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  1. The Heracleidiad: The Rise and Fall of Sparta's Hellenistic Empire

    Preface: "Who are the Spartans?" So asked Cyrus the Great when he received a small embassy from a small city after he conquered the Lydian Empire. They spoke to him with terse threats to leave the Ionian cities of Asia well alone, lest he face the wrath of those who sent them: the Spartans. The...

  2. AHQ: Pelagian/Semi-Pelagian Revival in the Protestant Reformation?

    No matter how virulent and radical the reformer, it seemed nobody in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted to be labelled a Pelagian or a semi-Pelagian (In fact, despite criticism of many Catholic teachings, I think few were willing to deviate from quasi-gnostic/manichean Augustine and the early...

  3. AHQ: Latest Possible American Civil War?

    The politics of the antebellum USA is notable for kicking the problem of slavery down the line or trying to maintain the status quo and satisfy both sides. How late do you think an American civil war can break out? Could the South get rid of slavery peacefully in any case?

  4. AHC: United Kingdom Wins Irish War of Independence

    With a POD after 1900, either before the war or after its start, could the British have won the Irish War of Independence? Civil disobedience and political victories were just as if not more important than military ones in the guerilla war. How would Britain go about the war to keep Ireland in...

  5. AHC: Industrialise the American South

    By the American Civil War, the South produced only 10% of the USA's industrial goods and had half the mileage of railways as the North did. The disparity in industry, infrastructure and resources gave the North a massive advantage over the South in the War. While there was some industrialisation...

  6. AHC/Q: Royal Marriages Between East Asian States

    Europe is quite notable for the marriages between princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses and kings and queens of different states around the continent, a practice that lasted for centuries right up to the 20th Century. Has the same happened for East Asia? Could it happen if it did not...

  7. AHQ: American Revolution - Quebec Revolts, Then What?

    So say Quebec revolts along with the Thirteen Colonies and it rides along with them to victory, does it join the new American republic or not? Why would it do so if it did? And if it survives as an independent republic, would it get the territory known IOTL as the Northwest Territory, or would...

  8. Question: Immediate Fate of Freedmen after Emancipation

    I'm not sure whether this goes in here or somewhere in chat/NP-chat. What happened to freedmen in the immediate aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 and the Thirteenth Amendment and similar legislation? How did they own property and gain income and find work? Was it simply a case of...

  9. Sic Parvis Magna: ME's Crack at Draka 2.0

    Warning: This Timeline includes narrative pieces that will contain mature content such as rampant racism, swearing, adult subjects and violence. This is necessary to capture the nature of the Draka and the world they're in. "Greatness from Small Things" The beginnings of Drakan history...

  10. AHC: Colonies as Duchies, Counties, Baronies etc.

    A lot of the New World colonies of England and later Britain began as massive land grants and colonisation rights given to individuals or groups of individuals as proprietors. Would it be possible for these people to become established nobility of these regions. For example, Cæcilius Calvert was...

  11. AHC: Get the ACW to actually be about States' Rights

    As the title says, how could there be an American Civil War over the issue of states' rights? If the Federal Government tries to strengthen and centralise, who will join the rebel fray, if any? I suspect slavery will play a large part too regardless of how we go about this, but I'm mainly...

  12. AHC: Largest possible Falkland Islands population?

    What is the largest possible population that the Falkland Islands can plausibly take? How can we increase the population starting from the beginning of the 1800s? The Argentine city of Ushuaia, on the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego, has a population of 56,000. Could the Falkland Islands...

  13. Latest Possible Development of Nuclear Weapons

    What is the latest possible date for the invention of the nuclear weapons? Is it virtually inevitable that someone was to make them in the mid-20th Century after the First World War? How long would a world without two world wars go without nuclear weapons? Could the Second World War have been...

  14. AHC: Earliest Possible Catholic Emancipation

    What is the earliest possible date for Catholic Emancipation in post-1707 Union Great Britain? What criteria and changes are needed for such a thing to happen?

  15. AH Challenge: Britain enters the ACW, on the side of the Union

    How could this come to be and what would be the lasting effects? An earlier Great Rapproachment is a given, but what other butterflies will it cause?

  16. A Crack at Draka: ME's Attempt at a Better TL

    A Crack at Draka: Beginnings of the Drakesland Colony POD: Drake doesn't get infected with dysentery and die at the age of 55. The history of Draka can be traced first to the time when, in 1597, after a successful run in India to corner Spanish ships carrying goods from Iberian ports...

  17. Question: Navy sizes in 1930s-40s

    I don't know where to ask this, so I'll ask it here. Who had the biggest navy in the war? I'd rather prefer links (I can't find good ones) to sources etc. I heard the British had the biggest at the start of the war, but the US Navy surpassed the RN in tonnage by 1944.

  18. Dark Ages Culture Shift

    I have noticed that much of the tactics of the Classical and Roman world died out. Roman legions and Greek hoplites switched with footmen and knights, and grandiose columns and greco-roman design became mottle and daub and Germanic(?) stone castles. Tunics were still around, for a time, but were...

  19. Counter-historical Reenactments?

    Probably should go in the chat forum, but whatever. So, have you ever seen counter-historical reenactors? I know I've never seen them, in person or in video.

  20. What's the deal with Teddy?

    Seriously, I have no idea what's so special about him. It seems that most American members of this board (and other nationalities) hail him as a super Churchill-like soldier politician that shined with visible awesomeness and produced Chuck Norris from his loins. If someone can tell me what...
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