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  1. AH Challenge: Cold War Between America and British Empire/ Commonwealth

    Let's outline the scenario first We need an ideological difference which makes people's emotions flare up - similar to communism vs. capitalism. Monarchy vs. republicanism won't be sufficient. Slight differences in economy (free market vs. mercantilism) also doesn't really flare up moods...

  2. East Germany without communism

    IIRC, most of the social democrats were in favour of a slow unification, first "westernising" the GDR, than uniting - in a similar step by step approach as the European Union expansion. Only a charismatic social democrat veteran and the dynamics of the reunification kept that from becoming their...

  3. If Not America, Then Who?

    I chose Germany. I assume that Britain wins the independence war in America, and tries to keep those colonies from becoming too strong. That also means, other powers like France, Russia and Spain keep larger interests in the area - and therefore more of the ressources there. The Spanish...

  4. WI Adam Smith never published "The Wealth of Nations"

    Also, if I'm not mistaken, the Dutch appeared to know pretty good what needed to be done to spur the economy - a hundred years earlier, or so. So there must have been enough theory available - just the same infighting which keeps many countries even in our time from making the right...

  5. WI: A Chinese Alphabet?

    The Chinese do have a phonetic alphabeth. It just never became popular - mostly because it was just used as a means for people who can't read and write Chinese to note down something. I see no difference in logic or the likes due to the system of writing. The main problem for China appears to...

  6. Desert reclamation/terraforming

    Changes happen. People have to learn to deal with it. It is also said that changing pollution in Europe was partly responsible for droughts in North Africa in the 1980s. What counts is only the net results (even if calculated purely in social terms - lifes, quality of living...) - and those...

  7. no thirty years war- population of germany

    TL with no 30 years war: 1618 - asbs make the catholics tolerant of protestants. Religious freedom flourishes. After Lutheranism comes Calvinism, then religions spring up everywhere, similar to the US. Over the next 50 years, all the smaller and bigger German states learn to accept...

  8. UK vs Germany and the Soviet Union

    I'm pretty sure the bomb wouldn't be developed in Germany - the few German scientists working on it depended upon the knowledge and abilities of foreign scientists who often informed the Allies about what was going on. Half the good German scientists were driven out of the country - which meant...

  9. UK vs Germany and the Soviet Union

    I'm sure if Russia had attacked India (most likely target?), the US would quickly be in the war fighting mood Roosevelt wanted it to be in, anyways. Thus, the US might declare war against the enlarged Axis instead of waiting for them to start it. Germany would have more oil and tanks in this...

  10. Ultrachallenge II, Maya wank

    Here's the reason why they built water caverns: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/drght_mayan.html

  11. Ultrachallenge II, Maya wank

    Before an extreme drought hit them, they had large cities, communal infrastructure projects (mainly water storage and tempels), lots of knowledge, and so on. In a report I once saw on tv, natural weather patterns, completely independent of local agricultural methods, were made responsible for...

  12. Op LINEBACKER-style strategic bombing 1965-68

    I just realized there's no threat on alternate Vietnam wars here - except this one. Maybe the matter was discussed on the old forum. Here's another (professional) thread to this (which brought me here): http://www.censa.net/publications/Vietnam.html As to your post: While I don't know...

  13. A Nazi or Japanese Sub goes up the Potomac

    A large sub might launch a small sub, as did the Japanese. The Italians also used "manned torpedos" with divers in wwi(!). Such a mission could deliver a few sizable bombs to buildings close to the Potomac. The military value would be near zero, though - the best that could happen is that the...

  14. French led Industrial Revolution

    In continental Europe, the word describes a country trying to export as much as possible and import as little as possible - a backward economic system which made sure continental Europe usually stayed behind Anglosaxon countries. In Anglosaxon countries, the word seems to refer to a policy of...

  15. French led Industrial Revolution

    I believe that kind of success would come automatically if France industrialized. What's available in the available ressource rich areas is completely sufficient for half a century of industrial revolution, afaik.

  16. French led Industrial Revolution

    How about letting any King decide to allow more pragmatism and scientific experimenting in economic policies? As it was, France was always a country where lots of economic theories competed (some of them pretty good), but that only lead to trying them all pretty much without any system...

  17. Desert reclamation/terraforming

    One would have to start cheap and effective. How about starting with solar furnaces producing lots of glass, which is also sold on the market. Should be much cheaper than glass from conventionally heated glass factories. Once the market for glass is more or less in the hands of the desert...

  18. Germany with more territory post ww2?

    - Less German war and human crimes - Germany fights for independence of Russian satellites, not conquest, therefore has more sympathies with the west and moving eastern European countries westward might cause uprisings. - A popular more or less peaceful revolt similar to Turkey or India leads...

  19. WI No Iron Age?

    Do you have any sources? I'm not sure at what time damascenes were introduced, but I believe the steel for it came from India. Rome and Greece sound even more unlikely to me, especially if you mean the classic civs.

  20. WI No Iron Age?

    Afaik, the first pieces of iron being used were iron rich meteorite fragments, which, with lots of effort (hard to melt iron at the time) were shaped according to need. I suppose some of those meteors were pretty pure, and therefore also very durable. Only when a more widespread metal...
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