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  1. French India after the ARW?

    I was reading a few old threads (such as this one), in which mention is made of one Pierre André de Suffren, a famous French admiral in the late 18th century. In the linked thread, fhaessig mentions that given enough time - by delaying the end of the American Revolutionary War, Suffren could...

  2. Fate of Italy, Germany without the French revolution

    Exactly what it says on the tin. Say the French Revolution is averted by handwaving (economic reform, no aid in the Revolutionary war, take your pick). So what would the 19th century look like, particularly for Italy and Germany. Without first the trauma of French conquest, and more importantly...

  3. WI: Cyril and Methodius convert the Khazars to Christianity

    Around 850-860, the famous brothers Cyril and Methodius (of Cyrillic fame) made their first journey. This was through Crimea to the Khanate of Khazaria, a Jewish state in OTL Ukraine. They succeeded in converting hundreds to Christianity after several sermons. By 861 they had made their way to...

  4. Challenge: Shun Dynasty survives, conquers Japan

    A sort of follow-up to my old thread (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=95165&highlight=Japan): Use whatever POD for the Shun Dynasty to survive and stop the Manchu invasion of China. Then how could China go from there, to eventually conquering Japan?

  5. WI: Sun Yat-sen leads a "second" Taiping Rebellion?

    Okay, time for a barely coherent post before i off to bed. While reading some stuff about Sun Yat-sen, I discovered that he was a Christian and had disdain for the native religions of China. Sounds familiar? I think old Hong Xiuquan and Sun Yat-sen have that respect in common. Now, on to the...

  6. Challenge: Third Mexican Empire

    With a POD after 1873 (so the Third French Republic has to be established), have another monarchy be established in Mexico. Bonus points if this one lasts more than a few years.

  7. WI a legitimist French restoration in the 1920s?

    Here's a fun what-if I stumbled upon while browsing Wikipedia. Turns out thatJaime, Duke of Madrid was the Legitimist pretender to France and the Carlist pretender to Spain in the early 20th century. The POD: the Spartacists take over Germany in 1919. This creates an extreme phobia of the left...

  8. WI Harald Fairhair dies before unifying Norway?

    What if Harald Fairhair dies in 870, before unifying the Norwegian petty kingdoms? What effects would that have?

  9. WI: Zoroastrian China in the 4th century?

    There was a substantial population of Zoroastrians in northern China in the first half of the first millennium (which only disappeared after the Tang persecution). What if during the chaos of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, a warlord adopts Zoroastrianism, propagates it amongst his tribe /...

  10. WI: Wendish Denmark

    Okay, let's say Denmark in this ATL is much more chaotic and divided in the 10th and 11th centuries. Say that the House of Olof takes more land, and prevents a completely unified Denmark from emerging. Then fast-forward to 983, and Mistivoj and the Obotrites revolt against Germany. So ITTL the...

  11. Challenge: the Second Mongol Empire

    Ignoring, of course, the Northern Yuan Dynasty which existed in Mongolia until the 16th century. What would it take for the Mongols (maybe the Khalka and Oirat are unified by Altan Khan and stay unified too) to invade China, then continue their conquest into Persia, Central Asia, Ukraine, the...

  12. Challenge: make these royal houses exist

    What POD(s) would be needed to get these dynasties to exist. NB: all of them are cadent branches of the Capetian House of Valois... House of Valois-Austria. Valois-Burgundy Valois-Mantua Valois-Saxony Valois-Bavaria Valois-Baden POD can be anywhere after the Valois were founded or before they...

  13. WI: Sengoku doesn't end

    What if the Sengoku (warring states period) never ended in Japan? Say that coalitions of the smaller warlords would take down any strong challengers (Oda Nabunga, Toyotomi, Tokugawa, etc) and then promptly collapse. So Japan is still divided into a bunch of warring statelets. How long could it...

  14. Spanish Egypt

    Let's say Miguel da Paz doesn't die in 1500, and Castile, Portugal, and Aragon are united into the Kingdom of Iberia. Then, with all their power focused together, they extend the Reconquista all the way to the Sinai. With a lot of Spaniards who would have gone colonizing in OTL, they instead go...

  15. Challenge: Ming Japan

    With a POD after 1550, make the Ming dynasty rule Japan. It could be a conquered province, or anything else, just there has to be Chinese occupiers on Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu at least. How could this happen, realistically? The POD can be as late as you want. So say you wanted Southern Ming...

  16. What would a centralized Holy Roman Empire look like?

    Let's say that the empire unifies in the 1500s, after a more successful Reichsreform. Instead of a collection of small states nominally part of the same empire, they are bound together in a more centralized structure. So, my question: what would this empire look like? Would the various...

  17. WI: Catherine of Aragon has a son

    What if at some point in the 1510s, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon had managed to have a son who survived to adulthood? How would that change things in England? Also, if they have the son early enough (before Ferdinand II dies in 1516), would it be possible for their son to claim the...

  18. Challenge: more Latin placenames

    .... in colonies, that is. I noticed that many places use Greek or pseudo-Greek names. Examples: Indonesia, Micronesia, Polynesia... basically anything with the -nesia suffix (which is Greek for island). How could it come about that more of these areas would use Latin names? IE: Micronesia =...

  19. Holy Roman France's colonial policy

    A followup to this thread..... if Francis (by any means) manages to become Holy Roman Emperor and integrate France into the HRE, what effects would that have on France's colonial policy? Would a much more European-oriented France only try halfheartedly at colonizing, or even not at all? Or...

  20. Inuit Iceland

    Challenge: with a POD as late as possible, get a significant Inuit population on Iceland. Preferably it would be the majority, but that is not required. There can still be Icelanders / Danes / whoever on the island.... but how could the Inuit have a large population there?
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