Search results for query: *

  • Users: Kyro92
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date

Forum search Google search

  1. Development of the world if European age of exploration stillborn

    Before I put forth the scenario, I have a request: please don't focus on your responses on the delay of European exploration and the plausibility of said delay. I'm asking this because that normally suck up all the oxygen in the discussion when this subject is discussed- I am hoping we can treat...

  2. Radically changing the world's religious landscape without butterflying away Islam

    I've been pondering this over the past few days. It's trivially obvious to posit a world in which Muhammad has born, or to go earlier that and have the non-founding of Christianity as your POD. But how much could the layout of world religions be altered in a world in which still saw the...

  3. How much of a difference would delaying the colonial era by less then a century make?

    Preventing the advent of European colonialism is a pretty common topic of discussion here- but how about, rather then prevent it, merely delaying it slightly, by 50-100 years? Given how the Portuguese exploration was supported by the Portuguese crown, the pace of their exploration was heavily...

  4. Latest possible POD to forestall Western hegemony?

    It's easy enough to imagine earlier PODs impeding the primacy of the West on a global scale. But by the 18th century, there's a strong argument to be made that the ground was already laid for the West to overwhelm those parts of Asia and the Middle East that had previously managed to forestall...

  5. The carrying capacity of the Americas, if industrialization was delayed

    If you've looked at population density maps, like this one(https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Computed-global-distribution-of-population-density-for-the-year-1800_fig3_228074769), the first thing that stands out is how population density is at it's highest in Europe, South Asia and East Asia...

  6. Roman influence in Northern Europe without Christianity

    POD: Neither Christianity nor a Christianity analogue emerges in the Roman empire. Of course there will be mystery cults and such, but none of them receive patronage as the official imperial religion, or if they do they lack the missionary zeal that led to Christianity's spread into Northern...

  7. Map challenge: Austria with these borders

    With a POD anytime after 1900, have Austria acquire the borders that Australia has on this map:

  8. A threeway balance of power in the Middle East between Persia, Byzantium and the Caliphate...

    Premise: After losing hold of Mesopotamia, the Sassanids manage to halt the Arab advance past the Zagros mountains. The Zagros mountains are a decently defensible position, although Persia was in disarray at the time and the loss of wealthy Mesopotamia would hardly make rebuilding easier. The...

  9. Given a Napoleonic continental hegemony, is Western hegemony likelier curbed or bolstered?

    POD: Napoleon shows a little more restraint. He doesn't overthrow the Bourbons in Spain, nor invade Russia. As it becomes increasingly obvious that the Napoleonic order is a fait accompli, the British seek a peace treaty- neither side concedes much, but the Continental system trade embargo is...

  10. If the Muslim invasions begin while the Byzantine-Sassanian war was still ongoing...

    As the title says, what if the Islamic invasion began while Byzantium and Persia were still at war? The obvious problem with this is that IOTL the war ended before Muhammad had consolidated control of Arabia. But it was a relatively narrow thing- the war ended in 628, Muhammad conquered Mecca...

  11. Could the British have suppressed an Indian rebellion in the 1930s/40s?

    It's not clear to me what the best POD for this would be- perhaps Gandhi dying during one of his hunger strikes? Perhaps avoiding WW2, so that London remains intransigent in it's dealings with the INC? It's my understanding that most of Britain's political establishment had more or less...

  12. Would a Black Death-scale pandemic in the imperial era=mass importation of slaves to Europe?

    IOTL, while there was significant importation of African slaves into Iberia(reaching ~10% of the population in Portugal), it was relatively marginal elsewhere, with England, France and the Netherlands banning the importation of slaves into the metropolitan territory. This makes a certain sense-...

  13. Caribbean/Brazilian demographics on the Eastern Seabord

    Specifically during the colonial era- could the Eastern Seaboard colonies have had demographics closer to the overwhelmingly black populations of the Caribbean(+90% on many islands), or at the very least Brazil(close to 50%). I understand they weren't far short of that in some of the Southern...

  14. Position of Muslim, Jews and other minorities in a non-Communist Russia

    As it stands OTL, the USSR had pretensions of aspiring to a post-ethnic and post-religious society, even if it fell somewhat short of that in reality. I suspect that any other regime- whether that means a surviving empire, a surviving provisional government, or some non-communist faction seizing...

  15. Could the American Revolutionary War have overlapped with the French Revolutionary wars?

    As it stands OTL, the beginning of the French and end of the American revolutions took place within the same decade, but OTOH the financial burden France bore from it's involvement played a considerable role in the French Revolution's outbreak. So any POD that delays the outbreak of the AR might...

  16. Challenge: post-1700 POD/s to curtail the Great Divergence?

    (The "Great Divergence" is the trend to hegemony dominance by Western Europe and it's overseas diaspora over the past 5 or so centuries) Of course much of the foundation had already been laid by 1700, but therein lies the challenge. With a preference for PODs that raise others up rather then...

  17. To what extent would a British defeat at Plassey delay/prevent their conquest of India

    Scenario: Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah doesn't fail to bring a tarpaulin sheet, and so the Bengalese gunpowder is not ruined by rainfall. Or, alternatively, the British are less effective at stirring up treason within his ranks and so lose the war . The BEIC therefore fail to conquer Bengal, and...

  18. Could the cellphone industry have taken off 4 decades earlier?

    According to this article by Reason(some skepticism is due given their libertarian agenda): To be sure an ATL early cellphone industry in the 1940s and 50s would have been selling a less sophisticated product then what was sold in the 80s and 90s OTL. OTOH, assuming these early cellphones are...

  19. Maximum world religious diversity without eliminating Christianity or Islam

    Today there are only four religions whose faithful exceed 1% of the world's population: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism(and arguably a fifth, if we include the nebulously defined Chinese religious/philosophical traditions). And of those four/five, Christianity and Islam have a...

  20. Inciting slave rebellions in the British Carribean: a viable strategy for Revolutionary France?

    OTL France went through an eight year period in which slavery had been banned, before Napoleon reestablished it in 1802. I was initially thinking of a POD in which Napoleon opted not to restore slavery, but I don't think that's necessary- 8 years should be more then enough time for someone in...
Top