Search results for query: *

Forum search Google search

  1. Was There Any Point Italy Could've Beaten Austria-Hungary In A War?

    The Alps would present formidable challenge to any land invasion from either side and a war against an aggressive Italy would make a good enemy for the minorities of Austria-Hungary to rally against. Even so, I would expect heavy fighting at the land border regardless because that’s how wars...

  2. An Iran without the Islamic Revolution and Azerbaijan

    Integration doesn’t necessarily mean unification or annexation. Unification has been rather rare. Germany was an exceptional case. Korean reunification is a non-starter and Vietnam happened at the barrel of a gun. All three of those countries are more homogeneous than Iran, which is a Civic...

  3. No Islam Byzantine dominate Middle East

    With or without Islam, the Turkic Migrations will still happen. A weakened Persia combined with the Turks on the move will have unpredictable consequences . The Byzantines will stay/be their own worst enemies, just like in OTL. This is certainly not some sort of “end of history” scenario. The...

  4. What would the impact be on Spain be if the new world was discovered much later?

    Spain becoming a European power was not decided by the discovery of the Americas but the marriages of the royal family (especially into the Habsburgs). Even without Columbus most of European history would be mostly the same up to the election of Charles V. Though after that point it would start...

  5. How would China develop without the Mongols?

    I think the reunification of China is very likely. It’s not super uncommon for there to be fairly lengthy periods of disunity before unification in Chinese history. Nothing about the Jin vs Song setup before the Mongols showed up was unprecedented I would say. Eventually either the Jin would...

  6. Bulgarian Macedonia

    Lots of Macedonians considered themselves Bulgarian back then to the point of forming several Macedonian-Bulgarian terrorist organizations with the goal of unification with Bulgaria. They assassinated many prominent figures, the most notable one being King Alexander of Yugoslavia. I think that...

  7. What else could Germany do with the resources used in the naval race with the UK? What should they have used them on?

    Germany should have spent the money on its army. We could see a case of the German army reaching Paris and possibly knocking France out of the war in the opening stages of WWI. That would have massive ramifications across the 20th century.

  8. Alternate Analogues to Pakistan

    Northern Nigeria has no reason to secede since they would be landlocked and they already dominate the country as it is. Now the Christian South of the country is a different story and OTL Nigeria has already fought a civil war in order to keep it (and its oil). Nigeria could easily be split into...

  9. What Makes Pessimistic Timelines Interesting?

    There are just more of those sort of timelines. Especially the ones that tend to run longer than a short story. From the viewpoint of a writer, I think it is partially because dystopian settings are just easier to write than utopian ones. Trying to create a timeline where things went better...

  10. No Mongol invasion of Khwarazmia

    Pretty much. The Mongols may not conquer the Song in Genghis Khan's lifetime, but the Jin could have probably been conquered sooner than OTL and that would put the Mongols on a collision course with the Song. I imagine Genghis getting sucked into Chinese politics would keep him very busy. He...

  11. No Mongol invasion of Khwarazmia

    I think otherwise. I think TTL Mongol invasions of the Middle East would not happen at all or either be much more disorganized and/or reduced. This isn’t due to goodwill or solidarity, but if Genghis Khan had devoted all his attention on the conquest and administration of China (his closest...

  12. Puerto Rico without the Spanish-American War

    Smaller is a relative term. Puerto Rico is smaller than the Philippines and Cuba. It is still an island 6000 kilometers from Spain with a population of several million people. Spain incorporating and holding on to Puerto Rico to the present day might be possible but it comes with the major...

  13. AHC: Best Possible post-Soviet Russia

    I'll be honest with you. I am clearly younger than you are and to me all this is just history on a alternate history website. So while I do have sympathy for your ordeal and can value your insight when I look at stuff like this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War...

  14. Child Abuse in Past Societies

    The problem with judging historical people by our modern standards is doesn’t take long to determine that EVERYONE was an asshole. Then the analysis hits a dead end. Do we need sort people on whether they were full blown assholes, half assholes, or quarter assholes? Everything is going to be...

  15. Great Powers doomed despite the World Wars?

    A lagging GDP per capita has an important consequence for Russia. There would be a significant brain drain of Russians leaving to work in Europe. It wasn’t uncommon (and still isn’t) for Russians to emigrate for being at odds with the Russian state politically or economically (or they just want...

  16. AHC: Best Possible post-Soviet Russia

    The point I was trying to make is that letting the people of the Caucasus hate each other benefits Russia as they would be occupied with each other and not Russia. Russia does not have to expend money, manpower, and bombing cities combating terrorism. If there is a refugee crisis then those...

  17. AHC: Best Possible post-Soviet Russia

    They can grant Independence to the North Caucasus provinces (that don’t have a Russian majority) as the challenge is how can Russia be better off, not keeping peace in that region.

  18. Decolonisation if WW2 never happened?

    India leaving the British Empire was inevitable. The decolonisation process would start after it does. It might take a couple decades to complete without WWII as more European countries might resist decolonization like OTL France did and have more money to do it with.

  19. The fate of the Kurds in a surviving Ottoman Empire

    That model is completely unsustainable and guarantees Arab nationalism putting Turks above Westerners as their primary object of hate. The Ottomans could accommodate Arabs in an Islamist framework as a sort of modern Caliphate. What they cannot do is try to turn Arabs into Turks. Arab population...

  20. The fate of the Kurds in a surviving Ottoman Empire

    I don’t think it is very likely the Kurds would have assimilated very much. It is likely though that Kurdish autonomy would have followed Arab nationalism in the Ottoman Empire as the Arabs were living near most of the oil and their would be nationalistic backlash against the Ottomans if the...
Top