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Post by Zyobot on May 16, 2024 20:48:55 GMT
‘AHC: Russian Empire Colonizes Mongolia’.
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Post by American hist on May 18, 2024 18:17:49 GMT
A plausible story Of how Japanese Samurai could’ve helped the confederates.
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Post by Zyobot on May 19, 2024 0:38:08 GMT
‘Plausible French Revolution Analogues’. Assuming the real thing doesn’t happen in ATL France, obviously.  |
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Post by Zyobot on May 21, 2024 2:34:00 GMT
‘President Benjamin Franklin’.
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Post by Zyobot on May 22, 2024 17:13:02 GMT
'Grover Cleveland Dies In His Secret Surgery'. See here for OTL context, as the state of surgery in 1893 means things could’ve gone much worse for such a critical operation. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on May 26, 2024 3:37:04 GMT
‘AHC: Russian Empire Colonizes Mongolia’. At best, they could simply turn Mongolia into a quasi-vassal state/buffer zone, though IOTL the Mongolian Revolution of 1911 was achieved with some bits of Russian help. If you need a much earlier PoD, perhaps having the Shun Dynasty rise to power in China instead of the Qing could work, as the Shun wouldn't be so gung ho on territorial expansion like what the Qing did. The Shun rising would also mean that the Northern Yuan would still exist, though facing competition from the Four Oirat Confederation. Having the Russians take control of what is now Xinjiang (then Dzungaria) and propping up the Dzungars might allow the latter to help take control of the rest of Mongolia. *** "PC: Domestic and Foreign Policies of a Full-Term William Henry Harrison Presidency"We know that William Henry Harrison was known for being the president who served for only 35 days before dying from pneumonia, so we never get to know what his policy was like. But what if he had a bit more common sense to actually bundle up and not keep himself out in the rain, thereby preserving much of his health? How would an American Whig Party be able to survive past the Harrison Presidency? |
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Post by Zyobot on May 26, 2024 23:33:02 GMT
'AHC: Earliest Possible Abolition Of Slavery Worldwide'.
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Post by Otto Kretschmer on May 27, 2024 4:41:06 GMT
AHC/WI: Sinitic (Chinese) horse nomads.
A simple challenge - create a horse nomadic group that speaks Chinese as it's main language.
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Post by Zyobot on May 27, 2024 21:23:06 GMT
‘AHC: More Mercantile Greece’.
As I recall, the Greeks (especially Athens) typically thumbed their noses at craftsmen and mercantile activities, instead prioritizing more “lofty” philosophy and theorizing for its own sake.
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Post by stevep on May 28, 2024 11:44:02 GMT
‘AHC: More Mercantile Greece’. As I recall, the Greeks (especially Athens) typically thumbed their noses at craftsmen and mercantile activities, instead prioritizing more “lofty” philosophy and theorizing for its own sake.
Possibly in the latter stages of the Athenian empire or after it was defeated by Sparta but Athens was very much a maritime and trading power and the Greeks in this period spread settlement across the eastern and central Med and into the Black Sea and western Med and most of that was in search of trade.
There is an often stated parallel with Britain in that in the 19thC you saw a steady shift from businesses being run by inventors and engineers to 'businessmen' and also in education with higher levels being increasingly concerned with the humanities and philosophy. Their still very important but both of those and the disastrous economic and government policies that went along with such ideas played a significant role in the level of Britain's technological and economic decline. Basically the sources of economic and political success being replaced with interests that are seen as 'higher' in some way. I think its a problem with all states that lose sight of the reasons for their success.
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Post by Zyobot on May 31, 2024 20:05:00 GMT
‘AHC: North American Union By 1900’.
Basically, a single country encompassing the lands occupied by America, Canada, and maybe even Mexico IOTL (as well as more “outlying” polities if possible, such as Cuba or the Bahamas).
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Post by stevep on May 31, 2024 22:28:57 GMT
Well the two obvious options are either the American revolution fails and the British colonies aided by the homeland spread over the continent or the US for whatever reason manages to absorb Canada one way or another.
Other options are possible but I think markedly less likely. Say a) The US gains independence but possibly in a smaller form than OTL and suffers continued internal problems and conflict and ultimately is brought back into the British empire - or some Canadian successor state. b) Possibly France for some reason decides to really encourage settlement in Louisiana. Probably unlikely under the Bourbons but say the revolution occurs, things go roughly as OTL but another general is the one who becomes dictator rather than Napoleon and has different policies. Settling for say the Rhine frontier and a number of puppets elsewhere, a lasting peace with Britain and decides to settle Louisiana with more people. Possibly encouraging people from elsewhere in Europe as well. This leaves the US with no clear expansion route and say in a number of wars they fail to expand at either British or French expense and the French gradually push into their western lands and ultimately end up top dog in N America with at some later stage for some reason Greater Louisiana end up controlling former US and British territory. c) Possibly with a markedly earlier PoD Spain doesn't see the OTL decline and concentrates more on settling its American colonies, including those in N America and say some other butterflies means they control not only California through to Texas and Florida but end up gaining at least some of the OTL southern British colonies. Coupled with say repeated conflicts with an England that never units with Scotland and fails to emerge as a great colonial power and internal problems/differences in France that means it doesn't establish or can't hold its Louisiana territories, which would be vulnerable with a relatively narrow neck between Spanish Texas and Florida. From this either Spain or possibly a break-away Spanish N American state expands northwards.
The only other options might include some sort of mass death scenario via say plague or a massive nuclear war - although it would be difficult to get that by 1900 with anything like OTL history unless the PoD is a lot earlier - which means a relatively small surviving population end up uniting to maintain some level of civilization.
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Post by Otto Kretschmer on Jun 2, 2024 12:34:37 GMT
AHC/WI: Japanese Philipines before 1898 AD.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 6, 2024 0:36:35 GMT
‘AHC: Karl Marx Becomes A Dictator’.
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Post by Max Sinister on Jun 6, 2024 1:42:09 GMT
‘AHC: Karl Marx Becomes A Dictator’. Hmm, in the AH book "The Difference Engine" the US falls apart after the ACW, and New York becomes a Communist commune under him.
He doesn't look like it... but then again, before WW1, Trotsky spent most of his time playing chess in coffeehouses.
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