survival

Having this idea for a couple of months now, could a Soviet Union that is only missing the Russian SSR turned Russian Federation continue to exist? OTL the last remaining member state was Kazahkstan, but what if more stayed part of the SU? I know that could be tricky as soon as Belaus and...

The Polabians were Slavic Pagans that used to occupy the lands east of the Elbe, and were eventually conquered and germanised by the East Francians in the 900s. The main reason the Germans were able to conquer the Polabians were that they were divided into multiple tribes, and they hadn't...

In OTL, Charles V, Holy Roman Empire and King of Spain, had only one legitimate son, that being Philip II of Spain. He had other sons, but they died in infancy or were still-born. Due to this, he gave his son, Philip, the throne of Spain, and his brother, Ferdinand, the throne to the HRE. What...

Admiral Yi Sun-Sin. One of the greatest, if not the greatest admirals in world history. With no prior naval experience, he won naval battle after battle with the Japanese during the Imjin War (with superior naval technology). He was fatally shot by an Arquebus, during the last stages of the war...

What if the Ming Dynasty, never collapsed due to court corruption, and famines never happened? What if Li Zicheng never rebelled against the Ming, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to power, and Manchuria remained independent? What if the Ming Dynasty survived to make it into the 18th-19th...

Challenge: With a POD from 450s to 700s, make a group of Huns survive in either Europe, Eurasia, the Caucasus, or Asia. So, make a modern-day Hunnic Ethnicity, after Attila, either a small ethnic group, or a large nation of Hunnic People. Bonus points, for a modern-day Hunnic nation(s), and...

One of the key turning points in English history for myself was the death of Henry Stuart in 1612. Strong, virile, and everything the heir to a throne should be, few suspected that in 1612, Henry Stuart would die of typhoid fever at the young age of 18 years old. It makes you wonder what would...

following the initiation of global nuclear war and the following desperate struggle by the remnants of the national armies known as the "twilight war". hostilities ebb as the logistics of the modern world break down. at this time we start our story. we get to follow the adventures and...

Point of Divergence ... One of the greatest love stories in the world is that of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. Born in Agra, India, Mumtaz was betrothed to Shah when she was thirteen and five years later they were married. When Shah met Mumtaz, it was a love match, which is rare in any royal...

Inspired by one of CaliGuy's threads. Out of all the states that lost their independence since 1648 which ones do you think met an avoidable end? How would their continued existence have altered history?

Jean Louis Barthou was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. Barthou's brief time as Prime Minister saw the introduction of laws to safeguard female workers before and after childbirth, as well as the provision of social...

IOTL, Tsar Alexander II Romanov of Russia was assassinated by anarchists in 1881. He was planning to turn Russia into a constitutional monarchy. After his death, his successor Alexander III curbed any further plans for democratization. Alexander II's Russia was in an uneasily friendly...

According to Wikipedia, "Fearing that the peace with Svyatoslav would not endure, the Byzantine emperor induced the Pecheneg khan Kurya to kill Svyatoslav before he reached Kiev. This was in line with the policy outlined by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in De Administrando Imperio of...

The goal is to have Alexander's Empire survive with at least a quarter of the overall territory till 1492 at the most. Bonus if you can have it colonize the New World OR wipe out the Roman Empire.