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I'm not a specialist of Roman history but I've sometimes wonder if it would be plausible for Rome to have expanded into Africa rather than in Europe. Right now, I can see two possible PODs for this: Caesar isn't assassinated and eventually officially acknowledges Caesarion, who succeeds his...

I know proper historical information on the Sea Peoples, except for Egyptian accounts, is hard to come about, but basically... what if, during the Bronze Age Collapse in the 12th century BCE, the coalition of possibly Italian mediterranean tribes known as the Sea Peoples ends up conquering Lower...

IOTL, the Juba Conference of 1947 was organized between British colonial officials and Sudanese separatist delegates for negotiating the future of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was decided that the ethnically diverse region would break off from the empire as a single state. This situation might...

The Nile, Congo, and Zambezi (through Lake Malawi) all drain different parts of the East African Rift Valley. If these waterways could be made navigable, they could connect the Rift Valley to the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans respectively. The challenge, if you choose to accept...