertile belt south of it? Assuming that whatever factors, divine or otherwise, ensured the survival of the Jewish people as a...

  7. Gunpowder Development

    Any TL with an early divergence tends to run across this subject sooner or later, but I'm having a hard time finding solid information about it. So, then, my questions to the general populace are: A) In OTL, when and where can we reliably locate the development of gunpowder? Of rockets? Of...

  8. If the Maine never explodes . . .

    I'd imagine that this means we have no Spanish-American War, since there's no good pretext for it. It's possible that it just happens later and with less fury, over a manufactured diplomatic incident. The important thing is this possibility: no American presence in the Phillipines. Why is...

  9. Hereditary Rule in the Information Age

    How would we get a form of monarchy as the predominant method of government in a modern era? To define the terms of the challenge, I'll say that we need: A) That the predominant form of rule is some form of hereditary transmission of power; this can be an absolute dictatorship, in which...

  10. PoD: Athenians abandon Attica in 480

    At the outbreak of the Persian Wars, the Athenian assembly publicly contemplated taking their entire nation and sailing to Magna Graecia (their colonies in southern Italy). What would be the results of this divergence? Key questions are: A) What does this do to Roman expansion? B) What...
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