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  1. Can the German Revolution of 1918 succeed?

    And can the Free German Socialist Republic become the postwar German government?

  2. Bronze age advanced weaponry

    This is just a question for a world building project I'm working on. Could a civilisation which had never adopted widespread use of iron due to easily accessible copper and tin/zinc deposits in relative proximity develop the mettalurgical skill necessary to cast soohisticated bronze weapons and...

  3. Aborting the Hellenistic Era: Alexander dies in 335BC

    The year is 335BC. Alexander of Macedon, a young and ambitious prince, eager to build on his father's legacy has fought off all internal claimants to the Macedonian throne, crushed the Illyrians and Thracians and finally brought the Greek city states to heel through his destruction of Thebes...

  4. Someone goes to India: Indo-US cooperation in the 60s

    Basically what it says on the can. How could India be seen as a potential ally for the US in the 1950s or 60s? Nehru was a Fabian idealist but going into the 1950s, the US still had pretty strong anti-Imperialist credentials. Is there a way for either Truman or Eisenhower, perhaps on the back...

  5. Killing Caesar- the conspirators grow a pair

    Looking at the political machinations in the immediate aftermath of Caesar's assassination it seems to me that Brutus and Cassius simply let the initiative slip out of their hands. Instead of taking the high moral ground and not moving against others in the Caesarean faction they sat back and...

  6. The Phoney War

    September 1939 to May 1940 on the European Western front always puzzled me. Why did Britain and France just sit tight? Wouldn't it have made more sense to take advantage of their local numerical superiority whole the majority of the Reich's troops were busy in Poland?

  7. The Manila Galleon trade- question

    How long did it usually take for a ship to make the Manila-Acapulco run?

  8. Four Independent South Indian States

    Independent South India Essentially this is derived from ideas in the British Colonialism thread in PolChat. Some discussion was devoted to whether the South Indian states could have successfully kept their independence and industrialised. In a scenario where France retains her power...

  9. No Partition of India

    What if, from the 1910s onward, the Indian National Congress manages to quell the Hindu nationalist elements, keeping the focus of the Indian Independence movement purely secular. The Muslim League are lured back into the fold and Jinnah among other Muslim leaders joins ranks with Nehru and the...

  10. Cochrane and the Emperor

    It's been rumoured that Thomas Cochrane, British nobleman and naval captain, as well as commander of the Chilean and Brazilian revolutionary navies had a plan to storm St. Helena, free Napoleon and take him back to South America to forge a new liberal Empire. Cochrane's plan, if it existed, was...

  11. An extended Indosphere

    This is just a vague idea I've had so I welcome any thoughts on how to flesh it out. IOTL, South Indian Hindu-Buddhist culture extended its reach into SE Asia resulting in Indianised cultures up to Southern Vietnam by the first century CE. I'd like to flesh out a scenario where this...

  12. "Neither Apostolic nor Prophetic": Luther eliminates Revelation

    So, Luther was rather leery of John's Revelation, initially declaring it to be "neither Apostolic nor Prophetic" and that "Christ is neither known nor taught in it". What if this initial view endures and becomes the mainstream Protestant view. Revelation is classed with the rest of the Apocrypha...

  13. Enduring Mughals

    Ignore this. It's exactly the same thing as the wonderful Gurkani Alam AH. I was wondering why the idea seemed familiar...

  14. Successful Indian Mutiny

    As long as there remains the scent of faith in the hearts of our heroes, so long shall the sword of Hindustan flash before the throne of London- Padishah Bahadur Shah II This is just a very vague idea. Can we get Britain so embroiled in other wars in 1857 that the Indian Mutiny actually...

  15. The Indo-American Alliance

    IOTL Nehru's Fabian ideals kept him from aligning India with the United States. This led India into an idealistic but failed attempt to form a non-aligned bloc and then into forty years of attempted socialist autarky. Meanwhile Pakistan became America's main ally in S Asia despite the fact that...

  16. Vijayanagara Ascendant. A South Indian TL

    Righto- this is going to start out very vague and sketchy. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Vijayanagara was the last of the great Hindu empires and the last great South Indian empire. After it's fall, South India would be broken up into European colonies and independent statelets...

  17. What made Rome Rome?

    A question thrown out to everyone just to see what y'all think. What was it that made Rome Rome and not just some other Hellenised state like so many?

  18. Napoleonic stalemate

    The thing that strikes me about the Napoleonic Wars is Napoleon's refusal to compromise combined with Britain's refusal to compromise. Naopleon's megalomania is, I think, the easier problem. Lets say he falls off his horse in 1810 and breaks a leg, giving him a greater awareness of his own...

  19. Clackspunk: A Renaissance Information Revolution

    I've been re-reading my Discworld books and I figured it might be interesting to let our finest minds get to grips with this. Could we have an information revolution in Renaissance Europe with an optical telegraph system? Perhaps it could start as a joint venture between the merchant republics...

  20. Vijayanagara Ascendant- a strong South India

    From the 14th to the 16th C, the Empire of Vijayanagara was the dominant power in South India. It provided a strong defence against the encroaching Deccan sultanates and established relatively centralised rule in South India. However, at the Battle of Talikota in 1565, the Vijayanagaran army...
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