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  1. Gothia, Gothany, Gothland, etc....

    Assuming either of the Ostrogoths or Visigoths establish stable long-lasting domains what are the chances that the areas we now know as Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and Italy might aquire a nomeclature reflecting their late-classical Germanic overlords a la England (Angles), France (Franks), and...

  2. Challenge: Turn Mangazeya Into a Siberian Singapore

    Have any of you guys ever heard of this town? I hadn't and came across it completely randomly while researching the Northeast Passage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangazeya http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/mangazeya.htm At any rate, I don't have a proper POD relating to it but the...

  3. Particularly implausible (think "Stars & Stripes" level) episodes in OTL history

    I'm sure this has been done before, but what would you consider as some of the more ridiculous and implausible moments in OTL history? That is, events that would be relentlessly mocked if proposed as potential POD's in an ATL where they didn't take place?

  4. Alternate Calendar Eras

    Assuming secularism runs amock in any given given ATL and there is a push for an alternate calendar era that neither presupposes a belief in Christ (AD/BC) nor otherwise acknowledges the signifigance of his birth (CE/BCE) what would be a good non-religious OTL date for dividing history? Some...

  5. Some Ideas I have been throwing around...

    ...but have had no time to adequately develop: ancient Armenian Empire (some sort of Mithridates / Tigranes amalgamation) Joseph Smith & Mormonism, one century earlier. Cortez, Emperor of Mexico Vikings introduce horse to North America before leaving Classical Greek communism...

  6. Challenge: More 19th Century "Austro-Hungarian" Empires

    In other word, what other 19th Century (OTL or ATL) empires or nations might have been forced to grant substantial authority to another ethnic group aside from the traditional ruling group, even to the extent of changing the polity's name, a la the "Austria-Hungary." Some thoughts: The...

  7. Pre-Modern HIV/AIDS: Spread like wildfire or fizzle out?

    Assuming OTL HIV/AIDS arose/crossed-over from simians sometime around, say 1500AD, could it effectively spread in the absence of modern transportation or sexual mores?

  8. An "Alternate History" Alternate History Challenge

    The POD must be someone from OTL posing an influential AH. Note: can either be in a speech or in a written work.

  9. DBWI: Later Erikian Exchange

    What if it were postponed for say, 4 or 5 centuries?

  10. Black 'a-vikings'

    WI Africans to take up coastal raiding? Could West Africans raid all the way up to Europe? Could East Africans raid Arabia / India?

  11. If not Macedon...

    ...then who eventually spearheads the overthrow of the Persian (Achaemenid) Empire? Romans, Spartans, Samaritans, Arabs, Parthian-esque steppe tribes?

  12. Meta: How big an economic hit to US if slavery never takes off in 13 colonies?

    While slavery eventually wreaked a terrible toll on the US, could the US have attained the economic heights that it did in OTL without the shameful institution? The northern colonies were quite successful without slavery for much of their history, but isn't it correct to note that a large...

  13. Alternate Diasporas

    From Wikipedia: Note: When I think of a diaspora, I picture a group whose dispersed population outnumbers that of the population remaining in the "homeland," or better still - a group almost completely ejected from or assimilated within its orginal "homeland." Some famous OTL diasporas...

  14. Alternate "BCE/CE"

    Seems to me that the Columbian Exchange is "the" seminal event in the last 5,000 years or so. Tens (hundreds?) of millions die from disease, food crops are exchanged, etc... Why not date years as before or after the beginning year of this exchange: 1492? It would be a lot more culturally...

  15. Rideable Horses Preceed Agriculture

    What if the domestication of horses on the Eurasian steppe begins much earlier (say at around the time of the domestication of the dog) with the result that they are fully rideable (in OTL it took several thousand years before horses were ridden on a regular basis - they were draft animals and...

  16. What are the limits of Sassanid Persia?

    Could it match or even eclipse the old Achaemanid Empire or is the Christian/Zoroastrian split just too much of an obstacle to further territorial growth to overcome?

  17. Victorious CSA and 'Emperor' Maximillian

    Let's assume (pick your favorite post-1861 POD that doesn't involve outright European intervention) that the CSA manages to secure its independence from the USA by 1865. Are they supportive of this French misadventure or outright hostile towards the new regime? In my opinion, the are...

  18. Plausibility Check: Northern "Ottoman" Empire

    Just curious what everyone might think about the chances of say the Astrakhan or Crimean Khanates of establishing a strong empire north of the Black Sea and pushing into Russia and Eastern Europe, possibly allied with the Ottomans, around 1400-1600.

  19. Challenge: Earliest independent, post-Columbus, non-native, viable New World nation

    Wow, now that was mouthful. In OTL, I would posit that the USA was the earliest nation in the Western Hemisphere fitting that description, with Haiti possibly (it was never all that viable IMO, particularly given the reperations owed to France) being the second such nation. Some ideas I...

  20. DBWI: No Petrovore bacteria

    My apologies if this is overly fantastic or implausible (I realize that once the oil industry really took off and large scale extraction of petroleum began, it was probably inevitable that something like this would Darwinize), but how do you think that our society would have developed had it...
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