What are some underrated alternate histories?
We've all seen the "What if the Nazis won..." the "What if the South survived..." and the "What if communism won..." stuff. But what are some others, some interesting gems that people don't talk about enough?
I'd definitely say one of my favourite is a spin on the "What if the Nazis won..." where the Third Reich immediately spirals out of control and into horrendous civil war basically the second Hitler stops paying attention.
What if Napoleon won
what if the roman empire never fell
what if monotheism never happened
What if the Bronze Age Collapse never happened?
Even the Bible erroneously think Iron Age Babylonia was the first civilization because the oral knowledge transmission was broken between the bronze and iron age, same thing for the Illyad and Odyssey.
I always found it interesting on how geography impacts history. For instance there is this small patch of rugged terrain in Southern Panama called the Darién Gap. By the time the Spanish arrived in the Americas the Aztec Empire had pushed all the way up to the Northern edge of the Darién Gap and the Incas had moved all the way up to the Northern edge. The Aztec's fell to the Spanish in 1521. The Spanish then began the conquest of the Inca's in 1528. I suspect that if the Darién Gap did not exist or was not so difficult to traverse, the Spanish would not have been able to successfully conquer both the Aztecs and Incas. Who knows what the world would look like today.
Also, Hernán Cortés has to be one of the luckiest SOB's ever to walk the Earth.
*Incas moved to the southern edge.
what if my penis was fatter?
What if China was balkanised by Europe after the Qin dynasty
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Wait 60 more years
I'm trying to calculate why a socialist America would name the southern part of Alberta after Commissioner Irvine of the RNWMP considering he would have represented the Imperialist British Monarchy from their point of view.
Any where Maxi and the Second Mexican Empire survives
Real shit
What if Gavrilo Princip didn't decide to go to the cafe after they fucked up their first assassination attempt?
What if the furry angel didn't guide him into pulling the trigger?
First empire>second empire
>implying Iturbide could have stopped everything from collapsing
Maxi was Mexico's only chance at being a stable, prosperous, and relevant state.
What if the cold war turned hot but in a non nuclear way, similar to Tom Clancy's book Red Storm Rising? This can be in the 50s to the 80s. Interesting stuff.
What if the landbridge between Asia and America had stayed intact
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What if England won the hundred years war
What if China would have seeked expansion and build a colonial empire instead of isolating herself?
what if the neolithec revolutin never hapenned
What if Brazil, which was comparable to the USA in the beginning of the 19th century, had seen comparable development of the economy in that century
We'd be a bloody superpower
Classic
For me, I feel like most alternate history has to be incited by changing major events in their entirety, while paying no attention to how that would come about (i.e. wot if Germany won WWI???). I'm much more interested in scenarios where something seemingly insignificant is changed, but makes huge ripples in the timeline. Something like Kaiser Wilhelm not having a deformed arm, thus quelling his massive insecurity and allowing him to get along just fine with Nicky and George V. Just by changing something so small, WWI might've been just some shitty balkan conflict.
UMA
A lot of these flags look more Strasserist than Marxist
Where can I find a book/movie that depicts this? It's intriguing to think about
Whatif the greeks worked on the steam engines they were experimenting with beyond some prototypes and toys?
>Caesar is never assassinated.
>Byzantium somehow staves off Ottoman conquest and continues to exist consistently in some independent form to the present day
>Kennedy drops Jackie O in favor of Marilyn Monroe and they turn Camelot into a dark hedonistic autocracy teetering dangerously close to Nuclear War as their hubris heightens
>Theodor Roosevelt defeats Wilson
>Huey Long miraculously defeats FDR
what if i wasnt a lazy dickhead and actually got things done in my life?
What if the Ottomans never existed?
Byzantines still exist, Eastern Europe develops more naturally, Venice is still has hold over the Mediterranean, Age of discovery either never happens or happens differently, Hapsburg have more focus on Euro affairs and France has to directly face them.
the possibilities are limitless and all you have to do is remove some fucker named Osman
Well, if Venice still has a stranglehold on trade, the Portuguese would reasonably still have gone to India. A big part of their reason being trade driven.
Can you guys help me develop an alternative history backstory?
The main thing I'm developing is a post ww2 world where by 1953 the Soviet Union is a monarchy. Not because of an actual Romanov reestablishing, but through a character (That did exist) named Viktor Alekseyavich from Aleksandr Solhenitszyn's Gulag Archipelago.
Ill be posting screenshots from the book to get into detail but the main idea is that by 1948 "Emperor Mikhail" causes a revolution in the soviet union with a rousing speech involving:
1. The Dissolution of the collective farms by the first spring of his reign.
2. Increase housing construction and house each person next to the place he works.
2. Increase in worker's wage
4. The complete wiping of the Kremlin from the face of the earth.
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