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  1. A Holy Roman Empire-like Roman Empire?

    Bear with me here for a moment, 'cos I'm going to explain the leadup to this. Scroll down a few paragraphs and start reading after the bolded bit if you don't like words or are familiar with the late Imperial era. By the 460s, the Western Roman Empire was a clusterfuck of a mess, but...

  2. Is there a Roman atlas or some sort of Atlas of Antiquity handily available online?

    Because I'm having rubbish luck searching for "Roman atlas" or "Latin atlas" on Google, and if I search for those terms here I'm more likely to find a map of Terra Nova in 2764 a.u.c. than I map a historical map of Europe with tidy little Latin names scattered everywhere, which is what I'm...

  3. Outer Mongolia as part of Republican or Communist China?

    Well, what of it? Mongolia managed to secure independence because both Russia and China were in total disarry during the 1910s and the regimes nominally in power found it easier to acknowledge an independent Mongol buffer state than use up more energy trying to (re)take the region. But what if...

  4. Romans in 1399 mod thingy for EU3

    A fitting name, don't you think? Anyways, this project should probably be in it's own thread now. If you aren't an avid reader of the EU3 thread, then this is basically a mod that started off with just adding Romans to central Italy and got silly from there. There's not much done so far...

  5. The Peace of Madness: An in-progress HOI2 mod

    IMAGINE, IF YOU DARE, A WORLD FRAUGHT WITH PERIL... A WORLD WHERE H.P. LOVECRAFT HAS GONE MAD! MAD WITH POWER! A WORLD WHERE FRANCE KICKED GERMANY HARD IN THE BALLS AND NEVER STOPPED KICKING! A WORLD WHERE I SLAP SHIT IN WHENEVER JUST BECAUSE! THAT WORLD IS THE WORLD OF...

  6. WI Norodom of Cambodia does not turn to the French for help?

    Historically, Cambodia was a mess in the mid-19th century. Rebels ran around everywhere and, after the death of King Ang Duong, nobody was effectively king of Cambodia for four years. Norodom was theoretically the successor to Ang Duong but, as Cambodia paid homage to Siam and the Siamese...

  7. Islamic successors to the Crusader states?

    Is it possible for independent states to exist in the Levant after the fall of the Crusaders, rather than having Jerusalem, Antioch, Edessa et al absorbed by the Byzantines, Egyptians, and Suljuk empire? I really don't know a lot about the era, but it just struck me that the Levant always seemed...

  8. French defeat and Algeria

    In most AH scenarios where France goes to war with Germany, Great Britain, or pretty much anybody in the latter half of the 19th century or first half of the 20th century, it seems that even if Alsace-Lorraine, Picardy, and Brittany are all stripped from the country, it will, more likely than...

  9. Military control of the Office of Indian affairs?

    Reading some histories of the Wild West, Native Americans, the Dakotas and the like, I came across several references to a "transfer question" and a debate over whether Indian affairs ought to be controlled by civilians or the military. Ultimately, in OTL, the proponents of civilian control won...

  10. Paleontology question

    This is probably going to sound like a mind-bogglingly simple question for anybody who knows, but... Has technological progress made it that much easier to find and uncover fossils over the past century? If, say, Sir Hypothetical of the Royal Society had decided to go on an expedition to...

  11. An Alternate Railroad- Steam in Central Europe

    Some fellow has been working for years on a little what-if about a fictional German(-Czech?) standard-guage railroad that refused to retire its steam fleet in the mid-20th century. The Ruhnian State Railways website can be found here. Very well detailed stuff, looks like, and some of the...

  12. Would a Victorian World War One see an earlier introduction of metal helmets?

    Exactly what it says on the tin. Would a general, prolonged European War anywhere in the latter half of the nineteenth century-- between 1870 and 1904, give or take-- see the introduction and mass production of metal helmets? If, for instance, France went to war with Germany again in 1887 and...

  13. Surviving Ottoman Empire: Can Albania remain part of it without major violence?

    ...assuming some 19th-century POD that still sees the rise of Balkan nationalism, or at least Serbian independence. My line of thought here is simple: Each nationalist movement in the Balkans seems to have sped up the development of the next, as radicals inspired radicals, and nationalist...

  14. Scenarios where German unification is not led by Prussia?

    A fairly simple question-- what plausible scenarios are there for a post-1648 unification of Germany that is not led by Brandenburg/Prussia? I'd imagine that it'd be even harder to pull off with a post-1815 POD, but those sorts of scenarios would be really cool too. Could Bavaria unify...

  15. Prince Yusuf Izzeddin Efendi and Midhat Pasaha: Ottoman reformer duo?

    With the palace coups of the mid-1870s, was there any chance that Prince Yusuf (very small Wiki link, my apologies) could've been installed as Sultan and that Midhat Pasha could returned to act as Vizier (or some other powerful role) under him? Could they have managed to push through Young...

  16. War of the Classes: A Gilded Age TL

    No one would have believed, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, that American affairs were being shaped by the timeless forces of upheaval and unrest, that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were influenced and changed by ideas greater than themselves, perhaps...

  17. Just how loyal were the Southern United States following the ACW?

    ...during Reconstruction and afterwards? I know about the Ten Percent Plan and the Radical Republicans' Fifty Percent Plan, but I'm not too trusting of any Southern vote between 1865-1877. Just how loyal were the Southern States, really? If, say, President Grant coughed up his own lungs and...

  18. A bit of help understanding OTL: The factions of the First International

    I'm just starting to read up on 19th century labor movements and socialism, and I've come to the realization that it's damned confusing stuff, with an awful lot of petty factionalism. There's a couple of personalities that seem to represent different schools of thought, but it's hard...

  19. A more drawn-out Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

    While I understand that The Great Railroad Strike didn't quite have the factors in it needed to turn into an actual Civil War or Revolution, how is it possible to fan the flames a bit the strike into something a little larger, a little more unified, and a little more threatening to the Federal...

  20. A British East Indies by 1650?

    What if the Honourable East India Company had managed to kick the Dutch out of Bantam and all of Java in the 1600s or 1610s, before they had established a strong grip on the region? Would the VOC attempt to reach out to other ports in India proper and elsewhere, would they spend all their...
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