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  1. WI First Crusade Fails (2024 ed)

    I was surprised to find this question is something that got less discussion in recent years than I expected, despite that, when it is brought up, consensus seems to be that it has a lot of fascinating AH potential, both in plausibility and potential to change history. There are multiple PoDs...

  2. AHC & WI No / Alt Investiture Controversy

    It seems like it’s been years since we had a thread discussing church reformism in the late 11th Century (last I found), and even longer since we really discussed the Investiture Controversy as such. So let’s fix that! When we do discuss this idea, it kind of falls into the background as part of...

  3. WI Emperor Shenzong of Song (1067-85) lived longer (~1105)

    It seems like it's been quite a few years on this site since we had a discussion on "What if the New Policies of Wang Anshi succeeded?", and part of me is tempted just to ask that question again, since resisting it seems overdue. But it also seems to me there's a simpler PoD looking at us in the...

  4. WI Empress Wei of Tang keeps power (710)

    So a few years after the death of Wu Zeitan, her daughter-in-law the Empress Wei, was apparently looking to follow in her footsteps, but was overthrown in a coup by the emperor's nephew, who put his own father on the throne (Emperor Ruizong) before becoming emperor himself (as Xuanzong). Could...

  5. World Islam in a Crusader Win TL

    Supposing we're looking at a world where the Crusades have achieved massive success compared to OTL -- say, by the end of the 13th Century, Outremer has managed to secure everything between Aleppo to Gaza, Egypt itself has been set upon by Crusaders setting up their own kingdom(s) in Lower...

  6. WI Council of Acre (Second Crusade)… (2024 Ed)

    So we’ve talked before about this -- how could the Crusade leaders gathered outside of Acre in 1148 have decided to keep to their initial goal of restoring Edessa and/or going after the Zengids. From that discussion: Do we happen to know who argued for what position here? (eg Did Eleanor of...

  7. AHC: Prevent Frankish Conquest of Lombard Kingdom (774)

    With no PoDs prior to a decade before the conquest (so none before 764), how can the Frankish Kingdom conquering the Kingdom of the Lombards on the request of the Pope be averted? Now before anyone says that this is too little time to avert said event, I think it's worth remembering that events...

  8. AHC: No Unification of Charles the Fat (885-87)

    With no PoDs prior to the death of Louis II of Italy in 875, what would be the simplest way for the various Carolingian kingdoms to remain and further balkanize as much as possible, and to avoid becoming reconsolidated? Could Louis the German's three sons have more permanently split apart East...

  9. AHC & WI: No Ottonian HRE

    So I realize we actually have a perfectly fine TL exploring roughly this concept by @Catherine the Average, and even more on point in an older TL by @Carp, but I thought it might be worth framing as a general discussion: With no PoDs prior to Henry the Fowler becoming King of East Francia...

  10. AHC: Avoid Danish Invasion of England (1013)

    With no PoDs before the coronation of Edgar the Peaceful four decades prior (973), how can the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom be as secure as possible? I'm guessing, at the very least, that we're going to want to avoid England losing the Battle of Malden (991), but I wonder if an earlier PoD would actually...

  11. AHC: Rashidun Wank (644 PoD)

    With no PoDs prior to the assassination of Umar,* how can the Caliphate be as "successful" as possible ("success" here can mean territorial expansion, flourishing, what have you)? At the very least, what would be the best way to delay anything like the First Fitna as much as possible? And how...

  12. Second Fitna Possibilities

    Here's another way of looking at this -- of the two more popular scenarios, the Caliphate fracturing longer term or the Zubayrids prevailing in the civil war, which one is more likely/plausible? And going with this option, what needs to happen for this to come about? And once we have that, what...

  13. AHC: Better 14th Century for Byzantines

    Not long after the period of restoration under Michael VIII, the Eastern Roman Empire of OTL underwent a final period of decline; when the father of the last would-be emperor took power in 1391, it was very much a shell of its former self, unable to do much on its own to to slow the expansion of...

  14. AHC and WI: Angevin Empire Survives (2024 ed)

    Since it’s been nearly six years since we last had a general discussion on this, I figured it was worth revisiting. First thing we’d need is an effective PoD, which can be as early as the Third Crusade (since I brought up that possibility in a different thread), though I expect most of our ideas...

  15. WI Apartheid Isolated and/or Falls in 1970’s

    What if, starting in 1973, the leading western nations -- the US in particular -- took a hardline stance against the white dominated regimes in the southern third of Africa (so against Apartheid South Africa, but also Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies)? As far as I can tell, this board hasn’t...

  16. WI Mao Dies 1963 (2023 ed)

    I’d make another point of comparison between this scenario and having Mao die circa 1956 - - that being the later comes before the “Hundred Flowers” and subsequent “Anti-Rightist Campaign”. Now, said repressions were walked back following Mao’s death OTL during the Boulan Fenzheng period, with...

  17. AHC: Deny Ukraine's Bread Basket to Russia

    What if the fertile fields of Ukraine were never absorbed into the Russia Empire? First of all, what is the latest PoD by which this might be achieved (preferably after 1400)? And second, how does this, by itself, change the course of European history? For example, can the Russian Empire ever...

  18. PC: Earlier ( Paper + Blast Furnace ) in Europe = Earlier Printing Press?

    Both paper and pig iron were invented very early in China, circa the Second Century CE, but were unknown in Europe until the High Middle Ages (earliest indications being the 11th and 12th centuries, respectively); it was after a few centuries of having both these things, and seeing them spread...

  19. WI Britain gets Florida circa 1713

    OTL, they got it for a time after the Seven Years War (in 1763); but what if they got it 50 years earlier, after the War of Spanish Succession? I asked something like this a few years ago, but didn’t get much response: What do you guys think?

  20. USA w/ Napoleonic Europe

    ...you say the Fall of Napoleon has affected the historic course of the young republic of the United States specifically? Assuming a late 1809 PoD,* how is North American history altered? To start, I imagine there won’t be a War of 1812 TTL; how does the republic deal with issues in the west...
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