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  1. WI: Habitable Venus

    Know I tuly don't know if This I ASB Territory or not, but here goes nothing. Lets just say that the planet Venus did not have a "run-away" green house affect millions of years ago, and that it was inhabited by intelligent beings on roughly the same technological level. This is also assuming...

  2. WI: An Stronger Nabataean Empire.

    The Nabateans were exceptionally skilled traders, facilitating commerce between China, India, the Far East, Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome. They dealt in such goods as spices, incense, gold, animals, iron, copper, sugar, medicines, ivory, perfumes and fabrics, just to name a few. From its origins...

  3. WI:The Great Zimbabwe survies

    Great Zimbabwe is the name given to the remains of a Southern African ancient city, located in present-day Zimbabwe which was once the centre of a vast empire known as the Munhumutapa Empire (also called Monomotapa Empire) covering the modern states of Zimbabwe (which got its name from this...

  4. WI: The Declaration of Independce had condemned slavery?

    In 1776 the continental congress chose a committee to draft the deceleration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert Livingston. Jefferson later recalled the following in his Memoirs:’‘The committee members...

  5. WI: President Victoria C. Woodhull

    One such colorful character was Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin. All Ohio can claim this peripatetic crusader of pen and stump. Victoria was born in the tiny hamlet of Homer, Licking County, in 1838, one of nine children. At ten she had experienced visions in which Demosthenes appeared to...

  6. WI:Madame Presdident Victoria C. Woodhull

    One such colorful character was Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin. All Ohio can claim this peripatetic crusader of pen and stump. Victoria was born in the tiny hamlet of Homer, Licking County, in 1838, one of nine children. At ten she had experienced visions in which Demosthenes appeared to...

  7. WI: An Scythian Kingdom was established

    Archaeological research into the existence of the Amazons is only a recent phenomena. For years the Amazons were thought of as a purely mythological phenomena with little backing in scientific evidence. It was not until quite recently (within the mid-90's) that excavations in the Altai mountain...

  8. WI: Joe P. Kennedy had survived WWII

    In RL the American ambassador to Britain's son was shot down over France and killed during World War II. JPK had always dreamed of creating a political dynasty, and Joe Jr. was to have been the first. Instead, it fell to next-eldest John, who had previously thought he'd end up as a journalist...

  9. WI: George Patton had lived

    What if Patton did not die in the fatal car crash. In the events following the war do you think he would get nominated for president in either 48 0r 56. How would, him being alive . . . put strain on Eisenhower ‘s political career? Anddid he have any possible connections with the Kennedy’s

  10. WI: Macedonian Sheba

    Alexander's campaign plans after he returned from India mostly centered on the Persian Gulf and Dilmun (Bahrein) was scouted by one of his generals. Using Dilmun as a base, I can see Alexander going on to take the rest of the Persian Gulf coast and establish shipping routes with India, but east...

  11. WI:Phillip II/Alexander chose to stike west.

    IWhat would have happened if Phillip II or his son Alexander would have struck west? How far would they have made it? Would he have had the same success against the barbarian hordes? Would his Macedonian (Yugolslav?) phalanxes have been able to face up to the Franks, Gauls, Nordics and Huns...

  12. WI: Anglo-Algonquian Nation

    OK, here's the bare outline of a possible timeline where a substantial mixed European-Native American civilization develops. John Cabot made a trip across the north Atlantic with funding from English merchants in 1497, and explored the coast of Newfoundland. On a second voyage a couple of...

  13. WI:Athens without Pericles

    In the fifth century, Athens grew to the peak of her ancient grandeur. Much of this could be attributed to the work - and audacious nature (?) - of Pericles: holding what was effective control of the city from 443-429 BC. What if Pericles was never there? Would relations between Athens and the...

  14. WI:The Virgina Colony is Abandoned by 1610

    By 1610 the general consensus amongst the English colonists at Jamestown was that the colony of Virginia ought to be abandoned; they were low on supplies, suffering harrasment from natives and had failed to find a profitable staple crop. The decision to abandon the colony was reversed thanks...

  15. WI:Virgina is Abandoned by 1610

    See other thread with simmilar title

  16. WI:Xerxes II of Persia takes the throne

    Secyndianus, during the funeral procession of his parents (Artaxerxes I and his wife) in 424, killed his brother Crown Prince Xerxes II. Given the tradition of descent in the Achae-menid line, Secyndianus (Darius II) took the throne - in turn this led to the line of kings we know to have gone on...

  17. WI: Hannibal goes for Rome after Cannae

    A few years ago, I bought a copy of B.H. Warmington's Carthage at a used book shop here in Jerusalem. I've always wondered what might've happened if Hannibal had gone straight to Rome, after his mercenaries routed the Roman legions at Cannae, and either tried to storm the city or lay siege to...

  18. AH Challenge: Make Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' a reality

    Hello Ladies and Gentlemen of The board. The 1927 german made film, expreses the Dystopian era of time where The Aristocratic lives on the surface while the working class toils beneath the earth. What accomplishments in Robotic technology and Political Powers needed to be in a span from...

  19. WI: Stronger Empire of the Philistines

    EMPIRE of PHILISTIA fi-lis 'tya GEOGRAPHY The Land of the Philistines was located along the south-eastern coast of the Mediterranean, and lay astride the route called the ‘Way of the Sea.’ While trade was important, the Philistines were self-sufficient, growing their own food...

  20. AH Challenge: Thriving Amazon Society in Classical Times

    First Choice The home of the warlike Amazons was never a fantasy world for the ancient Greeks, but was quite definite. It was the country at the mouth of the river Thermodon in Northern Turkey. Today the name of this river is rather the same - Terme Çay. For Caucasian Amazon Empire With...
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